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4, p. 47.
So if ‘Abbas is more entitled to your children, and ‘Ali was after that for a reason, then ‘Abbas’s
children inherit him just as the cousin is veiled from the uncle’s inheritance!
He showed his poem to al‐Fedl, and he said to him: “Nothing more wonderful than your poetry
line has reached the Commander of the faithful!” Then he went to al‐Rashid and recited them to
him, and he gave him (money) and brought him nearer to him.[1] Harun gave great wealth and
enormous properties to those poets who disparaged the ‘Alawids. For example, Merwan b. Hefsa
recited to him his poem in which he has mentioned:
‘Abbas’s children are luminous stars; when a star sets another appears.
The fortresses of ‘Abbas’s sons are (available) during all impasses; they are the heads of the high
spears and the cutting swords.
The kingdom whose dynasty and pulpits have become strutting through you congratulate you.
Your father is the friend of the chosen one excluding the Hashimites in spite of your enviers.
So Harun gave him five thousand dinars and a robe of honor. He ordered ten Roman captives to
be given to him. Moreover, he ordered him to be ridden on one of his special horses.[2]
Harun gave these enormous properties to this poet because he satirized Ahl al‐Bayt, the members
of the house, peace be on them, praised the ‘Abbasids, and indicated that he was worthier of the
Prophet than the ‘Alawids.
Yet another example of that is that Mansur al‐Nimri came in to Harun and recited to him his poem
in which he satirized Imam ‘Ali’s family, saying: Say to al‐Hasan and a‐Husayn’s children: Stick to
right affairs.
Remove from you the untrue wishes and dreams regarded as falsehood.
You were kind to Yehya b. ‘Abd Allah when he was on the verge of death.
If you had punished him because of what his hand committed, you would have dealt him a fatal
blow.
You have showed generosity toward ‘Ali’s family a favor that is not small.
When you hurt them, though wrongdoers, you feel pricking of the conscience.
[1] Abu al‐Farajj al‐Asfahani, al‐Aghani, vol. 20, pp. 75‐76.
[2] Al‐Tabari, Tarikh, vol.3, p. 473.
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