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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

The Compendium of Festivals - Maymun Ibn Qasim Al-Tabarani

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"The first of them is the leper (al-majhdhum), the one marked by vitiligo (al-baras), the spotted 1 with black, the spotted with red, the abras 2 [patchy-skinned], the white-haired and white-bodied from birth (tilad) 3 , the red-haired the color of henna, the white-bodied from birth, the asdaf 4 [deformed/diseased] of the ears, the afhaj 5 [bow-legged] from birth, the maimed of limbs at the wrists, forearms, or shins from birth, the one-eyed in either eye from birth, the hunchback 6 from birth, the blind from birth, the one with a red mole on the side of his face from birth, the cross-eyed (ahwal) in either eye with blueness from birth, and the one who drags who drags his thighs and walks on his hands and knees, pulling his legs behind him from birth (tilad).

Footnotes

1Arqat: Skin composed of two colors, such as white mixed with black spots or vice versa.
2Abras: Differing colors such as red spots mixed with black or dusty spots.
3Tilad: Meaning from birth (congenital).
4Asdaf/Asduf: One who turns away from a thing, or refers to "Ear Psoriasis," a condition causing itching, redness, discharge, and painful cracking of the skin.
5Afhaj: A gait where the front of the feet meet and heels diverge; or being bow-legged; or a deformity where the weight is on the outer part of the heel.
6Ahdab: Kyphosis; an increased forward curvature of the upper spine.
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