[1][2] It is a witness to the crisis Syriac Christians were experiencing due to the political success of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr and the intensified pressure on non-Muslim communities in his reign.
Consisting of two folios and minor textual variants, Cambridge Additional 2054 and its content overlaps middle two-thirds of Paris Syriac 350.
Francisco Javier Martinez reprinted Nau's edition along with notes of all variants of Cambridge Additional 2054 in a 1985 unpublished PhD dissertation.
[5] The Second Fitna is caused after Christians are oppressed by the Sons of Ishmael, while at the same time, famine and drought are brought by nature after witnessing Arab infidelity.
Helena is then foreshadowed as the end of Arab rule when she discoverers the True Cross in Jerusalem and makes it a bridle from its nails for Constantine I, a narrative depicted from the Judas Cyriacus Legend.
Stated by a horse as it enters a church in Constantinople, the "Kingdom of the Christians had come"" as it inserts its head in the bridle, the Sons of Ishmael are then overthrown by a rising king of the Greeks who then pursues them to Mecca.