12. (4) Those who have converted Maria into a slave or a concubine-slave have furnished her--the creature of their own imagination--with a son. There are various traditions as to the number and names of the Prophet's sons, all of whom died in infancy. Some traditions give different names to one, and others give as many sons as the names are reported. There might have been a son of Mohammad by the name of Ibrahim, but that he was born of Maria the Coptic is a perfect myth. This piece of the story is the continuation of the traditions of Ibn Sad, which I have already criticized in paras. 9 and 11. Ibn Sad has related another tradition through Omar bin Asim and Katada to the effect that Mohammad's son Ibrahim was born of a captive woman. Asim has been condemned by Abu Hatim, a doctor and critic in the Mohammadan traditional literature;[361] and Katada (died 117 A.H.) was not a contemporary witness of what he relates. Thus he fails in giving any authority to his narration. There are two more traditions in Ibn Sad from similar authorities like Katada, namely, Zohri (died 124 A.H.) and Mak-hool (died 118 A.H.)--not contemporaries of Mohammad, but of the class of Tabaeen--to the effect that Mohammad had said, "Had Ibrahim lived, the capitation-tax would have been remitted to every Copt!" and that "Had Ibrahim lived, his maternal uncles would never have been enslaved!" They do not say who was Ibrahim! Another and the last tradition in Ibn Sad through Yahia bin Hammad, Abu Avana, Soleiman-al-Aamash, Muslim, and Bara is to the effect that Ibrahim was born from a Coptic maid of the Prophet. The narrator Soleiman-al-Aamash was a _modallis_ (_Takrib_ in loco), or in other words, a liar. Besides the whole chain of the narration is _Mo-an-an_. In none of the canonical collections of traditions like those of Bokhari, Muslim, and others Ibrahim is said to have been born of Maria. Therefore any of their traditions regarding Ibrahim is not against us.