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him, " O cousin, listen to thy cousin, and Waraqah said, O cousin, what 

 hast thou seen ? The prophet told him what he had seen : Waraqah 

 observed, This is the Nomos which God has sent down upon Moses, 



that I was young, O that I might be alive when thy people will 

 expel thee. The prophet said, Will they expel me ? Yes, replied 

 Waraqah, no man has ever brought a message like the one which thou 

 bringest who has not been persecuted. If I was to live I should 

 assist thee most powerfully. Waraqah died soon after. And Mo- 

 hammad received no new revelation after this for some time." Ibn 

 Ishaq has received this tradition directly from Zohry. His version 

 agrees with that of Bokhary but after the words, " God filled him 

 with love for solitude" he only adds <e and nothing was more agreeable 

 to him than to be alone," and then the tradition ends. Waqidy had 

 not received it directly from Zohry but from two of the pupils of 

 Zohry, viz. Ma'mar b. Rashid and Mohammad b. 'Abd Allah, and 

 they both repeated the words of their master alike. His version 

 agrees with that of Bokhary and Ibn Ishaq, but it ends after the words 

 "At length the truth came to him whilst he was in the cave of Hira." 

 Tabary received this tradition by two distinct channels from Zohry. 

 His two versions agree with each other except that in one there is a 

 sentence more at the end than in the other ; but with the version 

 of Bokhary Tabary' s version agrees only as far as the version of 

 Waqidy goes, viz. to the words "at length the truth came to him 

 whilst he was on mount Hira." After these words Tabary' s version 

 differs from that of Bokhary not only in the expression but in the 

 sense. Tabary's version continues after the above words : "and he 

 (the truth or angel) came to him and said, O Mohammad, thou art the 

 prophet of God. I fell on my knees, for I had been standing. Then 



1 went away trembling in my whole body and I came to Khadyjah 

 and said, Wrap me up, wrap me up, until I was relieved from my fear. 

 Then he (the angel) came again and said, O Mohammad, thou art the 

 messenger of God. I had previous to this second apparition been 

 so melancholy that I had intended to throw myself down from the 

 heighth of a mountain, and it was whilst I had this intention that he 

 appeared to me and said, O Mohammad, I am Gabriel, and thou art 

 the messenger of God. Then he said, Read. I answered, What shall 

 I read ? Then he seized me and squeezed me three times as much as I 



