Table of the Mecca Pilgrimage of 1880.
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Hughes, Thomas Patrick
“Who amasseth wealth and storeth it against the future!
“He thinketh surely that his wealth shall be with him for ever.
“Nay! for verily he shall be flung into al-ḥut̤amah.
“And who shall teach thee what al-ḥut̤amah is?
“It is God’s kindled fire,
“Which shall mount above the hearts of the damned;
“It shall verily rise over them like a vault,
“On outstretched columns.”
The Imām al-Bag͟hawī says it is the division of Hell specially reserved for the Jews.
ḤUWAIRIS̤ (حويرث). One of the citizens of Makkah, who was excluded from the general amnesty on the taking of Makkah, in consequence of his having pursued Zainab, Muḥammad’s daughter, while endeavouring to effect her escape from Makkah. He was afterwards seized and slain by ʿAlī.
ḤUẔAIFAH (حذيفة). The son of al-Yamān. He was a “sworn companion” of the Prophet, one of the most eminent of the Aṣḥāb, and it is recorded by Muslim the Traditionist, that he was specially instructed by the Prophet. His father, al-Yamān, also called Ḥisl or Ḥusail, was likewise a companion, who fell at Uḥud. Ḥuẕaifah died in the time of ʿAlī’s K͟halīfate, A.H. 36. (See Taqrību ʾt-Tahẕīb, p. 51.) Sir William Muir says he was the Companion who first suggested to ʿUs̤mān the necessity of the recension of the Qurʾān, A.H. 33. (Life of Mahomet, new ed. p. 556.)
“Hodzeifa, who had warred both in Armenia and Adzerbâijan, and had observed the different readings of the Syrians, and of the men of Irâc, was alarmed at the number and extent of the variations, and warned Othmân to interpose and ‘stop the people before they should differ regarding their scriptures, as did the Jews and Christians.’ ”
HUẔAIL (هذيل). The ancestor of the Banū Huẕail, a tribe distinguished in the annals of war and poetry, and, as we learn from Burckhardt, still occupying under the same name the environs of Makkah. (Travels in Arabia, vol. i. pp. 63, 66.)
HYPOCRISY. Arabic riyā (رياء), nifāq (نفاق), makr (مكر), mudāhanat (مداهنة). When there is an allusion to hypocrisy in the Qurʾān, it refers to that class of people known as al-Munāfiqūn, or the hypocrites of al-Madīnah, who in the days of the Prophet professed to follow him, whilst secretly they opposed him [MUNAFIQUN], vide Sūrahs ii. 7; xxxiii. 47; lvii. 13. But in the Traditions we have the following with reference to this sin, Mishkāt, book i. ch. iii. pt. 3:—
“The signs of hypocrisy are three: speaking falsely, promising and not performing, and being perfidious when trusted.”
“There are four qualities, which being possessed by anyone, constitute a complete hypocrite; and whoever has one of the four has one hypocritical quality till he discards it: perfidy when trusted, the breaking of agreements, speaking falsely, and prosecuting hostility by treachery.”
HYPOCRITES. Arabic munāfiqūn (منافقون). A term applied by Muḥammad to those residents of al-Madīnah who during his first stay in that city ostensibly joined Islām, but in secret were disaffected.