Arabic text reads as follows (Fig. 1, lines 2-4):\
[*fa-nazala f*]{}*ī*[*mā dhukira $^{\rm c}$inda Qa$\d{s}$r $^{\rm c}$Abdawayh fa-nqa$\d{d}\d{d}$a f*]{}*ī* [*muqāmihi hunālika kawkab li-thalāth baq*]{}*ī*[*na min Shawwāl ba$^{\rm c}$da i$\d{d}$ā$\,\spirituslenis{^{ }}$at al-fajr fa-baqiya atharuhu bayyinan ilā $\d{t}$ulū$^{\rm c}$\
al-shams.*]{}

Our own English translation runs as follows:\
[*He \[caliph al-Manūr\] rested - as has been reported - near Qar  $^{\rm c}$Abdawayh. During his stay there, there fell down a star \[kawkab\] in the third last night of Shawwāl after the beginning of dawn; its trace \[atharuhu\] remained visible until sunrise.*]{}

A previous translation of this text by Kennedy (1990) is as follows (together with context, his pages 87-89, dates as given by him):\
[*According to $^{\rm c}$Umar b. Shabbah - Muammad b. $^{\rm c}$Imrān, freedman of Muammad b. Ibrāh*]{}*ī*[*m b. Muammad b. $^{\rm c}$Al*]{}*ī* [*b. $^{\rm c}$Abdallāh b. $^{\rm c}$Abbās - his father: Al-Manūr wrote to Muammad b. Ibrāh*]{}*ī*[*m, governor of Mecca ... When Abū Ja$^{\rm c}$far mounted \[his camel\] and he and his companion al-Rab*]{}*ī*[*$^{\rm c}$ went on, Muammad \[b. Ibrāh*]{}*ī*[*m\] ordered his doctor to go over to Abū Ja$^{\rm c}$far’s camel-kneeling place, and he saw his \[Abū Ja$^{\rm c}$far’s\] excrement and he said to Muammad, $^{\prime \prime}$I saw the excrement 