A Literary History of the Arabs

by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

[641] See p. 195 supra.

[642] Kor. ix, 3. The translation runs ("This is a declaration) that God is clear of the idolaters, and His Apostle likewise." With the reading rasúlihi it means that God is clear of the idolaters and also of His Apostle.

[643] Ibn Khallikan, De Slane's translation, vol. i, p. 663.

[644] See p. 128.

[645] Ibn Khallikán, No. 608; De Slane's translation, vol. iii, p. 31.

[646] See pp. 131-134, supra.

[647] Goldziher, Muhammedanische Studien, Part I, p. 197.

[648] Ibid., p. 195.

[649] Ibn Qutayba, Kitábu ’l-Ma‘árif, p. 269.

[650] While Abú ‘Ubayda was notorious for his freethinking proclivities, Aṣma‘í had a strong vein of pietism. See Goldziher, loc. cit., p. 199 and Abh. zur Arab. Philologie, Part I, p. 136.