out order or effective discipline, and the troops of Mahomet were routed and fled to Medina. The Meccans did not follow up their victory and the only result was a truce for a year. Mahomet, losing in war for the first time, made up for it by winning in love, and took to himself another wife, his fifth. (See appendix.) Hend, his new spouse, was a widow of twenty-eight years of age. His fourth wife, to loop back a little, he had married after the affair resulting in the confiscation of the Jewish property. She, whose name was Hafza, was entrusted with the coffer containing the Koran writings as they were revealed to Mahomet from time to time.
To keep the people of Medina well content, there were raids from time to time on neighboring villages, and the booty was the cause of much discussion, probably due to the habit of gambling among the soldiery. So there was a revelation from heaven, and a new law was given for incorporation in the Koran, so that the use of wine and the playing of games of chance became forever prohibited.
Another revelation came very a propos in the case of Mahomet's next marriage, which followed hard on the heels of the union with Hend. Chancing to enter the house of his adopted son, Zeid, the prophet saw Zeinab, his son's newly wed wife, uncovered. At once he fell in love with the lady and declared his passion. The husband returning, was told what had passed, and, knowing the amorous nature of his foster father, he immediately divorced
