Note 227 — Chapter XIV · The Saffārides and the Rise of the Sāmānides
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Vambéry is in this place (see Bokhārā, p. 58) guilty of a curious error, for he says that this Rāfi` was the Rāfi` ibn Layth who had rebelled against Hārūn er-Rashīd in A.H. 190 and was pardoned in 196 by Ma´mūn. He would by the year 272 have been rather old to receive a governorship of a province.