[FN#42] Because it might have been taken to mean, "inhabitants of
hell."
[FN#43] i.e. death.
[FN#44] A battle fought near Medina, A.D. 625, in which Mohammed
was defeated by the Meccans under Abou Sufyan.
[FN#45] One of Mohammed's widows and Omar's own daughter.
[FN#46] A well-known man of letters and theologian of the seventh
and eighth centuries.
[FN#47] i.e. to prepare himself by good works, etc., for the
world to come.
[FN#48] A celebrated Cufan theologian of the eighth century.
[FN#49] i.e. for the next world.
[FN#50] The eighth Khalif of the Ommiade dynasty, a rival in
piety and single-mindedness of Omar ben Khettab.
[FN#51] The descendants of Umeyyeh and kinsmen of the reigning
house.
[FN#52] The second, fifth, sixth and seventh Khalifs of the
Ommiade dynasty.
[FN#53] The mother of Omar ben Abdulaziz was a granddaughter of
Omar ben Khettab.
[FN#54] Brother of Omar's successor, Yezid II.
[FN#55] This passage apparently belongs to the previous account
of Omar's death-bed; but I have left it as it stands in the text,
as it would be a hopeless task to endeavour to restore this chaos
of insipid anecdote and devotional commonplace to anything like
symmetry.
[FN#56] Lit. with (or by) neither book (i.e. Koran) nor Sunneh
(i.e. the Traditions of the Prophet).
[FN#57] Chief of the tribe of Temim and one of the most elegant
orators of the eighth century.
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