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of robbers, a river miraculously sprang up between him and 

 them, and enabled him to escape from their hands, 



The eighteenth chapter, consisting of forty-four stanzas* 

 describes the magnificence of the capital of Syria, and gives 

 an account of Mohammed's entry into it; his reception by the 

 chief of the Christians there, and his mercantile transactions. 



The nineteenth chapter, consisting of sixty-six stanzas, 

 treats of a plot formed by certain Christians and Jews in Syria 

 against Mohammed, by inviting him to their quarters and 

 rolling over a millstone upon his head from a height, but from 

 which he miraculously escaped; the hand of the person who 

 rolled the millstone having become attached to it. 



The twentieth chapter, consisting of thirty stanzas, relates 

 to an outcry raised against Mohammed by a blacksmith in Syria ; 

 his escape from an attempt made by the infidels to assassinate 

 him, and retreat into the house of Uzza, a Christian priest, 

 who recognised him as the prophet foretold in the scriptures, 

 and recommended him as such to the notice of his relation 

 Khadija. 



The twenty-first chapter, consisting of thirty-seven stanzas, 

 is occupied with the dreams which Khadija had ; wherein 

 she dreamed, amongst other things, that the moon having de- 

 scended from the heavens settled upon her bosom. 



The twenty-second chapter, consisting of sixty-three 

 stanzas, treats of the espousal of Mohammed and Kadija. 



The twenty-third chapter, consisting of one hundred and 

 nineteen stanzas, narrates the celebration of his nuptials with 

 Khadij a, which was attended with great pomp and magnificence. 



The twenty-fourth chapter, consisting of twenty-five stanzas, 

 notices the birth of Fatima, andafterwards enters into the origin 

 and history of the Kaba and the black stone called Hajar al 

 Aswad. 



II. — The Nubuvat Kanda is divided into the following 

 twenty-one chapters. 



The first chapter, consisting of fifty-five stanzas, treats of 

 Mohammed's retirement from home and going to the mount 

 Hara,inthefortiethyearof his age ; his interview with theangel 

 Gabriel, who having opened his chest and wrung out the gall 



