Muhammad: Birth to Ministry[49] Guillaume, New Light, p. 32; Ibn Sa`d, Classes, I, 2, pp. 422 f. Sahih
Bukhari, vol. 6, pp. 345 f, gives this passage as a parallel to Qur'an 48:8.
[50] The names "Muhammad" and "Ahmad" come from the same Arabic
root.
[51] John 14:26; 15:26; 16:7.
[52] See ECMD, p. 734, for references to early Islamic polemical works.
In Guillaume, Muhammad, p. 103 f, Ibn Hisham gives a corrupted reading
of John 15:23f, which is from the Palestinian Syriac Lectionary. In the text,
the name "Munahhemana" has been exchanged for "Paraclete." According
to Guillaume (p. 104, n. 1) the Syriac "menahhemana" means "life-giver."
Probably since "Munahhemana" phonetically resembles "Muhammad," Ibn
Hisham chose to insert it into the text (see also Schwally in GQ, vol. 1, p. 9,
n. 1). By including this in his work, however, Ibn Hisham seems to have
forgotten that Qur'an 61:6 refers to the title "Ahmad" and not the name
"Muhammad."
[53] It is obvious from the accounts in the Gospel of John that the
Paraclete was to be sent in the lifetimes of the disciples of Jesus. In John
14:26, Jesus identifies the Paraclete as the Holy Spirit (in 15:26 and 16:13
as the "spirit of truth"), who according to Acts 1:8 and 2:1f. came upon the
disciples at Pentecost.
[54] Guillaume, Muhammad, p. 103; Ibn Sa`d, Classes, vol. 1, 2, p. 426;
Tabari, History, vol. 6, p. 64 f.
[55] Guillaume, Muhammad, pp. 95 f.
[56] Guillaume, Muhammad, pp. 96, 99; Tabari, History, vol. 6, p. 64.
[57] The phrase "religion of Abraham" (Qur'an 2:124, etc.) and the
Qur'anic Abraham legend (2:118 f) are distinctly Medinan; see Appendix
D, p. 385. This anachronism also appears in the account of the rebuilding of
the Ka`ba in Ibn Hisham (Guillaume, Muhammad, p. 85), in the story of the
Hums