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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

intent to furnish him with an Adventure to go with the Cafila into Syria my Author tells me that the better to equip him for that journey they resolved to place him with one Cadigha a Woman of singular probity and one observed to be very succesful in her Trading into Syria whither she was shortly to dispatch a Caravan To this Gentlewoman Abutabeb and Atechna addressed themselves in the behalf of their Nephew expressing a great desire to have him go as her Servant into Syria Cadigha accepted their profer having thereunto been disposed by a Vision or Dream which was thus Cadigha being one night in her bed in a Vision saw the Sun descend from Heaven and entring into her House whose splendor so diffused it self that not a House in Mecca but therewith was enlightned Cadigha awakening began to ruminate upon the Vision and being therewith not a little startled communicated it to her Unkle Varka who being a great expounder of Dreams gave hers this Interpretation viz. That in the last days a Prophet should come who was to be her Husband concerning whom Cadigha asked her Unkle of what City he should be who answered Of Mecca Of what Tribe Of the Caraishites Of what Family Of the Haschims What is his Name Mahumed These things were much noised abroad and coming to the knowledge of Abutaleb and Atechna did much heighten their expectation of their Cousin in whom all the abovesaid circumstances did concenter And some say that this was the occasion of their desire to place him with Cadigha and of her receiving him into her service But she suppressed her design to Marry him till she might see his management in the Syrian journey whither she resolved to send him Yet as an earnest of her respect and affection she gave him double wages and some other testimony of her good liking which was granted to none of those who went the same journey with more considerable trust For Mahumed is thought to have had no higher employment in the Caravan than to drive the Camels Abutaleb not a little elevated with Cadigha's grant to entertain his Nephew instantly had him to her house enjoyning him fidelity diligence and obsequiousness in his service as the most probable means to advance him in his Mistris's favor When Mahumed came to Cadigha's he sate down at the door and fell very pensive the tears flowed from his eyes and being in a deep melancholy and sadness the Angels therewith were so much affected that they also wept saith the story to see him so dejected But the Caravan having their dispatches the Amir-Alkipha or Captain thereof commanded all that were to go along with him to appear in their journeying habits by such a day Mahumed according to his inferiour condition put on the Habit of a Camelero but not without great resentments wishing his Parents were alive to see their Son thus dressed up in a Slaves habit In his journey to Syria many strange passages are said to have befaln him but one more remarkable then the rest is thus related The Caravan coming to the Cottage of an old Hermit where they used to refresh all the men went into the Hermitage leaving Mahumed abroad with the Camels The Hermit asked if all the Company were there 't was answer'd all except a poor Boy whom they had left with their beasts whereupon the Hermit stepping out brought him in and inquiring concerning his Countrey Parentage and Name and being fully informed of each particular thereof the Hermit openly told them That he was the Apostle of God and then with a loud voice added these words There is no God except God and Mahumed his Prophet Then the Hermit took the youth and making bare his shoulder shewed them the privy Mark of a Prophet imprinted upon him and concluding with high enlargements upon his commendation and of the great things in process of time that should make up his Atchievements Mahumed soon found the good effect of the Hermits expressions in the carriage of the Amir-Alkipha which was so changed toward him that often he became his Companion but once more especially when he took him with him to a Synagogue of the Jews to see the custom and fashion of their Service where Mahumed was no sooner entred but the chains in which their Lamps and Candlesticks were hung up upon the sudden broke and fell to the ground The Jews being greatly affrighted with this accident consulted their Rabbins what it might bode who returned this answer We have found say they in the Law that in the last times a certain Man shall come called Mahumed and that when ever he shall be present at our Feasts this thing shall happen and for ought we know he may now be here and therefore let search be made to find and destroy him This we have recorded by that most egregious Trifler Abunazar Now Mahumed being acquainted with the Jews design against him as he was bethinking himself of an escape two Angels saith the story suddenly took him upon their wings transported him to Mecca where having spent some few days in the conversation of his friends the Legend tells us he went to his Patroness Cadigha to whom having given an account of his journey he demanded his Wages telling her withal that his Unkle and Aunt had much upbraided him with despondency of Mind That he had made his address of Love no sooner Here forsooth he bowed his head blusht and made a stop But Cadigha understood his meaning and told him That as for his wages it amounted to so little that it would not do him much service but saith she I will look out a Wife for thee one who is the most Noble Beautiful and Rich among the Meckezes and whom the Arabian Princes have courted to Marry The only blot in her character is the miserable Death of her first Husband and if this could be past over by him she was at his service With this large declaration of Cadigha's respect Mahumed was dismist who coming to his friends communicated with them the whole matter They transported with the profer thought of nothing but its accomplishment And to that end sent Mahumed back to Cadigha to let her know that he was wholly at her disposal and devotion The Marriage was soon compleated betwixt them which brought Mahumed a fair Wife a great Estate and no little esteem And now we have the Impostor in Wedlock being aged twenty four years five months and eight days His Marriage was celebrated on the same day of the week on which he was born By Cadigha Cadijah or Gadisa for all signifie the same Woman he had seven Children three Sons namely Kalem or Casin an usual Name among the present Moors Taher and Mader who all dyed when young He had also four Daughters to wit Phatema Zeyneb Rakia Omcolthum Vnicultum Phatema was married to Ali Zeyneb to Abalrebiah two Brothers and Omcolthum to Ibu Affar Ottamaindi who upon the death of Omcolthum married her Sister Rakia

