The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.: Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments

[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. [33] In Ibn-Esh-Sheḥneh, "Kuyoothán:" the orthography of this word is doubtful, as the vowel-points are not written. As the tradition is related in Ibn-El-Wardee, this bull takes a breath twice in the course of every day (or twenty-four hours); when he exhales, the sea flows; and when he inhales, it ebbs. But it must not be imagined that none of the Arabs have any notion of the true theory of the tides: the more learned among them explain this phenomenon by the influence of the moon.--Many of the Arabs attribute earthquakes to the shaking of this bull. [34] In Ibn-El-Wardee, a quantity of sand is introduced between the bull and the fish. [35] Ed-Demeeree, on the authority of Walib Ibn-Munebbih, quoted by El-Is-ḥáḳce, _loco laudato_. [36] Ibn-El-Wardee. [37] Ḳur-án, ch. xxxix. v. 67. [38] Idem, ch. xiv. v. 49. [39] Idem, ch. lxxxix. v. 24. [40] Khaleel Eẓ-Ẓáhiree, in De Sacy's Chrestomathie Arabe, 2nde ed. tome ii. pp. 10 and 11 of Ar. text. [41] Ibid. [42] El-Maḳreezee, quoted by De Sacy, _ubi supra_, pp. 58-62. [43] Ibn-Khaldoon, in the same, pp. 168 and 169.