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Updated: May 5, 2025
Again this too remains a mystery whence Tabari came by most of the accounts touching the Persians, which are conspicuous by their absence in the anonymous Codex. To clear this whole ground it would appear to be expedient in the first place to set apart all that for which Ibn Mukaffa directly or indirectly is responsible.
The abstract in Eutychius is very unequal being in some parts exhaustive, in others much abridged. The narrations as preserved in Tabari, which correspond to the statements in Eutychius and Ibn Kotaiba and which consequently go back to Ibn Mukaffa, are of a similar nature though Tabari gives in addition other parallel reports.
And our predisposition is supported by the circumstance that the history of the dynasty as given in a manual by the same Ibn Kotaiba and which is styled Kitab al Maarif, brief as it is, betrays as in the instance of the reign of Peroz, all through such an harmony with Eutychius that here two independent authors must necessarily have drawn upon one and the same original; and that original source can be no other than the production of Ibn Mukaffa.
Extracts from this testament especially from its concluding portion, have been handed down to us in the Kitabat Tambih. They relate to the prophecy of Zaradusht regarding the destruction of the Persian religion and empire in the course of a thousand years after him. See also there the highly important Risalat ibn Mukaffa fissahobat.
Both have relied almost to the letter upon the presentment which emanated partly from Ibn Mukaffa and partly from another translator with the only difference that the anonymous writer is oftener more concise than Tabari.
In this phrase the word dad corresponds to the modern Musalman shariyat and the word ain to adat. It is possible that the book of Ibn al Mukaffa was not the first translation of the Persian book since this title is applied by not a few other Arabic writers of the time to some of their own works. These quotations are only to be found in the first part of the Uyunal Akhbar.
Again the version which does not proceed from Ibn Mukaffa is for the most part in accord with the epitome of the story of the Sasanides in the introduction to Yakubi's History of the Abbasides; there the excellent author occasionally subjoins extraneous information. More often than not this presentment is in touch with Ferdausi.
The ways of the Shuubiya. Reference to Persia. Persia and Arabia compared. Arabia and Persia compared. Arabia and Persia contrasted. The prophets of Ajam. Reference to Persia. The Persian throne. Dicta of Mukaffa. Khalid al Barmaki. Dicta on Adab of Mukaffa. Reference to Barmaki. Reference to Barmaki. Sahal Ibn-Harun. Dictum of Buzurja Meher. Madaini quoted. Persia referred to.
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