Guillaume--Life of Muhammad.pdf - Radical Truth

44 The Llfe of Muhammad
leaders. Of them were Harim b. Sinan b. Abu J:Iaritha b. Murra b. Nushba;
Kharija b. Sinan b. Abu J:Iaritha; al-J:Iarith b. 'Auf; al-J.lu~ayn b. all;Iurnam;
and Hashim b. I:Iarmala of whom someone has said:
Hashim b. J:Iarmala revived his father I
On the day of al-Haba'at and the day of al-yamal.'
You could see the kings slain beside him
As he slew the guilty and the innocent (91).3
They were a people of a lively reputation among Ghatafan and Qays,
and they retained their relationship with them. Among them the practice
of Basi obtained. 4
66 According to reports Basl is the name given to eight months of the year
which the Arabs unreservedly regard as sacred. During those months they
may go wherever they like without fear of violence. Zuhayr b. Abu Sulma
said with reference to B. Murra (92):
Think! If they are not in al-Marurat in their dwellings
Then they will be in Nakhl,5
A place where I have enjoyed their fellowship.
If they are in neither then they will be at large during the Basi.
He means that they will be travelling during the holy period.
al-A'sha of B. Qays b. Thalaba said:'
Is your woman guest to be taboo to us
While our woman guest and her husband are open to you?
67 Ka'b b. Lu'ayy had three sons: Murra, 'Adiy, and Hu!.'aYl?, their mother
being Wal,1shiya d. Shayban b. Mul,1arib b. Fihr b. Malik b. Na9r.
Murra b. Ka'b had three sons: Kilab, Taym, and Yaqaca. Kilab's
mother was Hind d. Surayr b. Thalaba b. aI-J:Iiirith b. Fihr b. Malik b.
al-Naafa praying to God and imploring
aid for Ishmael; then she went to al-Marwa and did the same. God sent
Gabriel, who hollowed out a place in the earth with his heel where water
appeared. His mother heard the cries of \vild beasts which terrified her on
his account, and she came hurrying towards him and found him scrabbling
with his hand at the water beneath his cheek the while he drank, and she
made him a small hole.'
JURHUM AND THE FILLING IN OF THE WELL ZAMZAM
The story of Jurhum, of their filling in Zarnzam, of their leaving Mecca,
and of those who ruled Mecca after them until 'Abdu'l-Munalib dug ZamzalJ1,
~rdingto what Ziyad b. 'Abdullah al-Bakka'i told me on the
authority of Muhammed b. Isl,1aq al-Munalibi, is that when Ishmael the
son of Abraham died, his son Nabit was in charge of the temple as long as
God willed, then it was in charge of MU9a9 b. 'Amr a1-Jurhumi (98). The
sons of Ishmael and the sons of Nabit were with their grandfather MU9a9
b, 'Amr and their maternal uncles of Jurhum-Jurhum and Qa!ura' who
were cousins being at that time the people of Mecca. They had come forth
from the Yaman and travelled together and MU9a9 was over Jurhum and
I The narrative is continued on p. 9I.