Sometimes bribe was about two hundred thousand dinars...

Sometimes bribe was about two hundred thousand dinars besides gems and other gifts.[^7] Even the muhtasibs [^8] took bribes and embezzled money through their watching traders and merchants and the movement of buying and selling in the markets. It was narrated that Ahmad bin at-Tayyib bin Marwan ar-Rakhsi, the philosopher, breached the trust when he was the chief of the muhtasibs in Baghdad.

He took, by this way, about one hundred and fifty dinars besides other gifts and presents.[^9] We do not exaggerate if we say that most officials of the state were involved in that embezzlement and bribes.’[^10] The spread of bribe in this manner was a clear evidence on the corruption of the senior officials in the Abbasid government and that most of the officials embezzled the wealth of Muslims unjustly.

The Walis of the Islamic Districts The walis over the Islamic countries often bought their jobs and posts from the viziers. The vizier al-Khaqani sold the post of the wali over Kufa to nineteen walis in one day and took from each of them bribe. Most walis went too far in wronging people and extorting their money unjustly which made most people complain of their injustice and oppression.

At the days of al-Wathiq, his vizier Muhammad bin Abdul Melik composed a poem and ascribed it to one of the soldiers and gave it to the caliph. He mentioned a flow of grievances and distresses that the walis poured over the nation. In his poem he expressed the misfortunes of the nation and the endless sufferings people received during the days of those walis whom al-Wathiq set up on the Islamic districts and entrusted with all the affairs of Muslims. They were excessive in oppression.

They embezzled the treasury and threw the innocent into dark prisons and cells of torture. The Hatred towards the Abbasid Rule Muslims of all trends and tendencies hated the Abbasid rule and wished it to disappear a moment after another because of the bad, devious policies of the Abbasid rulers which were different from the laws of the Islamic Sharia in most cases, where the wicked became masters and the free were subdued.

The corruption of the Abbasid governments brought Muslims disasters and misfortunes and threw them into great dangers. The Abbasid rulers and their officials extorted the wealth of the nation and killed the great and reformers. They killed many people like the great martyr Zayd the son of Imam ‘Ali bin al-Husayn who were martyred in the way of justice during the reign of the Umayyads.