Note 4 — MA’ARUF THE COBBLER AND HIS WIFE FATIMAH.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
i.e. black like the book of her actions which would be shown to her on Doomsday. (See Night dccclxxi.) The ungodly hold it in the left hand, the right being bound behind their backs and they appear in ten foul forms, apes, swine, etc., for which see Sale sect. iv.