By Allah, oppression is a baleful thing;
the evildoer has ever been the truest oppressor.
Toward the Judge on the Day of Reckoning we proceed,
and before Allah all opponents shall be arrayed. (1)

He then sent for the poet, declared him absolved, granted him one thousand dinars, and released him.

Al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Fahm said (2): Muhammad ibn ʿAbbād narrated to us, on the authority of Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, who said:
“I entered upon al-Rashīd and he asked, ‘What news do you bring?’ I replied:

Under Allah’s gaze, nothing the houses hide remains concealed;
endurance and silence have gone on far too long.

Al-Rashīd said, ‘So-and-so, give Ibn ʿUyaynah one hundred thousand; it will enrich him and his descendants, and it will not lessen al-Rashīd in the least.’ (3)

Al-Aṣmaʿī said: I was with al-Rashīd on pilgrimage. We passed through a valley where, on its brink, a young and beautiful woman stood with a bowl before her. She was eating from it while reciting:

The blows of passing years have beaten us low,
and the trials of the days have struck us hard.
So we have come to you with hands outstretched,
seeking from you provisions and bread.
Seek reward and recompense through us,
O visitors to the Sacred House!
Whoever sees me sees me and my scanty gear—
so pity my exile and my humbled state.

Al-Aṣmaʿī continued: I went to al-Rashīd and informed him of her. He came himself, stood beside her, listened, pitied her, and wept. He then ordered Masrūr the servant to fill her bowl with gold, and he filled it until it overflowed to the right and left. (4)

Al-Rashīd once heard a Bedouin chanting to his camels on the pilgrimage road:

O you who heap up cares—fret no more;
if fever is decreed for you, fever you shall endure.
How will you shield yourself when the Pen’s ink is dry?
Both health and sickness have already been assigned. (5)