Episodes: Series - Tara'ef Abu Dulama - 1993

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Abu Dulama's mother-in-law rebukes her daughter for leaving 5 dinars with her husband Abu Dulama. Al-Mansur imprisons a poet after he knew that he took thousands of dinars from his brother in exchange for praising him. Abu El Ataa goes to praise al-Mansur for money. Al-Mansur waits for Abu Dulama.

When Abu El Ataa, Jaafar and Abu Zaid go to a lunch feast at Abu Dulama's, Abu El Ataa tells them that al-Mansur expelled him for praising the Umayyads. After Abu Dulama gets paid for praising Abu El Fadl, the former asks for his friends' help to trick his mother-in-law into thinking that she killed him.

Umm Dulama quarrels with her husband for what he and his friends did to her mother. Abu Dulama praises al-Mansur in a poem. As al-Mansur decides not to give him money, Abu Dulama asks for a hunting dog. He later returns with it, telling al-Mansur about his hunting trip until al-Mansur got bored.

As Abu Dulama tells al-Mansur he fell off his donkey while hunting, and that the rabbit ran because the dog came to save him, he manages to make al-Mansur order a horse for him. Abu Dulama's mother-in-law devises a fraud scheme for Dulama to buy a goat from the merchant in order to make up with her daughter.

Umm Dulama says the merchant gave them the goat in exchange for returning a gift worth 50 dirhams. After Abu Dulama, his son and friends eat the goat, the merchant asks for his right; Abu Dulama says that 50 dirhams isn't a fair price. Finally, he agrees to return the goat, and gives him the bones and skin.

Abu Dulama’s plan succeeds and he doesn't pay the money to the merchant. He goes to the judge to complain and Abu Dulama’s mother-in-law goes to testify to his words, but he accuses her of deceiving him into buying the goat. The judge summons Abu Dulama to interrogate him, but Dulama says his father has died.

People gather in front of Abu Dulama’s house. As al-Mansur orders a thousand dinars for him, Abu Dulama convinces him to take the money in exchange for holding a funeral for him. Abu Dulama goes to El Abbas’s wife, who asks him to recite his poem in lamentation for her husband and gives him 100000 dirhams.

Abu Dulama says that El Abbas’s wife kicked him out after his disdainful joke, after which she sends 10 thousand dirhams to Abu Dulama’s house, so his mother-in-law’s advises her daughter not to tell Abu Dulama, who convinces al-Mansur to bring him a boy to take care of the horse.

Abu Dulama mocks the judge's guards, then goes to the judge alone and there he manages to make the merchant drop his case, but the judge gives the merchant 25 dirhams. Abu Dulama's mother-in-law persuades her daughter to sell the horse, and agrees with the boy to give him 100 dirhams to sell it.

As Dulama threatens Masoud with his deal with his mother and grandmother, he takes 50 dirhams from him. Masoud tells Abu Dulama about the agreement of his mother-in-law and his wife with him to sell the horse. Abu Dulama defends a poet before al-Mansur, so he believes him.

As Abu Dulama's mother-in-law threatens Abu Amr, he agrees to buy the horse for 100 dinars. Abu Dulama lays plans for Abu Salem to be the judge in front of Abu Amr, then he tells Abu Amr that the horse is sick, so he decides to leave the horse and the money. Abu Dulama agrees to sell his donkey to Jaafar.

Abu Dulama satirizes Jaafar for buying his donkey, so he returns it, but Abu Dulama takes the money in return for not spreading his satire. Dulama makes a plan for his mother and grandmother to repeat what happened with Abu Amr with other merchants; Masoud advises them to hire someone in Abu Dulama's place.

Abu Dulama tells his wife he asked for the dog, the horse, and the boy to get a great fortune from al-Mansur, whom he asks for a maidservant to help his wife, whereupon al-Mansur orders his execution, but then gives him what he want. Dulama thinks of a way so that his father won't ride the horse.

Dulama returns to his grandmother with the beggar Abu El Amrout, whom she knows. Umm Dulama and her mother explain the plan to him to assume Abu Dulama's identity in front of the merchant to sell him the horse. Abu Dulama divulges his mother-in-law’s plan and asks Qatal to help him teach them a lesson.

As al-Mansur sends the maidservant to Abu Dulama's house, he is shocked by her ugliness, and Umm Dulama is afraid of her, so he promises to return her. Bashar ibn Burd returns to Kufa. Umm Dulama catches the girl eating ghee. Al-Mansur’s wife convinces her husband to eliminate Abu Muslim al-Khurasani.

Abu Dulama tells al-Mansur he wanted a beautiful maidservant, so he reminds him if he asks for something, he'll kill him. He wants to return the maidservant, but al-Mansur refuses, so he asks him to separate them. Al-Mansur orders a two-wing house for him, then remembers it's a request and orders his execution.

