61-65, 107-112, 139-148, 268-294.)] [Footnote 136: Abu Rafe, the servant of Mahomet, is said to affirm that he himself, and seven other men, afterwards tried, without success, to move the same gate from the ground, (Abulfeda, p.

90.) Abu Rafe was an eye-witness, but who will be witness for Abu Rafe ?] [Footnote 137: The banishment of the Jews is attested by Elmacin (Hist.
Saracen, p.

9) and the great Al Zabari, (Gagnier, tom.ii.p.

285.) Yet Niebuhr (Description de l'Arabie, p.

324) believes that the Jewish religion, and Karaite sect, are still professed by the tribe of Chaibar; and that, in the plunder of the caravans, the disciples of Moses are the confederates of those of Mahomet.] Five times each day the eyes of Mahomet were turned towards Mecca, [138] and he was urged by the most sacred and powerful motives to revisit, as a conqueror, the city and the temple from whence he had been driven as an exile.