Note 43
TALE OF THE TRADER AND THE JINNI.
The word is mostly plural = Jinnís: it is also singular = a demon; and Ján bin Ján has been noticed.
…h black. The second old man after saluting them with the salam, also asked them of their tidings and said "What causeth you to sit in this place, a dwelling of the Jann?"[FN#43] So they told him the tale from beginning to end, and their stay there had not lasted long before there came up a third Shaykh, and with him a she mule of bright bay coat; and he saluted them and asked them why they were seated in that place. So they to…
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