D.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
			Part II, Chapter XVI = XLI: On the Excellence of Asceticism and Piety.
f152b	f210a	1429	A short introduction illustrated by a quatrain of Sa‘d-i-Káfí. The abstemious character of the early governors nominated by the Caliph ‘Umar, after the subjugation of the Persian empire.
f153a	f210b	1430	The last advice of ‘Umar II to Maslama b. ‘Abdu’l-Malik.
”	”	1431	Salmán, the Persian: his mode of life as the governor of Syria, and what he left behind him.
f153b	”	1432	The appointment of Ḥudhayfatu’ bnu’l-Yamání to the governorship of Yaman by ‘Umar; his pious rule, and his reception by the Caliph ‘Umar on his retirement.
”	”	1433	The Caliph ‘Umar’s inspection of the province of Syria, and his astonishment at the self-denial of Abú ‘Ubayda b. al-Jarráḥ, the governor.
”	f211a	1434	The Amír Ismá‘íl, the Sámánid, quells the rebel Ya‘qúb b. Layth by order of the Caliph al-Mu‘tadhid, and rejects the bribe offered to him by Ya‘qúb b. Layth, from fear of the day of Judgment. (This story occurs in the Siyásat-Náma in a slightly different version on pp. 16—17, and in this book also, pt. I, ch. VI, 383, see above p. 79).
f154a	”	1435	The reason of ‘Abdu’llah b. Ṭáhir the Ambidexter’s selling his favourite slave Sa‘d.
f154b	f211b	1436	Muḥammad b. ‘Abdu’llah b. Ṭáhir, the ruler of Khurásán punishes Ayyúb Shádán, his court-physician, for his impudence, and ‘Alí b. Ḥasan Sha‘ri (?) the courtier’s intercession.
f155a	”	1437	The fate of Kámil, the notorious slave, and ‘Ayyásh the courtier’s piety and action against the evil, at the command of Ghálib b. ‘Abdu’llah, the Amír of Khurásán. (The last three anecdotes are probably taken from as-Sallámí’s Ta’ríkh-i-Wulát-i-Khurásán, see above p. 46, Par. 1).
f155b	f212a	1438	The Caliph al-Manṣúr’s intention to inspect the title-deeds of private property in Baṣra, and The Qádhí Ibnu’s-Sawwár’s grave warning as to the effect of the sighs of the oppressed.
f156a	”	1439	al-Manṣúr’s opinion about public and private rights.
”	”	1440	The silent complaint of the widow whose children were starving and the Caliph ‘Umar’s swift retribution and humble supplication. (Cf. N. S. N. pp. 128—9, see above, p. 82).
”	f212b	1441	The Sultan Maḥmúd of Ghazna’s earnest wish to pay a special visit to Khurásán in order to interview the saint Abu’l-Ḥasan of Kharaqán; and the blessing of the saint on the Sultán.
f156b	”	1442	The scruples of an ascetic who was making atonement for having picked up an apple without the permission of its three owners.
			The chapter ends with a eulogy on the Wazír.