[FN#334] A traditionist and jurisconsult of Al-Medinah in the seventh and eighth centuries.
[FN#335] The Alexander of the Koran and Eastern legends, not to be confounded with the Alexander of Macedon. He will be noticed in a future Night.
[FN#336] Æsop, according to the Arabs: of him or rather of the two
Lukmans, more presently.
[FN#337] Koran ii. 185.
[FN#338] Mohammed.
[FN#339] One of the Asháb or Companions of Mohammed.
[FN#340] A noted traditionist at Cufa in the seventh century.
[FN#341] Koran, chaps. lxxiv. I (and verse 8 follows). The Archangel Gabriel is supposed to address Mohammed and not a few divines believe this Surah (chapter) to have been first revealed. Mr. Rodwell makes it No. ii. following the Fatrah or silent interval which succeeded No. xcvi. "Clots of Blood." See his 2nd Edit. p. 3 for further details.
[FN#342] i.e. dangerous to soul-health.
[FN#343] In the Mac. Edit. "Abd" for "Sa'id." The latter was a black and a native of Cufa during the first century (A.H ) and is still famous as a traditionist.