تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.81.9

13.81.9

None of these islands has any crops, except that in the province of al-Suwayd there is a crop resembling millet, which is brought from there to al-Mahal. The food of the people is a fish resembling the bīrūn, which they call qulb al-mās, with ḍamma on the qāf. Its flesh is red and it has no fishy smell; its smell is like that of the meat of cattle. When they catch it, they cut each fish into four pieces, cook it lightly, then put it in baskets of palm fronds and hang it in the smoke. When it is thoroughly dried they eat it. It is exported from there to Hind, China and Yemen, and they call it qulb al-mās, with ḍamma on the qāf.