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HE following story is related by ʾAwn-ibn-Abi-Shaddâd, el-ʾAbdy, in the Hayât-el-Haiwân.

When el-Hajjâj-ibn-Yûsuf was reminded of Saʾîd-ibn-Jubair, he sent a man of rank called el-Mutalámmis-ibn-el-Ahwas, and twenty men with him, from Damascus, to seek Saʾîd. And whilst they were doing