58 Alfred von Kramer's edition of Wakidy. [No. 1. 



was also twice read, once in 529 by Ibn Hibat Allah and among the 

 auditory were Dahyal and the celebrated ' Abd al-Rafanan Ibn Jawzy 

 and it was again read before the old man in 535 by Sam' any. I must 

 here observe that reading a book before a Shaykh for the sake of the 

 isnad was a mere boast and ceremony, and therefore, students 

 flocked to a man who had heard it a long while ago, however infirm 

 he might be, from all parts of the Mohammadan world, in order that 

 there might be few links between themselves and the author. This 

 explains how it came that the old man lectured on a work which he 

 had studied 87 years previously. 



The rest of the above document offers neither any difficulty nor 

 much interest and I therefore, confine my explanations to these 

 few remarks. 



From another Sanaa' we learn that Ibn IZayyiiyah lectured on 

 the book in 318 and again in 320 in his own house. It farther ap- 

 pears from one of the Sama's and from the isnad of Ibn Sayyid alnas 

 that the Qadhiy Abu. Bakr [Ibn 'Abd al-Baqiy] had tworiwayats of 

 the text of Ibn iZayyuyah, that of Jawhary — and this riwayat he 

 transmitted to Abu 'Abd Allah b. Dahyal and others — and the riwayat 

 of Abu. IsMq Ibrahym b. 'Omar Barmaky, equally a pupil of Ibn iZay- 

 yuyah, which he had received by ijazah only. This explains why it is 

 distinctly added above k£j&y$r\ u* ^U-*> i. e. " Ibn 'Abd al-Baqiy 

 taught the book as he had heard it from Jawhary." It is also stated 

 that Ibn IZayyiiyah mentioned before every Aadyth his isnad up to 

 the author. In referring to Kremer's text of Wakidy, we find that 

 he did the same in teaching that book and that this objectionable 

 practice was also adopted by his pupil Jawhary. Every isnad there- 

 fore, begins with " I heard from MoAammad [Ibn JSayyiiyah] who 

 had it from 'Abd al-Wahhab, from Mohammad [Thaljy]. This may 

 perhaps justify the supposition that the standard copy upon which 

 Kremer's text is founded, was that of Jawhary. Perhaps we may go 

 farther and suppose that the omissions, and additions to be noticed 

 lower down have been made by him. His giving the full isnad for 

 every single Aadyth seems to me to indicate that he did not yet con- 

 sider the work as a whole but as an aggregate of documents of 

 which he considered himself at liberty to take as many as he pleased 

 or suited his purpose. 



