مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 2.7

2.7

Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih [5] related in al-ʿIqd [6] from Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, who said: The king of India sent ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz [7] a letter in which [was written]: "From the king of kings, who is the son of a thousand kings, whose throne [8] is the house of a thousand kings, in whose stable are a thousand elephants, and who has two rivers that grow aloeswood, costus [9], nutmeg and camphor, whose scent is perceived at twelve miles, to the king of the Arabs, who associates nothing with God. To proceed: I have sent a gift, and it is not a gift