A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' / Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and / that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not / Allowed in The Koran - 1885

by Cherágh Ali

[209] Ibn Hisham, p. 994. Wakidi does not give this sentence. On the contrary, he says, Sálim had taken a vow to kill Abú Afak or die himself.

[210] Ibn Sad Kátib Wákidí, pp. 186, 187.

[211] The Life of Mahomet, by Sir W. Muir, Vol. III, pp. 147-148.

[212] In the collections of Bokhári in the Book of Campaigns; and in the Book of Jihád by Moslim.

[213] Mohammad-bin Sád Kátib Wakidi and Mohammad-bin Ishak. The latter in Ibn Hisham, p. 551.

[214] Vide Osaba-fi Tamiz Issahába; or, Biographical Dictionary of Persons who knew Mohammad, by Ibn Hajr-al-Askalani. Part I, No. 1021, p. 434.

[215] Ibn Abbás was only five years old at that time, and was at Mecca. His evidence is consequently inadmissible.

[216] Yahya-bin Saeed al Ansaree, Ali-bin Abdullah-bin Abbás, Ibnal Mosayyab, Atá Ibrahim-bin Maisura, Mohammad-bin Sireen, Kásim, and Abdullah-bin Omar say that Ikrama was a liar. Vide Mizánul Etedal of Zahabi, Koukabi Durrári Sharah, Saheeh Bokhari, by Shamsuddin Kirmáni; and Márafat Anwaá-ilm Hadees, by Abu Omar-ad-Damishki.

[217] The Life of Mahomet, by Sir W. Muir, Vol. III, p. 200.

[218] Elements of International Law, by Henry Wheaton, LL.D. Sixth edition, by William Beach Lawrence, Boston, 1855; Part IV, Chapter I, p. 374, quoting Bynkershoek; in p. 416, quoting Bynkershoek and Wolff.