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The book "The Misers" has scientific significance, revealing the souls, natures, and behaviors of human beings. It also contains numerous names of famous and obscure figures, as well as names of countries and places, descriptions of their inhabitants, and numerous rare and useful verses of poetry, as well as hadiths and historical accounts. The book is a scientific, literary, social, geographical, and historical encyclopedia.

The misers in this book are characterized by kindness, naivety, and sometimes a sense of humor. They are innocent of harm or mistreatment, and there is nothing in them that would disgust or disgust the soul. They only wrong themselves. We find that some of them have well-spread tables, while others feign generosity. In his book, Al-Jahiz does not criticize them or hurt their feelings. Rather, he simplifies their behavior, presenting their economic methods, their use of money, and their fight against extravagance. There is no doubt that some of the characters are imaginary and do not even exist, such as Abu Al-Harith Jumayz and Al-Haytham ibn Mutahhar.

Among the most interesting people mentioned by Al-Jahiz were individuals in Basra who loved frugality, saving money, and good management. They met in a mosque in Basra to exchange experiences. One of them said that he had a donkey that he used to feed with salty water, due to its low price, while he and his family drank fresh water. The donkey's health deteriorated to the point that it nearly died. He then thought and decided to perform ablution with fresh water and feed the donkey whatever was left. Thus, they earned a living without wasting water.

The Book of Misers is a book in which Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr Al-Jahiz documented some of the miserliness of those he met and became acquainted with in his own environment, particularly in the town of Marv, the capital of Khorasan. Al-Jahiz portrayed misers in a realistic, sensual, psychological, and humorous manner, documenting their movements, anxious or reassured glances, and their psychological whims. He exposed their secrets and the hidden aspects of their homes, informed readers of their various conversations, and revealed their psyches and conditions. The first person to study the text of "The Misers" was the orientalist Van Vleuten in 1900. The book's stories are short, humorous, and educational situations, documenting the colloquial expressions common at the time of its writing. The stories are plentiful in dialogue, and it is considered a social, educational, psychological, and economic study of this type of people: the misers.

Author:
Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr ibn Mahbub ibn Fazara al-Laythi al-Kinani al-Basri (159 AH-255 AH) was an Arab writer who was one of the leading figures in literature during the Abbasid era. He was born and died in Basra.