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Murder in the Name of Allah. The Holy Prophetsa said: 'It is evidence enough of the untruthfulness of a person that he should relate, without examining, whatever he hears. ' (Muslim, vol. 1, chapter headed 'Don'ts about Tradition') 14 Bukhari (Arabic-English edition), Vol. ix, Book 84, Chapt. 2, Hadith No. 57 - page 45. (Dar-Al-Arabia, Beirut, 1985). 15 Abdul Hayy, Al-Raf a wal Takmeel. 16 Not to be confused with Ikramah b. Abu Jahl. 17 Ibn Saad, Al Tabqa Al-Kabir, vol. 2, 386. 18 Mizan Al-Aitadal, vol. 2, 208. 19 Abu Daud, vol. II, 35. 20 Abu Jafar Muhammed b. Amr b. Musa b. Hamad Al-Aqbli Al-Mulki, Kitab al-Soafa Al-Kabir (Lebanon: Darul Kutb Al-Almiyya). Al Safr III, 1983, 373. 21 Abu Jafar Muhammad b. Amr b. Musa b. Hamad Al-Aqbli Al-Mulki, op. cit. 22 Mizan Al-Aitadal, vol. 2, 209. 23 Fateh Al-Bari. 24 The son of Abbas, an uncle of the Holy Prophets. Ibn Abbas was no more than a child during the Holy Prophet's a time. 25 Bukhari, Kitab al-Janaiz, chapter headed 'Wailing Over the Dead'. 26 Hedayah. 27 Fateh al-Kadeer, vol IV, 389; vol II, 580. 28 Chalpi, Commentary on Fateh al-Kadeer, 388; Inayah, 390. . Chapter 8 1 Munir Commission Report, 258. 2 Maxime Rodinson, Mohammad, trans. Anne Carter (New York, 1971), 194. 'A tribal poet among the Bedouin,' as Joel Carmichael puts it, was 'no mere versifier, but a kindler of battle', his poems were 'thought of as the serious beginning of real warfare' (The Shaping of the Arabs, a Study in Ethnic. Identity, New York, 1967,38). 3 Ibn Hisham, Kitab Sirat Rasul Allah, 995. The English translation is by Anne. Carter, given in Rodinson's Mohammed, op. cit. , 157. 4 Ali b. Burhan ud Din ud-Halabi, Insan al-Uyun, vol. II, 116; cited by Kister,. The Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. VIII, 267. 5 Ibn Hisham, op. cit. , 459. 6 Ibn Hisham, op. cit. , 550, this translation by A. Guillaume. 7 ibid. , 386. 8 ibid. 9 ibid. , 387. 10 ibid. , 726. 11 ibid. 144