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Encyclopedia of Religion entry for

Abdullah Ibn Sad

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One of Muhammad ‘s secretaries. It is related that, when Muhammadinstructed ‘Abdu ‘llah to write down thewords (Surah xxiii. 12-l4), "We (God) havecreated man from an extract of claythen we produced it another creation; ‘ ‘Abdu ‘llah exclaimed, "And blessed be God,the best of creators"; and Muhammad toldhim to write that down also. Whereupon ‘Abdu ‘llah boasted that he had been inspiredwith a sentence which the Prophet had acknowledged to be part of the Qur’an. It is of him that it is written in the Qur’an, Surah vi. 93, "Who is more unjust than he who devisesagainst God a lie, or says - ‘I am inspired, ‘when he is not inspired at all."

citations: Dictionary of Islam, Hughes

 

article created 2006-04-12 , last updated 2006-04-12





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