Guillaume--Life of Muhammad.pdf - Radical Truth
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The <strong>Life</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Muhammad</strong><br />
worlds. I have sent to you my son Arha. I have control only over myself<br />
and if you wish me to come to you, 0 apostle <strong>of</strong> God, I wiU do so. I bear<br />
witness that what you say is true'.<br />
I was told that the Negus sent his son with sixty Abyssinians by boat.<br />
and when they were in the middle <strong>of</strong> the sea the boat foundered and they<br />
aU perished.)'<br />
T.1572 (To via Salama. From 'AbduUah b. Abu Bakr from al-Zuhri from Abu<br />
Salama from 'Abdu'l-Ral,lman b. 'Auf. 'AbduUah b. I;!udhafa brought the<br />
apostle's letter to Chosroes and when he had read it he tore it up. \"'hen<br />
the apostle heard that he had torn his letter up he said, 'His kingdom will<br />
be torn in pieces.')<br />
(T. via Yazid b. Abu I;!abib. Then Chosroes wrote to Badhan, who was<br />
governor <strong>of</strong> the Yarnan, 'Send two stout fellows to this man in the Hijaz<br />
and tell them to bring him to me.' So Badhan sent his steward Babawayh<br />
T· 1573 who was a skilled scribe with a Persian eaUed Kharkhasrah to carry a<br />
letter to the apostle ordering him to go with them to Chosroes. He told<br />
Babawayh to go to this man's country and speak to him and then come back<br />
and report. When they got as far as al-Ta'if they found some men <strong>of</strong><br />
Quraysh in (wadi) Nakhb and inquired about him. They told them tbat he<br />
was in Medina. They rejoiced at meeting these men, saying, 'This is<br />
good news, for Chosroes king <strong>of</strong> kings is moved against the man and you<br />
wiU be rid <strong>of</strong> him.'<br />
The two men came to the apostle and Babawayh told him that Shiihanshah<br />
king <strong>of</strong> kings Chosroes had written to the governor 2 Badhan ordering<br />
him to send men to bring him to him and that they had been sent to take<br />
him away. If he obeyed, Badhan would write to the king <strong>of</strong> kings on his<br />
behalf and keep him from him; but if he refused to come he knew what<br />
sort <strong>of</strong> man he was: he would destroy his people and lay waste his country.<br />
They had come in to the apostle's presence with shaven beards and long<br />
moustaches, so that he could not bear to look at them. He advanced on<br />
them and said, 'Who ordered you to do this?' To which they replied,<br />
'Our Lord' meaning Chosroes. The apostle answered, 'But my Lord<br />
has ordered me to let my beard grow long and to cut my moustache.'<br />
Then he told them to come back in the morning.<br />
News came from heaven to the apostle to the effect that God had given<br />
Shirawayh power over his father Chosroes and he had killed him on a<br />
T· 1574 certain night <strong>of</strong> a certain month at a certain hour. Thereupon he summoned<br />
them and told them. They said: 'Do you know what you are saying?<br />
We can take revenge on you. What is easier? Shall we write this as from<br />
you and teU the king <strong>of</strong> it?' He said, 'Yes, teU him that from me and teU<br />
him that my religion and my sovereignty will reach limits which the king-<br />
I It will be seen that there is no isntid for this tradition. I.H. has dealt with it in his<br />
summary to this section, I have omitted T. 1574.. 4-I575. 5 because it is unintelligible<br />
without the preceding story from Yazid b. Abu I;:labib which evidently ran parallel wi.th<br />
what 1.1. had said.<br />
2 malik.<br />
The LIfe <strong>of</strong> <strong>Muhammad</strong><br />
dom <strong>of</strong> Chosroes never attained. Sa ~ to him " " 659<br />
you what you already hold and y '. If you submIt I will give<br />
y " , appomt you kmg over Y I .<br />
a~an. Then he gave Kharkhasrah a irdl . . Our peap e In the<br />
whIch one <strong>of</strong> the kings had '. h' g e contaInIng gold and silver<br />
gIven 1m.<br />
They left him and came to Wdhis<br />
not the speech <strong>of</strong> a king I a an a~d. report~d. He exclaimed, 'This<br />
W 'Il . n my 0pllllOn he Is a h<br />
e \Vl see \vhat happens. If what he said is t prop et as he says.<br />
has been sent by God; if it is not w rue ~hen he IS a prophet who<br />
Hardly had he finished speaking \vh e t~ust consHler the matter further.'<br />
saying that he had killed Ch ebn ere Came a letter from Shirawayh<br />
b k'lr osroes ecause he had d h<br />
Y I lllg their nobles and keep' th angere t e Persians<br />
that his men pledged their obedlllg emho n the frontiers. He must see<br />
b<br />
lenCe to t e new king H .<br />
man a out \vhom Chos roes h d . b . e must sec the<br />
lint!<br />
'1 f<br />
urther instructions came.<br />
a wntten<br />
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ut not p<br />
rovo<br />
k<br />
e<br />
h'<br />
1m to war<br />
When Badhan received this letter h 'd 'W'<br />
apostle,' and he became a Musr e s~~d' h lthout doubt this man is an<br />
Yaman. 1m as I t e Persians with him in the T. 1575<br />
The men <strong>of</strong> I;!imyar used to caU Kharkh h' _, .,.<br />
<strong>of</strong> the g,irdl~ which the apostle gave him b a~ra ~)~u I-~~1 Jaza' b:cause<br />
tongue IS mz'J'a""a To thO d h' ,ecause girdle m the :tIlmyari<br />
, _ '" . IS ay IS Sons keep th . k _<br />
saId to Badhan 'I never spok t f e nlC name, Babawayh<br />
'B- - " e a a man or whom I f It<br />
awe. adhan mquired 'Did hehI' , . e morc respectful<br />
, aveanypo lcewlthhrm?' He answered No.<br />
A SUMMARY OF THE APOSTLE'S FIGHTS<br />
The apostle took part personally in twenty-seven (T.<br />
SiX)I raids:<br />
Waddan which was the raid <strong>of</strong> al-Ab .-'<br />
B -t' h wa.<br />
uwa. In t e direction <strong>of</strong> Radwa<br />
'Ushayra in the valley <strong>of</strong> Yan'bu"<br />
Th fi .<br />
Therst fight at Badr in pursuit <strong>of</strong> Kurz b. Jabir.<br />
e great battle <strong>of</strong> Badr in whi h G d I<br />
and their nobles and eaptured c 0) s ew the chiefs <strong>of</strong> Quraysh (T.<br />
B -Sl many.<br />
anu ~ aym until he reached al-Kudr.<br />
AI-Sawlq III pursuit <strong>of</strong> Abu Sufyan b 973<br />
Qarqara al-Kudr).<br />
. I;!arb (T. until he reached<br />
Ghatafan (T tow d N 'd) h' .<br />
B<br />
'- . .' ar s aJ ,w lch IS the raid <strong>of</strong> Dh - ,<br />
al.1ran, a mme in the H";- ('f b U '.'"1..marr.<br />
UlJud. .IJaz .' a Ove al-Furu').<br />
I;!amra'u'l-Asad.<br />
Banu J\Tadfr.<br />
Dhatu'l-Riqa' <strong>of</strong> Nakh!.<br />
The last battle <strong>of</strong> Badr.<br />
Dumatu'l_Janda!.<br />
I<br />
1.1. has counted the pilgrimage as a r 'd<br />
".