D.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
			Part III, Chapter XV = LXV: On the Contemptibility of Extravagance and Prodigality.
f247b-f248a	f265b	1697	Introduction. The via media advocated by the Prophet. A story related before the Caliph al-Ma’mún of the advice of a dying father to his prodigal son to commit suicide rather than disgrace himself after having squandered all his inheritance, and how the rope which he had sus­pended for this purpose led him to a hidden treasure.
D.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
f248a	f266a	1698	‘Abqasí, the poet, relates the story of the calamitous condition of the son of a rich merchant through vice, and of the recovery of his former prosperity through good luck. (T. F. S. as the source).
f249a	f266b	1699	Ḥujjat b. al-Ajlaḥ*, reduced to extreme poverty, regains his position through a rich inheritance.
f249b	”	1700	The story of a prodigal prince, who wasted all his wealth on false friends; they deserted him in the hour of need, and once falsely accused him of stealing a piece of flesh, and refused to acknowledge his plea of innocence, but, when he regained prosperity, believed in him blindly about a highly improbable thing, namely, that ants bore holes in a stone.
f250a	f267a	1701	Awḥadu’d-Dín, the son of the ruler of Mihna or Mayhana, prosecutes his early studies in Níshápúr, but after his father’s death returns to Mihna, squanders his inheritance and becomes poor.
”	”	1702	Mu‘áwiya sends a purse of gold to ‘Urwa b. Udhayna, the poet, lest he might write a lampoon on him, upon which ‘Urwa reminds him of his verse about the destined daily bread.
			The chapter ends with a eulogy on the Wazír.