he will remain on the earth forty years; he will marry and beget children, then die; and the Muslims will pray over him and bury him in Medina beside Umar."

The storytellers exploited this tradition to the full, and al-Kisa'i wrote, in the course of his account of Christ the Lord: "... Then God raised him up to Himself, and he remains alive in heaven until God gives leave for the descent, to fight the Deceiver; he will kill him, and the earth will be filled with justice as it was filled with tyranny and wrong... Then he will marry a woman of the Arabs, who will bear him children; he

will make the greater and lesser pilgrimage, and then die. Then Gog and Magog will come forth — and they swarm down from every height — until the earth is filled with them, and no place is left for the beasts and the creeping things to settle in; then they will turn toward Jerusalem to fight Jesus..." And here the storyteller gives his imagination free rein and sorts these creatures that fight Jesus into kinds: some are like towering palm trees in their height and their breadth, and they eat the trees and the fruits; some are one cubit in height and one cubit in breadth, and they eat the plants; and some are a span in height with ears

a cubit long — they spread one ear beneath them and the other above them, and they drink up all the waters!! But Jesus calls down a curse upon them, and God sends against them the ifrits of the jinn, who destroy them to the last one... Then, when Jesus completes forty years, God sends to him the Angel of Death to take his soul; and Gabriel comes, bearing musk from Paradise, which he hands to Jesus; he takes it and smells it, and his soul is taken up in it. Then the angels come down to him, wash him, shroud him, embalm him, and bury him beside the grave of the Prophet Muhammad!...

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