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“ I have two little girls and have made none guardian over them; so, if the king see fit to grant me leave to go to them, I will give him the covenant of God [4] that I will return to him, whenas I have appointed them a guardian.” En Numan had compassion on him and said to him, “If a man will be surety for thee of those who are with us, [I will let thee go] , and if thou return not, I will put him to death.” Now there was with En Numan his vizier Sherik ben Amrou; so the Taï [5] looked at him and said,
Sherik ben Amrou, what device avails the hand of death to stay? ”

“ I will make a solemn covenant with him before God. ↑ i.e. he of the tribe of Tai. ↑ In generosity. ↑ A similar anecdote is told of Omar ben el Khettab, second successor of Mohammed, and will be found in my “Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night,” Vol. IV. p. ”