Note 324 — MASRUR AND ZAYN AL-MAWASIF.[307]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
A favourite idiom, “What news bringest thou?” (“O Asám!” Arab. Prov. ii. 589) used by Háris bin Amrú, King of Kindah, to the old woman Asám whom he had sent to inspect a girl he purposed marrying.