[257] D'Ohsson (vol. i. pp. 315 and 316) asserts the Ḳuṭb to be the chief minister of the Ghós; and gives an account somewhat different from that which I offer of the orders under his authority: but perhaps the Turkish Darweeshes differ from the Arab in their tenets on this subject. [258] It is said that "the Nuḳabà are three hundred; the Nujabà, seventy; the Abdál, forty; the Akhyár, seven; the 'Omud, four; the Ghós [as before mentioned,] is one. The Nuḳabà reside in El-Gharb [Northern Africa to the west of Egypt]; the Nujabà, in Egypt; the Abdál, in Syria; the Akhyár travel about the earth; the 'Omud, in the corners of the earth; the abode of the Ghós is at Mekkeh. In an affair of need, the Nuḳabà implore relief for the people; then, the Nujabà; then, the Abdál; then, the Akhyár; then, the 'Omud; and if their prayer be not answered, the Ghós implores, and his prayer is answered." (El-Is-ḥáḳee's History, preface.)--This statement, I find, rests on the authority of a famous saint of Baghdád, Aboo-Bekr El-Kettánee, who died at Mekkeh, in the year of the Flight 322. (Mir-át ez-Zemán, events of the year above mentioned.) [259] El-Jabartee's History of Modern Egypt, vol. ii., obituary of the year 1201 (MS. in my possession).--The appellation of "the four Ḳuṭbs" is given in Egypt to the seyyid Aḥmad Rifá'ah, the seyyid 'Abd-El-Ḳádir El-Geelánee, the seyyid Aḥmad El-Bedawee, and the seyyid Ibráheem Ed-Dasooḳee, the founders of the four orders of darweeshes most celebrated among the Arabs, called Rifá'eeyeh, Ḳádireeyeh, Aḥmedeeyeh, and Baráhimeh. [260] El-Jabartee's History, vol. i., obituary of the year 1188. [261] Mir-át ez-Zemán, events of the year 291. [262] Mir-át ez-Zemán, events of the year 291. [263] Idem, events of the year 218. [264] Idem, events of the year 334. [265] Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil, &c., sect. 4. [266] These are two very celebrated welees. [267] The opening chapter of the Ḳur-án. [268] El-Jabartee's History, vol. iii., events of the month of Shaạbán, 1215 (A.D. 1800-1801). [269] Singers of religious odes. [270] El-Jabartee's History, vol. ii., obituary of the year 1207, and events of Rejeb, 1200; and vol. iii., events of Rabeeạ eth-Thánee, 1214. [271] El-Is-ḥáḳee, reign of El-Mutawekkil. [272] De Sacy's Chrestomathie Arabe, vol. i. pp. 122, 123, 2nd. ed. [273] "'Ajáïb el-Makhlooḳát." [274] Mir-át ez-Zemán, events of the year above mentioned. [275] Sketches of Persia, vol. ii. p. 129. CHAPTER IV. COMMENCING WITH PART OF THE EIGHTEENTH NIGHT, AND ENDING WITH PART OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH. THE STORY OF THE THREE APPLES, &c.[IV_1]