Miskin al-Madani

Miskin al-Madani, known as Abu Sadaqa. He was a tailor-slave of some of the family of al-Zubayr, who paid a tax of two dirhams a day. ²

Al-Mas'udi relates that he bought a melody from a black slave-girl who carried a jar, for four dirhams in two payments. His master shaved his beard and head, struck him fifty strokes, and then said: "If you had said it yesterday I would have freed you." ²

He sang for al-Rashid at the gathering of singers; the curtain was raised, and he was ordered four thousand dinars, as the slave-girl had said. ²