Quoted By:
According to legend, Masoud was an infamous slave belonging to the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. He was said to be a large black man used by Hakim to carry out a bizarre punishment. Al-Hakim was said to have occasionally wandered the streets of Cairo looking for deceptive merchants. When he discovered one, he would immediately have Masoud publicly sodomise the man. This folk tale has inspired a phrase which has survived into modern times, in which citizens of Cairo threaten to "bring Masoud" to another person.
