Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

Their eyes are like a valley, and their faces are like a hole. They have a spot between the Tigris and the Euphrates, a spot in the donkey meadow, and a spot in the Tigris, until the passport is given at the beginning of the day for a hundred dinars to cross to the Levant, and then it increases at the end of the day.

The first country to be visited by the Arabs is a people with red faces, as if their faces are like hammered shields