Name: Butera
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al-Wathiq

Harun al-Wathiq bi'llah ibn al-Mu'tasim, ninth Abbasid caliph; in al-Baladhuri: certain officials had laid head-jizya on the Jarajima at Antioch — they being a service-treaty people, not jizya-payers — and they appealed it to him as caliph, whereupon he ordered it remitted; al-Mutawakkil afterwards ordered it taken of them while paying them stipends. Tarikh Baghdad (#7351): born 186 on the Mecca road to an umm walad named Qaratis; bay'a at Samarra on his father's death in Rabi' I 227 aged twenty-nine, his letter read to Baghdad by Ishaq b. Ibrahim; died Wednesday six days short of Dhu'l-Hijja 232 at Qasr al-Haruni aged thirty-two (his son Ahmad said thirty-eight), his brother Ja'far praying over him — Di'bil's famous lines 'a caliph died unwept, another rose unblessed' are here too.

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