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CHAPTER L: Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants
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327-343.).] [Footnote 1461: To console the afflicted relatives of his kinsman Jauffer, he (Mahomet) represented that, in Paradise, in exchange for the arms which he had lost, he had been furnished with a pair of wings, resplendent with the blushing glories of the ruby, and with which he was become the inseparable companion of the archangal Gabriel, in his volitations through the regions of eternal bliss.

Hence, in the catalogue of the martyrs, he has been denominated Jauffer teyaur, the winged Jauffer.

Price, Chronological Retrospect of Mohammedan History, vol.i.p.

5.-M.] [Footnote 147: The expedition of Tabuc is recorded by our ordinary historians Abulfeda (Vit.Moham.p.

123-127) and Gagnier, (Vie de Mahomet, tom.iii.p.


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