He said: During his reign a severe famine and a devastating plague spread, for the heavens withheld rain for years, and the king together with all the people of his kingdom nearly perished from hunger.

They therefore asked the Christians to supplicate their God. The Christians prayed, and Allah sent down upon them abundant rain; the plague and the drought were lifted.

He said: In those same days, in the land of the Greeks, there lived a sage named Magnus.

He said: In the fifth year of his reign he installed Lulyathus as patriarch—the first patriarch to set the bishops of the Egyptian province in proper order. He held the office for forty-three years and then died.