A.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
			Part. I, Ch. XIX: On the Anecdotes of Favourites and Courtiers.
f224b	f159b	1024	A short introductory note on the qualifications of a boon-companion. (Dihqán ‘Alí Shaṭranjí cited) The story of the two boon-companions of Jadhímatu’l-Abrash, whose name became proverbial afterwards.
A.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
f225a	f160a	1025	The four matchless things presented by Kayd the Indian Ráy to Alexander the Great, viz. his daughter, a paragon of beauty; an accomplished physician; an excellent boon-companion and a magic cup.
f225b	*	1026	Khwush-árzú’s interesting replies to Parwíz’s questions about choice dishes and other delicacies.
f226a	*	1027	Abú Dulaf Khazrají’s pithy answers to ‘Adhudu’d-Dawla’s query about drinking.
”	*	1028	Abú ‘Alí Háshim, and Abú Dulaf Khazrají’s contest of wit in presence of ‘Adhudu’d-Dawla.
”	f160b	1029	The Ṣáḥib Ismá‘íl b. ‘Abbád’s remark on drinking and the genesis of wine: — the story of the first experiment of Jamshíd on grapes — and why wine was prohibited by the Prophet.
f226b	*	1030	Abú Bakr-i-Hudhalí cleverly reminds the Caliph al-Manṣúr of his promise to bestow on him a slave-girl.
f227a	*	1031	The Caliph (al-Manṣúr) is pleased at the deafness of Barídí his boon-companion.
”	*	1032	A debate between a boon-companion and a secretary.
”	f160b	1033	Ibráhím b. Mahdí, the uncle of al-Amín and al-Ma’mún, as an excellent boon-companion, and how he won the favour of the former.
”	*	1034	Isḥáq b. Ibráhím Mawṣilí explains to the Caliph al-Wáthiq the cause of his declining the honour of being a boon-companion, while he was already holding the highest offices of police and justice.
”	f161a	1035	al-Amín sends Ibráhím b. Mahdí to prison for an offence committed in an unguarded moment of conviviality.
f227b	”	1036	A life-lasting bounty of al-Amín to his boon-companion Ḥasan-i-Dhaḥḥák.
f228a	*	1037	The Caliph Hishám b. ‘Abdu’l-Malik sends for Ḥammádu’r-Ráwiya, the Rhapsodist, from Kúfa to discover the writer of a certain verse.
”	*	1038	Abu’l-Qásim Aḥmad, a courtier of Sayfu’d-Dawla, relates the story of Nátari (?).
f228b	*	1039	The Ṣáhib Ismá‘íl b. ‘Abbád punishes an impudent favourite but releases him on his making a witty remark.
”	f161b	1040	Badíhí (?), a favourite of the Ṣáḥib Ismá‘íl b. ‘Abbád, and his retort.
			The chapter ends without any eulogy.