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'l-Husain, who said he had heard it from Abu'l-Hasan Ahmad b.
I have reached such a position that I have given away of the wealth of the Prince of Believers by and according to his command on one night (the night whereon there arrived the news of the death of the late Prince of Believers, Al-Mansur, and the people promised allegiance to the (present) Prince of Believers for the second time1) ten million dirhams ; and on the occasion of this illness I bestowed in alms all the money in my treasury - four million dirhams =-having first solicited and obtained the permission of the Prince of Believers.
-The Master of the Table told him, and the Jew said to him : If I restore you to your position, what will you do for me ?
One day the Jew met the man with a slave carrying a golden dish containing curds of the finest quality, which he was going to present to the king.
) Ibn Abi'l• Baghl stated that Abu Qausarah told the following story : I was ordered, he said, by Sulaiman b.
Hisham, who had, he said, been told it by Abu'l-Hasan Zakariyya b.
I was told, he said, by Ibn Marwan of Jamidah- the following story.
, with ·the man on account of this, so I said to the skipper : What you should pay is eight thousand dirhams and so much more ; by how much would you like me to reduce the amount because of the words of So-and-so, God aid .