News of the Fools and the Simpletons by Ibn al-Jawzi

Akhbar al-Hamqa wa al-Mughaffalin (Tales of Fools and Simpletons) is a book of stories and anecdotes about fools and simpletons, written by the Hanbali jurist, hafiz, hadith scholar and historian Abu al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzi (508 AH – 597 AH). The author divided his book into twenty-four chapters in which he records the poetry, eloquence, characters, traits and types of fools among people, along with some of their amusing anecdotes, and he also mentions the proverbs coined about fools