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[211] About 80 in number; they were excused by Muhammad.
[212] About 83 in number; they were not excused by Muhammad.
[213] Wellhausen, Medina, p. 404, has (trans.): "800 slaves."
[214] Guillaume, Muhammad, pp. 607 f; Ibn Sa`d, Classes, vol. 2, 1,
pp. 205 f; Tabari, History, vol. 9, pp. 58 f; Wellhausen, Medina, pp. 403 f.
[215] Buhl points out that Islamic traditions claim this expedition took
place in Rajab, which would have been October. After briefly summarizing
the views of earlier Western scholars on this issue, Buhl argues (cf. Qur'an
9:82) in favor of a late summer dating; Muhammeds, p. 322, n. 12.
[216] Guillaume, Muhammad, pp. 602 f; Ibn Sa`d, Classes, vol. 2, 1,
pp. 203 f; Tabari, History, vol. 9, pp. 47 f; Wellhausen, Medina, pp. 390 f.
[217] Guillaume, Muhammad, pp. 609 f; Tabari, History, vol. 9, pp. 60 f;
Wellhausen, Medina, pp. 410 f.
[218] See p. 268, above.
[219] Guillaume, Muhammad, p. 614; Tabari, History, vol. 9, p. 38; Well-
hausen, Medina, p. 381.
[220] After it was already in the grave.
[221] Sahih Bukhari, vol. 7, pp. 461 f.
[222] Ibid., vol. 2, pp. 202, 242.
[223] Ibid., vol. 5, p. 510; vol. 7, pp. 423, 429 f, 433; Sahih Muslim,
vol. 3, pp. 1195 f.
[224] Sahih Bukhari, vol. 7, p. 429.