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By Allah, if I offered my life for thy love, it were indeed but

little and would not do justice to thy claim upon me." Then she

made over to me by deed all that she possessed in clothes and

ornaments of gold and pearls, and goods and farms and chattels,

and lay not down to sleep that night, being sorely grieved for my

grief, till I told her the whole of what had befallen me. I

passed the night with her. But before we had lived together a

month's time she fell sorely sick and illness increased upon her,

by reason of her grief for the loss of my hand, and she endured

but fifty days before she was numbered among the folk of futurity

and heirs of immortality. So I laid her out and buried her body

in mother earth and let make a pious perlection of the

Koran[FN#552] for the health of her soul, and gave much money in

alms for her; after which I turned me from the grave and returned

to the house.