النص المفهرس

Plate. No. 5
كتابك الوري
عَزْكَ هَ ا شِعْبُوَّ الراشدِي
وَم ◌َعْ لَالْ أَهْ صُورَِالوَبِ ◌َِّرَ.
◌َمَلُ مَسْجُوْ فِيَبُبَ لْتُكَثِ الَِّالَََّّ
كتائ عهازى الواقِی
عُ لَهُيَوْأَرْبَالُّعِشِ مَّفْرَّ
ادٍوَكِبِ شُعُودِبَِّتِ هِبَيْ لَّ
◌َ المِقَاء وم السيرة
تَ وَعِنَِالسَِّ
ساعد فيفات ماء
سلاسل
Wien, 881

Plate No. 8
5
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Dār al-Kutub, (Tārikh), 522

Plate No. 7
im sous, Butlove
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مسرح عدا خميس
العمرة الم المرء محا بوك و حرام
1.
وكر من بعا ثات العرالد يعر وخارجها أموال عظام
رئ یرھ الغی اسیون.
والامارات حسن الخيف العجز الرمز جرح مفر حة:معهم حى
Dār al-Kutub, (Tārīkh), 522

Plate No. 2
كان كوفي لموسيد انا قه الف ونجله أموا أن تحور
فعلون فى سدا محمد النبي الأ مي وأنحاء والربنه
وافق البراء من نور السيد هادي عبير شعبان سنة إربه وَحد
الجوية عبدالله عالى لبنه العبد الفقير الخوجة الله ب عنوانه
وكان ي عنىق فيعلى عبد الله ميزهم فى فرع عليه وعه الدواواء ه العين
به ند واقمة ويرجم على عامة ورفع
كم المربعة
B.M. Or. 1617

Plate No. 4
خالى الكويت بادائم روايه بهاروا عليه وأصاوه وهوب الأغراب، حريصة.
بهاالى الدمه وأرسلول الرخام ووسام
شهده الطلب والسما واتالتونسير عد
تسليم أحد وا الساحرات
التصلوات الله عليه وسلامه د.
الردى النصّة
المعلم
شبرا فو راء عبد الرفاع ى مرب الواقعة بالحديث عبد الله بن الخوف
وعليه لايضمن
تر أسه واز يعت الع صلوات الله عليه وسلامه الور مبيل وحسن مجرد
روايهوه ماء زحل ما عدى اليوم الأبالسر ور خالطيه ..
مهربة جبان السلاح يوموا شراء السلعة من الليل، حمل الإعراب
ساونا راسيا
ملك واتجار الجافة اليدفشلوامن الفوز وحلا حلى الفرد يعتلو
ـة العزم على
الأسرى المحركل ما دامرية
جمالاماأعد
الده معت المح صلراه
مدام
العراير
برجر
العقار معنا المزمار
الد ال الى اللهـ
اسل بحود لتاروك
الغل بان
ريا.
فيزيت الواورى
3
الله عليه وسلامة
كانوا
ـرتطوعية
فانوالبلو
المسلحة
واذا المعصوم تجابه العلم والحارقة هو بالعزوم فرا و الجالـ
مرتاع مندرجة الدمه ناعي
امت حان نهاية العام الله عليه وسلامه بلاوم عليه محمدورسم
B.M. Add. 20737
الماء
زكى باء ت وبر ديه

