Mihaffah

For their conveyance two litters (mihaffah) are hung the back of an elephant, one litter on each side. On each litter one leopard sits, look out for a prey.

... the vizir al-Faḑi ibn al-Rabiʾ (d. 208/824) ordered the singer-composer Fulayḥ ibn abī al-ʿAwrāʾ (d. ?) to be taken from his sick bed and brought to his majlis on a miḥaffah (stretcher).