20G Alfred von Kremer's edition of Wdqidy. [No. 3. 



lie was, when the prophet came to Madynah, and was informed that 

 he was sixty years old. It hence follows that he was just seven 

 years of age when the prophet was born, and that therefore, there is 

 no anachronism in the above statement. Similar instances in which 

 he made enquiries from persons, who, owing to their family connec- 

 tion, must have been accurately acquainted with certain facts are 

 frequent. 



In the commencement of some chapters however, he gives an isnad 

 which apparently refers to the main sources of the stereotype ver- 

 sion. It runs at the heading of the battle of the ditch, Cy£j ^t^ 



" I have been informed by Yazyd b. Kiiman, a client of ttie Zabayr 

 family on the authority of 'Orwah, the son of Zobayr, also by a 

 person against whom I have no suspicion on the authority of 'Abd 

 Allah b. Ka'b b. Malik and of Mohammad b. Ka'b Qoratzy, and 

 also by Zohry, by 'Acini b. 'Omar b. Qatadah and by 'Abd Allah b. 

 Aby Bakr and others." 



The battle of Badr is headed by the following isnad ^J ^♦a^° c5 ij»xa. 



"I have been informed by Zohry and by 'Ayim b. 'Omar and by 

 'Abd Allah b. Aby Bakr and by Yazyd b. Human on the authority 

 of 'Orwah, and by others of our men of learning on the authority 

 of Ibn 'Abbas." 



At the head of the story of the campaign called Sawyq the isnad 

 runs v* *$ $ v*>j u>Uy ^J ±&ij jXj)\ \pi'jP*** u-? lX *^° tj$&** 



# cJJLc ^j ^xf ^j &JJ| &±£ 



" I have been informed by Mo7*ammad, by Ja'far b. Zobayr, and 

 by Yazyd b. Bum&u and by a person against whom I have no 

 suspicion on the authority of 'Abd Allah b. Ka'b b. Malik." 



In the commencement of the campaign of the Band Moc^aliq 

 it runs ^ *+=S°jj£i ^\ ^ *JJ| cy±* j ^LG ^ j+z ^j ^U -^ii&aJ 



" I have been informed by 'Xcim b. 'Omar b. Qatadah and by 

 'Abd Allah b. Aby Bakr and by Mohammad b. Ya/*ya b. Jabbar. 



