22. Ibn Sa'd, vol. I, 227. 23. Ibn Ishaq, 106. 24. Bukhari, vol. 6, book 65, no. 4953. 25. Ibn Ishaq, 106. 26. Bukhari, vol. 9, book 91, no. 6982. 27. Ibn Ishaq, 107. Notes 201 28. Bukhari, vol. 1, book 1, no. 3. 29. Ibid. 30. Ibn Ishaq, 107. 31. Ibid., 107. 32. Bukhari, vol. 9, book 91, no. 6982. 33. Bukhari, vol. 4, book 59, no. 3238. 34. Bukhari, vol. 2, book 19, no. 1125. Hoofdstuk 4: Mohammeds openbaringen en hun bronnen 1. Mishnah Sanhédrin 4:5. 2. Parts of this collection were added later, after the time of Muhammad—but not the section containing the material about Abraham. See Harry Freedman and Maurice Simon, Bereshit Kabbah, Soncino, 1961. Vol. 1, xxix. 3. Some may even have tried to fool Muhammad. One man who used to come talk with Muhammad later derided him for perhaps being too credulous in accepting those "tales of the ancients": "Muhammad is all ears: if anyone tells him anything he believes it." Once again Allah answered through the Prophet of Islam: "Among them are men who molest the Prophet and say, 'He is (all) ear.' Say, 'He listens to what is best for you: he believes in Allah, has faith in the Believers, and is a Mercy to those of you who believe.' But those who molest the Messenger will have a grievous penalty" (Qur'an 9:61). The Qur'an also calls down divine woe upon "those who write the Book with their own hands, and then say: This is from Allah,' to traffic with it for miserable price! Woe to them for what their hands do write, and for the gain they make thereby" (2:79). And when speaking of the People of the Book, Allah tells Muhammad: "As for those who sell the faith they owe to Allah and their own plighted word for a small price, they shall have no portion in the Hereafter. Nor will Allah (deign to) speak to them or look at them on the Day of Judgment, nor will He cleanse them (of sin). They shall have a grievous penalty. There is among them a section who distort the Book with their tongues: (As they read) you would think it is a part of the Book, but it is no part of the Book; and they say, "That is from Allah," but it is not from Allah: It is they who tell a lie against Allah, and (well) they know it!... If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah), never will it be accepted of him; and in the Hereafter he will be in the ranks of those who have lost (all spiritual good). How shall Allah Guide those who reject Faith after they accepted it and bore witness that the Messenger was true and that clear signs had come unto them? But Allah guides not a people unjust" (Qur'an 202 Notes 3:77-78; 85-86). Did some of the Jews mock Muhammad’s prophetic pretensions by representing their own writings, or folkloric or apocryphal material, as divine revelation, and selling them to him? 4. Bukhari, vol. 9, book 91, no. 6982. 5. Bukhari, vol. 4, book 61, no. 3617. 6. "The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Savior," 1, Wesley Center for Applied Theology, http://wesley.nnu.edu/biblical_studies/noncanon/gospels/infarab.htm. 7. "The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Savior," 36. 8. Muslim, book 25, no. 5326. 9. "The example of Muslims, Jews and Christians is like the example of a man who employed labourers to work for him from morning till evening. They worked till mid-day and they said, 'We are not in need of your reward.' So the man employed another batch and said to them, 'Complete the rest of the day and yours will be the wages I had fixed (for the first batch).' They worked up till the time of the 'Asr prayer and said, 'Whatever we have done is for you.' He employed another batch. They worked for the rest of the day till sunset, and they received the wages of the two former batches." Bukhari, vol. 1, book 9, no. 558. 10. W. St. Clair Tisdall, "The Sources of Islam," in The Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam's Holy Book, Ibn Warraq, editor, (New York: Prometheus Books, 1998), 281. 11. Bukhari, vol. 1, book 1, no. 2. 12. Ibn Sa'd, vol. I, 228. 13. Imam Muslim, Sahih Muslim, Abdul Hamid Siddiqi, trans., Kitab Bhavan, revised edition 2000, book 30, no. 5764. U. Muslim, book 30, nos. 5766 and 5767. 15. Bukhari, vol. 6, book 66, no. 4985.0 16. Quoted in Ali Dashti, 23 Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammed, F. R. C. Bagley, translator, (Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 1994), 132. 17. Abu Ja'far Muhammad bin Jarir al-Tabari, The History of al-Tabari, Volume VIII, The Victory of Islam, Michael Fishbein, translator, (New York: State University of New York Press, 1997), 2. 18. Bukhari, vol. 9, book 97, no. 7420. 151
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