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L-MANSÛR was talking one day in his Assembly of the decline of the empire of the Benu-ʾOmeyyah, and of what had befallen them, and of how they had lived in happiness, but died in misery. And Ismaîl-ibn-ʾAly, el-Hâshimy, said to him, "Verily ʾAbd-Allâh-ibn-Marwân-ibn-Muhammad, is in they