Tarikh (al-Tabari) 1867
The caliphate of ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
فَتْحِ بِلَادِ سَاحِلِ دِمَشْقَ لَمَّا اسْتَخْلَفَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ يَزِيدَ بْنَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ عَلَى دِمَشْقَ، وَسَارَ إِلَى فِحْلٍ - سَارَ يَزِيدُ إِلَى مَدِينَةِ صَيْدَا وَعِرْقَةَ وَجُبَيْلٍ وَبَيْرُوتَ، وَهِيَ سَوَاحِلُ دِمَشْقَ، عَلَى مُقَدِّمَتِهِ أَخُوهُ مُعَاوِيَةَ، فَفَتَحَهَا فَتْحًا يَسِيرًا، وَجَلَا كَثِيرٌ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا، وَتَوَلَّى فَتْحَ عِرْقَةَ مُعَاوِيَةُ بِنَفْسِهِ فِي وِلَايَةِ يَزِيدَ. ثُمَّ إِنَّ الرُّومَ غَلَبُوا عَلَى بَعْضِ هَذِهِ السَّوَاحِلِ فِي آخِرِ خِلَافَةِ عُمَرَ وَأَوَّلِ خِلَافَةِ عُثْمَانَ، فَقَصَدَهُمْ مُعَاوِيَةُ فَفَتَحَهَا، ثُمَّ رَمَّهَا وَشَحَنَهَا بِالْمُقَاتِلَةِ وَأَعْطَاهُمُ الْقَطَائِعَ. وَلَمَّا وَلِيَ عُثْمَانُ الْخِلَافَةَ وَجَمَعَ لِمُعَاوِيَةَ الشَّامَ وَجَّهَ مُعَاوِيَةُ سُفْيَانَ بْنَ مُجِيبٍ الْأَزْدِيَّ إِلَى طَرَابُلُسَ، وَهِيَ ثَلَاثُ مُدُنٍ مُجْتَمِعَةٌ، ثُمَّ بَنَى فِي مَرْجٍ عَلَى أَمْيَالٍ مِنْهَا حِصْنًا سُمِّيَ حِصْنَ سُفْيَانَ، وَقَطَعَ الْمَادَّةَ عَنْ أَهْلِهَا مِنَ الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ وَحَاصَرَهُمْ، فَلَمَّا اشْتَدَّ عَلَيْهِمُ الْحِصَارُ اجْتَمَعُوا فِي أَحَدِ الْحُصُونِ الثَّلَاثَةِ وَكَتَبُوا إِلَى مَلِكِ الرُّومِ يَسْأَلُونَهُ أَنْ يُمِدَّهُمْ أَوْ يَبْعَثَ إِلَيْهِمْ بِمَرَاكِبَ يَهْرُبُونَ فِيهَا إِلَى بِلَادِ الرُّومِ، فَوَجَّهَ إِلَيْهِمْ بِمَرَاكِبَ كَثِيرَةٍ رَكِبُوا فِيهَا لَيْلًا وَهَرَبُوا. فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحَ سُفْيَانُ، وَكَانَ يَبِيتُ هُوَ وَالْمُسْلِمُونَ فِي حِصْنِهِ ثُمَّ يَغْدُو عَلَى الْعَدُوِّ، وَجَدَ الْحِصْنَ خَالِيًا فَدَخَلَهُ، وَكَتَبَ بِالْفَتْحِ إِلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ، فَأَسْكَنَهُ مُعَاوِيَةُ جَمَاعَةً كَثِيرَةً مِنَ الْيَهُودِ، وَهُوَ الَّذِي فِيهِ الْمِينَا الْيَوْمَ، ثُمَّ بَنَاهُ عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ مَرْوَانَ وَحَصَّنَهُ، ثُمَّ نَقَضَ أَهْلُهُ أَيَّامَ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ، فَفَتَحَهُ ابْنُهُ الْوَلِيدُ فِي زَمَانِهِ.
Translation
✧ The Conquest of the Coastal Towns of Damascus When Abū ʿUbaydah appointed Yazīd b. Abī Sufyān over Damascus and marched to Fiḥl, Yazīd marched to the cities of Ṣaydā, ʿIrqah, Jubayl, and Beirut, which are the coasts of Damascus, with his brother Muʿāwiyah leading his vanguard, and he conquered them easily. Many of their inhabitants fled, and Muʿāwiyah personally undertook the conquest of ʿIrqah during Yazīd's governorship. Then the Byzantines overcame some of these coasts at the end of ʿUmar's caliphate and the beginning of ʿUthmān's caliphate, so Muʿāwiyah went against them, conquered them, then repaired them, filled them with fighters, and granted them fiefs. When ʿUthmān assumed the caliphate and united Syria under Muʿāwiyah, Muʿāwiyah sent Sufyān b. Mujīb al-Azdī to Tripoli, which consists of three adjoining cities. Then he built in a meadow several miles away from them a fortress named Ḥiṣn Sufyān, cut off supplies from its people from land and sea, and besieged them. When the siege became severe upon them, they gathered in one of the three fortresses and wrote to the king of the Byzantines asking him to reinforce them or send them ships in which they could flee to Byzantine territory. He sent them many ships, which they boarded at night and fled. When morning came, Sufyān—who used to spend the night with the Muslims in his fortress and then go out against the enemy—found the fortress empty, so he entered it and wrote of the conquest to Muʿāwiyah. Muʿāwiyah settled a large group of Jews in it, and it is the one in which the port is today. Then ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān built it and fortified it. Then its people broke the treaty in the days of ʿAbd al-Malik, and his son al-Walīd conquered it in his time.
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