The limits of al-Ḥaram. Al-ʿAbbâs from ʿIkrimah:—A part of the limits set to al-Ḥaram having been obliterated in the days of Muʿâwiyah ibn-abi-Sufyân, he wrote to Marwân ibn-al-Ḥakam, his ʿâmil in al-Madînah, ordering him to ask Kurz ibn-ʿAlḳamah-l-Khuzâʿi, if he were still alive, to establish the limits of al-Ḥaram, since he was familiar with them. Kurz was still alive; and he established the limits which are today the marks of al-Ḥaram. According to al-Kalbi, this was Kurz ibn-ʿAlḳamah ibn-Hilâl ibn-Juraibah ibn-ʿAbd-Nuhm ibn-Ḥulail ibn-Ḥubshîyah-l-Khuzâʿi, the one who followed the steps of the Prophet to the cave in which the Prophet, accompanied by abu-Bakr aṣ-Ṣiddîḳ, had disappeared, when he wanted to take the Hegira to al-Madînah. Kurz saw on the cave a spider web, and below it, the Prophet's foot-print which he recognized saying, "This is the Prophet's foot, but here the track is lost."
