batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l35900-l35947
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l35900-l35947
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER LIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LX. / IN THE
NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 35900-35947
start: '35900'
end: '35947'
translation: The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage includes notes on relations between Muslims and former enemies,
acceptance of gifts from an idolatrous mother, and rules concerning women who
come over from unbelievers, dowry compensation, and oaths. It then gives commands
about compensating believers whose wives go to unbelievers, receiving the pledge
of believing women under moral and religious conditions, seeking pardon for them,
and avoiding friendship with people under God's anger who despair of the afterlife
and resurrection.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A note explains that enemies of the Moslems, including Abu Sofin and others
of the Koreish, embraced the same faith after the taking of Mecca and became friends
and brethren.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: A note reports that Koteila bint Abd'al Uzza, while an idolatress, brought
presents to her daughter Asma bint Abi Becr, who refused them and denied her admittance.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: A note states that under the pacification of al Hodeibiya each side was to
return what belonged to the other side, but married women who came over to the
Moslems were not to be restored; satisfaction was instead made by returning the
dowry.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: A note relates that Sobeia bint al Hareth embraced Mohammedism, that her husband
Mosfer demanded her back, that Mohammed administered the directed oath and returned
her husband her dower, and that Omar then married her.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The passage commands that if believers' wives escape to unbelievers and unbelievers'
wives come over, the believers whose wives departed should receive compensation
from dowries.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The prophet is instructed to receive believing women who pledge not to associate
anything with God, steal, commit fornication, kill their children, forge calumny,
or disobey him in what is reasonable.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The prophet is instructed to ask pardon of God for the believing women after
receiving their pledge.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: True believers are told not to enter friendship with a people against whom
God is incensed.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: The people against whom God is incensed are said to despair of the life to
come, as infidels despair of the resurrection of those dwelling in graves.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: The divine figure in whom believers believe, who is described as forgiving
and merciful, and against whose anger a people is warned.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: the prophet / Mohammed
description: The addressed prophet who receives the pledge of believing women; the
notes identify Mohammed in the related legal episode at al Hodeibiya.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: believing women
description: Women who come to the prophet and pledge their faith under listed religious
and moral conditions.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: true believers / Moslems
description: The community addressed with rules on compensation, fear of God, and
avoiding friendship with those under God's anger.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: unbelievers / infidels
description: Opposing or contrasted people to whom wives may escape and whose wives
may come over; infidels are also mentioned as despairing of resurrection from
graves.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: wives who escape or come over
description: Wives are described as escaping from believers to unbelievers, and
unbelievers' wives as coming over to believers.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Sobeia bint al Hareth
description: A woman of the tribe of Aslam who, according to the note, embraced
Mohammedism and was subject to a demand for her return by her husband.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Mosfer the Makhzumite
description: The husband of Sobeia bint al Hareth who demanded her back after she
embraced Mohammedism.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: people against whom God is incensed
description: A group with whom believers are told not to enter friendship; they
are said to despair of the life to come.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine authority and forgiver
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Believers are told to fear God; the prophet is told to ask pardon of God;
God is described as forgiving and merciful and as incensed against a people.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: role:2
label: pledge recipient and intercessory requester
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The prophet is instructed to accept the pledge of believing women and ask
pardon for them of God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:3
label: female pledge-taker / convert
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:7
basis: Believing women come to the prophet to pledge faith; Sobeia is described
as having embraced Mohammedism and taking the directed oath.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: role:4
label: addressed faith community
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: True believers are directly addressed regarding compensation, fear of God,
and friendship boundaries.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: role:5
label: opposing or contrasted unbelieving group
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:9
basis: Unbelievers are contrasted with believers in marital movement and afterlife
belief; a people under God's anger is named as a forbidden object of friendship.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: role:6
label: marital migrant
assigned_to:
- fig:6
- fig:7
basis: Wives are described as escaping or coming over; Sobeia is narrated as a specific
woman who embraced Mohammedism and was not returned to her husband.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:7
label: former husband / claimant
