مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 309.e119.11

309.e119.11

He ordered this, and it was done. Then Ibn Bahla called for kundus (sneezewort) and a blowpipe, and blew the kundus into his nose. He remained about a sixth of an hour; then his body stirred and he sneezed, sat up before al-Rashīd, and kissed his hand. Al-Rashīd asked him how he was, and he said that he had been asleep, a sleep so pleasant that he could not recall ever having slept the like, except that he had seen in his dream a dog biting the thumb of his left hand, a bite whose pain he still felt; and he showed him his thumb into which the needle had been inserted. He lived a long time after that, then married al-ʿAbbāsa daughter of al-Mahdī, was made governor of Egypt and Palestine, and died in Egypt and was buried there.