Note 248 — GENEROUS DEALING OF YAHYA SON OF KHALID WITH A MAN WHO FORGED A LETTER IN HIS NAME.
Richard Francis Burton translation
Intendant of the Palace to Harun al-Rashid. The Bres. Edit. (vii. 254) begins, “They tell that there arose full enmity between Ja’afar Barmecide and a Sahib of Misr” (Wazir or Governor of Egypt). Lane (ii. 429) quotes to this purpose amongst Arab historians Fakhr al-Dín (De Sacy’s Chrestomathie Arabe i., p. 26, edit. ii.).