tuffs and carried the damsel
thither. Then I betook me to the grocer and told him all that had
betided me, begging to hold me guiltless for divorcing his daughter,
without offence on her part; and I paid her her dowry[52] and what else
behoved me.[53] I abode with the Hashimi in this way two years and
became a man of great wealth and was restored to the former estate of
prosperity wherein I had been at Baghdad, I and the damsel. And indeed
Allah the Bountiful put an end to our troubles and loaded us with the
gifts of good fortune and caused our patience to result in the
attainment of our desire: wherefore to Him be the praise in this world
and the next whereto we are returning.[54] And among the tales men tell
is that of

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Footnote 37:

  A descendant of Háshim, the Apostle’s great-grandfather from whom the
  Abbasides were directly descended. The Ommiades were less directly
  akin to Mohammed, being the descendants of Hashim’s brother, Abd
  al-Shams. The Hashimis were famed for liberality; and the quality
  seems to have been inherited. The first Háshim got his name from
  _crumbling_ bread into the Saríd or brewis of the Meccan pilgrims
  during “The Ignorance.” He was buried at Ghazzah (Gaza) but his tomb
  was soon forgotten.

Footnote 38:

  _i.e._ thy lover.

Footnote 39:

  _i.e._ of those destined to hell; the especial home of Moslem
  suicides.

Footnote 40:

  Arab. “’Ummál” (plur. of ’Ámil) viceroys or governors of provinces.

Footnote 41:

  A town of Irák Arabi (Mesopotamia) between Baghdad and Bassorah built
  upon the Tigris and founded by Al-Hajjaj: it is so called because the
  “Middle” or half-way town between Basrah and Kufah. To this place were
  applied the famous lines:—

             “In good sooth a right noble race are they;
             Whose men “yea” can’t say nor their women “nay.”

Footnote 42:

  _i.e._ robed as thou art.

Footnote 43:

  _i.e._ his kinsfolk of the Hashimis.

Footnote 44:

  See vol. ii. 24.

Footnote 45:

  Arab. “Su