the City of the Prophet Because it was his Sanctuary when he was persecuted by the Meckezes CHAP. XIV Of Mahumeds first Wars THe first year of Mahumeds new Aera was signalized with the White Banner which he gave to his Unkle Hamza whom he sent with thirty Musulmin to propagate his Doctrine This first Essay of his Military attempts came to nothing And we read not of any more till the Battle of Bader where several of the chief of the Koraishites were cut off This hapned upon the 17th of Ramadan being Friday in the later end of the second of the Hegira While the more warlike of Mahumeds Proselytes thus followed the field he himself omitted noartifice to gather Proselytes at home and the number of these increased according to the Successes of the other When he found any of his Converts flag in their zeal or question either his actions or Doctrine he actuated the one and silenced the other with such Chapters as he pretended to be sent him from Heaven all which were afterward inserted in the Alcoran and they bear the Title of Chapters made at Medina Thus Mahumed feigned Revelations according to his purpose and had a Verse from Gabriel always ready to adjust his Enterprizes As he was zealously proselytizing at Medina news came that Abusophian Ben-Hareth was going into Syria with a considerable Caravan of the Goods of the Koraishites upon tidings whereof 319 Musulmin were instantly dispatcht to encounter and plunder them And the Infidels as the Mahumedists call them though a thousand in number were totally discomfited seventy being slain upon the place as many more taken Prisoners and the rest put to flight leaving their Goods a Booty to the Musulmin whereof only fourteen were slain or fell Martyrs for for Martyrs all are accounted who die in defence of that Religion This Victory is highly celebrated in the Arabian Chronicles and in the Alcoran is produced as a signal testimony of Gods approbation of the justice of Mahumedism for the Musulmin are bid to consider That though their Brethren were far inferiour in number to the Infidels yet they overcame them because they fought in the way of the Lord. But no less than a Miracle assisted the Musulmin in this Battel for their Enemies eyes are said to have seen double and thereupon to have thought the Mahumedans thrice as many as they were and of larger stature than ordinary From which imagination they suffered more than from their adversaries It is very observable that many of if not all those parcels of the Alcoran where the fight of the Infidels is spoken of and how God fought for the Believers are by the Commentators on the Alcoran generally understood of this Victory gained over the Caravan But after this we hear no more of Mahumeds Battels till the fifth of his Hegira when no less than ten thousand Jews and Koraishites set upon the Mahumedans who with an inconsiderable loss gave them a total overthrow In the same year hapned also the Battel with the Koraidae whom Mahumed Besieged twenty five days who at last oppressed with want surrendred themselves up to Saad Ben Maad who was yet scarce recovered of the Wounds he received in the former Battel The Koraidae being now wholly at Saads disposal he commanded all the Men to be put to death and the Women and Children to be made Slaves Whereupon between six or seven hundred persons were slain among whom was Hahibus the Son of Ahtab who was General And all the Men being thus destroyed the Children Women and Goods were divided among the Musulmin This Battel is called Praelium Fossae because the slain were cast into the ditches digg'd in the field of Medina for that purpose In the sixth year of the Hegira Mahumed had several conflicts with his Enemies the chief whereof was the Battel with the Mustalaki whom he utterly vanquisht taking the Women and Children captive Among whom was Gjuweira the Daughter of Harith whom Mahumed afterward Married and for her Dowry he released all her Kindred whom he had taken Prisoners In the same year likewise fell out the Battel of Haditia a place near Mecca in the way to Gjudda which proved so advantageous to Mahumed that his Enemies the Koraishites sought his friendship A League was concluded betwixt them for ten years upon these Articles 1. That during that time the Koraishites should have free liberty to follow their Tillages 2. That any who had a minde of the Koraishites might go to Mahumeds party and likewise those of the Mahumedans who desired had during the making of the Truce leave to join themselves to the Koraishites 3. That after the Truce was made if any of the Koraishites fled to Mahumed without leave of the Governour he should be sent back unto him but if any of the Mahumedans revolted he should not be sent back 4. That if Mahumed with his Souldiers should that year return to Mecca they were not to enter with more Arms than was usual for Travailers nor to stay there above three days This League on Mahumeds side was effected by Sahlus the Son of Omar and committed to writing by Ali the Son of Abutalib The same year saith Elmacinus in Hist Sarac p. 7. Mahumed was inaugurated what he means by it I know not under a Tree which afterward was swept away as they report by a great flux of water On the seventh year of the Hegira one of Mahumeds Wives having a Son that was a Carpenter she moved her Husband that he should make him a Pulpit To which he readily consented having before leaned upon a staff while he officiated in the Temple they had built This Pulpit was made of white Tamarisk and ascended by two steps and had in it a convenient seat In which condition it remain'd until the Reign of Muavias the Son of Abusofian who raised it six steps higher in which sort it continued until Osman the Son of Affan covered it with Tapestry Elmacinus Hist Sarac lib. 1. In this year hapned the Battel of Chaibar where Mahumed was absolute Victor and pursuing his Conquest took several Forts and Castles His personal valour and danger were here very remarkable Watiha and Selalima two great Cittadels cost him no small hazard and loss to subdue them But having made himself Master thereof with vast stores of Riches he spared the Besieged upon condition that they should annually pay him considerable Tributes and that it should be at his pleasure to turn them out of their Countrey when he thought fit The Inhabitants of Badra were taken into the same League as also many Jews who all enjoyed the benefit of the Truce until the Reign of Omar the Son of Alchitab who understanding how Mahumed had said upon his death-bed Let not two Religions concur in Arabia interpreted the words of the ejection of those Inhabitants who were not Mahumedans But to return Mahumed by his successes in the fore-mentioned Battels was grown so formidable that his Adversaries despaired

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