A fisherman was casting his net by the river at Baghdad. What came up in it that day was not a fish. It was a heavy chest with a lock on it.
Two men in merchants’ clothes were standing there. The caliph Harun al-Rashid, and Jafar who served him. They paid the price and bought the chest.
When it was opened there was a person inside. A young woman lay wrapped in cloth, dead. The caliph’s face went hard where he stood.