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A26370	The life and death of Mahumed, the author of the Turkish religion being an account of his tribe, parents, birth, name, education, marriages, filthiness of life, Alcoran, first proselytes, wars, doctrines, miracles, advancement, &c. / by L. Addison ... author of The present state of the Jews.	Addison, Lancelot, 1632-1703.	1679 (1679)	Wing A523; ESTC R33059	58,749	146

story gave a sudden and fearful shriek saying A sign is gone out whereby we are admonished that God will have mercy upon the Sons of Men and therefore we are forbid to ascend Heaven 6. His Nurse Alima had been always dry of one Breast but she no sooner began to give Mahumed suck but it was as full of Milk as the other 7. At his Birth a voice was heard from the four corners of Caaba from the first was heard Preach the truth is come and no lye will appear or return From the second it was said Now cometh an Apostle of your selves with whom is the mighty From the third was heard Light and a manifest Book is sent unto you from God And from the fourth corner issued these words O Prophet we have sent thee to be a Witness Evangelist and Monitor These are the seven Wonders which are confidently maintained to have hapned at Mahumeds Birth in whose larger relation so many Blasphemies are to be met with preferring and extolling this wicked Miscreant above our most blessed Saviour that I was afraid to give them a Transcription But it need not create our wonder that the Mahumedan Doctors should be thus large in the Encomiums of their Apostle when as strange things are attested of St. Francis by the Friars of his Order and also by the Dominicans in praise of their Founder But weary of this palpable trash I leave it to come to the time of Mahumeds Birth which I find generally fixed by the Moors in the 620 year of our Salvation His Father dyed say some within two years after he was born and others affirm that he was a Posthumus and that before he was two years old he was left an Orphan but his Mother tender of her Sons welfare and by the fatal tokens of her Distemper perceiving a few days would put her in an utter incapacity of looking after his Education she presently sent for his Nurse Lala Alima to whose care she most affectionately recommended young Mahumed whom at the same time she bequeathed to Hanza her Husbands Brother who bore the charge of his breeding till he was sixteen years old And indeed the Poverty of Mahumeds Parents had left him so devoid of subsistance that if his Unkle had not taken him into his Tuition he had certainly as we now speak come to the Parish But Hanza having brought him up to such years of discernment as he was fit to shift for himself and being not able or unwilling to be at farther charge with his Nephew he exposed him to sale in the open Market where one Abdael Mutalib liking the complexion of the youth bought him of his Unkle By his new Patron say some he was at first employed in very inferiour Offices till Abdael Mutalib perceiving in him a more then ordinary Ingenuity and sharpness of Wit raised him to employments more agreeable to his Temper And being a Merchant sent him to negotiate his Affairs abroad and by the first Caravan or Cafila dispatcht him his Factor in which capacity he so well acquitted himself that he no less advanced his Masters Trafique then his own Reputation In this way of business he continued till he was 25 years of age at which time his Master dyed and Mahumed managed his concerns so well that some say he succeeded him both in his Trade and Bed For through carefulness in his Mistresses businesses say some or through Sorceries say others he so gain'd upon her affections as that at last she took him for her Husband This Womans Name say the common stories of Mahumed was Gadisha of the same Tribe with himself and one who was both very beautiful and wealthy And though what has now been spoken concerning Mahumeds Education and Marriage has passed very currant in the Europaean Accounts of him yet I find it much otherwise related out of the Saracen Writers of his Life of which take this short report Mahumeds Father dyed two Months before he was Born and his Mother when he was six years of age his Unkle Abdolmutleb received him into his tuition upon his Mothers death who survived her about two years and he dying Mahumed fell into the care of his Unkle Abutabeb with whom he lived till he was fit to be disposed of in Marriage but both his own and Unkles fortunes were at that time so low that they wanted wherewith according to the ancient custom to purchase him a Wife Whereupon Abutaleb and his Wife Atechna resolved to send him abroad with the Caravan that went for Syria and to entrust him with the management of a small Adventure hoping by this means to lay the beginning of his future welfare And they were the more inclined thus to put their Nephew into the World by reason of his inclination to Merchandise as also that they saw in him such a composed Government of himself as promised him a fair acceptance with whomsoever he should happen to converse But how Mahumed performed his journey into Syria and what therein befel him we shall sum up in the next Chapter and conclude this with two Miracles that hapned to him when a Child When Mahumed was with his Nurse Alima and about four years old going with his Nurses Sons into the field to fetch home the Cows saith his famous Legendary Abunazar the Angel Gabriel came unto him in the likeness of a Man cloathed with a snow-white Garment and taking him by the hand led him behind a little hill where with a razor he opened the Childs breast and took out his Heart and let out of it a small quantity of black water which according to the Moors is the matter by which the Devil tempts Men. From whose temptations Mahumed was for ever delivered after the Angel had taken away this Core This being done Gabriel put the Boys Heart into its place and the Wound immediately closed and healed up Another passage which Abunazar calls a Miracle was that of the Monk Bohira who as Mahumed came to Bozra went forth to meet him and spoke openly how that some great thing pointing at Mahumed would be done by that Boy and that his fame should spread from East to West And the Monk having said thus Mahumed saith his Legend was covered with a Cloud to the astonishment of all that beheld him I shall not remark any thing upon these two stories but leave it to the judgment of every Reader Only give me leave to take notice that whether such things really hapned or not it matters not much while they are confidently believed by the Mahumedans and entertained as no frail arguments to prove the excellency of their Prophet CHAP. IV. Of Cadigha's Dream how Mahumed became her servant How he was sent into Syria by the Caravan what hapned to him in his Journey HAving heard how Mahumed was under the Tutorage of his Unkle Abutaleb and his Aunt Atechna and how they were unable to prefer him by reason of the narrowness of their fortunes as likewise of their

