88) then sad aldhabih 2. it is two planets that are not bright between them as seen by the eye is a cubit and one of them is rising in the north and the other is descending in the south and near the higher of them is a small planet that has almost stuck to it. the bedouins say that it is his sheep that he is slaughtering. its rising is on the seventeenth of the last of january and its setting is on the seventeenth of the last of july. the arab poet says that when sad aldhabih rises the barker protects his family the wind benefits his family and the wanderer gets up early.
٨٨) ثم سعد الذابح ٢ . وهو كوكبان غير نيرين، بينهما فى رأى العين قدر ذراع وأحدهما مرتفع فى الشمال، والآخر هابط فى الجنوب وبقرب الأعلى منهما كوكب صغير قد كاد يلزق به. وتقول الأعراب هو شاته التى يذبحها. وطلوعه لسبع عشرة ليلة تخلو من كانون الآخر وسقوطه لسبع عشرة ليلة تخلو من تموز. يقول ساجع العرب إذا طلع سعد الذابح، حمى أهله النابح، ونفع أهله الرائح، وتصبح السارح