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eal Muslim? Does such an attitude indicate a service toknowledge, or an effort in fault-finding? Every Muslim shouldtremble not to allow anything to be said against his Prophet(’alaihi ’s-salâm), whom he believes and whom he loves morethan himself.On the forty-eighth page, he says:“In order to protect himself from the burning heat of noon, hewould shelter under the shade of ’Abdullah ibn Jud’a’s arch [orwall].”All Siyar books write that a cloud kept over Rasûlullah’s(a’alaihi ’s-salâm) head and moved with him and shaded him,thus protecting him against the sun until nubuwwa (the timewhen he was informed with prophethood). To say that he usedto shelter a shade, means to disbelieve this mu’jiza. He mayhave sat there not in order to sit in the shade, but in order toguide those who sat in the shade. On the forty-eighth page, hesays:“Ibn Kalbî narrates that Muhammad himself has sacrificed adark sheep before an idol.”These writings display clearly that the writer observes Islamfrom bird’s eye view, from far away, and that he knows nothingabout Imân and Islam. It is written in every book that he wouldnot let idols’ names be mentioned and that he expressed hishostility against them when very young yet. Hamidullah himselfwrote on page 67 that Rasûlullah (’alaihi ’s-salâm) hated idols.Every Muslim should believe that no prophet has evercommitted anything that is forbidden in any religion, in anystage of his life. It is written in the books Tuhfat al-ithnâ’ashariyya and Asmâ al-mu’allifîn that Ibn Kalbi, whomHamidullah puts forth as a reference in order to misleadMuslims, is an insolent lâ-madhhabî person. Yes, Rasûlullah(’alaihi ’s-salâm) sacrificed a dark sheep, but he sacrificed it onthe ’îd al-adha in Medina. On the fifty-eighth page, he says:“He admitted a delegation from the Abdulqais clan. He toldthem that he had visited their country before Islam.”Many books like the Sahîh of al-Bukhârî and al-Mawâhib alladunniyyaprovide detailed information about the messengerswho came from the Abdulqais clan in Bahrein. None of themreports that Rasûlullah (’alaihi ’s-salâm) had been to the countryof the Abdulqais clan. To claim on the one hand that he had- 299 -