Note 270 — AL-RASHID AND THE BARMECIDES.[269]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Fourth Abbaside, A.D. 785–786, vol. v. 93. He was a fantastic tyrant who was bent upon promoting to the Caliphate his own son, Ja’afar; he cast Harun into prison and would probably have slain him but for the intervention of the mother of the two brothers, Khayzarán widow of Al-Mahdi, and Yahya the Barmecide.