Arabia, India, and China all contributed to it.

The Prophet gave it to his favorite wife, Ayeshah, as he lay dying at Medina in the year 632, with his head in her lap.
"Next to the Black Stone, itself, it is possibly the most precious thing in Islam.

And now, now with this Great Pearl Star in our hands, what is impossible ?" Silence fell between the two men.

They still huddled there in the partial protection of the wady, while all the evil _jinnee_ of the sand-storm shrieked blackly overhead.

With no further words they continued to study the wondrous thing.