Source: Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad, trans. A. Guillaume (1955; reprint, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 689. https://archive.org/stream/GuillaumeATheLifeOfMuhammad/Guillaume%2C%20A%20-%20The%20Life%20of%20Muhammad_djvu.txt
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I was told that the last injunction the apostle [Muhammad] gave [before his death] was in his words `Let not two religions be left in the Arabian peninsula."

— Ibn Ishaq

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I was told that the last injunction the apostle [Muhammad] gave [before his death] was in his words `Let not two religions be left in the Arabian peninsula."" in the context of "Source: Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad, trans. A. Guillaume (1955; reprint, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 689. 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.