📖 The Book of Miserly Stories by Al-Jahiz 📖

Abu Othman Amr bin Bahr Mahboub Al-Kinani Al-Laythi Al-Basri, famous for Al-Jahiz

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The Book of Misers is of scientific importance as it reveals to us about the souls, natures and behavior of human beings, as well as containing many names of the famous, famous and the unknown, as well as the names of countries and places and the descriptions of their people and many rare and useful verses of poetry with its subject, hadiths and antiquities. The book is a scientific, literary, social, geographical and historical encyclopedia.

The misers in this book are distinguished by kindness, naivety and wit at times, and they are innocent of harm and ill-treatment, and there is nothing in them that repels the soul or disgust, and they do not wrong anyone but themselves. We find that the tables of some of them are extended, some pretend to be generous. The manner of their economy, their use of money and their fight against extravagance, which undoubtedly is a figment of his imagination and does not exist in the first place, such as Abu Al-Harith Jamiez and Al-Haytham bin Mutaher.

Among the funniest of those mentioned by Al-Jahiz are individuals in Basra who liked to live economically, save money, and manage good measure. They met in a mosque in Basra to exchange experiences. One of them said that he had a donkey that was watered by salty water for the cheap price while he and his family drank fresh water, so the health of the donkey deteriorated until he almost died, and then He thought and estimated and decided to perform ablution and his family with fresh water and water the donkey from what was left, so they earned the donkey and did not waste the water.

The Book of Misers is a book in which Abu Othman Amr Ibn Bahr al-Jahiz wrote some images of miserliness in those he met and got to know in his own environment, especially in the town of Marw, the capital of Khorasan. Their secrets and the secrets of their homes and briefed the readers on their various conversations, and revealed their psyche and their conditions all. The first to study the text of the misers was the orientalist Van Floten in 1900. The stories of the book are short comic educational situations, in which the colloquial expressions circulating during the period of his writing were documented. The stories abound in dialogues, and it is considered a socio-educational, psychological and economic study of this type of people and they are misers.

Author:
Abu Othman Amr bin Bahr bin Mahboub bin Fazara Al-Laithi Al-Kinani Al-Basri (159 AH-255 AH) was an Arab writer who was one of the great imams of literature in the Abbasid era. He was born in Basra and died there.

❇️ Some Reviews of Al-Jahiz's Book of Stories of the Scrooge ❇️

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- Al-Jahiz objectively portrayed miserliness and his companions slandering misers among the people of Basra and Khorasani, which indicates his desire for reform and enjoyment. It is the book of the people and realism par excellence
Nicole

- Misers. In this book, Al-Jahiz collected news and stories of misers and misers in his time and other than his time, and addressed their conversations about miserliness, generosity and hospitality.
Zahraa Marhoon

- A great book that is considered a social document that depicts the lives of people in the Abbasid era.. Funny stories of stingy people and their cunning.. A little difficult language, but it is very wonderful.. and I feel very sad here for its loss from us and its transformation until it reached this form that we speak and write now.
Ray Banner

- A wonderful book to say the least. The book contains the stories of misers and their methods, which came to reflect part of social life during the Abbasid era.. The book, despite its content, which tends a little to satirical literature, but Al-Jahiz’s writing style makes this journey deep and rich from a linguistic point of view .
Candle

- The book narrates the stories and anecdotes of misers in the era of Al-Hajith. Therefore, the book can be read in any order without the need to start from the beginning.. The most beautiful thing in the book is the different presentation of the stories and its use of many Arabic words that we have forgotten.. Also, it is presented to miserliness on the tongues of the miserly themselves and how they consider it one of the virtues and exploits that they are distinguished by.
sultan abukoshaim

❇️ Some quotes from Al-Jahiz's Book of Stories of Misers ❇️

“And whosoever doubts that loneliness is better than a bad companion, and that a bad companion is better than a bad accomplice, because every savior is a companion, and not every accomplice is worth.”

And in Kufa was a man from Bani Abdullah bin Ghatafan called Tufail. The furthest people were the most efficient in requesting banquets and weddings. He was told that: Tufayl Brides, and that became his name and nickname that is not known by anyone else. So everyone who had that taste was called a parasite.

― Amr bin Bahr Al-Jahiz, The Miser



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