Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Gidan sarautar Tahirid (, ) ya kasance daular "dehqan" ta Sunna, wacce ta yi mulkin Khorasan daga 821 zuwa 873 tare da yin aiki a matsayin kwamandojin soja da tsaro a Abbasid Baghdad har zuwa 891. An kafa daular ne ta Tahir ibn Husayn, babban janar a cikin hidimar Abbasid kalifa al-Ma'mun. Domin goyon bayansa ga al-Ma'mun a fitina ta huɗu
, an ba shi mulkin Khorasan. Da farko Tahirids sun sanya babban birninsu a Merv amma daga baya aka koma Nishapur. Tahirids, duk da haka, ba su kasance daular mai zaman kanta ba, a cewar Hugh Kennedy: "Wasu lokuta ana ɗaukar Tahirids a matsayin daular Iran ta farko mai zaman kanta, amma irin wannan ra'ayi yana yaudara. Wannan tsari ya kasance haɗin gwiwa tsakanin Abbasids da Tahirids. " Tabbas, Tahirids sun kasance masu aminci ga Abbasid kalifa kuma a dawo suna jin daɗin cin gashin kansu; sun kasance masu wakiltar wakilcin wakilcin Abbasid a Farisa. Kudaden haraji daga Khorasan da aka aika zuwa baitul malin khalifa a Baghdad wataƙila sun fi waɗanda aka tattara a baya.