“God Will Never Disgrace Thee” (The Interpretation of an Early Ḥadīth)

M. J. Kister

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“God Will Never Disgrace Thee” (The Interpretation of an Early Ḥadīth)

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M. J. Kister

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The well known tradition in al-Bukhārī, told on the authority of al-Zuhrī—'Urwa— 'Ā'isha, about the conversation between the Prophet and Khadīja after he received his first revelation contains at the end a phrase variously interpreted by Muslim scholars and translated in modern times in various manners.

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Information: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 97 , Issue 1 , January 1965 , pp. 27 - 32

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^{page 27 note 3} Al-bidāya wa-l-nihāyā, III, 7 (ed. Cairo, 1932)Google Scholar; and see Sakakīnī, W.: Ummahāt al-mu'minīn, p. 16 (Cairo, n.d.)Google Scholar.

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^{page 28 note 1} Sharḥ al-mawāhib, I, 212–13 (ed. Cairo, a.h. 1325).

^{page 28 note 2} Op. cit., ib.

^{page 28 note 3} I, 28–29 (ed. Cairo, 1938).

^{page 28 note 4} El-Bokhārī, : Les traditions islamiques, I, 3 (Paris, 1903)Google Scholar.

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^{page 28 note 7} Vide above, n. 2, p. 27.

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^{page 28 note 11} In Hamāsa, : shuhūba 'l-ḥaqqi (Freytag, p. 723)Google Scholar.

^{page 28 note 12} Op. cit., p. 78.

^{page 29 note 1} Simt al-La'āli, p. 822 (ed. , al-Maimanī)Google Scholar.

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^{page 29 note 5} I, 68—T. 'A.

^{page 30 note 1} Aghānī (3rd ed.), 12, 275.

^{page 30 note 2} Al-Āmidī, : al-Mu'talif, p. 68 (ed. , Krenkow)Google Scholar.

^{page 30 note 3} al-Shajarī, Ibn, Ḥamāsa, p. 50 (ed. , Krenkow)Google Scholar.

^{page 30 note 4} Mufaḍḍaliyyāt, XXIII, 6.

^{page 30 note 5} Comp. op. cit., IV, 9, mentioned above.

^{page 30 note 6} Mufaḍḍaliyyāt, XXXVIII, 26; T. 'A., I, 470; comp. the verse of Miskīn al-Dārimī: wa-in ḥaqqun 'arānī ahantuhā al-'Askarī: Dīwān al-Ma'ānī, I, 29 (ed. a.h. 1352).

^{page 31 note 1} al-Shajarī, Ibn: Ḥamāsa, p. 54Google Scholar.

^{page 31 note 2} Comp. Al-Balādhurī: Ansāb, MS. 1025a: wa-lā yadfa'u l-ḥaqqa idhā nazala bihi.

^{page 31 note 3} Hishām, Ibn: Sīra, II, 12Google Scholar; and see Suhailī, : al-Rauḍ al-Unuf, I, 231 (ed. Cairo, 1917)Google Scholar.

^{page 31 note 4} Ṣaḥīḥ, II, 268; and see; Al-Dhahabī, : Ta'rīkh, I, 190Google Scholar; Kathīr, Ibn: al-Bidāya, III, 173Google Scholar. It is obvious, that the mention of these qualities is more relevant in the case of Abū Bakr; here his social activity is rightly stressed.

^{page 31 note 5} Wa-kāna yaḥmilu 'bna 'l-sabīli wa-yu'addī ‘l-ḥaqā'iqa...al-Zurqānī: Sharḥ al-Mawāhib, I, 73.

^{page 32 note 1} Al-Balādhurī: Ansāb, MS. 1012b.

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