D.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
			Part II, Chapter XIV = XXXIX: On the Excellence of Gratitude.
f145a	f205b	1404	Introductory discourse, illustrated by verses on gratitude. The story of the man and wife who thanked God and made a proper use of His rewards.
f145b	”	1405	al-Ma’mún’s remark on the thanksgiving of Yaḥyá b. al-Ḥuṣayn aṭ-Ṭá’í.
”	”	1406	‘Abdu’llah b. al-Arzáq (?)’s observation on his own wealth.
”	f206a	1407	The poet [Abú Manṣúr Tha‘álibí] tests the generosity of Khalaf b. Aḥmad Sijzi, who rewards him with 100 dinárs for each of his verses.
D.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
f146a	f206a	1408	A person liberates his slave, moved by his sense of gratitude.
”	”	1409	Ka‘bu’l-Aḥbár’s astonishment at the gratitude of a deformed man.
”	”	1410	‘Abdu’r-Raḥmán b. ‘Awf’s (the author’s ancestor from whom he derives his nisba of al-Awfí) complalnt of the abundance of his wealth, and the Prophet’s remark. (Autobiographic).
”	”	1411	The famous story of Mundhir b. Mughíra of Damascus about the generosity of the Barmecides, and his apology in the court of al-Ma’mún for his lamentation for his past patrons. (Cf. T. F. S. pt. II, pp. 21—23).
			The chapter ends with the usual eulogy in honour of the Wazír.