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The 7th title refers to the book of a certain mobedan mobed on rhetorical passages which were analogous probably to the anonymous Pand Namehs which are found in the Pahlavi literature. The 8th is the book on the correspondence between the Kisra and a Marzban.
Those present were Muhammad bin Abdal Maliq al Zayyad and there were Mazyar, the ruler of Tabaristan, the Mobed, and the Marzban son of Urkesh, one of the chieftains of Sughd, and two people from among the Sughdians. Then Muhammad Ibn Abdal Maliq called the two people whose clothes were torn and asked them how they were. They then uncovered their backs which were torn of the flesh.
Then turned up Mazyar the chief of Tabaristan and Afshin was asked whether he knew him. He said "No." Mazyar was asked if he knew Afshin. Then they told him that this was Mazyar. "Yes, I know him now." "Did you ever have correspondence with him? No." Then turning to the Marzban they asked, "Did he ever write to you?"
The Marzban said "How do people under your jurisdiction address you when they write to you?" Afshin replied; "Just in the way they used to write to my father and grandfather." "Then tell us the way." "No, I won't." "Do not the people of Ashrushna write to you in such and such a way?" "Now, does this not mean in Arabic, 'to the high God from his slave so and so?"
Then the Mobed withdrew and the Marzban turned up. Afshin was asked whether he knew him, and said "No." Then the Marzban was asked whether he knew Afshin and said "Yes. This is Afshin." Afshin was then told that this was the Marzban and the Marzban turning to Afshin said; "Oh cutthroat, why do you prevaricate and shuffle?" Afshin said, "Oh you long-bearded one, what are you talking?"
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