Note 24 — Chapter V · CAMPAIGN OF KHALID AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHET TOLEIHA. A.H. XI. Nov. A.D. 632.
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For an account of this marvellous system of oral tradition, see the Essay in the Life of Mahomet on the Sources for the Biography. The halo surrounding the Prophet casts something of its brightness on the lives also of his chief Companions, whose biographies are given by tradition in considerable detail; and from them we can gather something of the early history incidentally.