[74] Majeddin Abu Thaher Muhammed ben Yakub is the compiler of the celebrated Arabic Dictionary, called _Al kamus_, already quoted, which from a work of sixty-five volumes was reduced to two. He is the author of several works besides the above-mentioned. He died in the year of the Hejira 817 (A. D. 1414). [75] I am not acquainted with the subjects above alluded to, nor does the text appear connected. [76] Composed by Ferid eddin Attlar. [77] This is a work of the celebrated _Abd-al rahmen Jámi_; its whole title is: كتاب نفحات الانس من حضرات القدس _Kitab-u-nafhát-i ’l uns-i, min hazarat-i ’l Kades_, translated by Silvestre de Sacy, “_les Haleines de la familiarité, provenant des personnages eminens en sainteté_,” “the breathings of familiarity proceeding from personages eminent in sanctity.” Baron von Hammer rendered the title by: “_Die Hauche der Menshheit_,” “the Breathings of Mankind;” _Nefhát_ being interpreted in the Dictionary, by “a breath of wind, a fragrant gate, perfume, (metaphorically for) good fame,” I prefered the version given in the text. [78] Abdul latif Khan, son of Abdalla, prince of the Usbecks, died in the year of the Hejira 948 (A. D. 1541). [79] This appears an allusion to the following occurrence: _Ayeshá_, Muhammed’s favorite wife, accompanied the prophet on an expedition against the tribe of the Mostalek, in the sixth year of the Hejira (A. D. 627). During the night-march, according to her own statement, she alighted from her camel, in order to search for a valuable necklace which she had dropped. On account of her light weight, her absence was not perceived by the drivers, who went on and left her alone on the road. There, having laid down and fallen asleep, she was the next morning found by Safwan Ebn al Moattel, and brought, at noon, on his own camel to Muhammed’s next resting-place. This occurrence raised suspicions respecting Ayesha’s virtue; Muhammed found necessary to inveigh against slander in the Koran (chap. XXIV), and to punish the free-speakers as slanderers: but he could not silence the severe reflections of some respectable men, among whom was Alí.――(_Hammer’s Gemäldesaal_, _I^{ter} Band. Sexte_, 144-145.