Gabriel often saw him on the streets, playing on the curbstone with other boys his age.

I witnessed at the time of the Great Plague at Damascus in the latter part of the month of Second Rabi of the year 749 a remarkable instance of the veneration of the people of Damascus for this mosque.

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