ssulmans, in the field of Ohud, had no more than two
horses, according to the better sense of Abulfeda, (in Vit. Moham. c.
xxxi. p. 65.) In the Stony province, the camels were numerous; but the
horse appears to have been less numerous than in the Happy or the Desert
Arabia.]

[Footnote 129: Bedder Houneene, twenty miles from Medina, and forty from
Mecca, is on the high road of the caravan of Egypt; and the pilgrims
annually commemorate the prophet's victory by illuminations, rockets,
&c. Shaw's Travels, p. 477.]

[Footnote 130: The place to which Mahomet retired during the action is
styled by Gagnier (in Abulfeda, c. 27, p. 58. Vie de Mahomet, tom. ii.
p. 30, 33) Umbraculum, une loge de bois avec une porte. The same Arabic
word is rendered by Reiske (Annales Moslemici Abulfedae, p. 23) by
Solium, Suggestus editior; and the difference is of the utmost moment
for the honor both of the interpreter and of the hero. I am sorry
to observe the pride and acrimony with which Reiske chastises his
fellow-laborer. Saepi sic vertit, ut integrae paginae nequeant nisi una
litura corrigi Arabice non satis callebat, et carebat judicio critico.
J. J. Reiske, Prodidagmata ad Hagji Chalisae Tabulas, p. 228, ad calcero
Abulfedae Syriae Tabulae; Lipsiae, 1766, in 4to.]

[Footnote 131: The loose expressions of the Koran (c. 3, p. 124, 125,
c. 8, p. 9) allow the commentators to fluctuate between the numbers of
1000, 3000, or 9000 angels; and the smallest of these might suffice for
the slaughter of seventy of the Koreish, (Maracci, Alcoran, tom. ii.
p. 131.) Yet the same scholiasts confess that this angelic band was not
visible to any mortal eye, (Maracci, p. 297.) They refine on the words
(c. 8, 16) "not thou, but God," &c. (D'Herbelot. Bibliot. Orientale p.
600, 601.)]

[Footnote 132: Geograph. Nubiensis, p. 47.]

[Footnote 133: In the iiid chapter of the Koran, (p. 50-53) with Sale's
notes, the prophet alleges some poor excuses for the defeat of Ohud. *
Note: Dr. Weil has added some curious circumstances, which he gives as
on good traditional authority, on the rescue of Mahomet. The prophet was
attacked by Ubeijj Ibn Challaf, whom he struck on the neck with a mortal
wound. This was the only time, it is added, that Mahomet personally
engaged in battle. (p. 128.)--M. 1845.]

[Footnote 134: For the detail of the three Koreish wars, of Beder, of
Ohud, and of the ditch, peruse Abulfeda, (p. 56-61, 64-69, 73-77,)
Gagnier (tom. i. p. 23-45,