[Footnote 43: D'Herbelot, Bibliot. Orient. p. 458. Gagnier,
Vie de Mahomet, tom. iii. p. 118. Caab and Hesnus (Pocock,
Specimen, p. 43, 46, 48) were likewise conspicuous for their
liberality; and the latter is elegantly praised by an
Arabian poet: "Videbis eum cum accesseris exultantem, ac si
dares illi quod ab illo petis."]