he should purchase two houses adjoining the plot in which the foundations had been laid: but the owners of these houses refused to sell them, and he therefore employed a number of workmen to undermine them by night, and cause them to fall upon their inhabitants. His scheme, however, but partially succeeded, and no lives were sacrificed. This man was notorious for cruelty, but he was a person of pleasing and venerable countenance, and engaging manners: whenever I chanced to meet him, I received from him a most gracious salutation. He died before I quitted Egypt. [Illustration] [Illustration] [12] An Apostle is distinguished from a mere Prophet by his having a _book_ revealed to him. [13] In quoting the Ḳur-án, I distinguish the verses in accordance with the numbers in Fluegel's excellent edition of the original text: 4to Lipsiæ 1834. These numbers agree (excepting in a few cases, where a disagreement was found absolutely necessary) with those in Hinckelmann's edition, which is that most commonly quoted by the learned. I am sorry to see that Marracci's numbers have been adopted in a late edition of Sale's translation, and that the distinction between the words of the text and the explanatory interpolations has there been neglected. Its utility to Arabic scholars, and its general fidelity, have been thus greatly lessened; and it appears to me very desirable that it should be superseded as soon as possible by another edition. [14] Moḥammad's answers to 'Abd-Allah Ibn-Selám, quoted by Ibn-El-Wardee (MS. in my possession); and Mek-ḥool, quoted by the same author, and Mishkát el-Maṣabeeḥ, vol. ii. pp. 652 and 653. [15] Ibn-Esh-Sheḥneh (MS. in my possession). [16] In another MS. of the same author in my possession, "yellow." [17] In his "Khiṭaṭ" (MS. in my possession). [18] Ḳur-án, ch. xiii. v. 3, and several other places. [19] Idem, ch. ii. v. 20, and ch. lxxviii. v. 6. [20] Idem, ch. lxxi. v. 18. [21] Mek-ḥool, quoted by Ibn-El-Wardee. [22] Wahb Ibn-Munebbih, quoted by El-Maḳreezee, is his "Khiṭaṭ." [23] Ibn-El-Wardee, however, says that its name is derived from its terrors and difficulties. [24] These are monsters who will be described in a subsequent note. [25] History of El-Khiḍr in the "Mir-át ez-Zemán" (MS. in my possession), a great history, whose author died in the year of the Flight 656. [26] El-Ḳazweenee (MS. in my possession). [27] Moḥammad's answers to 'Abd-Allah Ibn-Selám, quoted by Ibn-El-Wardee. [28] Ibid. [29] El-Ḳazweenee. [30] Ḳur-án, ch. ii. v. 22, and ch. lxvi. v. 6. [31] Mir-át ez-Zemán. [32] Tradition from the Prophet, recorded by Ibn-'Abbás, and quoted by Ibn-El-Wardee; and by El-Is-ḥáḳee, in describing an earthquake that happened in his life-time.--On the subject of earthquakes, see also the next foot-note.