Note 274 — AL-RASHID AND THE BARMECIDES.[269]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Not historically correct. Al-Rashid made Yáhyà, father of Ja’afar, his Wazir; and the minister’s two sons, Fazl and Ja’afar, acted as his lieutenants for seventeen years from A.D. 786 till the destruction of the Barmecides in A.D. 803. The tale-teller quotes Ja’afar because he was the most famous of the house.