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772 The Life of Muhammad
782. She had entrusted her sister Umm al-FaQ.l with her affairs; she, being
married to al-'Abbas, confided the matter to him, and he married her to the
apostle in Mecca and gave her as dowry on the apostle's behalf 400 dirhams.
783. God sent down to him-so Abu "Ubayda told me-'God has fulfilled
the vision in reality to His apostle, "You shall enter the sacred mosque if God
will in safety with heads shaved and (hair) shorn, not fearing". He knows
what you do not know, and He has wrought besides that a victory near by'
(48. 27), i.e. Khaybar.
784. Some authorities on poetry quoted the verses to me thus:
You are the apostle and he who is deprived of his gifts
And the sight of him has no real worth.
May God confirm the good things He gave you
Among the apostles, and the victory as they were helped.
I perceived goodness in you by a natural gift,
An intuition which is contrary to what they think of you,
meaning the polytheists.
785. Another reading is:
We urged on our horses from the thickets of QurQ.
[This "is the reading of T. 1212, 1. 9 and Yaq. iv. 53, 1. 22, who safs that
QurQ is in the Wadi'l-Qura. I.I.'s reading is given in Yaq. iv. 57I.] The
words 'We arranged their bridles' are not from I.I.
786. Others say 'Ubiida b. Malik.
787. A traditionist whom 1 trust told me that Ja'far took the flag in his right
hand and it was cut off; then he held it in his left hand and that was cut off;
then he held it to his breast with his arms until he was slain. He was 33
years old. For that God rewarded him with a pair of wings in Paradise with
which he flew whither he would. It is said· that a Greek gave him a blow
which cut him asunder.
788. Another reading is 40 skins (manta).
789. The words 1. al-Trash are not from I.1. The third verse is from Khallad
b. Qurra: others say Malik b. Rafila.
790. AI-Zuhri according to our information said that the Muslims made
Khalid their chief and God helped them, and he was in charge of them until
he came back to the prophet.
79I. To these 1. Shihab added: From B. Mazin: Abu Kulayb and Jabir,
sons of 'Amr b. Zayd b. 'Auf b. Mabdhul, full brothers. From B. Malik b.
M~a: 'Amr and 'Amir, sons of Sa'd b. al-I:Iarith b. 'Abbad b. Sad b. 'Amir
b. Thalaba b. Malik b. Af~a. Others say, Abu Kilab and Jabir sons of
'Amr.
792. The poem is ascribed to J:Iabib b. 'Abdullah al-A'lam al-Hudhali, and
the verse '1 remembered the ancient blood-feud' is from Abu 'Ubayda, also
the words 'wide-nostrilled' and 'strong, lean-flanked', &c.
Ibn Hishiim's Notes
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793· The words 'except Nafil' and 'to the slopes of Ra