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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 retired and had reached the door when I was brought back into the khalif's presence .
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 retired and had reached the door when I was brought back into the khalif's presence .
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As - Shābi was a thin emaciated man , and he once said , on being 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 Kitāb al ...
As - Shābi was a thin emaciated man , and he once said , on being 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 Kitāb al ...
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He 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 - Abbas Ibn al - Ahnaf to be put in the first place . When " he had finished the ...
He 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 - Abbas Ibn al - Ahnaf to be put in the first place . When " he had finished the ...
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... said they , " to perform the pilgrimage , and on our way we saw a boy standing by the side of the road , " who called out to us to know if any of us were natives of Basra . On this we went over to him and asked ...
... said they , " to perform the pilgrimage , and on our way we saw a boy standing by the side of the road , " who called out to us to know if any of us were natives of Basra . On this we went over to him and asked ...
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Soon after , he returned with a swarthy little fellow , as “ black as a beetle , perched upon his shoulder ; and we then said to him : ' Hadst " thou asked us about that fellow , we could have directed thee , for he did not " stir out ...
Soon after , he returned with a swarthy little fellow , as “ black as a beetle , perched upon his shoulder ; and we then said to him : ' Hadst " thou asked us about that fellow , we could have directed thee , for he did not " stir out ...
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| Title | Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Volume 2 Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Ibn Khallikān Volume 57 of Oriental Translation Fund Volume 57 of Publications (Oriental translation fund) |
| Author | Ibn Khallikān |
| Translated by | William MacGuckin baron de Slane |
| Publisher | Oriental translation fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1843 |
| Original from | Barcelona Athenaeum Library |
| Digitized | 21 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 616 pages |
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