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Notes 27 The word used by Asma is much more abusive. 28 Two Yemenite tribes. 29 Ibn Hisham, Kitab Sirat Rasul Allah, ed. F. Wüstenfeld, 2 vols. (Göttingen, 1856-60), 995-6. 30 The two Ansar tribes, the Aws and Khazraj. 31 Ibn Hisham, op. cit. , 995. The translation is by Anne Carter, in Maxime. Rodinson, Mohammed, op. cit. , 157. Like ‘Pharaoh' (Egypt) and ‘Caesar' (Rome), ‘Tubba' was the name given to the ancient kings of south Arabia. 32 Kab's mother belonged to the Jewish tribe an-Nadir. Though his father was an Arab, he was accepted as a member of Banu an-Nadir. 33 Ibn Hisham, op. cit. , 548-9; trans. A. Guillaume, The Life of Muhammad (London: Oxford University Press, 1970). 34 As the result of a dream, the Holy Prophet decided to go on umrah (smaller pilgrimage) to Mecca with 1400 to 1600 men. He camped at the edge of the sacred territory of Mecca, at Al-Hudaybiyah, where envoys between. Muslims and Meccans came and went. Finally, a truce was signed, forcing the Muslims to retreat that year on condition that they would be allowed to return to Mecca for hajj the following year. 35 The battle of Ahzab or the Trench on 30 March 627. 36 W. Montgomery Watt, Muhammad at Medina, op. cit. , 69. 37 ibid. , 51-2. 38 See p. 22 above. 39 W. Montgomery Watt, Muhammad at Medina, op. cit. , 4. 40 ibid. 41 Martin Lings, Muhammad, his Life Based on the Earliest Sources (London:. George Allen & Unwin, 1983), 297. 42 Washington Irving, Mahomet and His Successors, 2 vols. (New York: G. P. . Putman's Sons, 1868), vol. 1,253. 43 W. Montgomery Watt, Muhammad at Medina, op. cit. , 68. The valley of. Jiranah is about ten miles from Mecca and the spoils of the battle of Hunayn were sent there to be stored. 44 Maxime Rodinson, Mohammed, op. cit. , 262. 45 Stanley Lane-Poole, Selections from the Quran and Hadith, (Lahore: Sind. Sagar Academy, n. d. ), 28. 46 Maxime Rodinson, Mohammed, op. cit. , 312. . Chapter 4 1 Maulana Maududi, Haqiqat-i-Jihad (Lahore: Taj Company Ltd, 1964), 58. 2 Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 5, ed. J. B. Buey (London: 1909-14), 332. 3 Bernard Lewis, The Jews of Islam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983), 3. 139