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“Why do you not give me two hundred thousand (dirhams)?” asked Ibrahim.
So, al‐Rashid immediately ordered two hundred thousand dirhams to be given to him.[2]
7. Dehman al‐Ashqar sang him a song through this poetry line:
If we enter and you are our Imam, then it is enough for our mounts to see you as a guide.
One day I remembered you at al‐Dayr, so the prostitutes shone, to the extent that they came up
to the throat.
O Malik’s mother, if the time ended you, then the fatal death will do the same to me.
Al‐Rashid became delighted, asked him to repeat the song several times, and then he said: “Ask
me for something.”
Dehman said: “I wish that you would give al‐Heni’ and al‐Meri.’” They were two country estates
whose corps amounted forty thousand dinars. It was said to Harun: “Commander of the faithful,
these two country estates are too great that you have not given them to him.” “There is no way to
get back what I have given,” he retorted, “but try to buy them from him.” So they bought them
from him for a lot of money.[3]
[1] Ibid., p. 205.
[2] Al‐Tajj, p. 41.
[3] Tarikh al‐Khulafa', p. 116.
8. One night Harun and his drinking companions chatted with one another, and one of them sang
him a song through Jereer’s poetry line:
Surely those who left early in the morning are still on your mind and have left in your eye dripping
water (like) a spring. So he became delighted, admired these poetry lines, and said to his friends:
“Whoever composes poetry lines similar to these will take this purse of money from me.” They
tried to do that but did nothing. So the servant who was standing behind him: “I will do it for you,
Commander of the faithful.” “Do as you like!” retorted Harun. The servant went to al‐Natifi and
told him about the story. Al‐Natifi came in to ‘Enan, and she composed that, saying:
Through the words you have said, you have exited in my heart the illness that is till hidden.
Its fruits have ripened in their foldings, they were watered of the love water and drank their fill.
My master, those who say that hearts love when they love are liars.
He brought them to al‐Rashid, and asked him about him who composed them. He told him about
the affair, and he bought the slave‐girl for thirty thousand dirhams. He let her stay with him for
some days, and then he gifted her to one of his special associates.[1] These are some examples
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