D.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
			Part III, Chapter VII = LVII: On the Contemptibility of Falsehood and the Advantages of Truth.
f213b	f246b	1600	Introduction. The Caliph Abú Bakr’s exhortations against falsehood.
”	”	1601	The Caliph ‘Alí’s single counsel to a newly converted Muslim prevents him from committing a multitude of sins.
f214a	”	1602	Two Khárijite victims save themselves from the machinations of al-Ḥajjáj by virtue of their veracity.
”	”	1603	Aḥnaf b. Qays’s deliberate refusal to speak of the Caliph ‘Alí in the presence of Mu‘áwiya.
”	”	1604	al-Mustarshid the Caliph’s dying words to his son, “Oh my son! if thou desirest to be feared, then do not tell lies, for verily the liar is never feared even though he may be surrounded by a thousand swords”.
”	”	1605	Naṣr b. al-Ḥárith affronts Thábit b. Sharwán in joke, in the presence of Fadhl b. Sahl; Thábit is annoyed, and Fadhl snubs him by saying that he lost his honour the day he told him that he went on his camel from Dámghán to Níshápúr in one night — a highly improbable thing.
D.	G.	Serial.	TITLES OF THE ANECDOTES.
f214b	f246b	1606	Abú Muḥammad Kházin’s defence of poetic fiction in a literary discussion held in the Ṣáḥib Ismá‘íl b. ‘Abbád’s salon.
”	”	1607	Manṣúr, an emissary of the Caliph Hárún, pretends deafness in audience of the Byzantine King and succeeds in his mission, but incurs the grave displeasure of the Caliph for having told a lie.
f215a	f247a	1608	Ḥasan of Baṣra, while persecuted by al-Ḥajjáj, takes refuge in the convent of Ḥabíb-i-‘Ajamí and is miraculously hidden from the sight of his pursuers.
f215b	”	1609	al-Faraj al-Rukhkhají, the governor of Ahwáz, averts the wrath of the Caliph Hárún by confessing what he did during the term of his office, and how little wealth he had amassed.
”	f247b	1610	Yúsuf b. ‘Abdu’llah b. ‘Uthmán b. Abi’l-‘Áṣ, a refugee of Baṣra, stands firm before al-Ḥajjáj and gains his approbation.
f216a	”	1611	A trader, who was patronised at the court of the Khán of Chín, exports ten ostriches to prove the validity of his statement.
”	”	1612	Abú ‘Amr ibnu’l-‘Alá’, the famous reciter of the Qur’án, explains to his pupils the defects which disqualify a man from leadership.
f216b	”	1613	‘Abdu’llah b. Ṭáhir rewards doubly a student of theology for his candour in confessing that his own view about the belief in God differed from that of ‘Abdu’llah and his own fellow-students.
”	f248a	1614	Ṭáhir b. al-Ḥusayn liberates Zayd-i-Shujá‘, a spy of ‘Alí b. ‘Ísá b. Máhán, on account of his veracity.
f217a	”	1615	Fadhl b. Yaḥyá, the Barmecide, challenges the anticipation of Naṣr, the poet, about the divorce which Fadhl was planning, but afterwards admits he was right and rewards him.
”	”	1616	Khálid, the Barmecide, perjures himself in the hope of causing ‘Alí b. ‘Ísá b. Músá to withdraw his claim to the Caliphate in favour of al-Mahdí, upon which al-Múriyání, his rival, works upon al-Manṣúr and brings him to disgrace.
f217b	f248b	1617	Abu’l-Ḥusayn b. Rabí‘a b. Aḥmad al-Jámí (?), the poet, is disgraced by Qábús b. Washmgír because he pretended to remember 5000 lines of al-Ma’mún’s poetry, but when challenged could not produce more than fourteen verses.
f218a	”	1618	Ḥasan b. al-Qaḥṭaba relates the story of the accusation of al-Mahdí against Isḥáq for his pretensions to the Caliphate, and how he wanted Ya‘qúb b. Dá’úd, the courtier, to corroborate his statement, which the latter denied, reminding the Caliph how the suspicion arose in his mind.
			The chapter ends with a eulogy on the Wazír.