Harun al-Rashid
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
al-Rashīd · الرشيد · Hārūn al-Rashīd · هرون الرشيد
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Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The Abbasid caliph whose son al-Amīn was known to posterity by his mother Zubaydah rather than by him.
Muḥammad al-Amīn ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd became famous as Ibn Zubaydah, because of his mother's excellence above the rest of the mothers of the caliphs and because of her fame;
the emperor of the Romans whom Hārūn al-Rashīd made war upon is called by some historians Yaʻfūr, by others Naʻfūr, and by others Naqfūr, which is the correct form, since his Roman name is nicephorus.
And judge by this the by-names of the caliphs after Islam, for most of them are known by their by-name, as al-Fārūq, al-Ṣiddīq, al-Manṣūr, al-Rashīd, al-Maʼmūn and others.
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The Abbasid caliph in whose reign Abū Yūsuf served as judge, and around whom the annotator identifies two fabricated tales of jurists bending the law for a ruler.
As for what is imputed to Abū Yūsuf, that he came into connection with al-Rashīd by legal devices with which he answered him, so that al-Rashīd appointed him to the judgeship — that is a lie fabricated against him, like Mālik's singling out al-Rashīd with dispensations;
Adab al-wazīr
The caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd, named as owner of the library whose books al-Jāḥiẓ was set over.
I was put in charge of the library of al-Rashīd's books, and I went through his books, and I found not a saying but that I found its contrary — except sayings that came from the philosopher of the Arabs (*fayāsūf al-ʻArab*), ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, may God Most High be pleased with him: