[18] The Bani Bakr, son of Abd Monát, were a branch of Kinána of the Moaddite stock.
[19] The Jews of Macna Azrúh and Jabra, and the Christian Chiefs of Ayla and Dúma.
[20] The biographers have only compiled or arranged the mass of popular romances and favourite tales of campaigns, which had become stereotyped in their time, but were for the most part the inventions of a playful fantasy.
[21] Musa-bin-Akba (died 141 A.H.)
[22] Ibn Sád and Ibn Is-hak as already alluded to.
[23] "Decline and Fall, Chap. 1."
[24] The Life of Mahomet, founder of the religion of Islamism and of the Empire of the Saracens, by the Rev. Samuel Green, page 126: London, 1877.
[25] Mohammad's instruction to Abdal-Rahman was—"In no case shalt thou use deceit or perfidy, nor shalt thou kill any child."—Muir, Vol. IV, p. 11.
[26] 'Quoted by Dr. Cazenove,' "Christian Remembrancer," January, 1855, page 71, from Caussin de Perceval. Mohammed & Mohammedanism. By R. Bosworth Smith, Second Edn., pp. 257 & 258. London, 1876.
[27] An History of Mohammedanism; comprising the Life and Character of the Arabian Prophet; by Charles Mills, page 27. London 1818.