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[Sa'di] made the pilgrimage numerous times on foot, and he entered the temple at Somnāth and smashed their great idol.- Jāmī,Nafaḥāt al-uns.Sa'di's (d. 691/1292) encounter with the idol of Somnāth is among the most popular stories of hisBūstānand frequently mentioned in biographies of him. Jāmī apparently believed the account, as have a number of scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, who nevertheless have expressed reservations and doubts regarding certain elements of the story, particularly Sa'di's "confused" allusions to different religious traditions. In E. G. Browne's words:It is astonishing how little even well-educated Muslims know about other religions. Sa'di, for all his wide reading and extensive travels, cannot tell a story about a Hindoo idol-temple without mixing up with it references to Zoroastrian and even Christian observances.