Caesar's Palm-Tree Letter to Umar

The account relates that Caesar wrote to Umar ibn al-Khattab asking about a tree that his envoys had described to him, and that Umar answered him. ¹

In his letter Caesar described a tree that comes out like the ears of donkeys, then splits like pearls, turns green like emeralds and red like rubies, then ripens sweet to the taste, then dries and becomes provision for the resident and the traveller. He said he knew it only as a tree of Paradise, if his envoys were telling the truth. ¹

Umar wrote in his reply that his envoys had told the truth, and that this tree, as they knew it, was the one that God caused to grow for Mary when she gave birth to Jesus. He called him to the fear of God and not to take Jesus as a god. ¹

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