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An (NOTES)

II Cp. BA, II and iii.

None of the savants mentioned occur either in Ibn Khallikan's or Hagi Khalfa's biographical works. For "el Samarkandi" and "el

Bahrani" see index.

III The full quotation is given in the text of D 6, in, and part of it there translated.

v-vi For the hospitality of Kuraysh (the family of 'Abd Menaf ) and their lavish entertainment of the pilgrims to Mekka see Muir's Life of Mahomet (Introduction, pp. xciv et seq).

The full quotation as given in A ii is as follows :

saiU^ j^^fSti «Lia}U^ .^^U w-IiJi ^"^^^^^ cA^>^ woL&

o'^^)^ iJi^^ O^^-l/^'i Ci'^^'i ^'^''^yb ajIa-JI JJkl

ol*-i*iU ^A ^^JljIaJIj <1-(1j <3j^ u-"?^' O^j^-"^^

olswfr ^^Lm^mo ^l£^ U^^^)3 ^^^aJ ju^l ^^M.A "^sJt j>«^

In "'Amr the mighty apportioned. . ." there is a play on the word "Hashim." "Hashim's" name was 'Amr (see Wiistenfeld, W), and he was surnamed "Hashim," i.e. "He that hasham (apportioned)," sc. the food and drink. This line is frequently quoted, e.g. (i) in the Tag el

'Arils (vol. IX, p. 104), the chief commentary on the great Kdtnus, and (2) in Ibn Hisham's Sira Sayyidna Muhammad... (p. 87), which was written about 750 a.d., in a quotation from Ibn Ishak, and (3) in Ibn

Dorayd, and (4) in el Mas'udi (Chap, xxxix), and (5) it may also be found in Lisdn el 'Arab (vol. xvi, p. 94, sub "Hashim").

After this penultimate line, which begins with " 'Amr" and ends with "food," Ibn Hisham, on page 87 of the Sira, adds another in place of the last line given in A 11. On this occasion he only gives two lines in all, but later (ed. Wiistenfeld, vol. i, pp. 113, 114) he quotes seven lines (not including the line about Hashim referred to above), of which the first two are

Ol^3l i^.c^ J^J-^ L>^ ,iJ^«.»..«g ^^jljU OJA^ ^ «^X^1 .iJjJ^A

and the other five quite diff'erent from An. The other works quoted give only the single line; and all but Mas'udi (edit. B. de Meynard) commence

•^IjOI _5j.^ . Mas'udi begins j^JJI j~o* .