Ibn Dhahirah: al Jamie al Latif fi Fadal Maka;

(the nice mosque in the virtue of Makkah) (1457)

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Taken from: masaha.org/book/view/4755  الجامع اللطيف في فضل مكة وأهلها وبناء البيت الشريف by ابن ظهيرة، محمد بن محمد

 Mecca and surrounding mountains.

P133-4

A chapter on explaining the directions for the worshipers to the direction of the qibla (1) from the rest of the horizons, a summary of what Sheikh Izz al-Din bin Jama'ah (2) mentioned in his circle by deleting the planets, since not everyone knows their inference ……………….

……… (Destination) Abyssinia, Zinj, Zaila (3), most of Sudan, Farasan islands (4), and what was ruled by these countries: and had as its characteristics: from the Yemeni corner to two-thirds of the wall, which is the end of the blocked door (of the Kaba).

P287-288

(about mountains around Mecca)

And including: A cave at the top of the mountain next to the tomb of Sheikh Abd al-Kabir bin Yassin Al Hadrami, known to the people of Makkah as Jabal al-Nubi below Mecca and called Thaber al-Zinj, (=place where the Zanj play) as will be mentioned.

Note: At least the following authors have the story of the mountain Thabir or Thabyr or Thaber of the Zanj.

(see my webpages): Ahmad al-Azraqi 858; Al Fakihi 883; Al Iskandari 1165; Abu Bakr Al-Hazimi 1188; Yakut al Hamawi 1220; Muhammad al Fasi, Maliki 1430; Ibn Dhahirah 1457.

P302

And among them: Thaber is the name of eight places, seven of which are mountains in Makkah and its sanctuary, and they are the Thaber with the aforementioned dirt, and the Thaber of the Zinj, and the Thaber of the lame, and the Thaber of the humpback, ….. and Thaber al-Khadra (5), and Thaber al-Sa`a, and Thaber Ghina (6) ……