D.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
			Part II, Chapter XIII = XXXVIII: On the Excellence of Patience and Endurance.
f142a	f203b	1394	Introduction. A consolatory epistle inculcating the value of endurance and patience in distress.
”	”	1395	The ordeal of the Prophet Dániyál, Bukht-i-Naṣṣar’s cruel dungeon, and how Irmiya was sent to his release providentially.
f142b	f204a	1396	The imprisonment of Sulaymán b. Wahb, and his brother Ḥasan’s con­solatory lines, and the good omen taken from those lines, which effect his release and prove the value of patience in despair.
f143a	”	1397	The deliverance of Músá b. ‘Abdu’r-Raḥmán from imprisonment.
”	”	1398	The impudent and blasphemous conduct of a criminal aggravates his misery, till at last he invokes God and is released.
f143b	f204b	1399	The mutilation and brutal assassination of Qásim b. Muḥammad b. ‘Abdu’llah b. al-Ḥusayn by the order of al-Mahdí.
”	”	1400	The calamities which befell Abú Ṣábir, his patience, his installation as the ruler of his native place and his vengeance. (Cf. Bakhtiyár-náma, Paris litho, pp. 45, 47—55, see also above, pp. 74—6).
f144b	f205a	1401	Núshírwán the Just imprisons Buzurjmihr, his endurance and release.
”	”	1402	The advice of one of the Israelite Prophets.
”	”	1403	The advice of the Prophet to an Arab who was in distress.
			The chapter ends without any panegyric.