Here follow (1) a Tradition, related by Abú Hurayra, of three infants who were miraculously endowed with speech: (_a_) Jesus, (_b_) a child who exculpated the monk Jurayj (George) when he was falsely accused by a harlot, (_c_) a child who divined the characters of a horseman and a woman. (2) A story of Zá´ida, the handmaid of the Caliph `Umar: how a knight descended from heaven and gave her a message from Riḍwán, the keeper of Paradise, to the Prophet; and how, when she could not lift a bundle of firewood from a rock on which she had laid it, the Prophet bade the rock go with her and carry the firewood to `Umar’s house. (3) A story of `Alá b. al-Ḥaḍramí, who, having been sent on a warlike expedition by the Prophet, walked dry-shod across a river with his company. (4) A story of `Abdalláh b. `Umar, at whose bidding a lion decamped and left the way open for a party of travellers. (5) A story of a man who was seen sitting in the air, and when Abraham asked him by what means he had obtained such power, replied that he had renounced the world and that God had bestowed on him an aerial dwelling-place where he was not disturbed by any thought of mankind. (6) A story of the Caliph `Umar, who was on the point of being killed by a Persian, when two lions suddenly appeared and caused the assassin to desist. (7) A story of Khálid b. Walíd, who said “Bismillah” and drank a deadly poison, which did him no harm. (8) A story, related by Ḥasan of Baṣra, of a negro who turned the walls of a tavern into gold. (9) A story, related by Ibráhím b. Adham, of a shepherd who smote a rock with his staff and caused water to gush forth. (10) A story of a cup which pronounced the words “Glory to God” in the hearing of Abú Dardá and Salmán Fárisí. Footnote 123: Died in 326 A.H. See Abu ´l-Maḥásin, _Nujúm_, ii, 284, 13. Footnote 124: L. سلاتک. IJ. اسلاتک. Footnote 125: See _Nafaḥát_, No. 351. Footnote 126: Here the author tells the story, which has already been related (p. 142 _supra_), of Abú Bakr Warráq, who was commanded by Muḥammad b. `Alí of Tirmidh to throw some of the latter’s mystical writings into the Oxus. _Discourse on the Superiority of the Prophets to the Saints._