Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Volume 1Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1843 - 616 pages |
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... asked me if the Greek sovereign had said any thing to me before he gave me the paper ? " Yes , " I replied , " he asked me if I was of a royal family , and I " answered that I belonged to the general class of the Arabs . " I then ...
... asked me if the Greek sovereign had said any thing to me before he gave me the paper ? " Yes , " I replied , " he asked me if I was of a royal family , and I " answered that I belonged to the general class of the Arabs . " I then ...
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... asked the cause : " I was straitened for room in my mother's womb . " The fact was that she had two sons at a birth , and ( Ibn Kutaiba , ) the author of the Kitab al - Maārif pretends that she was pregnant with him for two years . — It ...
... asked the cause : " I was straitened for room in my mother's womb . " The fact was that she had two sons at a birth , and ( Ibn Kutaiba , ) the author of the Kitab al - Maārif pretends that she was pregnant with him for two years . — It ...
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... asked whose body was that which was nearest to him , and on learning that it was Ibrahim al - Mausili's , he ordered it to be " removed and that of al - Abbās Ibn al - Ahnaf to be put in the first place . When " he had finished the ...
... asked whose body was that which was nearest to him , and on learning that it was Ibrahim al - Mausili's , he ordered it to be " removed and that of al - Abbās Ibn al - Ahnaf to be put in the first place . When " he had finished the ...
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... asked what he wanted ; to which he made answer : My master wishes to give you his dying injunctions . ' We then turned off from " the road and followed him till , at some distance , we found a man lying under " a tree and unable to give ...
... asked what he wanted ; to which he made answer : My master wishes to give you his dying injunctions . ' We then turned off from " the road and followed him till , at some distance , we found a man lying under " a tree and unable to give ...
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... asked us about that fellow , we could have directed thee , for he did not " stir out of our sight all day ( 3 ) . ' Al - Asmai then repeated these lines : Any bedfellow is good on the break of day , after a frosty night , when the ...
... asked us about that fellow , we could have directed thee , for he did not " stir out of our sight all day ( 3 ) . ' Al - Asmai then repeated these lines : Any bedfellow is good on the break of day , after a frosty night , when the ...
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