Guillaume--Life of Muhammad.pdf - Radical Truth

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The Life of Muhammad
Jews used to say to them, 'A prophet will be sent soon. His day is at hand.
We shall follow him and kill you by his aid as 'Ad and Iram perished.' So
when they heard the apostle's message they said one to another: 'This is
the very prophet of whom the Jews warned us. Don't let them get to him
before us!' Thereupon they accepted his teaching and became Muslims,
saying, 'We have left onr people, for no tribe is so divided by hatred and
rancour as they. Perhaps God will unite them through you. So let us go
to them and invite them to this religion of yours; and if God nnites them
in it, then no man will be mightier than you.' Thus saying they returned
to Medina as believers.
There were six ofthese men from the Khazraj so I have been told. From
B. aI-Najjar, i.e. Taym Allah of the clan of B. Malik ... : As'ad b. Zurara
b. 'Udas b. 'Ubayd b. Thalaba b. Ghanm b. Malik b. ai-Najjar known as
Abu Umama; and 'Auf b. al-I:Iarith b. Rifa'a b. Sawad b. Malik ... known
as Ibn 'Afra' (229).
From B. Zurayq b. 'Amir b. Zurayq b. 'Abdu I:Iaritha b. Gha