تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.111.2

13.111.2

for about forty years he had fasted continuously, not breaking his fast except after ten days of unbroken fasting. He had a cow on whose milk he broke his fast, and he would stand in prayer the whole night. He was thin of body, tall, with a sparse beard. The people of those mountains embraced Islam at his hands, and that is why he lived among them.