Muhammad: The Hijra[64] Suyuti, El-Itkan, vol. 1, p. 27; Nöldeke and Schwally, GQ, vol. 1,
pp. 145 f.
[65] See p. 162, above.
[66] This verse was obviously composed before the drinking of wine (or
other alcoholic beverages) was forbidden (cf. Qur'an 5:92).
[67] This word appears to have been a pre-Islamic borrowing from the
Jews; Horovitz, Untersuchungen, pp. 51 f; Jeffery, Vocabulary, p. 69.
However, the theological idea of this verse– that a people would have their
own witness against themselves– appears to come from the Talmud;
Andrae, Ursprung, p. 69, references Avodah Zarah 2a-3b.
[68] See n. 65, above.
[69] See p. 108, above. This appears to be one of the earliest Qur'anic
usages of term "the Holy Spirit."
[70] °j— = "a barbaric language," i.e. non-Arabic.
[71] cf. Buhl, Muhammeds, p. 169.
[72] Guillaume, Muhammad, p. 180, also n. 2. This name appears to be of
Ethiopic origin; see also the references given in Nöldeke and Schwally,
GQ, vol. 1, p. 148.
[73] Wellhausen, Medina, p. 55. Waqidi also maintains that the Qur'an
passage 16:105-111 was revealed about the time of the battle of Badr; Ibid.
[74] Cf. Nöldeke and Schwally, GQ, vol. 1, p. 148, where it is pointed out
that Islamic commentators seem to have been misled by the word °j— in
Qur'an 16:105.
[75] Nöldeke and Schwally, GQ, vol. 1, pp. 147 f; see p. 199, below.
[76] Ibid., p. 149.