
Richard Francis, Sir Burton · English
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Ni'amah bin al-Rabi'a and Naomi his Slave-girl. There lived once in the city of Cufa[FN#1] a man called Al-Rabн'a bin Hбtim, who was one of the chief men of the town, a wealthy and a healthy, and Heaven had vouchsafed him a son, whom he named Ni'amah Allah.[FN#2] One day, being in the slave-brokers' mart, he saw a woman exposed for sale with a little maid of wonderful beauty and grace on her arm. So he beckoned to the broker and asked him, "How much for this woman and her daughter?" He a

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