A.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
			Part I. Chapter XVII. On the Anecdotes of the Qádhís or Judges.
f209a	f151b	921	Introduction. A robbery in the house of an old miser, and the consolation offered to him by a learned neighbour.
”	f152a	922	A funny genealogical puzzle solved by a Qádhí at the court of the Caliph ‘Abdu’l-Malik b. Marwán.
f209b	”	923	The Qádhí Yaḥyá b. Aktham solves another riddle of a similar kind.
”	*	924	Muḥammad b. Ḥasan ash-Shaybání’s legal device to absolve the Wazír and to please the Caliph Hárún.
”	f152a	925	Abú Ibráhím b. Ismá‘íl b. Aḥmad al-Muzaní’s two visits to the Ṭúlúnid ruler Aḥmad and his opinion on chess.
”	”	926	The Caliph is persuaded by the Qádhí Yaḥyá b. Aktham to prohibit mut‘a, which he had permitted in a captured town of Rúm.
A.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
f210a	f152b	927	‘Abdu’llah b. Ṭáhir’s three questions and Abu’s-Samrá’’s solutions.
”	*	928	Ismá‘íl b. Ḥammád b. Abí Ḥanífa, the Qádhí of Baṣra, devises a plan to relieve his friend from the demands of his creditors.
”	f152b	929	Abú Yúsuf as a poor student, and the Imám Abú Ḥanífa’s patronage and encouragement of his learning.
f210b	”	930	The problem of the divorce of Zubayda, and the solution attempted by the Qádhí Abú Yúsuf and the consequent reward and emolument.
”	f153a	931	The limitation of the indefinite vow of al-Mutawakkil to seventy-one Dínárs, suggested by the Imám Muḥammad ibnu’r-Ridhá.
”	*	932	The Imám Abú Yúsuf’s congratulations to Zubayda on the Bay‘at of her little son al-Amín as the innocent Caliph.
”	*	933	Congratulation of a Qádhí to Abu’l-‘Abbás Furát on his appointment as governor of Kúfa, and the misinterpretation of the word ‘<Arabic>’ by a slave.
f211a	f153a	934	The subtle device of the Imám Abú Ḥanífa to detect the real mother of a disputed child.
”	”	935	Sagacity of the Imám Abú Ḥanífa in detecting the thief that had stolen a treasure, which he had concealed under a tree.
”	*	936	Abú Ḥanífa suggests a means of destroying a bath-house that was damaging the house of the adjacent neighbour.
”	*	937	Another artifice suggested by Abú Ḥanífa to punish an impious neigh­bour who had erected a high building.
”	*	938	How Abú Ḥanífa got back the five Dirhams which a wretched water-bearer had extorted from him, while on his way to the Pilgrimage.
”	*	939	How Abú Ḥanífa baffles a dishonest trustee by challenging him in the matter of testimony.
f211b	f153a	940	Abú Ḥanífa’s device to separate the twins, of whom one was dead.
”	”	941	Another shrewd guess of Abú Ḥanífa in detecting mother and son, in the person of husband and wife, who had come to consult him.
”	”	942	Abú Ḥanífa’s clever device in making a plaintiff identify the robbers who had made him swear not to expose them.
”	f153b	943	How Abú Ḥanífa baffles the Khawárij and convinces them through the strength of their belief concerning the commission of capital sins.
”	*	944	The cutting reply of Abú Ḥanífa to a Jew, who had questioned the existence of any medical knowledge in the Qur’án.
”	*	945	Abú Ḥanífa’s reply to a questioner about the proper function of each organ.
”	f153b	946	Abú Ḥanífa’s practical reply to the question of a woman about purity, by cutting an apple in half.
f212a	”	947	Abú Ḥanífa suggests a legal device to a person who in reality did not want to divorce his wife.
”	*	948	Muḥammad b. Ḥasan the disciple of Abú Yúsuf’s practical joke on a per­son who wanted to absolve himself from ‘Dhakát’.
”	*	949	Another suggestion by a pupil of his to a butcher, who also wanted to free himself from the same obligation.
”	f153b	950	Another student of the same plays a practical joke on a miserly baker in Egypt.
A.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
f212a	f153b	951	The Qádhí Iyás b. Mu‘áwiya’s shrewdness in guessing the echo caused by a howling dog chained at a well. (Cf. Ibn Khal. Wüst. Biog. 104).
”	”	952	Another right guess of the same Qádhí about the flies and the serpent. (Cf. Ibid.).
”	*	953	A clever method of detecting a dishonest litigant.
”	*	954	Abu’l-Fadhl Kirmání’s expression of mixed grief and joy at the court of the Sultan Sanjar and hint at the inappropriateness of his reception in comparison with that of the illiterate son of the late Qádhí.