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Moulavi Gerágh Ali A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád'…

IV, page 308.↑ The tradition that Mohammad had gone to Bani Nazeer asking their aid in defraying a certain price of blood, and they attempted upon his life (Muir, III, 208-209) as related by Ibn Is-hak (in Ibn Hisham, page 652) is a "Mursal" (vide Zoorkánee, Part II, page 95) , and consequently was not current in the Apostolic Age.↑ Ibn Ockba, an earliest biographer of Mohammad, died 140, says,—the cause of the expedition against the Bani Nazeer was this: that they had instigated the Koreish to fight against Mohammad, and had reconnoitred the weak points of Medina.
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