 When one of the officers was killed, the soldiers turned violent, and soon they were rioting throughout the streets of Samarra.Faced with this hostile situation, al-Musta'in and two of the senior Turkish officers, Wasif and Bugha al-Sharabi, decided to leave Samarra for Baghdad, where they were arrived in the first week of February 865.Upon their arrival, they were greeted by the city's powerful Tahirid governor, Muhammad b.