Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2094
The caliphate of Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān
اسْتِعْمَالِ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ شُعْبَةَ عَلَى الْكُوفَةِ أَرَادَ مُعَاوِيَةَ أَنْ يَسْتَخْلِفَ عَلَى الْكُوفَةِ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ، فَقَالَ لَهُ الْمُغِيرَةُ بْنُ شُعْبَةَ: أَتُوَلِّيهِ الْكُوفَةَ وَأَبُوهُ بِمِصْرَ وَتَبْقَى أَنْتَ بَيْنَ لَحْيَيِ الْأَسَدِ ؟ ! فَثَنَاهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ، وَوَلَّى عَلَيْهَا الْمُغِيرَةَ بْنَ شُعْبَةَ، فَاجْتَمَعَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْعَاصِ بِمُعَاوِيَةَ، فَقَالَ: أَتَجْعَلُ الْمُغِيرَةَ عَلَى الْخَرَاجِ، هَلَّا وَلَّيْتَ الْخَرَاجَ رَجُلًا آخَرَ. فَعَزَلَهُ عَنِ الْخَرَاجِ وَوَلَّاهُ عَلَى الصَّلَاةِ، فَقَالَ الْمُغِيرَةُ لِعَمْرٍو فِي ذَلِكَ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: أَلَسْتَ الْمُشِيرَ عَلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو ؟ قَالَ: بَلَى. قَالَ: فَهَذِهِ بِتِلْكَ. وَلَمَّا وَلِيَ الْمُغِيرَةُ الْكُوفَةَ اسْتَعْمَلَ كَثِيرَ بْنَ شِهَابٍ عَلَى الرَّيِّ، وَكَانَ يَكْثُرُ سَبَّ عَلِيٍّ عَلَى مِنْبَرِ الرَّيِّ، وَبَقِيَ عَلَيْهَا إِلَى أَنْ وَلِيَ زِيَادٌ الْكُوفَةَ، فَأَقَرَّهُ عَلَيْهَا، وَغَزَا الدَّيْلَمَ وَمَعَهُ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْحَجَّاجِ التَّغْلِبِيُّ، وَقَتَلَ دَيْلَمِيًّا وَأَخَذَ سَلْبَهُ، فَأَخَذَهُ مِنْهُ كَثِيرٌ، فَنَاشَدَهُ اللَّهَ فِي رَدِّهِ عَلَيْهِ فَلَمْ يَفْعَلْ، فَاخْتَفَى لَهُ وَضَرَبَهُ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ بِالسَّيْفِ أَوْ بِعَصَا هَشَمَ وَجْهَهُ، فَقَالَ: مَنْ مُبْلِغٌ أَفَنَاءَ خِنْدَفَ أَنَّنِي أَدْرَكْتُ طَائِلَتِي مِنِ ابْنِ شِهَابِ أَدْرَكْتُهُ لَيْلًا بِعَقَوَةَ دَارِهِ فَضَرَبْتُهُ قُدُمًا عَلَى الْأَنْيَابِ هَلَّا خَشِيتَ وَأَنْتَ عَادٍ ظَالِمٌ بِقُصُورٍ أَبْهَرَ أُسْرَتِي وَعِقَابِي
Translation
✧ The appointment of al-Mughīrah b. Shuʿbah over Kufa Muʿāwiyah wanted to appoint ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ as his successor over Kufa, but al-Mughīrah b. Shuʿbah said to him: “Will you appoint him over Kufa while his father is in Egypt, and you remain between the jaws of the lion?!” So he dissuaded him from that, and he appointed al-Mughīrah b. Shuʿbah over it. Then ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ met with Muʿāwiyah and said: “Will you place al-Mughīrah over the land tax? Why not appoint another man over the land tax?” So he removed him from the land tax and appointed him over the prayer. Al-Mughīrah spoke to ʿAmr about that, and he said to him: “Are you not the one who advised the Commander of the Faithful concerning ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAmr?” He said: “Yes.” He said: “This is for that.” When al-Mughīrah was appointed over Kufa, he appointed Kathīr b. Shihāb over al-Rayy, and he used to curse ʿAlī frequently from the pulpit of al-Rayy. He remained over it until Ziyād was appointed over Kufa, and he confirmed him in it. He raided al-Daylam, and with him was ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Ḥajjāj al-Taghlibī. He killed a Daylamī and took his spoils, but Kathīr took it from him. He implored him by God to return it to him, but he did not do so, so he concealed himself from him and struck him on his face with a sword, or with a stick, crushing his face. He said: Who will convey to the tribes of Khindif that I have attained my vengeance upon Ibn Shihāb? I caught him at night in the courtyard of his house, and I struck him first upon the fangs. Would that you had feared, while you were an aggressor and wrongdoer, for the palaces of Abhar, my family, and my punishment.
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