104. Ibid., 84

105. Goldziher, Muslim Studies, (English translation), (1967), I, 55

106. Zawzani, Sharh al-Muallaqat., editor Muhammad Ali Hamadallah, Damascus, 1963, 110-111

107. Ibn Manzur, Lisan., (Beirut, 1956), IV, 374, IX, 490, XX, 261; Jawad Ali, Tarikh al-Arab, Baghdad, 1950, I, 366

108. Mahmud Shukri al-Alusi, Bulugh al-Arab fi ma’rifat ahwal al-Arab., 2nd edition, Cairo, 1924, III, 27-29

109. The translation of these two lines is given by Professor Arberry as follows: “Unceasingly I tippled the wine and took my joy, unceasingly I sold and squandered my hoard and my patrimony till all my family deserted me, every one of them, and I sat alone like a lonely camel scabby with mange.” The seven odes., 1957, 86

110. Ibn Hisham, Sirah., 2nd edition, Mustafa al-Saqqa and others, Cairo, 1955, I 350; Cf. Guillaume, The life of Muhammad, 159ff.

111. Al-Kindi, Takhsis., 29

112. Qur’an: VIII, 72; Also IV, 89

113. Qur’an: X, 117-118

114. Ibn Hisham., Op. cit

115. Darjini, Tabaqat., 272; Shammakhi, Siyar, 111-12

116. Isfahani, Aghani, XXIII, 115

117. Anonymous, Majmu Ajwibah, Ms. 38

118. Jitali, Qanatir al-Khairat., My edition, Cairo, 1965, I, 164

119. Jitali, op. cit, 165; Darjini, Tabaqat., 239

120. Shammakhi, Siyar, 85; Darjini, op. cit., 231-32

121. Shammakhi, op. cit., 120; Darjini, op. cit., 231; Wisyani, Siyar, 62

122. Shammakhi, op. cit., 86; Darjini, op. cit., 229-230

123. Cf. supra, 249 ff

124. Cf. supra, 256

125. Jitali, Qawaid., 28; Shammakhi, op. cit., 76; Warijlani, al-Dalil., 150a ff. According to him, Jabir gave orders for the killer of Khardalah to be killed. He says that Khardalah was an Ibadhi, and his killer killed him for that reason

126. For more details see below, 397 ff

127. Cf. infra, 406 ff

128. Shammakhi, Siyar., 89

129. Barradi, Jawahir., 158 ff

130. Ibid., 161. The expression “renounced him,” (tabarrau minh) is given only in the text of