The Mohammed Code: Why a Desert Prophet Wants You Dead (60 page)

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“When the events of Badr were over, God revealed al-Anfal (Surah 8) [Chapter 8 of the Qur’an, whose title means ‘Spoils Of War, Booty’] in its entirety.” al-Tabari. The History of al Tabari: English translation of "at Tareekh al Tabari". Albany: State University of New York PressTabari: Volume VII, p. 80. For the translation of the chapter title “al-Anfal” as “Spoils of War”, see University of Southern California. USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts. Translations of the Qur'an, Chapter 8. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/008.qmt.html.

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About the division of the captured goods and families of the Banu Quraiza, Ibn Ishaq says, “The apostle… made known on that day the shares of horse and men…. Acording to its precedent and what the aposltle did the divisions were made….” A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 , eighteenth printing, 2004: p. 466.

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Qur’an-- chapter 4: verse 94. The Holy Qur’an. Translation by Abdullah Yusufali. Complete online text. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/rel/islam/

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“He will have seventy two Women of Paradise; And, he will be allowed to intercede for seventy of his family members (who would have otherwise gone to hell). (Tirmidhi & Ibn Maajah)”

Usaamah Khayyaat. The Virtues of Martyrdom. Trans. Hazem Ragab. Retrieved August 31, 2005, from the World Wide Web: http://www.alminbar.com/khutbaheng/1478.htm.

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Sahih Bukhari. Volume 4, Book 54, Number 476. Sahih Bukhari. Translator: M. Muhsin Khan. MSA-USC Hadith Database. USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts. University of Southern California.

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/054.sbt.html#004.054.476

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Ibn Ishaq. Sirat Rasoul Allah: The earliest biography of Muhammad, by ibn Ishaq. An abridged version Edited by Michael Edwardes.
Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sira/02.htm

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Maulana A. S. Muhammad Abdul Hai (Rah.). Holy Life Of Hazrat Muhammad

(
Hayyat-E-Tayyaba
). Delhi, India: Islami Academy, 1984. Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web

http://www.al-islamforall.org/litre/Englitre/Hmohd.htm

says 200 miles. Hazrat Moulana Sayyed Abul Hassan Ali Nadwi(R.A.). The Seerah Of Muhammad(Sallallahu Laiyhi Wassallam): (The Last Prophet: A Model For All Time). Al-Islaah Publications. Retrieved April 20, 2013 , From The World Wide Web:

Http://Alislaah3.Tripod.Com/

Says 70 miles. And the editor of the VIIIth volume of al-Tabari says the distance is 95 miles. al-Tabari. The History of al Tabari ("Tarikh al-rusul wa’l muluk"), Volume VIII, The Victory of Islam. Trans. Michael Fishbein. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997: p. 140.

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Shaykh Safi ur-Rahmaan Mubarakfoori. Seerah of the Final Messenger of Allaah: The Sealed Nectar (Ar-Raheeq al-Makhtoom). Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Books/MH_LM/campaign_of_khaybar_and_missions_to_kings.htm

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Universal Sunnah Foundation. Pakistan. The Prophet Muhammad: Biography of the Holy Prophet. In Islamic Paths. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://www.islamic-paths.org/Home/English/Muhammad/Book/Biography/Chapter_33.htm

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Akram Diya al Umari. Excerpted from Madinan Society At the Time of the Prophet, International Islamic Publishing House & IIIT, 1991. In Bismika Alllahuma. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://www.bismikaallahuma.org/index.php/articles/the-conquest-of-khaybar-and-of-the-remaining-jewish-strongholds-in-al-hijaz

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Shaykh Safi ur-Rahmaan Mubarakfoori. Seerah of the Final Messenger of Allaah: The Sealed Nectar (Ar-Raheeq al-Makhtoom). According to one online Islamic bookstore, this biography of the Prophet was “awarded First prize by the Muslim world league at world-wide competition on the biography of the Prophet held at Makkah”. The bookstore, Islamic Goods Direct, [http://www.islamicgoodsdirect.co.uk/product_info.php/products_id/1750], does not give the date of the award.

Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web

http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Books/MH_LM/campaign_of_khaybar_and_missions_to_kings.htm

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A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 , eighteenth printing, 2004: p. 519.

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Hejaz. (2006). Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved March 4, 2006, from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9039858

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Sahih Bukhari. Translator: M. Muhsin Khan. Volume 1, Book 8, Number 367.

Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/008.sbt.html#001.008.367

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A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 , eighteenth printing, 2004: p. 511.

