Guillaume--Life of Muhammad.pdf - Radical Truth
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The <strong>Life</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Muhammad</strong><br />
'Abdullah b. Abu Naji\> told me from Mak\>ul that the apostle prohibited<br />
four things that day: carnal intercourse with pregnant women who were<br />
captured; eating the flesh <strong>of</strong> domestic donkeys; eating any carnivorous<br />
animal; and selling booty before it had been duly allotted.<br />
Salliim b. Kirkira told me from 'Amr b. Dinar from Jabir b. 'Abdullah<br />
al-An~ari (Jabir had not been present at Khaybar) that when the apostle<br />
forbade the flesh <strong>of</strong> donkeys he allowed them to eat horseflesh.<br />
759 Yazid b. AbU J:Iabib told me from Abu Marzuq client <strong>of</strong> Tujib from<br />
J:Ianash al-i;>an'ani: With Ruwayfi' b. Thabit al-An~ari we attacked the<br />
Maghrib, and one <strong>of</strong> its towns called Jirba I was conquered. A man arose<br />
as a preacher and said, 'Let me tell you what I heard the apostle say on the<br />
day <strong>of</strong> Khaybar. He got up among us and said: "It is not lawful for a man<br />
who believes in Allah and the lasttlay to mingle his seed with another man's<br />
(meaning to approach carnally a pregnant woman among the captives), nor<br />
is it lawful for him to take her until he has made sure that she is in a state<br />
<strong>of</strong> cleanness; nor is it lawful for him to sell booty until it has been properly<br />
divided; nor is it lawful for him to ride an animal belonging to the booty <strong>of</strong><br />
the Muslims with the intention <strong>of</strong> returning it to the pool when he has<br />
worn it out; nor is it lawful for him to wear a garment belonging to the<br />
booty <strong>of</strong> the Muslims with the intention <strong>of</strong> returning it to the pool when<br />
he has reduced it to rags.'"<br />
Yazid b. 'Abdullah b. QusaYI told me that he was told from 'Ubada b.<br />
al-i;>amit: On the day <strong>of</strong> Khaybar the apostle forbade us to buy or sell gold<br />
are for gold coin or silver are for silver coin. He said, 'Buy gold are with<br />
silver coin and silver are with gold coin.' Then the apostle began to take<br />
the forts and the property one by one.<br />
'Abdullah b. Abu Bakr told me that one <strong>of</strong> Aslam told him that B. Sahm<br />
<strong>of</strong> Aslam came to the apostle and complained that they had fought and got<br />
nothing and found nothing with the apostle which he could give them. He<br />
said: ~O God, You know their condition and that they have no strength,<br />
and that I have nothing to give them, so conquer for them the wealthiest<br />
<strong>of</strong> the enemy's forts with the richest food.' The follpwing day God conquered<br />
the fort <strong>of</strong> al-i;>a'b b, Mu'adh which contained the richest food in<br />
Khaybar.<br />
760 When the apostle had conquered some <strong>of</strong> their forts and got possession<br />
<strong>of</strong> some <strong>of</strong> their property he came to their two forts al-\Vapl; and al-Sulalim,<br />
the last to be taken, and the apostle besieged them for some ten nights<br />
(760).<br />
'Abdullah b. Sahl b. 'Abdu'l-Ra\>man b. Sahl, brother <strong>of</strong> B. I:Iaritha,<br />
told me from Jabir b. 'Abdullah: Marl;1ab the Jew came out from their fort<br />
carrying his weapons and saying:<br />
Khaybar knows that I am Marhab,<br />
An experienced warrior armed from head to foot,<br />
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An island near Qlibis.<br />
The <strong>Life</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Muhammad</strong><br />
Now piercing, now slashing,<br />
As when lions advance in their rage.<br />
The hardened warrior gives way before my onslaught;<br />
My (lima' cannot be approached.<br />
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With these words he challenged all to single combat and Ka'b b. Malik<br />
answered him thus:<br />
Khaybar knows that I am Ka'b,<br />
The smoother <strong>of</strong> difficulties, bold and dour.<br />
When war is stirred up another follows.<br />
I carry a sharp sword that glitters like lightning<br />
We will tread you down till the strong are humbled;<br />
We will make you pay till the spoil is divided-<br />
In the hand <strong>of</strong> a warrior sans reproche (761).'<br />
The apostle said, 'Who will deal with this fellow I' <strong>Muhammad</strong> b.<br />
Maslama said that he would, for he was bound to take revenge on the man<br />
who had killed his brother the day before. The apostle told him to go and<br />
prayed Allah to help him. When they approached the one the other an<br />
old tree with s<strong>of</strong>t wpod' lay between them and they began to hide behind<br />
it. Each took shelter from the other. When one hid behind the tree the<br />
other slashed at it with his sword so that the intervening branches were<br />
cut away' and they came face to face. The tree remained bereft <strong>of</strong> its<br />
branches like a man standing upright. Then Mar\>ab attacked <strong>Muhammad</strong><br />
b. Maslama and struck him. He took the blow on his shield and the sword<br />
bit into it and remained fast. <strong>Muhammad</strong> then gave Mar\>ab a fatal wound.<br />
After Mar\>ab's death his brother Yasir came out with his challenge:<br />
(Khaybar knows that I am Yiisir,<br />
Fully armed, a doughty warrior.<br />
As when lions advance at a rush<br />
The enemy give way before my onslaught.)<br />
Hisham b. 'Urwa alleged that al-Zubayr b. al-'Awwam went out to fight<br />
Yiisir. His mother i;>afiya d. 'Abdu'l-Munalib said, 'Will he kill my son, a<br />
apostle I' He replied, 'Nay, your son will kill him, if God will.' So al<br />
Zubayr went out saying (T.<br />
Khaybar know that I am Zabbar,<br />
Chief <strong>of</strong> a people no cowardly runaways,<br />
The son <strong>of</strong> those who defend their glory, the son <strong>of</strong> princes.<br />
I The sacred territory <strong>of</strong> an idol or a sanctuary and so any place that a man is bound to<br />
protect from violation.<br />
:& The obviouS break in the sense is corrected in I.H.'s vemon. 'Lightning' ('aqiq) in 1...<br />
may mean 'a jewel'.<br />
3 Said by Lane, 20SIC, to be the Asckpias gigantea or ereat awallow·wort.<br />
" To', text (1576) is clearer here.<br />
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