to prevail against him by open War whereupon they had recours to stratagem And here Elmacinus tells us how one Zainab the Daughter of Alharit a Jewess attempted to take away Mahumeds life with a joint of Mutton exquisitely poysoned But Mahumed tasting thereof instantly spit it out saying This Mutton tells me that it is poysoned And his deliverance herein is reckoned among his Miracles as shall be shown in a Chapter of that Subject This year Mahumed proved so succesful in Arms that all the Country about Mecca and Medina were subject to or in League with him And he had propagated his Victories which were now become the chief method of proselytizing the eighth of the Hegira had not the Meckezes diverted him who all on the suddain violated their Faith with Mahumed and became Truce-breakers to their utter overthrow For Mahumed finding them to have broken their Articles came against them with ten thousand Men who were suffered to enter Mecca upon condition that they should put none to the Sword which was granted to all except a few whom he chose rather to kill than to survive to the disturbance of his new Kingdome Elmacinus saith that all the people of Mecca at this time turn'd Musulmin following therein the example of Abbas the Son of Abdulmutalib and Abusofian the Son of Harith But his success at Mecca was greatly clouded by the overthrow he suffered in the vale of Honani where the Pagan Arabians under the command of Melick Son of Ausi put the Musulmin to flight and pursued them to the Gates of Mecca where Mahumed with a Javelin in his hand opposed their entrance upbraiding them with Cowardice and biding them restore the Battel promising them the assistance of many Myriads of Angels Whereupon returning and coming unawares upon the Enemy who were now careless through success they utterly overcame them and taking Captive the Women and Children the Men that escaped afterward became Musulmin upon condition their Wives and little ones should be restored them The last Battel that hapned in Mahumeds lifé-time was that of Tebuc with the Princes of Dauma and Eila whom having overcome he received to peace upon condition of receiving from them a yearly Tribute Here great rewards were bestowed upon the Army by Osman and a numerous company of Proselytes came in unto Mahumed This hapned the ninth of the Hegira in which year Mahumed went to Mecca where having spent some time in teaching and instructing the people in his Law he returned to Medina where he died of which in the next Chapter CHAP. XV. Of Mahumeds Death and many remarkable passages about it MAhumed loaden with Military successes and through fear or ignorance the Jews and Arabians having given up themselves to his Religion himself at last was forced to yield to Mortality To which he was prepared at first by a light Fever which at length increased to such violence that in a great degree it seem'd to bereave him of his senses His carriage under this distemper was very remarkable Some say that he desired to change many things which he before had delivered and that to that end he call'd for Pen and Paper saying that he would write them a Book which after his death should preserve them from Error But Omar hearing these words cryed out Alas the Distemper grows violent upon the Apostle of God the Book of God viz. the Alcoran is sufficient for us But their disputes grew warm and some were desirous that Pen and Paper might be brought to Mahumed but Omar with many others denied it confidently affirming that the Prophet knew not what he said Mahumed moved at their strife commanded them all to depart and no farther to dispute such things in his presence So that he writ nothing which many of his Followers bewail as fancying themselves thereby to have been defeated of many things which might have proved advantagious to their Religion Mahumed finding his sickness to increase upon him and falling into the apprehension of his approaching Death Elmacinus saith that he commanded Abubecer to pray with the people and that they said seventeen Prayers in his behalf He fell sick saith the same Author upon the 28 of Sofar and died upon Munday the 12th of the former Rabiah which some affirm was his Birth-day and the same day of the week on which he fell sick But the news of his death was very variously entertained some denying it as utterly impossible conceiving him to be immortal crying out How can he be our witness with God if he be dead and thereupon affirm'd that he was not dead but that he was taken away as Jesus the Son of Mary had been before him This stirred up the Multitude to withstand his Burial constantly affirming that he was not dead Omar in this contrast took part with the people and threatned to be the death of him who durst say the Apostle of God was dead adding That he was taken up into Heaven and gone away like Moses While the contention grew violent Abubecer stept in and said Though Mahumed be certainly dead yet the God of Mahumed cannot dye but liveth for ever And then he proved his saying out of the Alcoran which sets down that as others dyed who in their several times were Prophets so Mahumed was to dye And the people all rested satisfied with Abubecers Speech and from thenceforth believed the Death of their Prophet But no less contention hapned about his Burial for those Meckezes who had been the Companions of his Flight pleaded that he ought to be interr'd at Mecca the place of his Birth the Medinezes who received him when he was persecuted from Mecca said that he should rather be intombed at Medina because it was his Asylum and refuge in the day of his Afflictions Others said it was both most convenient and laudable to carry to and bury him at Jerusalem the burying place of the Prophets But at last they all agreed that he should be buried at Medina in the Chamber of his Wife Ayscha and under the bed wherein he died He died in the 63 year of his age after he had Merchanted 38 been two years in the Cave lived at Mecca 10 and 13 at Medina Phatema was the only Child that survived him who lived but forty days after him He had seven Wives besides Concubines He was unsatiable in his Lusts and so enormous therein that he spared no Mans bed The filthiness of whose life was a plain demonstration of the falseness of his Prophecy according to the rules of trying false Prophets laid down by Maimonides in Moreth lib. 2. cap. 40. In the tryal of Prophet saith that Learned Jew thou art to animadvert the perfection of his person to enquire diligently into his actions and to observe his conversation but the chief sign whereby he is to be discerned is the abdication and contemning of bodily pleasures which is the token of a wise Man much more of a Prophet and principally the filthiness of Venery By