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BA (NOTES)

I MSS. I, 2 and 3 all begin and continue alike. Where differences occur, other than merely clerical errors and unimportant grammatical variations, a note will be found of the fact.

II Cp. C 5 (a), VII.

The phrase which I have translated " Because of the [record of] blood- relationships that they contain" is ^»y.JI d.La ^j.^ <ui l.<^. The literal meaning of ^^ji\ is "the womb," and so "parentage," etc., and aJLo is from the root J^-o^ meaning to join one thing to another: hence iJLo is

also used for "a gift" or "a favour," and a<i.».j ^-^^ comes to mean "He acted well by his relatives." In these nisbas the phrase and its variations are very common and apparently suggest less the good treatment of one's relatives than the preservation of one's relationships.

III Cp. BA, xxxii; AB, xlix; A 3, ii; A 4, i; A 9, ii; A it, ii; B i, iii; C3, 11; C5(a), VI.

The quotation is ^,^\^j\ aj ^j^k^ U ^^Cl-~jl ^J-« t^.oJ*J and is very common. Ibn Khaldun gives it in his second book (ed. ar. vol. 11,

p. 4).

IV Cp. AB, LI, where this saying is attributed to el Shadhali. V Cp. AB, Lii and lv for the first sentence, and AB, lv; B i, iv, etc.,

for the tradition. The Arabic (in BA) is j-.aj "n) ^J-yi^^ ^i^ "^ >9^, or (in AB) ]Uu ^1 dlJLj.n.3 • • •

The tradition is quoted (in the second form) by Ibn Khaldun in his second book (ed. ar. vol. 11, p. 3).

VI Cp. AB, LViii.

After "concern him" AB adds as a gloss dJJ^ ^y^, i.e. "from the point of view of religion." The words are attributed by AB to Yusef ibn 'Omar.

VII Cp. AB, Lxiv and B i, iv.

The Arabic in MS. No. 2 is as follows:

The meaning is that people will take to calling each other slaves and base- born, and the truth or falsity of the assertion will only be susceptible of

proof by the means of pedigrees. For w>!jj*i)l No. i gives w>tp^)l . AB and B I give w»j-aJI : the word w>!j"^' was no doubt unfamiliar.

IX Cp. AB, Lxvii and C 5 (a), vii.

The Arabic is ^La^l^ >o-*-jJ' ^^ O*^ wjl— j'^}l ^««v^ w-^a-l^i. Cp. para. 11.

By the " Igma'a" here is meant "the unanimous consent" of the Com-

panions to the genuineness or validity of a particular tradition or rule (see

Sell, Essays on Islam, p. 259; and Huart, pp. 236-7).