[38] Muhammed had scarcely expired, when a vehement contest about the succession to his dignity arose between the _Mohajirin_, “the emigrants from Mecca with the prophet,” and the _Ansar_, “the protectors (see note, p. 27): both claimed the right of nomination. Abubekr was proclaimed by both. To crush the resistance of Alí, who was the legitimate competitor, Omar, sent by Abu-bekr, burnt the gate, and was about to set on fire the house of Alí――scarcely restrained from the act by the reproach of Fátima, Muhammed’s daughter and Ali’s wife, who from that moment till her death never spoke to any of the enemies of her husband. The prophet, according to authentic traditions, said: “Whoever gives offence to Fatimah gives offence to me; and whoever offends me, offends God.” [39] Muhammed, son of Ismáil al Jisfi, called _Bochárí_, from his native town in Mazinderan, lived from the year of the Hejira 194 to 256 (A. D. 809-869). He is chiefly celebrated by a work composed, as he says himself, at the prophet’s tomb at Madína, from six hundred thousand traditions, and called _Masnad es sahih_, the sincere (just) Masnad. “Masnad” signifies a collection of traditions, each of which is accompanied with the name of the traditionist by whom it was handed down. [40] This happened in the battle of Ohod (so is called a mountain half an hour’s distance from Madína, on the route of Mecca). Muhammed fought with seven hundred men against more than three thousand Koreish from Mecca, in the third year of the Hejira (A. D. 624). Otba, the son of Vaccasi, and brother of Sâd, who fought on the prophet’s side, hit him with a stone, so as to knock out four incisors of his inferior jaw. [41] The edition of Calcutta and the manuscript of Oude have erroneously: “Hakim, the son of _Mervan_,” instead of _Aś_, which I substituted for Mervan, according to Abulfeda, I. p. 271. Elmacin (_Hist. Sarac._, p. 38) reads “Hakim, son of _Abúl-Aś_.” [42] Abulfeda (I. p. 271) says 500,000 gold coins. Elmacin (_loco cit._, p. 39) states five talents of Africa, said to be worth 504,000 gold pieces. [43] Abulfeda (I. p. 261) mentions _Abdalla_, son of _Sâd_, son of _Abu Sarh_, Amerite, a foster-brother of Osman (_ibid._, p. 154). Elmacin (_loco cit._, p. 39) calls him _Abdalla_, son of _Sáid_, son of _Abu Jerh_, who had been a writer of revelations, and who, because he had apostatised from Islamism, would have been put to death by the prophet, after the taking of Mecca, in the eighth year of the Hejira (A. D. 629), if Osman had not interceded for him.