-
sometimes substituted for amārāt or dalāʾil).
Another genre,
called faḍāʾil wa
mathālib —
tales that show the
merits and
faults of
individual companions, enemies...
- on animals. Al-Isharat al-Ilahiyya Al-Muqabasat Al-Sadaqa wa al-Sadiq
Mathalib al-Wazirain, Book on the
Foibles of the Two Ministers,
which is a commentary...
- His contemporary, Abū ʿUbayda,
included this
incident in his book on the
mathālib (vices) of the Arabs. In Marw, al-Naḍr
became a qāḍī (judge) and helped...
