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IMAM ABO AL-FIDA' ISMA~~L IBN KATHTR^237 Take care, for you have erred, and do not decry me; woe upon you, Ibn Jahl, misleader o ...

238 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD As though we had been hostile to them, but we have no hostility for them; all we told them ...

IMAM ABU AL-FIDA' ISMA~EL IBN KATHIR 239 Ihn Hishzm commented, "He left d-Ss'ib h. Wthmm b. Mqciin in charge over Medina." Al-Wn ...

(^240) THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD be substituted. However, what could be meant here is that al-Wshayra was the first exped ...

IMAM ABD AL-FIDA' ISMAqL IBN KATH~R 24 1 Ibn IshBq went on, L'When the Messenger of God (SAAS) returned, he spent Jumada, Rajab ...

242 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD of these was entrusted to Wbayda b. al-Haith h. al-Mutcalib. It also contradicts al-Waqidi, ...

IMAM ABO AL-FID@ ISMA?L IBN KATH~R^243 having cut his hair.52 When they saw him, they felt secure. 'Ammar told them, 'You don't ...

244 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD This means "Even if you have fought in the sacred month, they have blocked you from God's p ...

IMAM ABU AL-FIDA' ISMA~L IBN KATH~R 245 We have given in our Tafsir (Exegesrs) various testimonies, with their chains of authori ...

246 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD 1 Al-Suddi stated, "Their killing of him occurred in the first night of Rajab, and the last ...

IMAM ABU AL-FIDA' ISMA~L IBN KATH~R 247 Ahmad related, from Ibn 'Abbs, evidence supporting this and that is what is clearly impl ...

248 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD I I 1 I i 1 I j I I ! 1 1 I i I j 1 I 1 I i I j j I. God (SAAS) had been praying towards Je ...

IMAM ABO AL-FIDA' ISMA'IL IBN KATHiR 249 They said this even though the unbelieving "People of the Bookmi3 well knew that the or ...

250 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD And 'Leven though this was a grave matter" (swat al-Baqara; 11, v.143). That is, even thoug ...

IMAM ABU AL-FIDA' ISMA'iL IBN KATHiR 251 We have written at sufficient length on this in the TafSir (Exegesis), giving those aha ...

252 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD Ihn Jarir stated, "In that year people were commanded to give the zakzt al-jitrIi5 It is sa ...

IMAM ABU AL-FIDA' ISMA?L IBN KATH~ R 253 Ibn Ishaq went on, "Muhammad h. Muslim b. Shihnh, 'Asim h. Wmar b. Qatzcla, 'Abd All&am ...

254 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD dream. When Aba Jahl saw me, he said, "Aba al-Fadl, why don't you come and join us when you ...

IMAM ABU AL-FIDA' ISM~\'~L IBN KATH~R 255 1 stayed behind now, except for Abii Lahab b. 'Abd al-Muttalib; he sent al-'Asi b. al- ...

256 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD "Abii Jahl kept on at him until Umayya responded, 'You win! I'll purchase the finest camel ...