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42 Ibid., no. 5023.<br />

43 Ibid., book 19, no. 4320.<br />

44 Ibid., no. 4321.<br />

45 Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, fol. 25b, ed. Hyderabad, 84 (quoted in Goldziher, Muslim Studies, 55).<br />

46 Agh., 9:45, 20 (quoted in Goldziher, Muslim Studies, 63).<br />

47 Sulaim<strong>an</strong> bin Al-Aash‘ath Al-Azdi as-Sijist<strong>an</strong>i, Sun<strong>an</strong> Abu Dawud, English Tr<strong>an</strong>slation with Expl<strong>an</strong>atory Notes, tr<strong>an</strong>s. Ahmad<br />

Has<strong>an</strong> (New Delhi: Kitab Bhav<strong>an</strong>, 1990), v.<br />

48 Muhammad Muhsin Kh<strong>an</strong>, introduction to Bukhari, Sahih al-Bukhari, 18–19.<br />

49 “Hadith & Sunnah,” www.islamonline.net.<br />

50 Goldziher, Muslim Studies, 126–27.<br />

51 Al-Jahiz, Bay<strong>an</strong>, fol. 114b (quoted in Goldziher, Muslim Studies, 56).<br />

52 Quoted in Goldziher, Muslim Studies, 127.<br />

53 Al-Jahiz, Bay<strong>an</strong>, fol. 114b (quoted in Goldziher, Muslim Studies, 56).<br />

54 Ad-Darimi, 77 (quoted in Goldziher, Muslim Studies, 133).<br />

55 Al-Amali: The Dictations of Sheikh Al-Mufid, tr<strong>an</strong>s. Mulla Asgharali M. M. Jaffer (Middlesex, UK: World Federation of Khoja Shia<br />

Ithna-Asheri Muslim Communities, n.d.), 7.<br />

56 Abu Abdullah Muhammad b. Yazid Ibn-i-Maja al-Qazwini, Sun<strong>an</strong> ibn-i-Majah, tr<strong>an</strong>s. Muhammad Tufail Ansari (Lahore: Kazi<br />

Publications, 1996), vol. 5, no. 4067.<br />

57 Goldziher, Muslim Studies, 140–41.<br />

58 Schacht, Origins of Muhammad<strong>an</strong> Jurisprudence, 166.<br />

59 Ibid., 164.<br />

60 Mohammad Mustafa Azami, Studies in Early Hadith Literature: With a Critical Edition of Some Early Texts, third edition (Oak<br />

Brook, IL: Americ<strong>an</strong> Trust Publications, 1992).<br />

61 Harald Motzki, “The Mus<strong>an</strong>naf of ‘Abd al-Razzaq al-S<strong>an</strong>‘<strong>an</strong>i as a Source of Authentic ahadith of the First Century A.H.,” Journal<br />

of Near Eastern Studies 50 (1991): 16–20 (quoted in Herbert Berg, The Development of Exegesis in Early Islam [London: Routledge,<br />

2000], 37).<br />

62 Motzki, “The Mus<strong>an</strong>naf,” 2 (quoted in Berg, Development of Exegesis, 36).<br />

63 Quoted in G. H. A. Juynboll, tr<strong>an</strong>s., “Muslim's Introduction to His Sahih Tr<strong>an</strong>slated <strong>an</strong>d Annotated with <strong>an</strong> Excursus on the Chronology<br />

of fitna <strong>an</strong>d bid‘a,” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic <strong>an</strong>d Islam 5 (1984): 277 (quoted in Berg, Development of Exegesis, 7).<br />

64 Berg, Development of Exegesis, 28.<br />

65 For <strong>an</strong> excellent discussion of this, see Ibn Warraq's delightful imagined dialogue in The Quest for the Historical Muhammad, 38–43.<br />

66 Bukhari, Sahih al-Bukhari, vol. 6, book 66, no. 5032.<br />

67 Goldziher, Muslim Studies, 62.<br />

68 Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad, 547.<br />

Chapter 4: Switching On the Full Light of History<br />

1 Alfred Guillaume, “Ibn Hisham's Notes,” in Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad, 691.<br />

2 Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad, xxxvi.<br />

3 Ibid.<br />

4 Ibid., xxxvii.<br />

5 Ibid., xxxvii.<br />

6 Ibid., xxxv.

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