"A North African stayed with me and fell sick," recalled a fourteenth-century Syrian sheik, "and the sickness lasted so long that I prayed to God to comfort both him and me with either death or health. In a dream, I saw the Prophet, prayers and peace be upon him, and he said, 'Feed him al kuskusun'...I made it for him, and it was as if I made him a cure."
From Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Ratib ("the Breath of Scent from the Succulent of Al-Andalus") By Ahmad Muhammad al-Maqqari al-Tilimsani (1574-1632).