Hebron

ثم سافرت عن القدس، ورافقني الواعظ المحدث شرف الدين سليمان الملياني. وشيخ المغاربة بالقدس الصوفي الفاضل طلحة العبد الوادي فوصلنا إلى مدينة الخليل عليه السلام، وزرناه ومن معه من الانبياء عليهم السلام، ثم سرنا إلى غزة فوجدنا معظمها خاليا من كثرة من مات بها في الوباء، وأخبرنا قاضيها أن العدول بها كانوا ثمانين فبقى منهم الربع وان عدد الموتى بها انتهى إلى الف ومائة في اليوم.

Then I left Jerusalem. The preacher Sharaf al-Din Sulayman al-Milyani, a scholar of the Prophet’s sayings, traveled with me, and so did Talha al-Abdalwadi, a learned Sufi and head of the North Africans in Jerusalem. We came to the city of Hebron, the city of Abraham, peace be upon him, and visited his tomb and those of the prophets buried with him. Then we went on to Gaza. We found most of it empty, because so many had died there in the pestilence. Its judge told us that there had been eighty notaries in the town, and only a quarter of them were left. He said that the dead there had reached one thousand one hundred a day.