التاريخ اليميني 19.49

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19.49

I said to him: Close to this case is the story of Ibrāhīm ibn Hilāl al-Ṣābī. [119a] An envoy of Sayf al-Dawla had come to the City of Peace and asked him, on his master's behalf, for some of his poetry. He put him off until his departure drew near, and at the farewell the envoy came to him pressing him to fulfil it, so he gave him, on the spur of the moment, these words:

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التاريخ اليميني — Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-ʿUtbī, Arabic