204 Alfred von Krerner's edition of Waqidy. [No. 3. 



but woe to the ancestors of a man who did not pay ! They never 

 had distinguished themselves during the age of the prophet except 

 perhaps in the ranks of his enemies. Owing to this description of 

 industry he got a bad name among his own biographers. Towards the 

 end of his life his faculties failed him, and he died at an advanced 

 age in A. H. 123. 



Among those who took traditions from him are, according to the 

 Kamal: 



1. Miisa, b. 'Oqbah, d. 141. 



2. Ibn Maq, d. 151. 



3. Abu Ma'shar, d. 175. 



4. Ya%a b. Sa'yd Ancary who was Qadhiy of Madynah and 

 subsequently in the 'Iraq, where he died in 143. He was the most 

 learned man of his age besides Zohry, Bokayr b. Ibn al-Ashajj and 

 Abii-1-Zinnad. He had so faithful a memory that he used to dictate 

 traditions to his pupils from memory, and if he subsequently 

 rehearsed them, they found that he could repeat them literally as 

 he had dictated them. 



5. Ibn Aby Dzyb born iu 80, died in 158. 



6. 'Omarah b. 'Azyyah, d. 140. 



7. Malik b. Anas, born in 93, d. 179. 



8. Fifr b. Khalyfah, d. 155 or 153. 



9. Mohammad b. Eashid, d. in 160 odd. 



10. Ziyad b. Sa'd. 



11. Abd al-Ka&man b. Solayman b. Ghasyl, d. 171. 



12. 'A'cim b. al-A&wal, d. 142. 



The three first named pupils of Shora&byl, have left biographies 

 of the prophet. The work of Ibn Is/^aq we have, that of Miisa b, 

 'Oqbah is frequently quoted by Bokhary, Ibn Sayyid alnas, Sohayly, 

 and Ibn J2ajar and other writers, and it is very likely that a copy 

 of it will yet be discovered. I made enquiries regarding this 

 book wherever I went, and at Damascus I was assured that there 

 existed a copy, but I was unable to obtain a sight of it. Abu 

 Ma'shar we find also sometimes quoted but much less fre- 

 quently. It appears to me that Shora&byl had a great hand in 

 giving to the biography of MoAammad, a stereotype form. Much had 

 been done before him, more particularly by 'Orwah, Sa'yd b. Mosay- 



