Jirun of Damascus

A great building in Damascus known as Jayrun. Al-Mas'udi reports that Jayrun ibn Sa'd al-Adi built it and brought marble columns to it. ²

It is said that it is Iram of the Pillars. Al-Mas'udi gives a report from Ka'b al-Ahbar, who came to Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan and asked him about it; he described its building in gold, silver, musk and saffron. ²

Al-Mas'udi then judges the report, saying that corruption enters it through the means of transmission and that it is a storyteller's composition. He notes that people disputed about this city and about its site. ²