Plate No. 3
مواط قشهر ربيع الأول على المريض مصرية
مه تماً من النشر والقرار وخير ماديغير
ـرابهـ
وزبز كام البـ
الخبرة
تف جيرات ترشر حبز اتاللا
أرجعته ت عد الله رحمه العله وتحم هو وأسر عا ى حسن
غيت مرادز العمال صيع برون عنش مرت صار ورجعه عويا
عندما بت مزور لهاحمعزيزعام
مار سون سالطر زغيرهملايعنك فونوالعلى ز ابو
زعمت حدى عـ
٣اخترنا محمد عبد الوهاد حدثى محمد زهاء
بن الفضل عزائه الله غاز قبلها الحمر المال يعتبر من رمضان على وأسر شعره تكبه س
ثم عشروه قينقاع والنصف من شوال على وار عيسى
رسول الله صلوات الله عليه وسلامه عزود السوق لاء اته
اخرو
ـيحبها
سدراك زعوا الى صلوات الد عليه وسلامه وسلَّم الشـ
دماء المصدر والمدنية عبه ترد والمحوّم على رأس منه وعنشر منفسه
فتا بن الأشرف وربع الأولت وزارخمسه وعشرونشهرا
الخد وهى دوام ومنهو سع الأول على اس نخمسة وعشرينمتـ
عبد الله بر أسير الأسعار بن خالد رميمن القرى الا بالله
مع راس خمسة ومسـ
مر
السبع يخيف
يوم السقف
تسليم حوار وجود الأول- إواسر تسعدوهشر ومرشوان
اتزها روز جارته وحدة الأخرى على وأمر جنيه وعشر منشهر.
عوا الرصلوات اللهله وسلامه أحدو من الأعزراس
الإعرا الوصلوات اللهجل وعلا، حا الامبا شرا
ندا
فشر
جهادها الرعدالسا
النت منهذا و الحزم كم مربعونه أنها لطهر معروما.
الميزيران وعودة الحبع ومفعل والاسته فاخرة
لخدمة التوصلوات الله عليه وس لامه والنجمة ورفع الاولعل المحرمة
B.M. Add. 20737
والحمستالرجاء زمن المجرم
الاسس
وقدمتُ يومً

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B.M. Add, 20737
Wien, 881
ت
Dar al-Kutub, (Tarikh) 522
ث
Ibn Abi'l-Hadid1
2
1
To avoid confusion, I would point out that a commentary is provided
at the first occurrence of an obscure word or expression and is not repeated;
similarly with place names. Verses of the Qur'an are numbered only with
a change of aya.
In presenting this edition of al-Waqidi, I wish to express my gratitude
to the friends and colleagues who have helped and encouraged me through
the years of preparation. My thanks are especially due to Professor Alfred
Guillaume, without whom the work would not have been embarked upon
and would certainly not have been completed. I should also like to express
my gratitude to Dr. Muhammad Abdu Azzam, Dr. Abdallah el-Tayyib,
Dr. Abd al-Jabbar al-Muttalibi, Mr. Fouad el-Sayyid, Dr. Walid Arafat
and Dr. Mahmoud al-Ghul for their helpful suggestions. I am particularly
indebted to Mr. Mahmoud el-Tanahi for his patience in reading through
the final text and his help in proof-reading, to Mr, Rashad Abd el-Mut-
talib for his unfailing and invaluable help in making available to me his
personal library and in seeing the work through the press, and to Mr.
Abd el-Fattah el-Hilw and Mr. Mahmoud Sharaf el-Din for their
assistance in preparing the indices. Finally, I wish to express my deep
gratitude to the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University
of London for its generosity in financing the publication of this work
and, especially, to the officers and members of the Publications
Committee.
Cairo, 1964.
Marsden Jones.
(I) The Nahj al-Balagha of Ibn Abi'l-Hadid has been given a symbol for convenience
sake, in view of the wealth of material from al-Waqidi quoted by him, especially on Badr
and Uhud.

