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I left it a black ruin in a hollow." - Meaning and context.">
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Al-Mustaughir b. Rabî‘a, in : Ibn Ishãq, Sîrat Rasûl Allãh, translated into English by A. Gillaumne, OUP, Karachi, Seventh Impression.Quoted in in Goel, S. R. (1993). Hindu temples: What happened to them. Vol. II https://archive.org/stream/GuillaumeATheLifeOfMuhammad/Guillaume%2C%20A%20-%20The%20Life%20of%20Muhammad_djvu.txt
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I smashed RuDã’ so completely that
I left it a black ruin in a hollow.

— Ibn Ishaq

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I smashed RuDã’ so completely that
I left it a black ruin in a hollow." in the context of "Al-Mustaughir b. Rabî‘a, in : Ibn Ishãq, Sîrat Rasûl Allãh, translated into English by A. Gillaumne, OUP, Karachi, Seventh Impression.Quoted in in Goel, S. R. (1993). Hindu temples: What happened to them. Vol. II https://archive.org/stream/GuillaumeATheLifeOfMuhammad/Guillaume%2C%20A%20-%20The%20Life%20of%20Muhammad_djvu.txt" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Ibn Ishaq

About Ibn Ishaq

Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Yasār ibn Khiyār (Arabic pronunciation: ɪsˈħɑːq; according to some sources, ibn Khabbār, or Kūmān, or Kūtān, Arabic: محمد بن إسحاق بن يسار بن خيار‎, or simply ibn Isḥaq, ابن إسحاق, meaning "the son of Isaac" (died 767) was an Arab Muslim historian and hagiographer. Ibn Ishaq collected oral traditions that formed the basis of an important biography of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.