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Rh So I, Abk-Allâh, said, "I am."

Then the old man continued, "I require for her a thousand bracelets of red gold, and five thousand dirhems of the best stamped silver money, and a hundred garments of striped and damasked stuffs, and five skins of ambergris."

I said, "You shall have it. But what was her answer?"

He replied, "Yes, assuredly." On hearing which, I sent off men of the el-Ansâry to el-Medînah-el-Munáwwarah, and they brought the whole of what had been promised. Then they killed of the flocks and