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on page 360. From then on a supplement has been added which is ascribed,
according to a note on the title page, to Abū'l-Mu'tamir Sulayman ibn
Tarkhan al-Taymī. There is also a lacuna in the text from the words
,(on page 7, line 9 (Von Kremer's edition قال الواقدى ثم غزا النبى
وسيأتى نزول الآية to the words
on page 9, line 2. The remainder of the
list of raids, a list of the governors of Medina during the Prophet's absence,
the battle cries and the description of all the raids up to Nakhla have
been omitted. The gap has been filled, as the isnad on page 7 shows,
by a quotation from Ibn Ishaq. In collating the texts, I have made use
of the Vienna MS. in preference, to Von Kremer's edition.
The fourth MS. (Dar al-Kutub, Tarikh 522) is an interesting one
in that it is in the hand of Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani (d. 852 A.H.). Unfor-
tunately, it consists of selections from al-Waqidi made by Ibn Hajar for
his own use in compiling his books, as he himself acknowledges in a gloss
contained in the third line of the first page. The fragmentary nature of
the selections has severely restricted the usefulness of Ibn Hajar's text.
An edition of one third of the text, published in Cairo in 1947 by
'Abbas al-Shirbini, claims to be based upon a MS. in the library of Fou'ad
University. So far as I have been able to ascertain, no such MS. exists in
the library of what is now Cairo University. The text is identical with
Von Kremer's version, even to reproducing some of the errors.
In addition to the MSS. of the work itself, I have collated many
quotations from al-Waqidi to be found in other sources, such as Ibn Sa'd,
al-Balādhurī, al-Țabarī, Ibn Kathir, Ibn Sayyid al-Nās, al-Zurqānī and
al-Samhudi. I have also referred to Ibn Ishaq's Sira and to the Sirat al-
Halabiya of Ibn Burhan al-Din where I needed confirmation for the
correction of a corrupt passage in the text. I have not attempted a detailed
collation of the text of Ibn Ishaq with that of al-Waqidi. To do so would
involve an unmanageable range of variants and would be justifed only
if the charge of plagiarism by al-Wagidi of Ibn Ishaq were true.1
In my commentary on the text I have made use of the standard clas-
sical lexica, hadith, tafsir and historical sources and the relevant diwans,
in addition to the specialized commentaries of al-Suhayli and Abu Dharr.
A bibliography of sources referred to is given below. The following
abbreviations have been used in preparing the foot-notes :
B.M. Or. 1617
الأصل
(1) See J.M.B. Jones, Ibn Ishaq and al-Waqidi : the dream of 'Atika and the raid
to Nakhla in relation to the charge of plagiarism, B.S.O.A.S., XXII, I, 1959.

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errors are common (e.g. p. 651, note 1/ p. 659, note 1/ p. 666, note 2/
p. 672, note 1/ p. 713, note 2/ p. 720, note 2/ p. 740, note 5/ p. 926, note 4/
p. 1005, note I/ p. 1054, note 1). Another mistake frequently giving rise
to difficulty is the transposition of the letters of a word, or careless trans-
cription (e.g. p. 187, note 2/ p. 190, note 3/ p. 293, note 2/ p. 311, note 1 /
p. 362, note 1/ p. 426, note 1 / p. 469, note 3/ p. 630, note 3/ p. 772, note 4/
P. 915, note 3). A further group of errors would seem to be auditory in
character and suggest that parts of the MS. may have been written down
from dictation (e.g. p. 51, note 7/ p. 465, note 2/ p. 556, note 3/ p. 638,
note 1/ p. 868, note 4/ p. 906, note 2/ p. 991, note 2/ p. 1097, note 2).
Errors in the form of proper names are too frequent to mention. These
I have corrected by referring to other MSS. of the text, to other sira sources
and to standard works such as those of Ibn Hajar and Ibn 'Abd al-Barr.
Where a correction is thought necessary, the original pattern is recorded
as a footnote. Some lacunae I have been unable to fill in (e.g. p. 800,
note 1/ p. 826, note 6). In other instances I have filled in lacunae on the
basis of a collation of the text with other MSS. of al-Waqidi, or with other
sources (e.g. p. 549, note 1/ p. 753, note 2/ p. 906, note 1). In such cases,
the added portion is indicated by rectangular brackets.
This main MS. was used by Wellhausen for his condensed German
version of the work which appeared in 18821, The fact that he attempted
such a project, without first establishing what is a very difficult text, may
explain some of the shortcomings in his book. Difficult passages in the
text are frequently left out altogether in the translation and many passages
are mistranslated.
The second MS. which I have used in the collation of the text (B.M.
Add. 20737) is, without doubt, much superior to the Preston MS. It is
only partially vocalized and very often the nugat of the letters are omitted,
but the text itself is much more reliable than that of the complete MS.
Unfortunately, however, it covers only the first half of the work. The
first page is missing, but the repetition of the introductory isnad, later,
enumerates the first three links of the Preston MS. - Ibn al-Thalji, Ibn
Hayyawayhi and Ibn Abī Hayya.
The third MS. used is the Vienna MS. of the Kitab al-Maghazi
(Wien, 881) which was discovered by Von Kremer in Damascus in 1851
and published by him in 18552. It contains around one third of the whole
work and consists of al-Waqidi's text only up to the words
فأبی حیی إلا
(1) Muhammed in Medina, Das ist Vakidi's Kitab al-Maghazi in verkürzter deutscher
wiedergaba, Berlin, 1882.
(2) Wakidy's History of Muhammad's Campaigns, Calcutta, 1855.