The expenditures of al-Ma'mūn on [1] Mu'jam al-Buldān, vol.

The expenditures of al-Ma'mūn on [1] Mu'jam al-Buldān, vol. 3, p. 175. [2] Al-Dirāyāt, p. 364. [3] Fam al-Sulh, a district north of Wāsit. It had a river called Fam al-Sulh, which took water from the Tigris on the eastern side. Mu'jam al-Buldān, vol. 5, p. 177. this marriage were thirty-eight million dinars [1] apart from what he gave to her father, for he gave him ten millions dirhams from the land taxes of Fars (Iran) and the lands of al-Sulh.

[2] Anyhow, when al-Ma'mūn married Bourān, ambergris hazelnuts were scattered from the roof of the house of al-Hasan b.

Sahl, but the people disdained them and abstained from them, so a person called out to them, saying: "Whoever has taken a hazelnut, let him break it, for he will find in it a piece of paper on which it has been written either one thousand dinars or ten silk garments or five garments or a retainer or a slave-girl." Those who obtained pieces of paper sent them to the Divan and received what was written on them. [3] Likewise, al-Ma'mūn spent one million dirhams on the commanders of his army.

[4] Congratulating al-Hasan b. Sahl, his daughter, and al-Ma'mūn, al-Bāhili said: May Allah bless al-Hasan and Bourān regarding the marriage. O son of Hārūn, you have gained, but whose daughter is she? [5] When the hour of wedding came, Bourān was seated on a mat made of gold. Then al-Ma'mūn came in to her and he was accompanied by his aunts and a group of the 'Abbāsid women, so al-Hasan b. Sahl scattered three hundred pearls over al-Ma'mūn and his wife.

The weight of each pearl was a weight (mithqāl) . None stretched out his hand to take them, so al-Ma'mūn ordered his aunts to take them; he stretched out his hand to take one, and thus the 'Abbasid women hurried to take some. Accordingly, al-Ma'mūn said: "May Allah kill Abū Nu'ās! He described wine as if he was present at this gathering of ours; he said: 'Its small and big bubbles are like pearl pebbles on a 'ground of gold " [1] Al-Muwafaqāt, p. 98. [2] Nisā' al-Khulafā', p. 68.

[3] Al-Tabari, Tārikh. [4] Tazyin al-Aswāq, vol. 3, p. 117. [5] Al-Hadā'iq al-Wardiya, vol. 2, p. 220. [6] Hidārat al-Islām. Al-Ma'mūn and al-Hasan b. Sahl spent on his marriage abundant money which was, without doubt, stolen from the Treasury of the Muslims, and which had to be spent, according to Allah's Law, on combating poverty and removing misery from the world of Islam.