20/27 5, 6,) from an Arabian Ms., represents Ayesha as adverse to the substitution of her father in the place of the apostle. This fact, so improbable in itself, is unnoticed by Abulfeda, Al Jannabi, and Al Bochari, the last of whom quotes the tradition of Ayesha herself, (Vit. 136 Vie de Mahomet, tom.iii.p. 236.)] [Footnote 169: Particularly by his friend and cousin Abdallah, the son of Abbas, who died A.D.687, with the title of grand doctor of the Moslems. |