214 Alfred von Kremers edition of Wdqidy. [No. 3. 



Monajjim among his authorities in the preface to the Golden 

 Meadows. 



Begarding the authorities on which Zohry's biography of Mo* 

 Mnirnad was founded, there occurs an interesting passage in Ibn 

 IsMq, in the commencement of the account of the war against the 

 Qoraytzah. He takes Zohry as his guide and copies the list of the 

 authorities, from whose information Zohry had put together his 

 story. They are, 'Alqamah b, Waqqac Laythy of Madynah (who 

 died during the reign of 'Abd al-Malik b. Merwan), Say'd b. Jobayr 

 (was put to death by .fiajjaj in 95 before he had completed his 50th 

 year of age), 'Orwah (mentioned above), 'Obayd Allah b. 'Abd 

 Allah b. 'Otbah b. Saby'ah (d. in 94 or 84). From Bokhary, p. 57% 

 we learn that Zohry related the adventure of 'Ayishah on the 

 authority of 'Orwah, Sa'yd b. Mosayyab, 'Alqamah b. "Waqqac and 

 'Obayd Allah b. 'Abd Allah. Numerous other passages might be 

 adduced, from which it appears that Zohry derived hie knowledge of 

 the main facts in the life of Mohammad from these five men. Among 

 them he quotes most frequently 'Orwah (as apud Ibn IsMq, 

 Vol. I. pp. 130, 415 ; Vol. II. pp. 130, 144 and passim, also apud 

 Bokhary, pp. 2, 572, 573, 574 and times innumerable) and it seems 

 that in his biography of the prophet, he restored the work of 'Orwah 

 as far as he could recollect it from his lectures, and gather it from 

 his other pupils, and that he enriched it, with additional information 

 from a very great variety of authorities. 



Ibn IsMq takes from Zohry the story of the adventure of 'Xyishah. 

 The young lady accompanied her decrepid husband in one of the 

 campaigns, and lost her way, but had the good luck to meet a young 

 man who brought her back to the arms of her spouse. This story 

 affords the best specimen of Zohry's manner of treating the subject, 

 which is far from candid. The story being too long for being 

 inserted here, I give 'Orwah's and Zohry's version of the expedition 

 of Ibn JaMh, which I related according to other authorities in a 

 preceding number, p. 65, we see from it that these men were far too 

 skilful theoiogists for being good historians, 



" The prophet sent 'Abd Allah Ibn JaMh b. Bayab Asady on an, 

 expedition in Eajab immediately after the first Badr campaign, and 

 he gave him eight men. They were refugees, and there was no 



