I first ran across Muhammad Hamidullah when he "edited" a "Sahifah" of Abu-Hurayra sayings, claimed from the first century AH. This was the only work of Hamidullah I've read directly; I would do that in October 2005. I wasn't impressed at the time. The work's subject turned out to be an excerpt which some mediaeval Muslim had compiled from 'Abd al-Razzaq's Musannaf. In other words, it is no independent source; of interest only to editors of 'Abd al-Razzaq, worthy as that calling is.
Around that time I caught wind of "The Jewish Background of the Battles of Jamal and Şiffin", Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society 36 (1982), 235-51. I never did read this one; but David Cook in Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic (Darwin, 2002), 41 deemed that a full-blown conspiracy fantasy
. And in 2013, looking around for reference to the Almoravid age of exploration, Colavito evaluated his piece in the Journal of the Muslim Students’ Association (1968). The MSA were peddling false texts at me as late as the 1990s. For Hamidullah, any port in a storm would do.
Three strikes, he's out. Do not cite Hamidullah. Do not trust Beware anyone citing Hamidullah. Hamidullah is a kâdhib so is to be matruk.
EXCEPTION 11/16: Ugi Suharto argues for the Sahifa, doing better at it than did Hamidullah himself. Still: a plus for him.
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