D.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
			Part III, Chapter XVII = LXVII: On the Contemptibility of Licentiousness and Misconduct.
f253a	f268b	1707	Introduction dealing with the evils of sexual licence. Aḥmad b. ‘Abdu’llah [al-Khujistání] abducts the wife of Shírzád, one of his retinue, while ‘Ayyásh [or ‘Abbás] al-Qaṭṭán plunders Níshápúr and carries off his mother; at last his criminal career is brought to an end through the invocation of the holy Shaykh Abú ‘Uthmán al-Ḥírí. The Ta’ríkh-i-Khurásán as the source, see above, p. 45).
D.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
f254a	f269b	1708	Abu’l-Fadhl, the famous secretary of Níshápúr, relates the story of the misconduct of Abu’l-Qásim Bídár aṭ-Ṭabarí with the wife of Muḥammad b. Zayd ‘Alawí of Ṭabaristán, and of the swift retribution which fell on them.
f254b	”	1709	‘Abdu’l-Karím Fáryábí relates the story of the misconduct of Abu’l-Bashar with the wife of an Indian fellow-traveller, called Sankú (?), and the dire fate of the wicked pair.
f255a	f270a	1710	The illegal connection of Salm with Rabáb, and the dreadful vengeance of Khidásh on the lewd pair. (The Kitáb-i-Majma‘i’l-Amthál as the source).
f255b	”	1711	The Devil’s temptation of Barṣíṣá, the hermit, and his making him an infidel, is cited in connection with the explanation of the Verse (Qur’án, LIX, 16). (See above, p. 26, ll. 22—6).
			The chapter ends with a few lines on the manifestation of the glory of the Creator in making his patron the champion of the Faith.