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their palaces were more than those in al‐Rashid’s ones. They were greater in the instruments of
amusement. They had the singers the like of whom was not available in the country, especially as
it concerns Fouz and Ferida. Al‐Rashid thought that he was in the Garden when he attained al‐
Beramika’s places decorated with containers inlaid with jewels, full treasuries, silk pillows full of
embroideries, slave girls wearing silk and jewels and received him with perfumes none came to
know what they were, for they were sweet‐smelling.[1]
Um Ja‘far had a hundred maids who wore different kinds of clothes and ornaments.[2] Ja‘far built
a palace on which he spent twenty million dirhams.[3] Al‐Dimyari has mentioned: “Ja‘far
possessed all the country estates. When al‐Rashid passed by country estates or gardens, he asked
about them, and it was said to him that they belonged to Ja‘far.”[4]
Al‐Beramika spent a lot of money on affecting noble deeds and attracting hearts to them. They
gave money without reckoning. Al‐Fedl gave sixteen thousand dirhams to a person, while the
person asked him for four thousand dirhams.[5] He gave to the commander of his police four
million dirhams.[6] Al‐Beramika wen too far in giving money. Al‐Khetib al‐Baghdadi has
mentioned: “When Yehya (al‐Bermeki) rode (his mount), he gave two hundred dirhams to those
who asked him in the road.” A poet came to Yehya and recited to him:
O Namesake of the chaste one, two gardens have been given to you through the favor of our Lord.
Whoever passes by you in the road gets two hundreds of your giving.
Two hundred dirhams to the one like me is few; they are given by you to him who asks to be given
quickly.
Yehya approved his poetry and ordered twenty thousand dirhams to be given to him.[7] Abu
Thumama praised al‐Fedl b. Yehya, an orator, saying:
To al‐Fedl belongs the day of al‐Taliqan and before it, on the day when he inflects on Khaqan.
There is no two days like his two days that lasted for two successive campaigns.
He closed the fortified borderline cities and returned the friendship of the
[1] Hidart al‐Islam fi Dar al‐Salam, p. 112.
[2] Al‐Jahshyari, p. 18.
[3] Al‐Tabari, Tarikh, vol. 10, p. 82.
[4] Al‐Dimyari, Hayat al‐Hayawan, vol. 2, pp. 172‐173.
[5] Al‐Jahshyari.
[6] Ibid.
[7] Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 14, p. 14. Wafayat al‐A'yan, vol. 2, p. 44.
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