146

Medicine is again treated as a science, 9:148 ff, below.

147

The relative clause is added in the margin of C, and incorporated in the text of D. Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah,'Uyun al-anba, I, 112, ascribes the tradi­tion to the legendary early physicians al-Harith b. Kaladah (9:150, below) and 'Abd-al-Malik b. Abjar, as well as to Muhammad. Cf. also al-Ghazzali, Ihya' (Cairo, 1862/1989), III, 75.

148

The explanatory gloss, though found in the other texts, appears in C in the margin, and is missing in D.

149

Cf. 1:74 (n. 5), above.

150

Lit., "mixture" = chyme.

151

This is a rather vague reference to the tradition just quoted.

152

Bulaq: ":... for this illness and its origin, as is mentioned in the (Prophetic) tradition."

153

Cf. pp. 136 f. and 244 f., above.

154

Unless we have to read here al-hudum = al-hadm, it would be al­hadum in the literal sense of "(food) to be digested."

155

Qur'an 33.62 (62); 35.49 (41); 48.23 (23).