D. | G. | Serial. | TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES. |
Part III, Chapter XXIV = LXXIV: On Unchaste and Impious Women. | |||
f280b- f281a |
f284b | 1774 | Introduction, illustrated by a few couplets on the unreliability of women. Shaqíq of Balkh’s bad opinion of the women of his city proves to be too true. |
f281a | f285a | 1775 | The Prophet relates the story of a woman’s faithlessness to her devoted husband and the miraculous intervention of Christ. |
f281b | ” | 1776 | A person rashly marries the daughter of a lewd woman, but divorces her when she tells her observation on a camel’s habit of closely following its dam. |
f282a | f285b | 1777 | Bal‘am-i-Bá‘úr is persuaded by his wife to use the power of the “Great Name” against Moses, which leads to his damnation. |
f282b | f286a | 1778 | The story of the enmity of the daughter of a Persian king towards the Wazír, and the conspiracy of the murderous wives against their husbands, and the wholesale extirpation of those women. |
f283a | ” | 1779 | The callous woman who inhumanly suggested to her new husband to replace the stolen corpse of a thief, publicly exhibited on the gallows, with the body of her dead husband; and his plea to her, on his death-bed, to spare his beard after his death. |
D. | G. | Serial. | TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES. |
f283b | f286b | 1780 | An Israelite sage wastes three chances of effective prayer on his faithless wife. Story related in connection with the revelation of the Verse of the Qu’rán (vii, 174). |
” | ” | 1781 | Isḥáq al-Mawṣilí delivers a distressed youth from the clutches of an ill-natured woman through the generosity of Ja‘far b. Yaḥyá, the Barmecide. |
f284b | f287a | 1782 | The story of the criminal career of the daughter of a Judge and teacher of Isfará’in; and how she atoned for her past sins by making pilgrimages on foot. |
The chapter ends with a few words invoking the help of God. |