"I was circuiting the Ka'abah one dark night when I heard a plaintive voice speaking from a contrite heart and saying, 'O Bountiful One, Your past boon! Indeed, by my heart shall Your covenant never be undone.' Hearing this voice, my heart fluttered so that I was like to die. But I followed the sound, and behold, it came from a woman. To her I said, 'Peace be with you, O handmaid of Allah.' She replied, 'And with you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings!' I said, 'I conjure you by God the Most Great, tell me what is the covenant to which your heart is constant.' She said, 'But that you adjure me by the Omnipotent, I would not tell you my secrets. See what is before me.' So I looked, and lo! there was a child lying asleep before her and breathing heavily in his slumber. She said, 'Know that I set forth, being with child, to make the pilgrimage to this House and took passage in a ship. But the waves rose against us and the winds blew contrary and the vessel broke up. I saved myself on a plank, and on that bit of wood I gave birth to this child. And while he lay on my bosom and the waves beat upon me,'" —

When it was the Four Hundred and Sixty seventh night

And a tale is also told by Malik bin Dinar (Allah have mercy on him!) of