[596] Eisenmenger, i. p. 395.

[597] Hist. Dynast., p. 24.

[598] Tabari, i. c. lxxxvii.

[599] D’Herbelot, Bibl. Orient., s. v. Aschmouil.

[600] Koran, Sura ii. v. 247, 248.

[601] Koran, Sura ii. v. 248.

[602] D’Herbelot, Bibl. Orientale, t. i. p. 263.

[603] Tabari, i. p. 417.

[604] This incident, from the apocryphal gospels of the childhood of Christ, shall be related in the Legendary Lives of New Testament Characters.

[605] Weil, pp. 193-8.