Guillaume--Life of Muhammad.pdf - Radical Truth

740 The Life of Muhammad
379. Said to have been 'AdlY b. Abu'l-Zaghbii'.
380. ai-mala' means the nobles and chiefs.
381. The name of this place is not mentioned by I.I.
382. It is said that 'Ali killed him. AI-Zuhri and other traditionists told
me so.
383. ijamft means a ziqq.
384. Abu 'Aziz was the standard-bearer of the polytheists at Badr after
al-Na9.r, and when his brother Mu~'ab said these words to Abl1'I-Yasar
who nad captured him he said, 'Brother, is this the sort of advice you give
about me?' Mu~'ab answered, 'He is now my brother in your place.' His
mother asked what was the most that was paid to redeem a Qurash!, and
when she was told that it was 4,000 dirhams she sent the money and redeemed
him.
385. Abu Sufyan's name was al-Mughlra.
386. Here is an example of faulty rhyming known as iqwii: which is often
found in their verse. We call it ikjii'. I have omitted some better known
lines that occur in 1.1.'s narrative.
387. Some authorities on poetry deny that these lines are Ibn Dukhshum's.
388. I shall mention the tradition about that stand later. God willing.
389. Some authorities on poetry deny the authenticity of these lines.
390. 'Amr's mother was d. Abu 'Amr and the sister of Abu Mu'ayt b.
Abu 'Arm.
391. 'All had captured him.
392. Khirash b. al-$imma, one of B. I;Iaram, had captured him.
393. It was Abu Khaythama.
394. Another reading is 'a shirt of fire'.
395. Abu Sufyan's sworn friend who is referred to here was