He escaped from Iraq to the Levant. And the blessings that reach the worlds: that most of the prophets, peace be upon them, were sent in it, and their laws and religious traces spread among the worlds, which are the true blessings. It is said: May Allah bless it with abundant water, trees, fruits, fertility, and the pleasant living of the rich and the poor. And from Sufyan, he went out to the Levant, and he was asked: Where to? He said: To a land where one can fill a bag with a dirham. It is said: There is no sweet water except that its source springs from beneath the rock at the Sacred House. [I said: It has been reported from Abu bin Ka'b. Al-Tabari narrated it from Al-Husayn from Al-Fudail bin Musa from Al-Husayn bin Waqid from Al-Rabi' bin Anas from Abu Al-A'la from Abu bin Ka'b regarding His saying 'And We saved him and Lot - the verse' he said: the Levant, and there is no sweet water except that it comes from that rock at the Sacred House. Al-Bayhaqi narrated it from Ali bin Al-Husayn bin Al-Junaid from Abu Ammar, and it was also narrated from the narration of Muhammad bin Sa'd bin Sabiq from Abu Ja'far Al-Razi from Al-Rabi' from Abu Al-A'la, but it was disconnected and did not mention Abu bin Ka'b, with the wording 'It is the blessed land, may Allah bless it for the worlds' and did not mention the rock. Al-Abd bin Hamid narrated it from Abu Al-Nadr from Abu Ja'far likewise. He added: 'For every sweet water on earth comes from the root of the rock of the Sacred House, descending from the sky to the rock and then spreading in the earth.' Abu Sa'id Al-Naqqash narrated it in his benefits from another source from Al-Rabi' from Abu Al-A'la. Abu Sa'id Al-Abd bin Hamid narrated it from Abu Al-Nadr in full. Al-Khatib Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Muhammad Al-Maqdisi, known as Ibn Al-Wasiti, narrated in the book of the virtue of the Sacred House from the way of Adam bin Abu Iyass from Abu Ja'far Al-Razi, with the wording regarding His saying: 'To the land which We have blessed' he said: 'From its blessings that every sweet water comes from the root of the rock of the Sacred House.' And the aforementioned Khatib narrated from the way of Ghalib bin Abdullah from Abu Al-Zinad from Al-A'raj from Abu Huraira, raised: 'All rivers, clouds, seas, and winds are from beneath the rock of the Sacred House.' And Ghalib is considered unreliable.] It is narrated that he descended in Palestine, and Lot in the overturned city, and between them is a journey of a day and a night.