284 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N\S., XVIII, 
He is stated to have survived till the days of the Khalifah 
Mu‘awiyah (r. 41-60 A.H.; Tab., ITI, 2349; Ibn. S., IV, 1, 
185), but of the details of his latter days nothing is preserved. 
The possession of his mortal remains is disputed by four lands. 
Nawawi says that he settled in Al-Mizzah, a village in the vici- 
nity of Damascus (p. 240). Yaqut (Mu‘jamu I-Buldan, IV, 
522) mentions it as a large and populous village, situated in 
the midst of gardens, at a distance of half-a-parasang from 
Damascus, and that it is reputed to contain the grave of 
Dihyah al-Kalbi, the friend of the Prophet; the village is known 
as Mizzatu-Kalb, and its name has been preserved in the lines 
of ‘Ubaydu'l-lah Ibn Qays ar-Ruqayyat :—! 
Jolly my night in Mizzatu-Kalb, 
_ The bores clean vanished from me! ? 
T was plied, in company of Masad, 
—Leal friend of gentlemen and me-—— 
With Maqadi,*—a beverage God lawful 
Made, wine being forbidden me. 
Gracious daughters of men beside, 
Love for Ibn Qays their guide to me.* 
Ash-Shajarah, Yaqit states, a village in Palestine, likewise 
claims to have the grave of Dihyah al-Kalbi, which is said to 
be in a cave where rest eighty martyrs for the faith, but waives 
responsibility by adding ‘‘ God knows best’? (ib., III, 260). 
s already stated, Sam‘ani is authority for Dihyah’s resi- 
dence in Egypt ; tradition goes further and assigns to him a grave 
in Al-Qarafah (Yaqit, 1V, 555), a quarter of Fustat (ib., p. 48). 
The latter place is two miles south of Cairo, and ‘ had been 
the capital of the country from the time of the Mohammedan 
conquest. Its name is the Latin word Fossatum ‘‘ an entrench - 
ment,’ and it was the camp of the conquering army which, 
under Amr son of al-As, had wrested Egypt from the Byzantine 
empire, and which was made the seat of government because 
the Caliph of the time would have no water between his capital, 
Medinah, and any Islamic city ’’ (Margoliouth’s Cairo, etc., p. 2). 
The fourth tradition has little to support it. The Haft 
Iqlim, the topographico-biographical work of Amin Abmad of 
Ray (Haft Iglim was completed in 1002= 1593 A.D.) categori- 
cally declares that the “ grave of Dihyah al-Kalbi, by reason of 
whose efforts much of Fars was conquered, is in Darabjird, 

' For his Diwan, ed. and transl. by N. Rhodokanakis, see Sitzb, d. 
Akad, d. Wiss. in Wien, B. CXLIV (1902). : 
? Cf. Rhodo., ib., No. LVII, p. 245, v. 3; ‘« wo der Teufel das Heizen 
geholt hatte.” 
3 Said to be a preparation of honey. 
* Rhodo., ib., p- 246, v.6, reads lad > rodt» which has the advantage 
of being idiomatic. 
5 Haft Iglim, under section on Fars. 







