was Rabya'h B. Ka'b, whose duty it was to prepare the water for the sacred ablution of his lordship. Another was A'bdullah B. Masu'd, who had the sandals, the toothpick, the pillow and the cane of his lordship under his charge. Another was O'qbah B. A'amer, who guided the mule of the best of men during journeys. The names, however, of all the male and female servants are as follows: Ballâl the Abyssinian, who was the Muedhdhin,477 and Sa'd, both of whom were freed men of Abu Bakr Ssiddyq; Makhrakah, also named Dhu Mokhayr, who was the cousin of the Najjâshy [sic]; Bakr B. Shaddatch Leythy; Abu Dharr Ghuffâry Asla', the partner of Aswad B. Mâlek Asdy; Ayman B. Omm Ayman, the bearer of his lordship's washing pot; Tha'lebah B. A'bdu-r-rahman the Anssary; Khord B. Mâlek; Salem Sâboq Sâlemy the Mohâjer,478 the slave of Omm Solmah-A. r. h.; Na'ym B. Abu Rabya'h Aslamy; Abu-l-hamra; Hallâl B. Alhâreth; Abussamyh; Abu Sallâm; and Abu O'beydah, who was a young man of the Anssâr. The names of the females are: Harethahummatullah, the daughter of Rabya'h; Barakah; Ayman; Hadzarah; Knowlah, the grandmother of Hafssah; Zarybah, the mother of A'lyah; Solmy, the mother of Râfi'; Mâryah, the mother of Arrabâb; Maryah, the grandmother of Mathanna B. Ssâleh; Maymûnah, the daughter of Sa'd; and Ssofyah, the mother of A'yash. THE FREED MEN OF THE PROPHET-B., ETC. The liberated slaves were fifty-nine in number, whose names are as follows: Zayd B. Hârethah B. Shorahbi, who was the commander of the Saryah79 of Mowtah, and was slain in that battle; Asamah Zayd Thaubân 477 One is attached to every mosque. When the time for prayers approaches, he mounts to the highest part of it, stops his ears with his hands, and gives out the call to prayers as loud as he is able. 478 The Anssár, or 'helpers,' are those inhabitants of Madinah who protected the prophet. Mohajers, or 'refugees, exiles,' are those inhabitants of Mekkah who fled thence on account of their religion and joined Muhammad. 479 Saryah is any expedition in which the prophet was not, and Ghazwah one in which he was, personally present. B. Mohadd, who was surnamed A'bdullah; Abu Kabshah, who bore the cognomen of Salym or A'wûs; Ansah, whose sobriquet is Abu Masarrah; Ssâleh, who was surnamed Shuqrân; Ryâh; Ysâr; Abu Râfi', surnamed Aglam; Abu Muhabah; Abu-l-bahy, whose name. Râfi' and whose father was Abu Râfi'; the uncle of Rafaa'h B. Zayd Alkhuddâmy; Zayd, the grandfather of Hallâl B. Ysâr; O'bey B. A'bdu-l-ghuffâr, who was appointed over a ship which bore the name of Ttohûn, or Kysan, or Mahrân, or Zakwân, or Rubân, or O'bos; the Copt Wâqid, also named Abu Wâqid; Heshâm; Abu Dhomayrah, who is by some also named Sa'd, by others Ruh B. Sindad, and by others Omm Shyrâr the Hemyarite; Hanyn Abu Asyb, surnamed Hamar or Murrah; Abu O'baydah; Aslam B. Abu O'baydah; Aflah Alkhubshah; Bâdâm; Khatum; Badr; Zayd B. Naollâ; Sa'yd B. Faryd; Sa'd B. Kathyr B. Solmân the Persian; Sindâd Shima'ûn, who was the father of Rayhûnah; Dhomayrah; A'bdullah B. Dhomayrah; A'bdullah B. Aslam; Ghayllân; Fodhâlah Alyemeny; Naqyr; Karyb; Muhammad B. A'bdu-r-rahman, whose name was first Nâhabah, but the prophet-b., etc.changed it to Makhûl; Nafi', whose cognomen is Abu Ssayb; Sah Nahyk, whose surname was Abu Bakr, but some called him Abu Kysân; Ruwân; Ysâr; Abu Tylah; Abu-l-bashar; Abu Ssofyâ; Abu-l-bâbah; Abu Naqbatt ; Abu-l-ysir; and in the Tanfyh of Ebn Jauzy it is recorded, according to the tradition of Abu Bakr B. Hazam, that one of the freed men of the lord of prophecy-b., etc.—was named Qirqorah, but some write it Karkorah; and Mossa'b alleges that Maqauqes [the Governor of Egypt] presented him [i.e., the prophet] with a eunuch called Mâmûr or Mâbûr. According to the Raudzatu-l-ahbab the lord of existences -to whom be the most excellent blessings and the most perfect congratulations-possessed nine manumitted female slaves, whose names were as follows: Solmy, Omm Râfi', Radzwy, Omm Rayhah, Sâybah, Maryah, Shyryn, the sister of Maryah [name not given], and Dhomayrah. Ebn Jauzy, however, also reckons Omm Aymán, otherwise called Barakah, Maymûnah, the daughter of Sa'd, and Maymûnah, the daughter of Abu Asyb, among the liberated female slaves of his lordship; the [true] knowledge, however, is with Allah the Most High! APPENDIX B. In the preceding pages frequent reference is made to events happening in certain months. For ready reference the names of the Muhammadan months are here given: As these are lunar months, the Muhammadan year contains 354 days, 9 hours only, and their Naw Roz, or New Year's Day, falls every year about eleven days earlier than the preceding one. As compared with our fixed months, the Muhammadan ones are always changing, so that the date of the Ramadzan or fasting month would be different every year of the Hijrah, which began July 16, A.D. 622. One hundred lunar years are very nearly equal to ninetyseven solar years, but for further particulars see Hughes's 'Dictionary of Islam' (W. H. Allen and Co., London, 1885). |