**It is written** [Seder HaKabbalah chapter 45b] in the year 4924 in the city of Amaria, which is close to Mount Pishon in the midst of the kingdom of Media, far from the kingdom of Persia about a three-day journey, and there were about a thousand Jews. And among them was a young man called David Al-Musar, and he was wise in practical Kabbalah and matters of sorcery. And a spirit of folly entered him and he made himself a Messiah and incited and led astray many Jews and rebelled against the kingdom.
And the king sent assurance that he should come to him, and when he came they put him in prison, and he escaped from there. And the king went after him, and he was seeing and was not seen. And he blinded the eyes of the king and showed him that he was escaping. And the king commanded the Jews to bring him with great fines, and in the end he was killed and the anger of the king subsided.
But he imposed a great tax on the Jews and commanded that they should not wear clothing except up to half their body, and that they should carry behind them a large and heavy stick hanging on their necks by a rope so that their hands would always be standing in bowing. And if for some great need they went out, the people of the city would mock them and strike the stick and always cause them distress [(see year 4894, and perhaps this is the same)].
And the Yosifon writes that 25 years before the destruction of the Second Temple, when Cuspidos Faro the officer, Kaiser of Rome, was over the land of Israel, a sorcerer arose called Todah and said he was a prophet. He incited several Jews to seize money wherever they found it, and they would go after him to the bank of the Jordan that he would split for them and they would cross on foot. And the officer sent after them and killed them and brought the head of the inciter to him [(25 years before the destruction was 3803).] And shortly after this, a Jew arose who came from the land of Egypt and he too boasted of prophecy and many went after him to the Mount of Olives and went up with a sword in hand.
See Yosifon book 22, chapter 76 [(and see year 260 [of the fourth millennium])].