Hadith, the Mohammedan Talmud, being a traditional account of Mahomet's sayings and doings.
Above all there grew up an enormous mass of evidently forged sayings put into the mouth of Mahomet.
Like the coffin of Mahomet, they were as though suspended between earth and sky.
It contains an account of the early conquests of Mahomet and the early caliphs.
On Voltaire's "Mahomet" he heaped censure, for its unworthy portraiture of the conqueror of the East and its ineffective fatalism.
