THE YOUNG BÉDAWY WHO FULFILLED
HIS PROMISE.
SHÁRAF-ED-DÎN-HUSEIN, the son of Riyân, relates: "Marvellous are the anecdotes which I collected, and wonderful are my reminiscences of the excellent things which I noted down from one who was present at the Council and heard the words of ʾOmar-ibn-el-Khattâb, the Khalîfah of el-Islám."
He stated that one day whilst the Imâm was sitting in council with some of the chief of the Associates, and others to whom he referred for judgment and advice, and whilst he was giving his decisions in causes, and issuing his commands among his subjects, a young man of comely appearance and in clean attire, appeared, in the grasp of two other young men, also well-favoured and well-dressed, who dragged and pulled him until they brought him in, and placed him
