hohab

Updated: July 22, 2026

In the midst of the tumult among the men of Medina when they met to elect a chief to take the place of Mohammed, who had passed away, the voice of Hohab was heard crying out, "Attend to me, attend to me, for I am the well-rubbed Palm-stem." The figure Hobab used represented a palm-trunk left for the beasts to come and rub themselves upon.

John Gerardus Fagg - Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.