Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islamduring a visit to some of the leaders of al-Ta'if. Ibn Sa`d, Classes, vol. 1, 1,
pp. 244 f, reports that some young men of al-Ta'if threw stones at
Muhammad.
[225] Tabari, History, vol. 6, pp. 117 f, not only reports that they were
seven in number, but also gives their names.
[226] Guillaume, Muhammad, pp. 193 f; Ibn Sad, Classes, vol. 1, 1, p. 245; Tabari, History, vol. 6, p. 118. Ibn Sad reports that the jinn heard
Muhammad reciting sura 72!
[227] Ibn Sa`d, Classes, vol. 1, 1, p. 245; Tabari, History, vol. 6, p. 119.
[228] Geiger, WMJA, p. 63 references Hagiga 12,2.
[229] `Abdullah b. Abu Sarh was said to have been the scribe. Later
Muslim Qur'an commentators, who obviously had problems with this
tradition, often mention this event in conjunction with Qur'an 6:93, which
rhetorically asks who would be more sinful than one who invented a lie
against God. See Nöldeke and Schwally, GQ, vol. 1, p. 46, n. 4, for
references to Islamic sources. Cf. Watt and Bell, Introduction, pp. 37 f.
[230] See p. 64, n. 82. It is also possible that Muhammad confused Mount
Sinai with another mountain; e.g. the Mount of Olives; cf. Rudolph, Koran,
p. 315, n. 5; p. 563, n. 2.
[231] Geiger, WMJA, p. 108, shows that the idea of a "hot water" flood is
Jewish, and references Rosh Hashanah 16,2; Sanhedrin 108. Cf. Qur'an
11:42.
[232] See Appendix F, p. 411.
[233] The word seems to come from the Ethiopic word for "light" or
"illumination"; Jeffery, Vocabulary, pp. 77 f.
[234] Nöldeke and Schwally, GQ, vol. 1, p. 133.