Cika wannan jumla:
Na huɗu Fitna, mutanen Bagadaza sun ayyana Ibrahim a matsayin khalifa a ranar 20 ga Yuli 817, wanda ya ba shi sunan al-Mubarak () kuma ya ayyana dan uwansa mai mulki al-Ma'mun da aka tsige. Ibrahim ya sami biyayya ga Hashemites. Dole ne ya yi murabus a shekara ta 819, kuma ya yi sauran rayuwarsa a matsayin mawaƙi da mawaƙa. Ana tuna shi a matsayin "ɗayan mafi kyawun mawaƙa na zamaninsa, tare da muryar murya mai ban mamaki", kuma mai tallata sabon salo na 'Persian style' na waƙa, 'wanda aka nuna shi' inter alia 'ta hanyar wuce gona da iri'.