Early Arabic Inscriptions and the Life of the Prophet: A new Source for History: Among the anecdotes told in the early biographies of the Prophet Muhammad is one about him being harassed by his immediate neighbors in Mecca, in roughly the period 614-622. One way they bothered him was to throw sheep offal through the window of his home in Mecca where he lived with his first wife, Khadija. `Abd al-Malik Ibn Hisham (d. 7 May 833) edited the earlier biography of Muhammad ibn Ishaq (died sometime in the 760s). In his translation of Ibn Hisham, Alfred Guillaume gives this passage to set the scene (Life of Muhammad, p. 191; Ar. 276-77): “Those of
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