Al-Mansur orders a house for Abu Dulama and makes the executioner leave him. Qatal buys the horse from Umm Dulama for 60 dinars. Abu El Amrout assumes the identity of Abu Dulama, then flees when El Muhtasib, who's in fact a masked Abu Dulama, comes. Qatal agrees to return the horse for 200 dinars.

El Abbas’s wife tells Abu Dulama she'll buy him a maid to marry. As al-Mansur sends his guards to ask Abu Dulama what he said to al-Khurasani, Abu Dulama mocks them, so they return and tell al-Mansur that he's dead, whereupon al-Mansur orders his imprisonment, but they arrest Abu El Ataa by mistake.

When Dulama lies to his father about receiving ten lashes from the jinn, Abu Dulama asks his wife to make a talisman for their son. Al-Mansur and Abu Ayyub discover that Abu Dulama did not go to prison. Al-Mansur assigns Abu Muslim to go to the Levant and eliminate Abdallah ibn Ali.

Abu Dulama’s mother-in-law fails to get her daughter and Dulama to sell the horse. Al-Mansur orders to hand over two houses to Abu Dulama and Abu El Ataa, besides ordering a thousand dirhams to Abu El Ataa. Abu Dulama praises Abu Amr in a poem instead of paying him 20 dirhams.

Masoud informs Abu Dulama of his mother-in-law's plan to sell the horse again, so he asks him to put the sleeping pills in the food as she requested. Abu Dulama tells his wife about the house that al-Mansur gave him, but he gets angry when she wants to sell it because he won't be able to afford its costs.

Whan Dulama, his mother, and the maidservant eat the food, they all sleep. Abu Salem catches Abu Dulama’s mother-in-law claiming that she's a thief and that he's El Muhtasib. But Qatal intervenes and saves him, according to Abu Dulama's plan. Abu El Amrout learns from other beggars that they were with El Muhtasib.

Umm Dulama pays 10 dirhams to Abu El Amrout so that he does not tell her secret to Abu Daulama, then gives him another 10 when he proves to her that El Muhtasib is Abu Dulama, then El Amrout tells the same thing to Abu Dulama’s mother-in-law. Umm Salma sends the maidservant to marry Abu Dulama.

Abu Dulama’s mother-in-law persuades the new maid to marry Dulama, who refuses for fear of his father, but he agrees when he see her beauty. He brings the clerk of the judge and marries her. Umm Dulama tells her husband that she knows he is El Muhtasib and about the 200 dinars and her mother’s scandal.

Abu Dulama is shocked to learn that Dulama married the maidservant Noam, so he takes him to the judge to complain about his marriage, and there Dulama manages to solve a case and prove that Abu Haya stole Bayhs's jewel. Abu Dulama's mother-in-law decides to wed Masoud to the maidservant Amat Allah.

As Abu Dulama asks al-Mansur to cut Dulama's hand for kidnapping and marrying the maidservant, al-Mansur gives him the choice between killing him or solving the problem. Abu Dulama and his family move to the new house, where they think there is a thief, but it turns out the horse entered the granary.

As al-Khurasani sends a letter to al-Mansur, it annoys him and he orders people to wear black, especially when they meet him. Abu Dulama goes to him to ask not to wear black because of his skin tone. Abu Amr goes with a gift that he refuses to hand to anyone except Abu Dulama.

As al-Mansur laughs at Abu Dulama's finding a way to ask him for a gift without being killed, he orders an estate for Umm Dulama and orders him to go to war with the Kharijites. Abu El Amrout blackmails Abu Dulama and takes 10 dirhams from him so as not to satirize him. Al-Mansur sends a message to al-Khurasani.

As Abu Amr gives Abu Dulama a gift, which turns out to be a chicken, he eats some of it then gives the rest to his son and wife. Abu Dulama writes a poem for Abu Amr which makes people laugh at him in the market. Al-Mansur meets with the minister and the chamberlain to read al-Khurasani's answer to his letter.

As al-Mansur implements a plan feigning that he doesn't care about the armies to set al-Khurasani up, he orders Awf ibn Hatim that Abu Dulama joins his army. Abu Dulama's mother-in-law reconciles Abu El Amrout with Dulama because she needs them in selling the house and the estate.

As Awf pushes Abu Dulama to train for combat, the latter writes to his family that he's joined the army and will return after 10 days, so his mother-in-law sends Abu El Amrout with Dulama to assume the identity of his father to make Abu Yahya an offer to buy the palace and the estate; he asks to inspect them.

Abu Yahya sets a date to inspect the palace and the estate. Dulama’s plan to take ghee and oil from Abu Amr for free succeeds. Abu El Amrout tells Abu Dulama’s mother-in-law and Umm Dulama that Masoud revealed their plan, so she ties him up, but Dulama discovers that he escaped and took the horse with him.

As Masoud tells Abu Dulama of his mother-in-law's plan, Abu Dulama shows up and Abu El Amrout flees. He sells the palace and the estate to Abu Yahya. Al-Mansur orders 10 thousand dirhams for him for making him laugh. His wife and mother-in-law intercedes with Umm Salma to make al-Mansur bring him back from war.