B.	K.	M.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
				Part IV, Chapter XXV = C: On Pieces of Humour and the Facetiousness of Eminent Persons.
f287b	f537b	f247b	2075	A short introduction illustrated with the wit of the Prophet. The Prophet Muḥammad jokingly offers one of his followers for sale.
”	f538a	f248a	2076	The Prophet perplexes a woman by saying in jest that her husband’s eyes have turned white.
”	”	”	2077	The Prophet and his wife ‘Á’isha equal in the race.
”	”	”	2078	The Prophet humorously asks Khawwát b. Jubayr al-Anṣárí what became of the runaway camel, alluding to a hoax, which Khawwát had played upon an oil-selling woman in pre-Islamic days.
”	”	f248b	2079	The Prophet cracks a joke on one of his followers about the she-calf of a camel.
f288a	”	”	2080	A Companion of the Prophet succeeds in putting him into good humour when he was angry.
”	”	”	2081	The Prophet enjoys for a year the practical joke of Nu‘aymán on Suwaybiṭ, the Companion, whom Nu‘aymán sold by force for ten camels under the pretence that he was an unruly slave. (Cf. Ibn Qutayba, Kitábu’l-Ma‘árif, p. 167, where Nu‘aymán is the victim of Suwaybiṭ).
”	f538b	f249a	2082	Nu‘aymán, the jocular Companion of the Prophet, and the pot of honey.
”	”	”	2083	Another trick of Nu‘aymán on ‘Utba b. Ḥuṣayn al-Fazárí, by mischievously suggesting to him to fast in the night if he could not bear the heat in the day.
”	”	”	2084	How Nu‘aymán used to tease Ibn-i-Nawfal az-Zuhrí, the blind man. (Cf. Ibn Qut., Ma‘árif, p. 168).
”	”	f249b	2085	A joke of the wife of the Imám A‘mash on her husband.
”	f539a	”	2086	A joke of the Imám A‘mash at the expense of his wife.
f288b	”	”	2087	The Qádhí Shurayḥ befools the people of Hamadán. (Cf. Ibn Khall. Wüst. Biog. No. 289).
”	”	f250a	2088	The Qádhhí Shurayḥ amused at the euphemistic expressions of a husband and wife who appealed to him for their individual rights.
”	”	”	2089	Husband and wife as litigants before a Qádhí, and their ribaldry.
”	”	”	2090	Husband and wife as litigants before an undignified Qádhí, and his scurrilous retort.
”	”	”	2091	Sharp retorts that passed between a Ṣúfí and a theologian on the question of free-will.
B.	K.	M.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
f288b	f539a	f250b	2092	The retort of a Náṣibí to a Shí‘ite who maliciously alleged that ‘Á’isha, the wife of the Prophet, was guilty of misconduct.
”	f539b	”	2093	Jirábu’d-Dawla, [the Court Jester of the Buwayhids], and the amusing crier of the Prayer-Call, who used to take delight in hearing his own voice from a little distance, and therefore was in the habit of running away from his voice.
”	”	f251a	2094	The ignorant leader of the prayer and his blunt remark about the Verse of <Arabic>.
”	”	f250b	2095	The blunt remark of a Bedouin in prayer while the Verse <Arabic> were being recited by the leader of the prayer.
”	”	”	2096	‘Abdu’l-Malik b. Marwán, the Caliph, demands from Suwayd ten words denoting a part of the body and beginning with the letter Káf. Suwayd enumerates nine words <Arabic>. The Caliph having objected to the tenth word <Arabic> as not being applicable to a man’s stomach, Suwayd, after a little while recollects another word <Arabic> in its stead and begins to cry it out from the lavatory, even before adjusting his clothes.
”	”	”	2097	The joke of a person about his own birth-constellation: a pun on the words <Arabic> and <Arabic>
f289a	”	”	2098	The joke of a physician on one of his patients who complained of stomach-ache on account of eating burnt bread. The physician applies medicine to his eyes rather than give him anything to drink.
”	”	”	2099	Another joke of a physician of Samarqand on one of his patients who complained of headache.
”	”	f251a	2100	Diatribe of a physician against the mother of a person who was suffering from inflammation of the throat, and a coarse allusion to his own wife’s sexual organ.
”	”	”	2101	A jester, who posed as a Prophet, when arrested and brought before the King, acquits himself of the charge of blasphemy by a witty remark about the production of a melon in three days, whereas God himself made three months the period of its normal growth.
”	”	”	2102	The witty remark of an ugly person at the table of Ziyád about his own beautiful daughters at home.
”	”	”	2103	A lampoon on Ḥájjí Harwísh, nicknamed Kargas; a native of Níshá­púr, by the poet Rafíqí (?).
”	f540a	”	2104	The witty ‘Ayán (?) or Bayán as a self-invited guest, and his apt quotation from the Qur’án, containing the ordinal number of the lozenges offered to him at table.
”	”	f251b	2105	Ḥammád-i-Ḥamíd (?) and the Amír Shujá‘ of Fárs and the former’s apt quotation from the Qur’án.
”	”	”	2106	The Caliph Hárún’s envy the hand-writing of Ismá‘íl [b.] Ṣubayḥ, and the latter’s clever allusion to the illiteracy of the Prophet being no disgrace to him.
B.	K.	M.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
f289a	f540a	f251b	2107	Rabí‘, the Chamberlain, put to shame by a youth of Banú Háshim in presence of the Caliph al-Manṣúr.
”	”	”	2108	The Qádhí Sharík turns the tables on the Caliph al-Mahdí who wanted to cause dissension between the Qádhí and his own uncle ‘Ísá b. Músá.
”	”	”	2109	Yazíd b. Marthad pleases the Caliph Hárún by a witty remark, when the Caliph was playing polo.
f289b	f540b	”	2110	Witty remarks of a soldier who was going out of garrison with a bow without arrows.
”	”	f252a	2111	The Qádhí, being asked about a statement by ‘Alí, baffles his inter­rogator by citing a verse from the Qur’án.
”	”	”	2112	A retort of Walíd b. Yazíd to Hishám b. ‘Abdu’l-Malik, about buying a dastár.
”	”	”	2113	‘Abbás b. Walíd b. ‘Abdu’l-Malik and the crimson robe, and his retort to his uncle Maslama b. ‘Abdu’l-Malik.
				The last or 100th chapter being defective in almost all the oldest Mss., three other Mss. are selected which contain a fairly reliable text of this chapter: B. = [Suppl. Persan 95]; K. = [Or. 236 Br. Mus.]; M. = [Add. 7672, Br. Mus.].
				The work ends with a splendid panegyric on the Wazír.