The Speeches and Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad (Lane-Poole)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Selection or partial work
- Authorship:
- Recorded or compiled by others
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~52,600 words · 250 passages
Cite this work
- APAHadith. (n.d.). The Speeches and Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad (Lane-Poole). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/hadith/the-speeches-and-table-talk-of-the-prophet-mohammad-lane-poole
- MLAHadith. "The Speeches and Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad (Lane-Poole)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/hadith/the-speeches-and-table-talk-of-the-prophet-mohammad-lane-poole.
- ChicagoHadith. The Speeches and Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad (Lane-Poole). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/hadith/the-speeches-and-table-talk-of-the-prophet-mohammad-lane-poole.
What it is about
Sayings of the Prophet, selected by Stanley Lane-Poole.
Context and history
An anthology of hadith — the words and deeds attributed to Muhammad — chosen and translated by a British orientalist in 1882. **It should be read for what it is**: a Victorian selection made on its translator's criteria, not a canonical collection like those of Bukhari or Muslim. It is worth having as a document of reading, not as a source of authority.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
_GOD! THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE, THE LIVING, THE STEADFAST! SLUMBER SEIZETH HIM NOT, NOR SLEEP. WHATSOEVER IS IN THE HEAVENS, AND WHATSOEVER IS IN THE EARTH, IS HIS. WHO IS THERE THAT SHALL PLEAD WITH HIM SAVE BY HIS LEAVE? HE KNOWETH WHAT WAS BEFORE THEM AND WHAT SHALL COME AFTER THEM, AND THEY COMPASS NOT AUGHT OF HIS KNOWLEDGE, BUT WHAT HE WILLETH. HIS THRONE OVERSPREADETH THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, AND THE KEEPING OF BOTH IS NO BURDEN TO HIM: AND HE IS THE HIGH, THE GREAT!_ THE THRONE VERSE, ii. 256. INTRODUCTION. The aim of this little volume is to present all that is most enduring and memorable in the public orations and private sayings of the prophet Mohammad in such a form that the general reader may be tempted to learn a little of what a great man was and of what made him great. At present, it must be allowed that although “Auld Mahound”
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