^{page 1 note 1} O.U.P., 1955, xxx-xxxiii.

^{page 1 note 2} Brockelmann, GAL, I, 362; Suppt., 1, 616–7.

^{page 1 note 3} 2nd ed. Haydarabad, 1950.

^{page 1 note 4} Another Muhammad b. Ishāq, often quoted in this book, is not the author of the Sīra, but a certain al-Ahwāzī; cf. p. 12 where his nisba is given.

^{page 1 note 5} i.e. Wüstenfeld's edition of the Arabic text of Ibn Hishām's edition of Ibn Ishāq's work. VOL. XVIII. PART 1.

^{page 2 note 1} The name is given as ‘Utba throughout; but, as the editor points out, the apostle's daughter Ruqayya was married to ‘Utba who became a Muslim when Mecca was occupied, and her sister Umm Kulthū m, was married to this ‘Utayba who died as an unbeliever.

^{page 2 note 2} If the text is sound, the cry ‘ 0 dog! ’ must be addressed to ‘Utayba's companionṡ below, and so in English could almost be rendered by ‘ Damn you! ’ However, the version that follows, which Abū Nu'aym says was in Ibn Ishāq's book al-Maghāzī in the rīwāya of Yazīd b. Ziyād, simply has qatalanī thus it is not impossible that the two variants go back to an original reading qatalanī ’l-kalb.

^{page 3 note 1} Doubtless Ibn Hishām omitted this story because it recorded a gross insult to the prophet.

^{page 3 note 2} Nevertheless the story continues: ‘ And he said ’, and proceeds to quote the ‘ verses ’ he uttered.

^{page 3 note 3} This is an interesting addition. On the whole it seems to bear out the translation given in my edition, p. 304: ‘ Am I anything more remarkable than a man you have killed ? ’ See the footnote there.