D. G. Serial. TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
      Part III, Chapter XXIV = LXXIV: On Unchaste and Impious Women.
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f284b 1774 Introduction, illustrated by a few couplets on the unreliability of women. Shaqíq of Balkh’s bad opinion of the women of his city proves to be too true.
f281a f285a 1775 The Prophet relates the story of a woman’s faithlessness to her devoted husband and the miraculous intervention of Christ.
f281b 1776 A person rashly marries the daughter of a lewd woman, but divorces her when she tells her observation on a camel’s habit of closely following its dam.
f282a f285b 1777 Bal‘am-i-Bá‘úr is persuaded by his wife to use the power of the “Great Name” against Moses, which leads to his damnation.
f282b f286a 1778 The story of the enmity of the daughter of a Persian king towards the Wazír, and the conspiracy of the murderous wives against their husbands, and the wholesale extirpation of those women.
f283a 1779 The callous woman who inhumanly suggested to her new husband to replace the stolen corpse of a thief, publicly exhibited on the gallows, with the body of her dead husband; and his plea to her, on his death-bed, to spare his beard after his death.
 
D. G. Serial. TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
f283b f286b 1780 An Israelite sage wastes three chances of effective prayer on his faithless wife. Story related in connection with the revelation of the Verse of the Qu’rán (vii, 174).
1781 Isḥáq al-Mawṣilí delivers a distressed youth from the clutches of an ill-natured woman through the generosity of Ja‘far b. Yaḥyá, the Barmecide.
f284b f287a 1782 The story of the criminal career of the daughter of a Judge and teacher of Isfará’in; and how she atoned for her past sins by making pil­grimages on foot.
      The chapter ends with a few words invoking the help of God.