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IMAM ABU AL-FIDA' ISMA~L IBN KATH~R About Wtba as he fled, and Shayba after him, and 'Utba's first-born also had no joy in it. T ...

358 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD He left his beloved ones to fight for them, and fled by giving his steed free rein. It outs ...

IMAM ABU AL-FIDA' ISMA~L IBN KATH~R "Quraysh learned at Badr, that day of captive-taking and terrible fighting, That we were the ...

360 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD I swear by my father, the day of the rendezvous with Muhammad, when with the help of wars-t ...

IMAM ABU AL-FIDA' ISMAqL IBN KATH~R And this day 'Amir lament their misformnes; how I would wish to see them at hand! They are m ...

362 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD Even though you are victorious at the battle of Badr, it was only due to Ahmad, and that is ...

IMAM ABU AL-FIDB ISMA~L IBN KATHiR^363 Ibn Ishzq stated, "Umayya b. Aba al-Salt spoke the following verses expressing his lament ...

364 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD May God reward all the tribes of <All, whether widowed or married, If they do not attack ...

IMAM ABU AL-FIDA' ISMA?L IBN KATH~R 365 Section: On the expedition against the Bana Sulaym in the secondyear after the emigratio ...

366 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUWAMMAD Ibn Ishzq went on, "The Messenger of God (SAAS) reached Qarqarat d-Kadr, but then headed ba ...

IMAM ABU AL-FIDA' ISMA'IL IBN KATH~R 367 "On hearing this, Hamza had jumped up for his sword, sliced open their humps, cut open ...

368 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD Aba Dz'od stated, "Ishzq b. Isma'il al-Taliqai related to us, quoting 'Abda, quoting Sa'id, ...

IMAM ABU AL-FIDA' ISMA'IL IBN KATHfR 369 Al-Bayhaqi quoted from the Kztab al-Macnfa (The Book ofKnomledge) of Abii 'Abd All& ...

370 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD polytheists and Jews professed Islam while secretly being hypocrites. Some did remain as th ...

GLOSSARY - ABBREVIATIONS AND NAME-RELATED TERMS Aba means father. According to Arabic grammatical rules, this word changes to Ab ...

372 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD officially fraternized with the muh@irin, those Muslims who had initially gone into exile f ...

GLOSSARY 373 fasila (pl. fasa'il): an agnatic group consisting of the nearest members of one's 'ashira (q.v.). ghazwa (pl. ghaza ...

374 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD isnrtd: the prefatory material to a hadith (q.v.) that lists the sequence of scholars or wi ...

GLOSSARY 375 nadwa: the act of presiding over assemblies of pilgrims at the ka'ba. parasang: a Persian term for a unit of length ...

376 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD sahih: a badith (q.v.) the chain of transmission of which is considered by Muslim scholars ...