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A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 , eighteenth printing, 2004: p. 511.

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Sahih Bukhari. Translator: M. Muhsin Khan. Volume 1, Book 8, Number 367.

Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/008.sbt.html#001.008.367

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A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 , eighteenth printing, 2004: p. 511.

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Sahih Bukhari. Translator: M. Muhsin Khan. Volume 1, Book 8, Number 367.

Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/008.sbt.html#001.008.367

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Maulana A. S. Muhammad Abdul Hai (Rah.). Holy Life Of Hazrat Muhammad

(
Hayyat-E-Tayyaba
). Delhi, India: Islami Academy, 1984. Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web

http://www.al-islamforall.org/litre/Englitre/Hmohd.htm

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A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 , eighteenth printing, 2004: p. 469.

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A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 , eighteenth printing, 2004: p. 469.

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al-Tabari. The History of al Tabari ("Tarikh al-rusul wa’l muluk"), Volume VIII, The Victory of Islam. Trans. Michael Fishbein. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997: p. 178.

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al-Tabari. The History of al Tabari ("Tarikh al-rusul wa’l muluk"), Volume VIII, The Victory of Islam. Trans. Michael Fishbein. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997: p. 121.

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al-Tabari. The History of al Tabari ("Tarikh al-rusul wa’l muluk"), Volume VIII, The Victory of Islam. Trans. Michael Fishbein. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997: p. 121.

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al-Tabari. The History of al Tabari ("Tarikh al-rusul wa’l muluk"), Volume VIII, The Victory of Islam. Trans. Michael Fishbein. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997: p. 121.

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al-Tabari. The History of al Tabari ("Tarikh al-rusul wa’l muluk"), Volume VIII, The Victory of Islam. Trans. Michael Fishbein. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997: p. 123.

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A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 , eighteenth printing, 2004: p. 513.

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A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 , eighteenth printing, 2004: p. 515. Al-Tabari has a different version of this torture: “Al-Zubayr kept twirling his firestick in his breast until Kinanah almost expired; then the Messenger of God gave him to Muhammad b. Maslamah, who beheaded him to avenge his brother Mahmud b. Maslamah.” al-Tabari. The History of al Tabari ("Tarikh al-rusul wa’l muluk"), Volume VIII, The Victory of Islam. Trans. Michael Fishbein. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997: p. 122.

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A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 , eighteenth printing, 2004: p. 515.

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The exact number of Prophets Allah sent is not certain, but the Qur’an is quite clear that there were "messengers whom We have mentioned to you before, and messengers whom We have not mentioned to you" (Al-Nisa, 4:164).

It is obligatory, however, to believe in the 25 prophets mentioned by name in the Qur’an: Adam, Idris, Nuh (Noah), Hud (sent to the ‘Aad people), Salih (sent to the Thamud), Ibrahim (Abraham), Lut (Lot), Isma’eel (Ishmael), Is-haq (Isaac), Ya’qub (Jacob) also known as Isra’eel (Israel), Yusuf (Joseph), Ayyub (Job), Shu’ayb (sent to Madyan), Musa (Moses), Harun (Aaron), Dhul-Kifl (Ezekiel), Dawud (David), Sulayman (Solomon), Al-Yasa’, Illyas (Elias), Yunus (Jonah), Zakariyya (Zacharias), Yahya (John), Isa (Jesus) and Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon them all).

Abu al-Hassan. Prophets and messengers of Allah. Gulf Times, Doha, Qatar. August 11, 2006. http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=101919&version=1&template_id=47&parent_id=27

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"Islam has very specific and detailed rules, easily referenced in the Quran and the hadith, for maintaining cleanliness including wudu, ablution before prayer; ghusl, bath after sexual intercourse and before prayer; trimming body hair from underarms and intimate areas; and proper washing, with water, after defecation." Naser I. Faruqui. Islam and water management: Overview and Principles: International Development Research Center. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from the World Wide Web

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-93948-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
. Brannon M. Wheeler. Applying Canon in Islam: The Authorization and Maintenance of Interpretive Reasoning in Hanafi Scholarship. Albany: State University of New York, 1996: pp. 53-54, 258.

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Maulana A. S. Muhammad Abdul Hai (Rah.). Holy Life Of Hazrat Muhammad

(
Hayyat-E-Tayyaba
). Delhi, India: Islami Academy, 1984. Retrieved April 20, 2013 , from the World Wide Web

http://www.al-islamforall.org/litre/Englitre/Hmohd.htm

A. Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 , eighteenth printing, 2004: p. 515.