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192 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD Even stranger than that is what Ibn Jarir stated, namely, "It was related to me from Rawh b. Wbada, who said, 'Sa'id related to us, from Qatada, who said, "The Qur'an was revealed to the Messenger of God (SAAS) over a period of 8 years in Mecca and 10 in Medina.""' Al-Hasan used to say "over 10 years in Mecca and 10 in Medina." This last statement to which al-Hasan al-Basri subscribed, that he remained in Mecca 10 years, was one with which Anas b. Mdik, '.&'isha, Sacid b. al-Musayyab and 'Amr b. Din% all agreed, according to what Ibn Jarir related of them. And there is the account from Ibn CAbbas, related by Ahmad b. Hanbal from Yahya b. SaSd, from Hishzm, from CIkrima. It has Ibn 'Abbas as saying, "The Prophet (SAAS) received revelation at the age of 43 and he remained in Mecca for 10 years." We recounted above that al-Sha'bi stated, "Ismfil was linked with the Messenger of God (SAAS) for 3 years during which he communicated to him the Word and the Message. In one account, he would hear his voice but not see his person; and thereafter it was Gabriel." Al-Wzqidi related that one of his sheikhs rejected that statement of al-Sha'bi. Ibn Jarir tried to combine the statements of those who maintained that the Messenger of God (SAAS) stayed for 10 years in Mecca with those who considered it to have been 13 years by reference to what al-Sha'bi had said. But God knows best. When the party of the Prophet (SAAS) came to Media he first stayed, as stated above, at Qubz' in the home of the Banii 'Amr b. 'Awf. He remained there at the most for 22 nights, though some say it was 18, others 10 or so, and according t6 Miisa b. Wqba, 3 nights. What is widely accepted is what Ibn Ishzq and others stated, namely that he was there at Quba' from a Monday to a Friday. He did establish during this period of disputed length, as we have indicated, the mosque at Quh~'. Al-Suhayli claimed that the Messenger of God (SAAS) founded it on the first day he arrived at Qub~', citing to support this view the Almighty's words, "certainly, a mosque founded in piety from the first day" @rat al-Tawba or al-Bara'a; IX, v.108). And he refuted those who would have the wording read "from the foundation of the first day". It is a fine, much honoured mosque. God Almighty revealed about it, "certainly a mosque founded in piety from the hst day is fully deserving of you standing (for prayer) inside it; therein are men who love that they be purified, and God loves those who purify themselves" (swat al-Tawba or al-Bar~Ja; IX, v.108). We have discussed this in our Tafiir (Exegens). Therein we referred to the hadith in the ~ahih collection of Muslim to the effect of it being the mosque of Medina, and to the refutation of this.
IMAM ABU AL-FIDA' ISMA'IL IBN KATH~R 193 We also made mention of the hadith related by the Imm Ahmad as follows: "Hasan b. Mubmad related to us, quoting Abii Idris, quoting Shur&bil quoting Wwaym b. Sacida who said that it was related to him that the Messenger of God (SAAS) came to them in the mosque in Quba' and said, 'God has given you much good praise for purifying yourselves, in the reference to your mosque; what is it you do to so purify yourselves?' They replied, 'We swear by God, 0 Messenger of God, that the only thing we know is that we had some Jewish neighbours who would wash their behinds after defecating, and so we washed like them."' Ibn Khuzayma included this hadith in his jahih collection and there are other testimonies to it. It is also related from Khuzayma b. Thabit and Muhammad b. 'Abd All& b. Salm and Ibn
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CONTENTS Foreword About this Series
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CONTENTS vii Chapter: On the birth
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