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 | | ’Aisha’s report is even more to the point: “Allah’s Messenger in his last illness asked me to call AbU Bakr, her father, and her brother too, so that he might write a document, for he feared that someone else might be desirous of succeeding him” (5879). |
 | | The same psychology was at work when ’Umar, on another occasion, tried to persuade AbU Jandal, the son of Soheil, to kill his own father because the father was merely one of the “idolators whose blood is equivalent to that of dogs.” The story is quoted in full in Mirkhond’s biography of the Prophet. |
 | | The translator explains that though ’Aisha’s position was eminent and exalted, she was yet a woman and “thus could not be absolutely free from envy.” About Muhammad’s own behavior, he says that “in journey it is not compulsory to observe perfect equity amongst women in all respects” (note 2734). |
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