The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night/Musab Ben ez Zubeir and Aaïsheh Daughter of Telheh
MUSAB BEN EZ ZUBEIR AND AAÏSHEH DAUGHTER OF TELHEH.
It is told of Musab ben ez Zubeir[1] that he met Izzeh, who was one of the shrewdest of women, in Medina and said to her, ‘I have a mind to marry Aaïsheh,[2] daughter of Telheh, and I would have thee go to her and spy out for me how she is made.’ So she went and returning to Musab, said, ‘I have seen her, and her face is more beautiful than health; she hath large and well-opened eyes, an aquiline nose and smooth, oval cheeks and a mouth like a cleft pomegranate, a neck like an ewer of silver and a bosom with two breasts like twin pomegranates, a slim waist and a slender belly, with a navel therein as it were a casket of ivory, and backside like a hummock of sand. Moreover, she hath plump thighs and legs like columns of alabaster; but I saw her feet to be large, and thou wilt fall short with her in time of amorous dalliance.’ Night ccclxxxviUpon this report, he married her and Izzeh invited Aaïsheh and the women of the tribe of Kureish to her house, when Aaïsheh sang the following, with Musab standing by:
The mouths of girls, with their odoriferous, Sweet breath and their witching smiles, are sweet to buss;
Yet ne’er have I tasted them, but in thought of him; And by thought, indeed, the Ruler rules over us.
The night of his going in to her, he departed not from her, till after seven courses; and on the morrow, a freed-woman of his met him and said to him, ‘May I be thy ransom! Thou art perfect, even in this.’
Quoth a certain woman, ‘I was with Aaïsheh, when her husband came in to her, and she lusted to him; so he fell upon her and she puffed and snorted and made use of all manner of rare motions and strange inventions, and I the while within hearing. So when he came out from her, I said to her, “How canst thou, with thy rank and nobility and condition, do thus, and I in thy house?” Quoth she, “A woman should bring her husband all of which she is mistress, by way of excitations and rare motions. What mislikest thou of this?” And I answered, “I would have this anights.” “Thus is it by day,” rejoined she, “and by night I do more than this; for, when he sees me, desire stirs in him and he falls on heat; so he puts out his hand to me and I obey him, and it is as thou seest.”’
- ↑ Half-brother of Abdallah ben ez Zubeir, the celebrated pretender to the Khalifate, see Vol. III. p. 194, note 3.
- ↑ Grand-daughter of the Khalif Aboubekr and the most beautiful woman of her day.
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