[*kaw- kab*]{}, [*atharuhu*]{}, and [*inqa$\d{d}\d{d}$a*]{}, which appear in both the first and second report (the latter was translated as [*setting*]{} by Dietrich 1952), it is important to discuss this event in detail.

The second report about the celestial event comes several pages later, when [*al-abar*]{}*ī* reports how [*al-Manūr*]{} ga- ve his political testament (in oral form) to his son [*al-Mahd*]{}*ī*: As mentioned before, in the last weeks of the life of [*al-Manūr*]{}, the caliph travelled to Mecca; on the first part of this journey, he was accompanied by his son and successor [*al-Mahd*]{}*ī*. The chapter heading is [*Information about his Wills*]{}. At the beginning of this section, there is the second report about the transient celestial event, the text reads as follows (Fig. 2, lines 4-6):\
[*wa-kāna inqa$\d{d}\d{d}$a f*]{}*ī* [*muqāmihi bi-Qa$\d{s}$r $^{\rm c}$Abdawayh kawkab li-thalāth baq*]{}*ī*[*na min Shawwāl ba$^{\rm c}$da i$\bar{a}\,\spirituslenis{^{ }}$at al-fajr wa-baq- iya atharuhu bayyinan ilā $\d{t}$ulū$^{\rm c}$ al-shams.*]{}

Our own English translation runs as follows:\
[*During his stay in Qa$\d{s}$r $^{\rm c}$Abdawayh there had fallen down a star \[kawkab\] in the third last night of Shawwāl after the beginning of dawn; its trace \[atharuhu\] remained visible until sunrise.*]{}

We would like to note that two other translations 