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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