La Vie de Mahomet traduite et compilee de l'Alcoran, des Traditions Authentiques de la Sonna et des meilleurs Auteurs Arabes; Amsterdam, 1748, 3 vols.

in 12mo.,) he has interpreted, illustrated, and supplied the Arabic text of Abulfeda and Al Jannabi; the first, an enlightened prince who reigned at Hamah, in Syria, A.D.
1310-1332, (see Gagnier Praefat.

ad Abulfed.;) the second, a credulous doctor, who visited Mecca A.D.1556.

(D'Herbelot, p.397.Gagnier, tom.
iii.p.209, 210.) These are my general vouchers, and the inquisitive reader may follow the order of time, and the division of chapters.

Yet I must observe that both Abulfeda and Al Jannabi are modern historians, and that they cannot appeal to any writers of the first century of the Hegira.