Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2012
The Caliphate of ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān
فتح ابن عامر مرو الروذ والطالقان والفارياب والجوزجان وطخارستان وَفِيهَا فَتَحَ ابْنُ عَامِرٍ مَرْوَ الرُّوذِ وَالطَّالِقَانَ وَالْفَارِيَابَ وَالْجُوزَجَانَ وَطَخَارِسْتَانَ . فَأَمَّا مَرْوُ الرُّوذِ فَبَعَثَ إِلَيْهَا ابْنُ عَامِرٍ الْأَحْنَفَ بْنَ قَيْسٍ فَحَصَرَهَا، فَخَرَجُوا إِلَيْهِ، فَقَاتَلَهُمْ حَتَّى كَسَرَهُمْ فَاضْطَرَّهُمْ إِلَى حِصْنِهِمْ، ثُمَّ صَالَحُوهُ عَلَى مَالٍ جَزِيلٍ، وَعَلَى أَنْ يَضْرِبَ عَلَى أَرَاضِي الرَّعِيَّةِ الْخَرَاجَ، وَيَدَعَ الْأَرْضَ الَّتِي كَانَ أَقْطَعُهَا كِسْرَى لِوَالِدِ الْمَرْزُبَانِ، صَاحِبِ مَرْوَ، حِينَ قَتَلَ الْحَيَّةَ الَّتِي كَانَتْ تَقْطَعُ الطَّرِيقَ عَلَى النَّاسِ وَتَأْكُلُهُمْ، فَصَالَحَهُمُ الْأَحْنَفُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ، وَكَتَبَ لَهُمْ كِتَابَ صُلْحٍ بِذَلِكَ، ثُمَّ بَعَثَ الْأَحْنَفُ الْأَقْرَعَ بْنَ حَابِسٍ إِلَى الْجُوزَجَانِ فَفَتَحَهَا بَعْدَ قِتَالٍ وَقَعَ بَيْنَهُمْ، قُتِلَ فِيهِ خَلْقٌ مِنْ شُجْعَانِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ، ثُمَّ نُصِرُوا، فَقَالَ فِي ذَلِكَ كُثَيِّرٌ النَّهْشَلِيُّ قَصِيدَةً طَوِيلَةً فِيهَا: سَقَى مُزْنَ السَّحَابِ إِذَا اسْتَهَلَّتْ مَصَارِعَ فِتْيَةٍ بِالْجُوزَجَانِ إِلَى الْقَصْرَيْنِ مِنْ رُسْتَاقِ خُوطٍ أَبَادَهُمُ هُنَاكَ الْأَقْرَعَانِ ثُمَّ سَارَ الْأَحْنَفُ مِنْ مَرْوِ الرُّوذِ إِلَى بَلْخَ فَحَاصَرَهُمْ حَتَّى صَالَحُوهُ عَلَى أَرْبَعِمِائَةِ أَلْفٍ، وَاسْتَنَابَ ابْنَ عَمِّهِ أُسَيْدَ بْنَ الْمُتَشَمِّسِ عَلَى قَبْضِ الْمَالِ، ثُمَّ ارْتَحَلَ يُرِيدُ الْجِهَادَ، وَدَهَمَهُ الشِّتَاءُ، فَقَالَ لِأَصْحَابِهِ: مَا تَشَاءُونَ ؟ فَقَالُوا: قَدْ قَالَ عَمْرُو بْنُ مَعْدِيكَرِبَ: إِذَا لَمْ تَسْتَطِعْ شَيْئًا فَدَعْهُ وَجَاوِزْهُ إِلَى مَا تَسْتَطِيعُ فَأَمَرَ الْأَحْنَفُ بِالرَّحِيلِ إِلَى بَلْخَ، فَأَقَامَ بِهَا مُدَّةَ الشِّتَاءِ.
Translation
✧ Ibn ʿĀmir conquered Marw al-Rūdh, al-Ṭāliqān, al-Fāriyāb, al-Jūzjān, and Ṭukhāristān In it (the year thirty-two), Ibn ʿĀmir conquered Marw al-Rūdh, al-Ṭāliqān, al-Fāriyāb, al-Jūzjān, and Ṭukhāristān. As for Marw al-Rūdh, Ibn ʿĀmir sent al-Aḥnaf b. Qays to it, and he besieged it. They came out against him, and he fought them until he defeated them and forced them into their fortress. Then they made peace with him for a substantial sum of money, on condition that he impose the land tax on the lands of the common people, and leave the land that Kisrā had granted to the father of the marzubān, the lord of Marw, when he killed the serpent that used to cut off the road against the people and eat them. So al-Aḥnaf made peace with them on that basis, and wrote for them a document of peace to that effect. Then al-Aḥnaf sent al-Aqraʿ b. Ḥābis to al-Jūzjān, and he conquered it after fighting that took place between them, in which a host of the brave men of the Muslims were killed. Then they were granted victory. About that, Kuthayyir al-Nahshalī recited a long ode, in which he said: May the rain of the clouds, when they pour down, water the battlefields of the young men at al-Jūzjān, to al-Qaṣrayn from the district of Khūṭ. There the two Aqraʿs destroyed them. Then al-Aḥnaf marched from Marw al-Rūdh to Balkh, and he besieged them until they made peace with him for four hundred thousand. He appointed his cousin Usayd b. al-Mutashammis to collect the money. Then he departed seeking jihād, and winter overtook him. He said to his companions: "What do you wish?" They said: "ʿAmr b. Maʿdīkarib said: If you cannot do something, then leave it, and pass on to what you can do. So al-Aḥnaf ordered the departure to Balkh, and he stayed there for the duration of the winter.
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