Note 373 — ABU AL-HASAN OF KHORASAN.[346]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Twelfth Abbaside (A.H. 248–252 = 862–866) the son of a slave-concubine Mukhárík. He was virtuous and accomplished, comely, fair-skinned, pock-marked and famed for defective pronunciation; and he first set the fashion of shortening men’s capes and widening the sleeves. After many troubles with the Turks, who were now the Prætorian guard of Baghdad, he was murdered at the instigation of Al-Mu’tazz, who succeeded him, by his Chamberlain Sa’id bin Salíh.