The King asked him: "What is the meaning of all this?
The King asked him: "What is the meaning of all this?" He answered: "A great event shall take place in the land of the Arabs." The King wrote to his vassal an-Nu'man ibn al-Mundhir, King of the Arabs, saying: "Send me herewith a man of great learning whom I can question [concerning some important matters]." an-Nu'man sent `Abdu'l-Mash ibn `Amr [ibn Hayyan] ibn Buqaylah al Ghassani.
The King related what he had seen, and the man answered: "Knowledge of the meaning of this is with my maternal uncle who lives in eastern Syria. His name is Satih." The King thus ordered him to go and come back with the interpretation of these portents. When `Abdu 'l-Masih arrived, he found Satih on his death-bed. He greeted him, but received no answer. `Abdu l-Masih told him what he had seen, in verse.
Satih then opened his eyes and exclaimed in rhymed prose - " `Abdu'l Masi`h comes wandering on a camel to Satih. Yet Sati`h is near the grave. The Sasanid King has sent you because of the shaking of his palace, the extinguishing of the fires and the dream of the priest. He saw strong camels leading Arab horses which crossed the River Tigris and spread all around in its lands.
O `Abdu'l-Masih, when recitation [of the Qur'an] shall increase, and the man of the staff appears; when the Samawah Valley (near Kufah) shall be flooded; when Lake Sawah shall disappear and the sacred fire be extinguished; then Syria, shall no longer be Syria for Sati`h. Among them (Muslims), kings and queens shall rule, who are as numerous as the terraces (of Khusraw's palace). For all that is to be shall indeed come to pass." Sati`h then breathed his last.
`Abdu'l-Masih returned to Khusraw and related to him what Sati'h had said. The King said: "But this shall be only after the reign of fourteen of our kings! " Events followed one another, and ten kings ruled in four years; the reign of the rest lasted only till the time of `Uthman. 'Ali ibn lbrahim [ al-Qummi] (a well-known Shi`i traditionist) related from his father that there was in Mecca a Jew called Yusuf. One night he saw stars moving and meteors falling. On that night the Prophet was born.