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On the papyrus of Wahb b. Munabbih: an addendum
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
Extract
The fragments of the Sīra of Wahb b. Munabbih carefully edited by R. G. Khoury contain some misreadings or misinterpretations, several of which were elucidated in BSOAS, XXXVII, 3, 1974, 545–56. Additional corrections are suggested in the following lines.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , February 1977 , pp. 125 - 127
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1977
References
1 Khoury, Raif Georges, Wahb b. Munabbih: der Heidelberger Papyrus PSR Heid. Arab. 23, Wiesbaden, 1972.Google Scholar
2 Compare a similar verse in al-Dhahabī, Siyar a'lām al-nubalā', ed. Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Munajjid, Cairo, 1375/1956, 1, 149:
and see Anonymous, al-Tārīkh al-muḥkam fī-man intasaba ilā 'l-nabiyyi ṣattā 'llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, BM MS. Or. 8653, fol. 53b: 
3 The gloss on the margin asserts that the Banū Makhzūm trace back their pedigree to Huṣayṣ, but ‘Alī changed it in his poem (scil, into Huḍayd—K.). But the Makhzūm do not trace their pedigree to Huṣayṣ; Huṣayṣ is the ancestor of the Banū Jumah (see Muṣ'ab b. ‘Abdallah al-Zubayrī, Nasab Quraysh, ed. Lévi-Provençal, E., Cairo, 1953, p. 13, 1. 12, p. 386, 1. 11).Google Scholar
4 See Muḥammad b. Ḥabib, Ummahāt al-Nabī, ed. Ḥusayn ‘Alī Maḥfūẓ, Baghdād, 1371/1952, fol. Ib. (p. 10).Google Scholar