The words of this faithful and affectionate slave occasioned Buddir ad Deen Houssun great alarm.  “May not I have so much time,” said he, “as to take some money and jewels along with me?” ``No, Sir,” replied the slave, “the grand vizier, will be here this moment; be gone immediately, save yourself.”  The unhappy youth rose hastily from his sofa, put his feet in his sandals, and after he had covered his head with the skirt of his vest, that his face might not be known, fled, without knowing what way to go, to avoid the impending danger.

He ran without stopping till he came to the public burying-ground, and as it was growing dark, resolved to pass that night in his father’s tomb.  It was a large edifice, covered by a dome, which Noor ad Deen Ali, as is common with the Mussulmauns, had erected for his sepulture.  On the way Buddir ad Deen met a Jew, who was a banker and merchant, and was returning from a place where his affairs had called him, to the city.

The Jew, knowing Buddir ad Deen, stopped, and saluted him very courteously.

Isaac the Jew, after he had paid his respects to Buddir ad Deen Houssun, by kissing his hand, said, “My lord, dare I be so bold as to ask whither you are going at this time of night alone, and so much troubled?  Has any thing disquieted you?” “Yes,” said Buddir ad Deen, “a while ago I was asleep, and my father appeared to me in a dream, looking very fiercely upon me, as if much displeased.  I started out of my sleep in alarm, and came out immediately to go and pray upon his tomb.”

“My lord,” said the Jew (who did not know the true reason why Buddir ad Deen had left the town), “your father of happy memory, and my good lord, had store of merchandize in several vessels, which are yet at sea, and belong to you; I beg the favour of you to grant me the refusal of them before any other merchant.  I am able to pay down ready money for all the goods that are in your ships:  and to begin, if you will give me those that happen to come in the first that arrives in safety, I will pay you down in part of payment a thousand sequins,” and drawing out a bag from under his vest, he shewed it him sealed up with one seal.

Buddir ad Deen Houssun being banished from home, and dispossessed of all that he had in the world, looked on this proposal of the Jew as a favour from heaven, and therefore accepted it with joy.  “My lord,” said the Jew, “then you sell me for a thousand sequins the lading of the first of your ships that shall arrive in port?” “Yes,” answered Buddir ad Deen, “I sell it to you for a thousand sequins; it is done.”  Upon this the Jew delivered him the bag of a thousand sequins, and offered to count them, but Buddir ad Deen said he would trust his word.  “Since it is so, my lord,” said he, “be pleased to favour me with a small note of the bargain we have made.”  As he spoke, he pulled the inkhorn from his girdle, and taking a small reed out of it neatly cut for writing, presented it to him with a piece of paper.  Buddir ad Deen Houssun wrote these words: