Zubaida bint Ja`far ibn Mansur was the amongst the most well-known of the Abbasid princesses. Zubaida was the daughter of the Abbasid Khalifa Mansur’s elder son, Jaffer, the cousin and wife of the richest and most powerful of the Khalifas, Haroon al-Rashid, the fifth Abbasid Khalifa. It is said that Zubaida's palace 'sounded like a beehive' as she employed one hundred female maidens who had memorized the Qur'an.