1855.] Alfred von Kremer's edition of W&qidy. 213 



it. There is no doubt that he collected an immense number of 

 notes on the subject, and Ibn IsMq refers to them in almost every 

 chapter, but I doubt, whether he left them arranged and in the 

 shape of a book on his death, and think that like the commentary 

 on the Qoran ascribed to Ibn 'Abbas, they were collected and 

 arranged by a later hand, perhaps by his nephew, Mohammad b. 

 'Abd Allah b. Moslim, who is quoted by Waqidy in the first page 

 as one of his Shaykhs. 



Having said so much on the origin of writing down traditions, 

 though it is my intention to enter into the subject at some length 

 iu a separate article, I may advert to a statement of Ibn JZanbal,. 

 recorded by Ghazzaly, Shahrashub, Nawawy and others. He says, 

 the first man who composed books was Ibn Jorayj (d. in 150, it ia 

 said, at the age of one hundred years). If this is correct at all, he 

 refers to systematic works on traditions or law. There is evidence 

 to show that there existed Arabic works on profane subjects before 

 his time. Mas'udy speaks of a public library at the time of 'Omar 

 b. 'Abd al-'azyz, and I possess the history of Ibn Monajjim, who 

 wrote in 131, and he quotes in pp. 68, 184 and 103, an older author 

 whose name was A&inad b. 'Abd Allah Injyly. In page 103 he says, 

 U\ $U>j o»| /Jj^ c^jA^ v^ c5* 15^=^1 &*j > " Injyly expresses an 

 opinion in his work, which has the title of Khashyn 'Aylam that, 

 &c." I do not know when Injyly died, but from Ibn Monajjim, p. 184, 

 it appears that he was a nephew and pupil of 'Abd Allah b. Sallam, 

 of whom we find the following notice in the Kama! of 'Abd al- 

 Ghanyy, " 'Abd Allah b. Sallam b. al-iZarith Khazrajy was called 

 Abu Yusof, and was a confederate of the Qawaqilah, a family of the- 

 Band 'Awf b. Khazraj. He was an Israelite of the tribe of Joseph, 

 and embraced the Islam when MoAammad came to Madynah. The 

 prophet changed his name which had been IZbcayn into 'Abd Allah, 

 and promised him the paradise. To him alludes the verse of Qoran, 

 46, 9 (in which Mohammad refers to his testimony) and also 

 verse 13, 43. But as to the bearing of the latter verse, the opinions 

 of the commentators of the Qoran are divided. He was present with 

 the Khalyf 'Omar at the conquest of Jerusalem, and died according 

 to Ibn Sa'd at Madynah in 43." 



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