D. G. Serial. TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
      Part III, Chapter XV = LXV: On the Contemptibility of Extravagance and Prodigality.
f247b-f248a f265b 1697 Introduction. The via media advocated by the Prophet. A story related before the Caliph al-Ma’mún of the advice of a dying father to his prodigal son to commit suicide rather than disgrace himself after having squandered all his inheritance, and how the rope which he had sus­pended for this purpose led him to a hidden treasure.
 
D. G. Serial. TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
f248a f266a 1698 ‘Abqasí, the poet, relates the story of the calamitous condition of the son of a rich merchant through vice, and of the recovery of his former prosperity through good luck. (T. F. S. as the source).
f249a f266b 1699 Ḥujjat b. al-Ajlaḥ*, reduced to extreme poverty, regains his position through a rich inheritance.
f249b 1700 The story of a prodigal prince, who wasted all his wealth on false friends; they deserted him in the hour of need, and once falsely accused him of stealing a piece of flesh, and refused to acknowledge his plea of innocence, but, when he regained prosperity, believed in him blindly about a highly improbable thing, namely, that ants bore holes in a stone.
f250a f267a 1701 Awḥadu’d-Dín, the son of the ruler of Mihna or Mayhana, prosecutes his early studies in Níshápúr, but after his father’s death returns to Mihna, squanders his inheritance and becomes poor.
1702 Mu‘áwiya sends a purse of gold to ‘Urwa b. Udhayna, the poet, lest he might write a lampoon on him, upon which ‘Urwa reminds him of his verse about the destined daily bread.
      The chapter ends with a eulogy on the Wazír.