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According to an early Arabic work known as Kitab al-Magall or the Book of Rolls ( part of Clementine literature ), Harran was one of the cities built by Nimrod, when Peleg was 50 years old.

The Syriac Cave of Treasures ( ca.

350 ) contains a similar account of Nimrod's building Harran and the other cities, but places the event when Reu was 50 years old.

The Cave of Treasures adds an ancient legend that not long thereafter, Tammuz was pursued to Harran by his wife's lover, B ' elshemin, and that he ( Tammuz ) met his fate there when the city was then burnt.