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Mosfer demands Sobeia back and receives her dower in the note.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: pledge of faith
literal_form: plighting faith / oath
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: sym:2
label: dowry compensation
literal_form: dowry / dower returned as satisfaction
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:6
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: graves and resurrection
literal_form: resurrection of those who dwell in the graves
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:4
label: forbidden friendship boundary
literal_form: command not to enter into friendship with a people against whom God
is incensed
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Former enemies become co-religionists
summary: A note says that after the taking of Mecca, Abu Sofin and other Koreish
enemies of the Moslems embraced the same faith and became friends and brethren.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Rules for women crossing between communities
summary: The passage and notes describe wives moving between believers and unbelievers,
the non-return of married women who come over to the Moslems, and compensation
by dowry or dower.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:3
label: Pledge of believing women
summary: Believing women come to the prophet and pledge faith with prohibitions
against associating anything with God, theft, fornication, killing children, calumny,
and unreasonable disobedience; the prophet is told to accept the pledge and ask
God's pardon for them.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: Warning against friendship with those under divine anger
summary: True believers are told not to enter friendship with a people against whom
God is incensed, who are described as despairing of the life to come and compared
to infidels who despair of resurrection from graves.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: covenant through pledge of faith
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: The prophet receives a formal pledge from believing women with defined religious
and moral obligations, and he asks God's pardon for them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The passage presents a legal-religious pledge rather than a mythic covenant
narrative.
- id: motif:2
label: regulated sacred exchange / compensation
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: Women crossing community boundaries are not simply returned; dowry or dower
is returned as satisfaction or compensation under religious instruction.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The evidence is primarily legal and social; the 'sacred_exchange' taxonomy
fit is interpretive because the exchange concerns dowry compensation under divine
command.
- id: motif:3
label: divine judgment through anger and exclusion
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Believers are warned against friendship with a people against whom God is
incensed, and that group is characterized by despair regarding the life to come.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage states divine anger and boundary-making, but does not narrate
a judgment scene or sentence.
- id: motif:4
label: resurrection from graves
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The passage explicitly mentions despair of 'the resurrection of those who
dwell in the graves.'
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: Resurrection is referenced as an object of disbelief or despair rather
than narrated as occurring.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage itself compares the despair of the life to come attributed to
the people under God's anger with the infidels' despair of resurrection from graves.
claim_level: same_function
target: infidels' despair of resurrection from graves
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: This is an internal rhetorical comparison in the passage, not evidence
of historical contact or broader cross-cultural comparison.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 35903-35908
quote_or_summary: A note says that after the taking of Mecca, Abu Sofin and others
of the Koreish, formerly inveterate enemies of the Moslems, embraced the same
faith and became their friends and brethren.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 35910-35913
quote_or_summary: A note says Koteila bint Abd'al Uzza, while an idolatress, brought
presents to her daughter Asma bint Abi Becr, who refused them and denied her admittance.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 35914-35920
quote_or_summary: A note explains that the pacification of al Hodeibiya required
returns between sides, but the passage forbade restoring married women who came
over to the Moslems and required satisfaction by returning dowry.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 35921-35927
quote_or_summary: A note relates that Sobeia bint al Hareth embraced Mohammedism;
her husband Mosfer demanded her back; Mohammed administered the directed oath,
returned her husband her dower, and Omar married her.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 35934-35938
quote_or_summary: '"If any of your wives escape from you to the unbelievers... give
unto those believers whose wives shall have gone away... so much as they shall
have expended"; believers are told to fear God.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 35939-35944
quote_or_summary: The prophet is told that when believing women come and pledge
not to associate anything with God, steal, commit fornication, kill children,
forge calumny, or disobey reasonably, he should pledge faith to them and ask God's
pardon; God is forgiving and merciful.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: quote
locator: lines 35945-35947
quote_or_summary: '"O true believers, enter not into friendship with a people against
whom GOD is incensed"; they despair of the life to come as infidels despair of
resurrection from graves.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied passage. Motif labels are cautious
because the passage is primarily legal-exhortative rather than narrative mythology.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
No external sources or unstated taxonomy IDs were used. Available symbol taxonomy terms such as cave, fire, milk, mountain, serpent, tree, and water were not applicable to this passage.
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