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محمد بن نافع الخزاعي

محمد بن نافع الخزاعي

He examined the Black Stone while it lay uprooted: the blackness only at its head, the rest white, its length a forearm's bone 1.

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Muhammad ibn Nafi' al-Khuza'i, a transmitter mentioned in the report of the uprooting of the Black Stone. Al-Suyuti, in the History of the Caliphs, relates that he said: "I looked at the Black Stone while it was uprooted, and the blackness was only on its head, and the rest was white, and its length was the size of a forearm bone." 2

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Return of the Black Stone to its place

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  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 616
  2. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p.616
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Return of the Black Stone to its place

In 339 the Black Stone was restored to its place after more than twenty years with the Qarmatians — a silver band of three thousand seven hundred and ninety and a half dirhams' weight fastened it. Muhammad ibn Nafi' al-Khuza'i, who examined it while it lay uprooted, said the blackness was only at its head, the rest white, its length a forearm's bone.