[Footnote 121: Prideaux (Life of Mahomet, p. 44) reviles the
wickedness of the impostor, who despoiled two poor orphans,
the sons of a carpenter; a reproach which he drew from the
Disputatio contra Saracenos, composed in Arabic before the
year 1130; but the honest Gagnier (ad Abulfed. p. 53) has
shown that they were deceived by the word Al Nagjar, which
signifies, in this place, not an obscure trade, but a noble
tribe of Arabs. The desolate state of the ground is
described by Abulfeda; and his worthy interpreter has
proved, from Al Bochari, the offer of a price; from Al
Jannabi, the fair purchase; and from Ahmeq Ben Joseph, the
payment of the money by the generous Abubeker On these
grounds the prophet must be honorably acquitted.]