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Ahmad ibn Harun al-Rashid

أحمد بن هارون الرشيد

c. 800 CE · 184 AH

Ahmad b. Harun al-Rashid — the ascetic Abbasid prince who renounced the world in his father's lifetime, earning his keep with his own hands on Saturdays and devoting the rest of the week to worship 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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700725750775800825850875900 c. c. c. c. c. c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Ala al-Sadafi · Abu Al Hudhayl Al Allaf · أبو عبيد القاسم بن سلام · الحكم الأول بن هشام · Al-Husayn ibn al-Dahhak al-Khali'

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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