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[92] SEI, p. 639.
[93] See n. 31, above. Since Gabriel (Dan. 9:21) and Michael (Dan. 10:13)
are both mentioned as being angels of God in the Hebrew scriptures, it is
more than probable that the remarks of the Jews were either taken out of
context or misquoted.
[94] See n. 35, above.
[95] Sahih Bukhari, vol. 4, p. 437.
[96] Sahih Bukhari, vol. 5, pp. 58f.
[97] Sahih Bukhari, vol. 4, p. 345.
[98] Sahih Muslim, vol. 3, p. 1166.
[99] Sahih Bukhari, vol. 4, p. 442; Sahih Muslim, vol. 3, p. 380.
[100] Sahih Muslim, vol. 3, pp. 1192 f; Guillaume, Muhammad, p. 240;
Ibn Sa`d, Classes, vol. 2, 2, pp. 244 f.
[101] The first child of the Muslims is said to have been born some 20
months after the Hijra; Sahih Bukhari, vol. 7, p. 273; Tabari, History,
vol. 7, pp. 9 f. Interestingly enough, one canonical tradition credibly relates
how childless Arab women of Medina would promise to have a prospective
child raised as a Jew; Sunan Abu Dawud, vol. 2, p. 743; cf. I Sam. 1:1f.
[102] See pp. 141 f and p. 193, above.
[103] Guillaume, Muhammad, p. 259.
[104] Sahih Muslim, vol. 1, pp. 175 f. See also Nöldeke and Schwally,
GQ, vol. 1, p. 183, n. 1, for references to other Islamic sources.
[105] Sahih Bukhari, vol. 6, pp. 73 f. See also Bell, Origin, p. 101.
[106] The Jews are said to have brought two adulterers to Muhammad,
who was then asked what their punishment should be. Some traditions
present the Jews as having innovated a non-capital punishment for