Bury suggests that he fled (for a second time according to his interpretation) to the Arabs, a view accepted by a number of other scholars, such as Romilly James Heald Jenkins.
Bury menunjukkan bahwa ia melarikan diri (untuk kedua kalinya menurut interpretasinya) kepada bangsa Arab, pandangan diterima oleh sejumlah sarjana lain, seperti Romilly James Heald Jenkins.