One day, Yahya Bin Khalid the Barmecide was returning home from the Caliph's palace when he saw a man at the gate of his mansion. The man rose as he drew near and saluted him, saying, "O Yahya, I am in sore need of that which is in your hand, and I make Allah my intermediary with you." So Yahya caused a place to be set apart for him in his house and bade his treasurer give him a thousand dirhams every day and ordered that his diet be of the choicest of his own meat. The man remained in this case a whole month, and at the end of which time, having received in all thirty thousand dirhams and fearing lest Yahya should take the money from him because of the greatness of the sum, he departed by stealth.

Mohammed Al-Amin and the Slave Girl. 93

When it was the Three Hundred and Ninety second night

For indeed, the excellences of the Barmecides were past count, nor can their virtues be committed to description, especially those of Yahya bin Khalid, for he was an ocean of noble qualities, even as the poet says of him:

I asked of Bounty, 'Are you free?' she said, 'No, I am slave to Yahya Khalid son!' "Bought?" asked I. 'Allah forfend,' she said, 'By heirship, sire to sire's transmission!'"

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