Biographical Sourcespp. 133 f, was of the opinion that some passages in Waqidi appear to be
abbreviated versions of Ibn Ishaq. Guillaume, Muhammad, pp. xxxi f. is a
little more apprehensive, but shows Tabari (iii, 2512) as saying that Waqidi
regarded Ibn Ishaq as "a man to be trusted."
[15] Cf. Schwally, GQ, vol. 2, pp. 130 f.
[16] See Guillaume, Muhammad, pp. xv f.
[17] The first collections of canonical traditions were those of Bukhari
(d. 256 AH) and Muslim (d. 261 AH); cf. SEI, p. 119.
[18] Guillaume, in Traditions, p. 19, rejects a hadith mentioned by Muir,
which states that the first collections of Islamic traditions were made during
the reign of `Umar II (d. 720 AD), on the grounds that no such collections
are referred to in the works of later Muslims.
[19] See Guillaume, Muhammad, p. xxv, for references to the remarks of
Ibn Hisham, al-Jumahi and Ibn al-Nadim. See also p. xxviii of the same
book for the summaries of the theses of Azzam andArafat.
[20] Schwally, in GQ, vol. 2, p. 132, thought that much of the poetry may
have been geniune, owing to the charges which were levelled against
Muhammad in them. Wellhausen, Medina, p. 15, and Guillaume,
(Muhammad, p. xxx), as most other Western scholars, were of the opinion
that most of the poems are later fabrications.
[21] See n. 10, above. Ibn Hisham also cites other sources occasionally,
but his main text is the Ibn Ishaq recension of al-Bakka'i
[22] See n. 14, above.