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The fourth chapter, consisting of sixty-seven stanzas, treats 

 of the creation of Adam and Eve; their expulsion from Para- 

 dise, and their subsequent settlement at Jiddah in Arabia. 

 It also traces the line of the patriarchs from Adam to Abraham, 

 and thence through Ishmael to Abdulla, the father of Moham- 

 med : these being the personages on whom the noor > or ray 

 of divine intelligence descended successively, at last resting 

 on Mohammed, and forming a glory around his head. 



The fifth chapter, consisting of one hundred and twenty- 

 five stanzas, narrates the particulars of the conception of 

 Mohammed in the womb of Amina, wife of Abdulla ; the an- 

 nouncement of that event to her in a dream by Adam, Edris, 

 Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Moses, David, Solomon and Jesus; 

 Abdulla's journey to Medina, on traffic, and his death at Abwa; 

 and the birth of Mohammed, which is said to have been marked 

 by the cessation of the oracles in Arabia, the overthrow of 

 the idols in the Kaba, and the extinction of the fire of the 

 Magi in Persia. 



The sixth chapter, consisting of one hundred stanzas, relates 

 to Mohammed being suckled by Alima, wife of Harid of Honei, 

 who had one of her breasts withered, but as soon as the prophet 

 began to suck, it was made whole and yielded milk. 



The seventh chapter, consisting of ninety-one stanzas, refers 

 to the story of the angel Gabriel impressing the seal of pro- 

 phecy upon the back of Mohammed, between his shoulders, as 

 he went out along with Alima's sons to tend her sheep. 



The eighth chapter, consisting of fifty-seven stanzas, treats 

 of Mohammed's going to Medina with his mother, on a visit to 

 her kinsfolk; her death and burial at Abwa, and his return to 

 Mecca, where he lived under the protection of his grandfather 

 Abdulmuttalib, and afterwards under that of his uncle Abu 

 Talib. 



The ninth chapter, consisting of fifty-eight stanzas, contains 

 an account of Mohammed's journey to Syria with Abu Talib 

 when only nine years of age, and his conference with Boheira, a 

 Christian monk at Bosra, who having discovered on his per- 

 son the marks by which the last of the prophets, foretold in 



