فحدثني إبراهيم بن جهرويه أن إبراهيم المعروف بالهفتى -وكان مضحكا- امر له المعتصم بمال، وتقدم إلى الفضل بن مروان في إعطائه ذلك، فلم يعطه الفضل ما امر به المعتصم
Ibrahim b. Jahrawayh related to me that Ibrahim, who had the cognomen al-Hafti (the Foolish), was a jester and buffoon (mudhik) and al-Mu’tasim ordered him to be given a sum of money. He instructed al-Fadl b. Marwan to pay out that sum to Ibrahim, but al-Fadl would not give him what al-Mu’tasim had commanded that he was to get