[Footnote 341: "But alms are only _to be given_ to the poor and the needy, and those who collect them, and to those whose hearts are won _to Islam_, and for ransoming and for debtors, and for the cause of God, and the wayfarer," &c.--IX, 60.] [Footnote 342: "God will not punish you for a mistaken word in your oaths; but He will punish you in regard to an oath taken seriously. Its expiation shall be to feed ten poor persons with such middling _food_ as ye feed your families with, or to clothe them; or to set free a captive: but he who cannot find the means shall fast three days. This is the expiation of your oaths when ye have sworn. Keep then your oaths. Thus God maketh his signs clear to you. Haply ye will be thankful."--V, 91.] [Footnote 343: _Vide_ Muir's Life of Mahomet, Vol. III, page 223.] [Footnote 344: According to Hishami, p. 745, a party of fifty or forty Koreish went round about Mohammad's camp at Hodeibia, seeking to cut off any stray followers; and having attacked the camp itself with stones and arrows, they were caught and taken to Mohammad, who pardoned and released them.--_Vide_ Muir's Life of Mahomet, IV, p. 31, _f.n._; and Moslim's collection of genuine traditions _Kitab-ul Jihad vas-Siyar_, chapter on _Tanfeel_ and _Ransom_.] [Footnote 345: All the prisoners of Hawazin at Honain were released without taking any ransom and were not made slaves. See Muir's Life of Mahomet, Vol. IV, pp. 148-149. That Mohammad had presented three female slaves to Ali, Othman, and Omar from the captives of Bard Hawazin, as stated by Sir W. Muir, Vol. IV, p. 149, is void of all truth. The captives were not enslaved. They were mere prisoners, as Sir W. Muir himself calls them so (_ibid_, pp. 148-149); yet he styles these three of them "female slaves." The captives together with the captured camp were removed to the valley of Jierana, pending negotiations (_ibid_, p. 142). At the end of the negotiations the prisoners were released. Thus there could be no distribution of prisoners to anyone.]