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Ibn Isḥāq and al-Wāqidī: The Dream of 'Ātika and the Raid to Nakhla in Relation to the Charge of Plagiarism
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In al-Wāqidī's Kitdb al-maghāzī and in that part of Ibn Ishāq's Sīra which deals with Muhammad's life in Medina and is contained in Ibn Hishrm's version of al-Bakkā'Ī's recension, there are similar and sometimes identical passages. Since Ibn Ishāq is the earlier of the two authorities, it has been assumed on a plausibly a priori basis that al-Wāqidī modelled himself on his predecessor in the arrangement of his material, and drew from him much of the basic warp of his narrative to which he then added his own weft.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , February 1959 , pp. 41 - 51
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page 47 note 3 Var. (Add. MS 20737).
page 48 note 1 Var. (Add. MS 20737).
page 48 note 2 i.e. Muhammad b. Shujā' al-ThaljĪ, from Muḥammad b. 'Umar al-Wāqidī,
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