| David Cook, The Beginnings of Islam as an Apocalyptic Movement, University of Chicago• Michael Lecker, On the burial of martyrs, Jerusalem See also [ ]• When the monk who was in the cell heard our speech, he came up to us and said: 'Who are you all? During the campaigns against the Byzantines [ ] Another story is mentioned concerning Abu Muslim, which has been cited by contemporary scholars of Muslim-Christian relations during the early years of the Islamic expansion: "We [the Muslim troops] came from the land of the returning [from battle]; when we had left going towards we passed by a cultivated place which is near Homs—about four miles—at the end of the night | ' We said: 'People from Damascus, coming from the land of the Byzantines |
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| Abu Muslim al-Khawlani died during the reign of in an expedition against the Byzantines | ' He said: 'Do you know Abu Muslim al-Khawlani? Shaykh 'Aa'id Abdullah al-Qarnee, Dialogue Between the Pious and the Wretched; also mentioned in Ibn al-Jawzi's Sifat al-Safwa and Imam Ahmad's al-Zuhd• ' He said: 'When you come to him, greet him with the peace, and inform him that we find him in the Holy Books as a companion of son of Mary' |