DESCRIPTION OF HIS BLESSED PERSON; HIS QUALITIES, NAME, AND TITLE; HIS MIRACLES, THE DURATION OF HIS LIFE, MISSION, AND [THE LOCALITY OF] HIS AUGUST TOMB.

He had a fair complexion, was of middling stature, and towards the end of his life his eyes became so weak that he could not see. He was very eloquent, and of fluent speech; he had no equal in dialectics and disputation, and was also famous for his knowledge and ready wit. His name is Shoa’ib in Arabic, and Barût in Syriac; his blessed title was ‘The Teacher of Prophets.’

He worked numerous miracles, one of which was that whilst preaching to the people he once changed several stones of that country into pure brass. His law was con­formable to the religion of Ebrahim, the friend [of Allah].

He was two hundred years old when his powerful soul was removed from the rule and government of life; the duration of his mission amounted to fifty years. Some assert that he was buried in Syria; others, however, assert that more probably he was interred in the holy sanctuary between the Rokam and the Muqâm.*