Note 256 — ABDULLAH[232] THE FISHERMAN AND ABDULLAH THE MERMAN.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
The older name of Madínat al-Nabi, the city of the Prophet; vulg. called Al-Medinah per excellentiam. See vol. iv. 114. In the Mac. and Bul. texts we have “Tayyibah” = the goodly, one of the many titles of that Holy City: see Pilgrimage ii. 119.