RECORD OF THE PURE SPOUSES OF HIS LORDSHIP THE PRINCE OF EXISTENCES—THE PERFUMES OF BLESSINGS AND THE BREEZES OF SALUTATIONS BE UPON HIM.

In the Raudzatu-l-âhbâb it is recorded, according to trust­worthy authorities, that his holy and prophetic lordship introduced during his life-time twelve women into the bonds of matrimony, and consummated it with them. Concern­ing eleven of these there is no difference of opinion, but of one it is not certain whether she was a wife or a concubine, as shall be noticed hereafter, if it pleaseth Allah the Most High.