Guillaume--Life of Muhammad.pdf - Radical Truth

The Life of Muhammad
Ibn Rabi' if you got his word
Would not surrender him. Let none hope for that.
Likewise Ibn Rawaha would not give him up to you.
He would rather drink deadly poison than perjure himself
In loyalty to him. And al-Qauqili b. ~amit
Is far from doing what you propose.
Abu Haytham also was faithful,
Bound by his word.
You cannot hope to get Ibn I:Jugayr's help.
Why don't you abandon your foolish error?
Sad the brother of 'Amr b. 'Auf
Is utterly opposed to your suggestion.
These are stars which will bring you ill fortune
When they rise in the darkness of the night.
Thus Ka'b mentions Abii'l-Haytham among them, but he passes over
Rita'a.
242. $alul was a woman of Khuza'a named Umm Ubayy b. Mali~ b. al~
I;Iarith b. 'Ubayd b. Malik b. Salim b. Ghanm b. 'Auf b. al-Khazra].
243. The name is also written 1. Uzayb.
244. The man who took pity on him was Abu'I-Bakhtari b. Hisham.
244a. For kanat bariyyan some say kana baq;:qan.
245. The name is sometimes spelt Za'aura'.
246. 1.1. relates him to B. 'Amr b. 'Auf, but he was of B. Chanm b. al­
8alm. It often happens that when a man lives among a tribe he is supposed
to be related to them.
247. Or Umayya b. aI-Bark.
248. Or Rifa'a b. al-!:Iarith b. Sawad.
249. !:Iudayla was d. Malik b. Zayd Mana< b. !:Iabib b. 'Abdu !:Iaritha b.
Malik b. Gha