Fasy

In the time of Fasy a mosque stood near it, called

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El Fasy, the historian of Mekka, says that there were formerly sixteen wells between that city and Muna.

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El Fasy likewise affirms that in his days the town contained no less than fifty-eight wells.

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(See Kotobeddyn.) — Among the wonders which distinguish Muna from other valleys, El Fasy relates that it occasionally extends its dimensions to accommodate any number of pilgrims; that on the day of sacrifice, no vultures ever carry off the slaughtered lambs, thus leaving them for the poor hadjys; and that, notwithstanding the quantity of raw flesh, no flies ever molest the visiters at this place.

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Asamy and Fasy mention frequent epidemical diseases at Mekka: in A.H. 671, a pestilence broke out, which carried off fifty persons a day; and in 749, 793, and 829, others also infected the town: in the latter year two thousand persons died.

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El Fasy says, that in his time there were eleven medreses in Mekka, besides a number of rebats, or less richly endowed schools, which contained also lodgings for poor hadjys; many of the Rebats in the vicinity of the mosque still remain, but are used only as lodging-houses.

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It is reported, according to Fasy, that at the foot of the mountain behind it, Mohammed received many revelations from heaven, and that

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It is asserted by Fasy, that a part of the Hedjer as it now stands was never comprehended within the Kaabah.

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El Fasy states the whole at five hundred and eighty-nine, and says they are all of marble, excepting one hundred and twenty-six, which are of common stone, and three of composition.

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It is asserted by Fasy, that a part of the Hedjer, as it now stands, was never comprehended within the Kaaba.

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