D.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
			Part IV, Chapter VI = LXXXI: On propitious Omens and strange Occurences.
f18b	f301a	1839	A prelude to the chapter, discussing the validity of omens, and their interpretation according to Islám. al-Mu‘tadhid finds solace in the recitation of the Qur’án, while imprisoned by his father.
f19a	f301b	1840	Abú ‘Alí b. Muqla takes a good omen from a few verses during his imprisonment in Fárs by order of al-Qáhir, and is rewarded soon after by the Caliph with the governorship of Fárs. (Cf. T. F. S. I, iii, p. 55).
f19b	f302a	1841	Aḥmad b. Abí Khálid takes an omen from the Qur’án about the punish­ment of a slave-girl accused by his trusted servants of misconduct, and makes inquiries until he is convinced of her innocence and the wickedness of his servants. (Cf. T. F. S. I, iii, p. 57). (Ibráhím [b.] ‘Abbás Ṣúlí relates this anecdote).
f20a	f302b	1842	How Aḥmad-i-Muríd (?) was appointed to the governorship of Syria by the Caliph al-Mutawakkil.
f20b	”	1843	The fruitless attempts of al-Hádí to deprive Hárún of his right to the succes­sion, and his threats to Yaḥyá b. Khálid, the Barmecide, on which occasion the poet Bashshár consoles him, and puts a happy interpretation on the breaking of a ring. (Cf. T. F. S. I, iii, p. 61).
f21a	f303a	1844	The fate of al-Mutawakkil’s murderers; and the ominous portent of the horoscopic globe, which indicated the very sign that led to the nemesis that overtook the parricide Shírúya.
”	”	1845	Ṭáhir-i-Dhu’l-Yamínayn takes a good omen from his torn sleeve, and defeats his foe ‘Alí b. ‘Ísá b. Máhán. (Cf. T. F. S. I, iii, p. 60).
”	”	1846	A Wazír takes an augury from a couplet.
f21b	”	1847	‘Abdu’llah b. Mu‘tazz recites a few lines in prison and takes an augury, and is released by al-Muktafí. (Cf. T. F. S. I, v, p. 89).
			The chapter ends with the praise of the Wazír.