1856.] Alfred von Kremer's edition of Wakidy, 59 



It is curious that Ibu Sayyid alnas, the author of the 'Oyun 

 alathar has used a copy of Ibu Sa'd aud quotes a riwayat for it 

 nearly identical with the Cawnpore codex. He says : 

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I may here add that it appears that Ibn Sayyid alnas had no copy 

 of Wakidy, he had only Ibn Sa'd. 



Having done with the isnad of Mr. Kremer's copy, let us proceed 

 to the authorities whom Wakidy quotes, but in order more fully to 

 illustrate the subject, I may be allowed to say a few words on Ibu 

 Sa'd's authorities. 



It is the praiseworthy habit of Ibn Sa'd to trace the testimony 

 for every fact he states up to an eye-witness, but he deviates from 

 this rule in his chapter on " the campaigns." Here he quotes at 

 the head (folio 98) the four leading works on the subject. The 

 statements contained in these four books, he works up according to 

 the best of his own judgment,* without referring to them in the 

 details. But where he supplies statements from other authorities, 

 as he does sometimes, he gives the Isnad. These four works are 

 1. The campaigns of Waqidy which he received immediately from 

 the author. 2. The work of Ibn IsMq which he took on the testi- 

 mony of Eowaym b. Yazyd Moqriy who had it on the testimony of 

 Hariin b. Aby 'Ysa and Ibn Aby 'Ysa was a pupil of Ibn IsMq 

 himself. 3. The work of Abu Ma'shar [Nojay& b. Abd al-Ra&man 

 d. 175] which he took on the testimony of ai-ZZosayn b. Mohammad 



* The technical term for such a process is U^i ^^ ^ f%**i ^^ cfco 



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