[Footnote 175: Abulfeda, a moderate Sonnite, relates the
different opinions concerning the burial of Ali, but adopts
the sepulchre of Cufa, hodie fama numeroque religiose
frequentantium celebratum. This number is reckoned by
Niebuhr to amount annually to 2000 of the dead, and 5000 of
the living, (tom. ii. p. 208, 209.)]