D.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
			Part III, Chapter IV = LIV: On the Contemptibility of Covetousness.
f202b	f240a	1571	Introduction illustrated by Kháqání’s verses. The Prophet David was taught the art of making armour to earn his livelihood from his own handicraft.
f203a	f240b	1572	Gushtásp, while in exile, works as a blacksmith and maintains himself in Constantinople, and when re-crowned makes a training in handicrafts compulsory as part of the education of the notables of Persia. (Ta’ríkh-i-Mulúk-i-‘Ajam, as the source, see above, p. 56).
”	”	1573	‘Amr b. Ẓarib the Arab sage’s advice to his son, and his verses on the dangers that beset a covetous person.
”	”	1574	The Prophet abhors two kinds of greed, the one which is ingrained in a man’s nature and the other which leads to begging of an ungenerous person.
”	”	1575	A ruler of Khurásán rejects the composition of a poet on hearing that the poet had no desire for gain.
”	”	1576	The Caliph al-Manṣûr wants a story-teller. Rabí‘, the Chamberlain, chooses Ibnu’l-‘Abbás (?) on condition that he should not ask for anything from the Caliph, but the humourist cleverly suggests and gets his reward.
f203b	”	1577	The ardent desire of a prince of Kirmán to learn a craft. He selects mat-weaving through which he saves himself from the horrible dungeon of a Jew, and contrives to capture him.
f204b	f241b	1578	How a tribesman of Ma‘add become notorious for covetousness, and the origin of the proverb “Muqallibu’s-Ṣakhra”.
A.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
f204b	f241b	1579	The story of the avaricious Abu’l-‘Alá’ Ash‘ab b. Jubayr (d. 154 A. H.), and the lads and the brazier. (Cf. Ibn Khallikán (Wüst.) Biog. No. 293).
f205a	”	1580	Ash‘ab the Greedy afraid of informing his mother suddenly of the gift of a slave, lest she might burst to death with joy.
”	”	1581	Ash‘ab the Greedy’s description of the depth of his covetousness at Sálim b. ‘Abdu’llah’s request.
”	”	1582	The monk who first acted on the precept of Jesus and offered his garment to a beggar, but on the importunate demands of the greedy person adopted the precept of Muḥammad the Prophet, and punished him. (Tha‘álibí’s Kitáb-i-Mulaḥu’n-Nawádir (?) as the source).
”	”	1583	The greedy Ash‘ab behaves shamelessly for the sake of victuals in presence of the family of Sálim b. ‘Abdu’llah b. ‘Umar. (Majma‘u’l-Amthál as the source).
			The chapter ends as usual with a panegyric.