Towards the end of his reign, he tried to take matters into his own hands, imprisoning the Barmakid family (Barmakian) and killing his favorite Jafar. But they did not plan well for the future.
In the absence of a proper system of inheritance, he promised to give the caliphate to himself and to Amin, the son of Zubaydah, and to Mamun, the half-brother of Amin, who was the son of a slave girl.
After his death, war broke out between the two brothers and a map of the Baghdad ruins began to emerge.
Mamun killed Amin and seized the throne and set an example for the future. In the light of these events, the political legacy of the historian Haroon al-Rashid cannot be called glorious and if he had a golden age, it was very short. He died in his 40s.
But the eternal character of the story “Alif Laila” Haroon Al-Rasheed seems to have come to the scene shortly after Haroon Al-Rasheed’s death. This is Aaron who lives in our memory.
They are memories of good times that never were, but probably could have been. The past often comes to the fore as a ray of hope in bad times. He is not only a good ruler but he does everything a ruler can do to build a civilized society.
He is the patron saint of intellectuals and poets, and above all he is a romantic hero, a man of tender heart and beauty, especially of beautiful maids who were clever and highly educated and who had access to music and poetry. ۔