On the Excellence of Virtues, Praisworthy Qualities, and Estimable Traits in Human Nature.
| A.* | D. | G. | Serial. | TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES. |
| f1b | * | f173b | General introduction to the Second Part, beginning with an exhortation on the virtue of Modesty, as the essence of ethics and religion in Islám; and a dedicatory eulogy on the Wazír Muḥammad b. Abí Sa‘d al-Junaydí. | |
| ” | * | ” | 1183 | How the prophet Yúsuf was saved by God from the temptation of Zulaykhá. |
| f2a | * | f174a | 1184 | Aristotle’s explanation concerning the interval between two prophets: intellect and inherent modesty lead to virtue. |
| ” | * | ” | 1185 | Extreme regard of the Prophet Muḥammad for the Caliph ‘Uthmán, for he was respected by God and the angels in heaven owing to his modesty. |
| ” | * | ” | 1186 | A child’s retort to a party of elderly men, on the sense of shame. |
| ” | * | ” | 1187 | The reply of a person to a group of Ṣúfís who were afraid of lions in the neighbourhood, while he, fearing God alone, had slept undisturbed. (R. Q. as the source). |
| ” | * | f174b | 1188 | Sa‘íd-i-‘Áṣ, the governor of Kúfa, rewards a young man who was ashamed to ask for his wants from any human being. |
| f2b | * | ” | 1189 | The Caliph al-Ma’mún ashamed of extorting his debts from Yaḥyá b. Kháqán ruthlessly (T. F. S. as the source). |
| ” | * | ” | 1190 | The Imám Zaynu’l-‘Ábídín ashamed at his daughter’s remark. |
| f3a | * | ” | 1191 | How Núshírwán was ashamed of committing a sin. |
| ” | * | f175a | 1192 | The Caliph al-Ma’mún rewards a Badawí who presents him with a skin of fresh water and sends him back to the desert, that he might not be disappointed by finding that there was an ample supply of fresh water in the capital. |
| ” | * | ” | 1193 | Niẓámu’l-Mulk, the great Wazír of the Saljúqs, eats three cucumbers and is ashamed to tell the person who had presented them that they were bitter. |
| The chapter ends with a eulogy on his patron Wazír. |