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" When the Wazir heard of this epigram, he retorted by composing the follow• ing, wherein he alluded to the profession of one of the Qadi Ahmad's ancestors, who was reported to have been a vendor of gar (pitch) : " 0 thou, who vainly thinkest to satirize, Thou exposest thyself to death in so attacking me, My honour cannot be diminished by the mention of oil, The reputation of our family is too well established · and known, 'Tis you who have malkulc (stained) the state with your filthy qir (pitch) · .
Ibn-Abi-Duwad lost the use of his side, through a paralytic seizure (ra'shat) on the 7th of Jumada-ath• thani, in the 233rd year of the glorious Hegira of the Holy Prophet of Allah (on whom be peace I), corresponding with the 10th January 848 of the Christian era; one hundred and seven days after the death of his inveterate enemy the Wazir, Ibn-az-Zayyat.
! · When the Khalif, Ja'far al-Mutawkkil (son of Qasim• al Mu'tasim and brother of the late Khalif, Harfm al• Wathiq) heard of the sudden seizure of the Qadi, he sent his own physician, 'Ali-ibn-Nasr, who had made a special study of Ra'shat, and written a thesis thereon2 to attend (1) Some authors say only 49 or 50 days passed between the death of the Wazir and the paralytic stroke which afflicted Ibn-Abi-Duwad.
'' Abfr'l-Walid Muhammad, the son of Ibn-Abi-Duwad, continued to fill the places of Qadi and Inspector of wrongs for the army for about seven years after the accession of Al-Mutawakkil to the throne, namely until the year 237 A.