Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1Text and Translation
- Chapter 2Muʾminun, Yahud, Muhajirūn and Muslimūn
- Chapter 3The Jewish Participants
- Chapter 4The Treaty of the Muʾminūn
- Chapter 5The Treaty of the Jews
- Appendix AWhen Was the Kitāb Concluded?
- Appendix BThe Unity of the Kitāb
- Appendix CThe Recensions of the Kitāb
- Appendix DThe Preservation of Ibn Isḥaq's Recension
- Appendix EThe Term Muwādaʿa
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 1 - Text and Translation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 September 2025
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1Text and Translation
- Chapter 2Muʾminun, Yahud, Muhajirūn and Muslimūn
- Chapter 3The Jewish Participants
- Chapter 4The Treaty of the Muʾminūn
- Chapter 5The Treaty of the Jews
- Appendix AWhen Was the Kitāb Concluded?
- Appendix BThe Unity of the Kitāb
- Appendix CThe Recensions of the Kitāb
- Appendix DThe Preservation of Ibn Isḥaq's Recension
- Appendix EThe Term Muwādaʿa
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The following abbreviations were used in the edition of the text:
AU- Abū ʿUbayd, Amwāl, 260-64 no. 518.
AU, fragment - Abū ʿUbayd, Amwāl, 166 nos. 328-29.
AU1 — Abū ʿUbayd, Amwāl, ed. Muḥammad Hamid al-Fiqī, Cairo AH 1353, 202–205 (noted only in the case of differences with AU).
AU/DK1 — Abū ʿUbayd, Amwāl, MS Dār al-Kutub, Ḥadīth 2282 (copied in Damascus, ah 1346), 216–21; the fragment, 132.
AU/DK2 Abū ʿUbayd, Amwāl, MS Dār al-Kutub, Ḥadīth 2534, 85a-87a.
AU/DK3 - Abū ʿUbayd, Amwāl, MS Dār al-Kutub, Ḥadīth 2558 (riwayat ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Baghawīʿanhu).
AU/Zah. Abū ʿUbayd, Amwāl, MS Zāhiriyya, Ḥadīth 310; photocopy in the Staatsbibliothek Berlin (MSS simulata orient. 32), I, 85b-87a.
Fa. Zamakhsharī, Fāʾiq, II, 25–26.
Fa. (India) Zamakhsharī, Faʾiq, Hyderabad 1324/1906, I, 221-22.
Fa. (India MS) Zamakhshari, Faʾiq, MS Osmania University 1614 (copied in AH 1134), 85b.
IH — Ibn Hishām, Sīra, II, 147–50.
IH/DK — Ibn Hishām, Sīra, MS Dār al-Kutub, H 7083 (copied in AH 862), 100b-101b.
IH/Berl. Ibn Hisham, Sīra, MS Staatsbibliothek Berlin (Sprenger 93), 334-37.
IJ - a fragment quoted from Ibn Jurayj in Abū ʿUbayd, Amwāl, 166-67 no. 330.
IK— Ibn Kathir, Bidāya, III, 224–26.
IQ — Ibn Qayyim, Aḥkām, II, 835–37.
ISN—Ibn Sayyid al-Nas, ʿUyun al-athar, I, 197–98.
ISN2— Ibn Sayyid al-Nas2, ʿUyūn al-athar, I, 318–20.
ISN/Berl. —Ibn Sayyid al-Nās, ʿUyūn al-athar, MS Staatsbibliothek Berlin (Sprenger 122), 60a-61a.
IT — Ibn Taymiyya, al-Ṣārim al-maslūl, 62–64.
Maq.—al-Maqrʿ, Imtā” al-asmā”, MS Dār al-Kutub 886, V, 1035–36.
Maw. —al-Mawṣilī, Wasīla, IV,ii 105-10.
Mis. —Ibn Hudayda, Miṣbāḥ mudi, II, 5–10.
Mis. 1 — Ibn Ḥudayda, Miṣbāḥ muḍī, MS Hakim Muzahir (India), 75a–76b (only partially compared).
Mis.2 — Ibn Hudayda, Miṣbāḥ muḍdiʾ, MS Mumtaz al-ʿulamāʿ, Muḥammad Taqi, 130 Ḥadīth, 117b-119a.
MT—a fragment in Manāl al-ṭālib, 227.
ND —a fragment in Nathr al-durr, I, 222-23.
Nuw. — Nuwayrī, Nihāyat al-arab, XVI, 348–51.
Qast. — a fragment in Qasṭallānī, Mawāhib laduniyya, II, 270.
Qast.1— Qasṭallānī, Mawāhib laduniyya, MS Br. Lib. Or. 5477, 142b.
Wüst. — Ibn Hishām, Sīra, ed. F. Wüstenfeld, Göttingen 1858, I.i, 341–44.
Zan. — Ibn Zanjawayh, Amwāl, II, 466-70 no. 750.
Zan.1— Ibn Zanjawayh, Amwāl, MS Burdur 183, 70b-71b.
Zurq. — al-Zurqānī, Sharḥ ʿala l-mawāhib al-laduniyya, IV, 168–69.
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