[663]. Burton and Drake, l.c. p. 35.
[664]. Rosen in Zeitsch. d. D. M. G., XI. 59.
[665]. Yâḳût, III. 720. 3.
[666]. Zunz, Geogr. Literatur der Juden, no. 109, Gesammelte Schriften, I. 191.
[667]. Alfred von Kremer, Mittelsyrien und Damaskus, Vienna 1853, p. 118.
[668]. al-Damîrî, Ḥayât al-ḥaywân, I. 59: ‘ʿAlî is the earliest Imâm whose burial-place is not known. It is said that before his death he ordered it to be kept secret, knowing that the sons of Umayya would attain to power, and that his grave would not then be safe from desecration. Nevertheless, his grave is shown at various places.’
[669]. Or ‘And they buried him’ (LXX. ἔθαψαν), as it is understood by many excellent scholars.—Tr.
[670]. Siphrê debhê Rabh, ed. M. Friedmann, Vienna 1864, § 357 and note 42 of the editor.
[671]. Yâḳût, II. 589. 21.
[672]. Sepp, Jerusalem und das Heilige Land, II. 245.