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He was dismissed after ruling for a year and five months, and Masamah was appointed in his place in Ramadan of the year... Ibn Yahya And he separated the administration of the government from the treasury or the land tax, and appointed Omar bin... Al-Kharaj Masamah bin Yahya was dismissed from the province, and... bin Zuhair was appointed in 1078 in Sha'ban of the year... Ghailan And at the end of Dhu... He was dismissed and Dawood bin... was appointed in his place in the year 1... Yazid bin Hatim bin Cyprus Dawood bin Yazid was dismissed and Musa bin Issa was appointed in his place. And in 176 in Safar of the year... In this year, Harun al-Rashid bequeathed the caliphate to his second son, Al-Amin, who was... He was five years old, and his brother Al-Ma'mun was six. The reason for this was that Al-Amin was the son of Zubaida, the cousin of the Caliph, and Al-Ma'mun was the son of a Persian slave girl. Zubaida was pleased... to deprive her son of the caliphate. Al-Rashid loved her, so he bequeathed it to her son Al-Amin, on the condition that Al-Ma'mun would have the right to the caliphate after him. In the year 1... Al-Rashid marched with one hundred and thirty-five thousand... of the regular soldiers, not including those who did not have a diwan of followers and volunteers, until he reached... Heraclea and besieged it for thirty days, then conquered it in... Shawwal of this year, and took its people captive and sent his armies into the lands of the Romans. They conquered Safsaf and Malakonia, and destroyed and plundered. Theophanes sent tribute for his subjects and for... himself, his son, and his patriarchs. In this year, the people of Cyprus broke the treaty, so... Ma'tūq bin Yam and Karṣā were sent as governors to the coasts of Egypt and Syria, and the people of Cyprus were taken captive. In this year, Al-Fadl bin Sahl was appointed to Al-Ma'mun. He was a loyal Persian. Asad bin Marwan died... and Ibn Amis... Al-Kufi, the companion of Abu Hanifa. In this year, Yahya bin Khalid bin Barmak died, imprisoned in... In the year... In this year, Al-Rashid marched from Raqqa to Khurasan, passed through Baghdad, and set out from there to... He left his son Al-Amin in charge of Baghdad in Sha'ban... "The Death of Harun al-Rashid" In this year, Al-Rashid died in... Jumada al-Akhirah. He had been ill since he began... his journey. His illness intensified in... Safar, so he marched to Tus and died there on... the date mentioned. He had sent his son Al-Ma'mun to... Marw. Al-Rashid dug his own grave in the place of the house where he was... When death approached, he fainted, then regained consciousness and saw Al-Fadl bin Al-Rabi' at his head, so he said, "O Fadl, has what I feared... approached? The eyes of people are upon me from every side. I have become merciful, and I was envious. Be patient with the bitter consequences. I lament the connection that was between us, and I mourn the days of lost happiness. ... days in the year... and the duration of his rule. There is no need to enumerate the virtues of this Caliph, who... ...

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