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" Ibn Is^aq says : After this Abu Talib went with a body of men 

 riding on camels to Syria on commerce, and when they were preparing 

 for the journey, the prophet clung to him as it is supposed, and Ami 

 2Vilib was moved and said, " I will take him with me and he shall not 

 leave me, nor will I ever leave him," or some thing to this eifect. He 

 went with him. When the caravan halted at Bocra in Syria, there was 

 a Rahib of the name of BaAyra in a hermitage which belonged to 

 him, and to him had descended the knowledge of the Christians. 

 There had always been a Rahib in that hermitage to whom descended 

 their knowledge (mysteries) there being a book in the hermitage which 

 it is supposed they inherited from each other. When they encamped 

 that year near BaAyra's hermitage, he prepared for them an ample 

 repast. They had frequently past him, but he never spoke with them 

 nor met them except this year. This, it is supposed was owing to 

 certain things which he observed. It is supposed he saw the prophet 

 from his hermitage as he approached with the caravan, and he was 



