The earliest appearance of this story seems to be in the book of Alph. De Lamartine, Voyage en Orient, 1, 1875, p. 329. the author states that he heard it from Arabs when he visited Palestine. These facts, and the further history of the story, appear in Z. Vilnay, Legends of the Sacred Land (Hebrew) p. 365 (no. 81). The book waa apparently published in English under this title by JPS in 1973-1978 but I don't have a page reference. .
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