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[1] Tabaqat al‐Shu'ara', p. 252.
[2] Abu al‐Farajj al‐Asfahani, al‐Aghani, vol. 5, p. 20.
[3] Al‐Mustatraf, p. 341.
[4] A kind of candy made from flour, water, and honey.
[5] Al‐'Aqd al‐Farid, vol. 3, p. 285.
Ja‘far said: “Until you eat this mouthful.”
When al‐Rashid took it out of his mouth, Ja‘far asked him:
“How much is this food along with the meat?”
Al‐Rashid replied: “Three dirhams.”
Ja‘far retorted: “No, by Allah, Commander of the faithful. Rather, four hundred thousand
dirhams.” Al‐Rashid asked: “How is that, Ja‘far?”
Ja‘far answered: “A long period before this day, you commanded your cook to fix you mutton, but
it was not available with him. And I said to him: ‘The kitchen should not be void of mutton.’
Accordingly, we slaughter a sheep for your kitchen every day. That is because we do not buy
mutton from market. So we have spent four hundred thousand dirhams since that day. The
Commander of the faithful, had not requested mutton except this day. So I laughed because the
Commander of the faithful had nothing of it except this mouthful. So has the Commander of the
faithful bought it for four hundred thousand dinars.”[1]
Food along with small pieces of fish in gold containers was put before Harun. So he sent for the
head of the cooks. When he stood before him, he said to him: “Did I not tell you that the pieces of
fish should not be small?” So he answered him: “Commander of the faithful, this year I have
placed the fish among the food as an ornament.” Harun asked him about their price, and he
answered him: “They cost four thousand dirhams.” The most delicious fruit was brought to him
from the Islamic countries. The ‘Abbasid kings after him went too far in spending on food, to the
extent that they requested different kinds of birds and meat from the remote places and spent a
lot of money on bringing them.[2] All these things are regarded as violating the Islamic regulations
and rules that require the head of the government to be moderate and not to waste the
properties of the Muslims.
His Spending lavishly on Salve Girls
Harun was fond of slave girls and desirous for enjoying them, to the extent that he went too far in
that and deviated from the way of justice and Islamic law. The historians have mentioned many
examples of his fondness of that. They have narrated his story with Ghadir, the slave girl of his
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