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and decided that it is forbidden for husband to marry the woman in such a state for ever. [1] Nisa'
al‐Khulafa', p. 46.
Yet another example of his fondness of slave girls is that he abandoned his slave girl Marida, and
then he remorsed for that, to the extent that he was about to die due to his love for her. He
showed pride toward starting her with peace, and she also showed pride to start him with peace.
So he unwillingly showed patience and was about to die. His minister al‐Fedl b. al‐Rabi‘
understood that, so he sent for al‐‘Abbas b. al‐Ahnef and told him about the affair and said: “Say
something about that.” And he said:
Both lovers are avoid; they blame each other and angry with one another.
She has turned away, and he has turned away. They both are tired of that which they treat.
Surely if an experience lasts long, forgetfulness will creep into (hearts) because of it. Then the
request will be difficult.
Al‐Fedl sent him these poetry lines, and he became very pleased with them. Before al‐Rashid
completed reading them, al‐‘Abbas composed other two poetry lines in this respect:
The lover must have a pause between reunion and desertion.
If desertion lasts long, he will comes back to his lover.
Al‐Rashid approved that and said: “I will make peace with hear.” Then he went to her and made
peace with her. Marida came to know of the reason for the poetry lines, but she did not know him
who composed them. She sent for al‐Fedl to ask him about him. He told her about him. So she
ordered him to be given one thousand dinars.[1] Al‐Rashid also ordered him to be given two
thousand dinars. He also fell in love with a slave girl. So he ordered his minister Yehya to buy her
for one hundred thousand dinars. Yehya regarded this sum as much and did not intend to pay it.
So al‐Rashid became angry with him. Yehya wanted to explain to him the amount spent on such
things of which the government made no use. So he changed this sum into dirhams, and they
amounted a million and a half dirhams. He put them in the corridor through which al‐Rashid
passed to perform the ritual ablution. When al‐Rashid saw them, he regarded them as many. So
he understood his extravagance. In the mean time he felt that Yehya disobeyed him.[2]
Al‐Rashid gave a lot of money to his salve girls. The historians narrated that he sent al‐Hereshi to
the district of al‐Mousil, and he collected to him a lot of money from the remainders of the land
taxes. He brought it to Harun, and he ordered all of it to be spent on some of his slave girls. The
people regarded that as great and talked about it. Semi madness befell Abu al‐‘Atahiya because of
that, so Khalid b. al‐Azher asked him: [1] Ibn al‐Mu'taz, Tabaqat al‐Shu'ra', pp. 356‐357.
[2] Al‐Tabari, Tarikh, vol. 3, p. 332.
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