Brewer's: Salsabil

A fountain in Paradise. (Al Koran, xxvi.)

“Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. A houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he was snoring serenely near the fountain of Salsabil.” —Croquemitaine, ii. 8.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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