Note 217 — Chapter XIII · Decline of the Caliphs’ Authority in Khorāsān. The Tāhirides
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d’Herbelot quotes a Persian quatrain in which the Tāhirides are enumerated—
Dar Khorāsān zi āl-i-Massābshāh, Tāhir u Talha būd u Abdullāh, Bāz Tāhir, digar Mohammad dān Kū be Ya`kūb dād takht u kulāh.
Translation.—In Khorāsān, of the house of Massāb (Tāhir’s name was Tāhir ibn Husayn ibn Massāb) there were the following princes—Tāhir, Talha, `Abdullah, another Tāhir and then Mohammad, who gave up throne and crown to Ya`kūb.