{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/adam09.htm","path":"isl/pro/adam09.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/adam09.htm","text":"(The place of falling of Adam and Eve when they got down from paradise)\nWhat is famous from the Household (PUT) that Adam (PUH) fell down on Al-Saf\u00e2 and Eve on Al-Marwah [Al-Saf\u00e2 and Al-Marwah are two hills in Mecca and people go in between them seven times in pilgrimage season], and what is f\namous for the most of Muslims is that Adam (PUH) fell down on a mount called Sarandeeb [Notice: Sarandeeb is the old Arabic name for Ceylon, Sri Lanka now] and it is called Nud also, and Eve did fall in Jeddah, and some people suggested that this is the truth and their fall on Al-Saf\u00e2 and Al-Marwah was after they got into Mecca. From Hay\u00e2t Al-Hayaw\u00e2n for Al-Domayri [hay\u00e2t al-hayaw\u00e2n means the life of animals and seems it is a book's name] he said: Ka'b Al-Ahb\u00e2r did say [Ka'b Al-Ahb\u00e2r was a nickname for the chief priest of jews]: God revealed the snake in Asbah\u00e2n [maybe he means Asfah\u00e2n in Iran?] and Iblis in Jeddah and Eve in 'Arafah [a mount around Mecca] and Adam in Sarandeeb and it is in the higher region of China in the sea of India [this description is somehow close to modern day Sri Lanka], and it is a high place where seamen can see it from a distance of days and it bears the footprint of Adam (PUH) in stones, and this mount is seen each night as a lightning without clouds, and it rains in everyday to wash the foot steps of Adam (PUH), and it is told that Rubies are found in this mount and also Diamonds with Aloeswood (Agar wood, Oud, Ood).","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Adam: Place ...","type":"page"}