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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: ...you, and if he persist in will ing my death, you can execute his commands.'--' To that I consent, ' replied the other. He then entered the tent of ar-Rashid, who/ on hearing the noise of his approach, said to him: 'Have you done it (39)?' Yasir told him what Jaafar had said. 'Vile wretch (40)! exclaimed the khalif, 'if you an swer me another word, I shall send you before him (to the next world).' ' Yasir then retired, and having put Jaafar to death, he carried in his head ' and placed it before the khalif. He looked at it for some time, and then or' dered Yasir to bring in two persons whom he named. When they came, he ' said to them: 'Strike off Yasir's head, for I cannot bear the sight of Jaafar's ' murderer.' -rln another part of the book, Ibn Badrun relates this anecdote: ' Dfering the pilgrimage, Jaafar had remarked ar-Rashid's estrangement, and ' on arriving at Hira, he rode out on business to a church, in which he found a ' stone with something written on it, which he did not understand. He sent ' for interpreters to have it explained, with the intention of drawing from it ' an omen relative to what he had to fear or hope from ar-Rashid. The ' inscription was read, and it ran thus: ' In the year that the family of Mundir (41) perished, by the spot where the monk ' built the church, the hopes of the needy were fixed on them no longer, and the cri-161 ' minal ceased to fear them. Their hair breathed the odour of musk and the perfume ' of ambergris, which caused the rose to frown with jealousy). They became food for 4 the worms of the earth; the patron had ceased to exist, and those also who sought ' his favour.' Jaafar, on hearing this, was dejected and said: 'Our fortune has passed away!' .. .

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