[Footnote 144: Mimica emptio, says Abulfeda, erat haec, et
mira donatio; quandoquidem Othman, ejus nomine nummos ex
aerario prius ablatos aerario praestabat, (Annal. Moslem. p.
78.) Elmacin (in his cloudy version, p. 39) seems to report
the same job. When the Arabs be sieged the palace of
Othman, it stood high in their catalogue of grievances.]