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132 So the young man took the girl, with all the ornaments and pearls that the Commander of the Faithful had made ready for her. And he journeyed with her happy and contented, until at a certain road they stopped to halt for the night.

And when day dawned and their people wished to continue the journey, they came to rouse them, and found them clasped in each other's arms, both dead!

And they wept over them, and buried them by the roadside, and sent news of them to the Commander of the Faithful, ʾAbd-el-Málik, the son of Marwân. And he wept for them, and marvelled at it.