Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2105
The caliphate of Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān
صُلْحِ مُعَاوِيَةَ وَقَيْسِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ ( وفي سنة إحدى وأربعين جَرَى الصُّلْحُ بَيْنَ مُعَاوِيَةَ وَقَيْسِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، وَكَانَ قَيْسٌ امْتَنَعَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَسَبَبُ امْتِنَاعِهِ ) أَنَّ عُبَيْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَبَّاسٍ لَمَّا عَلِمَ بِمَا يُرِيدُهُ الْحَسَنُ مِنْ تَسْلِيمِ الْأَمْرِ إِلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ كَتَبَ إِلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ يَسْأَلُهُ الْأَمَانَ لِنَفْسِهِ عَلَى مَا أَصَابَ مِنْ مَالٍ وَغَيْرِهِ، فَأَجَابَهُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ، وَأَرْسَلَ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَامِرٍ فِي جَيْشٍ كَثِيفٍ، فَخَرَجَ إِلَيْهِمْ عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ لَيْلًا وَتَرَكَ جُنْدَهُ الَّذِينَ هُوَ عَلَيْهِمْ بِغَيْرِ أَمِيرٍ وَفِيهِمْ قَيْسُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، فَأَمَّرَ ذَلِكَ الْجُنْدُ عَلَيْهِمْ قَيْسَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ وَتَعَاقَدُوا هُوَ وَهُمْ عَلَى قِتَالِ مُعَاوِيَةَ حَتَّى يَشْرُطَ لِشِيعَةِ عَلِيٍّ وَلِمَنْ كَانَ مَعَهُ عَلَى دِمَائِهِمْ وَأَمْوَالِهِمْ. وَقِيلَ: إِنَّ قَيْسًا كَانَ هُوَ الْأَمِيرُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ الْجَيْشِ ( فِي الْمُقَدِّمَةِ، عَلَى مَا ذَكَرْنَاهُ، وَكَانَ شَدِيدَ الْكَرَاهَةِ لِإِمَارَةِ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ، فَلَمَّا بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ الْحَسَنَ بْنَ عَلِيٍّ صَالِحَ مُعَاوِيَةَ اجْتَمَعَ مَعَهُ جَمْعٌ كَثِيرٌ وَبَايَعُوهُ عَلَى قِتَالِ مُعَاوِيَةَ حَتَّى يَشْتَرِطَ لِشِيعَةِ عَلِيٍّ عَلَى دِمَائِهِمْ وَأَمْوَالِهِمْ وَمَا كَانُوا أَصَابُوا فِي الْفِتْنَةِ، فَرَاسَلَهُ مُعَاوِيَةُ يَدْعُوهُ إِلَى طَاعَتِهِ، وَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ بِسِجِلٍّ، وَخَتَمَ عَلَى أَسْفَلِهِ وَقَالَ لَهُ: اكْتُبْ فِي هَذَا مَا شِئْتَ فَهُوَ لَكَ. فَقَالَ عَمْرٌو لِمُعَاوِيَةَ: لَا تُعْطِهِ هَذَا وَقَاتِلْهُ. فَقَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: عَلَى رِسْلِكَ فَإِنَّا لَا نَخْلُصُ إِلَى قَتْلِهِمْ حَتَّى يَقْتُلُوا أَعْدَادَهُمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الشَّامِ، فَمَا خَيْرُ الْعَيْشِ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ ؟ فَإِنِّي وَاللَّهِ لَا أُقَاتِلُهُ أَبَدًا حَتَّى لَا أَجِدَ مِنْ قِتَالِهِ بُدًّا. فَلَمَّا بَعَثَ إِلَيْهِ مُعَاوِيَةُ ذَلِكَ السِّجِلَّ اشْتَرَطَ قَيْسٌ لَهُ وَلِشِيعَةِ عَلِيٍّ الْأَمَانَ عَلَى مَا أَصَابُوا مِنَ الدِّمَاءِ وَالْأَمْوَالِ، وَلَمْ يَسْأَلْ فِي سِجِلِّهِ ذَلِكَ مَالًا، وَأَعْطَاهُ مُعَاوِيَةُ [مَا سَأَلَ ]، فَدَخَلَ قَيْسُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ وَمَنْ مَعَهُ [فِي طَاعَةِ مُعَاوِيَةَ ]. وَكَانُوا يَعُدُّونَ دُهَاةَ النَّاسِ حِينَ ثَارَتِ الْفِتْنَةُ خَمْسَةً يُقَالُ إِنَّهُمْ ذَوُو رَأْيِ الْعَرَبِ وَمَكِيدَتِهِمْ: مُعَاوِيَةُ، وَعَمْرٌو، وَالْمُغِيرَةُ بْنُ شُعْبَةَ، وَقَيْسُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ بُدَيْلٍ الْخُزَاعِيُّ، وَكَانَ قَيْسٌ وَابْنُ بُدَيْلٍ مَعَ عَلِيٍّ، وَكَانَ الْمُغِيرَةُ مُعْتَزِلًا بِالطَّائِفِ، وَلَمَّا اسْتَقَرَّ الْأَمْرُ لِمُعَاوِيَةَ دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ سَعْدُ بْنُ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ فَقَالَ: السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ أَيُّهَا الْمَلِكُ ! فَضَحَكَ مُعَاوِيَةُ وَقَالَ: مَا كَانَ عَلَيْكَ يَا أَبَا إِسْحَاقَ لَوْ قُلْتَ: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ؟ فَقَالَ: أَتَقُولُهَا جَذْلَانَ ضَاحِكًا ؟ وَاللَّهِ مَا أُحِبُّ أَنِّي وُلِيتُهَا بِمَا وُلِيتَهَا بِهِ.
Translation
✧ The reconciliation of Muʿāwiyah and Qays b. Saʿd (In the year forty-one the reconciliation took place between Muʿāwiyah and Qays b. Saʿd. Qays had refused that, and the reason for his refusal was) that when ʿUbayd Allāh b. ʿAbbās learned what al-Ḥasan intended, namely handing over the affair to Muʿāwiyah, he wrote to Muʿāwiyah asking him for a guarantee of safety for himself regarding the wealth and other things he had obtained. He answered him to that effect and sent ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿĀmir with a dense army. ʿUbayd Allāh went out to them at night and left his troops, over whom he was commander, without a commander, and Qays b. Saʿd was among them. The troops appointed Qays b. Saʿd over themselves, and he and they pledged together to fight Muʿāwiyah until he stipulated safety for the Shīʿah of ʿAlī and for those who were with him regarding their blood and their wealth. It is said that Qays was the commander of that army (in the vanguard, as we have mentioned, and he intensely disliked the rule of Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān. When it reached him that al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī had made peace with Muʿāwiyah, a large group gathered with him and pledged allegiance to him to fight Muʿāwiyah until he stipulated for the Shīʿah of ʿAlī regarding their blood, their wealth, and what they had seized during the fitnah. Muʿāwiyah corresponded with him, calling him to obedience, and sent him a blank scroll, sealing its bottom, and said to him: "Write in this whatever you wish, and it is yours." ʿAmr said to Muʿāwiyah: "Do not give him this; fight him." Muʿāwiyah said: "Easy now. We will not be able to kill them until they kill equal numbers of the people of Syria. What good is life after that? By God, I will never fight him as long as I can find any alternative to fighting him." When Muʿāwiyah sent him that scroll, Qays stipulated for himself and for the Shīʿah of ʿAlī safety regarding the blood and wealth they had seized, and he did not ask in that scroll for any money. Muʿāwiyah gave him what he asked, and Qays b. Saʿd and those with him entered into obedience to Muʿāwiyah. They used to count the cunning men of the people, when the fitnah broke out, as five, of whom it was said they were the men of judgment and stratagem of the Arabs: Muʿāwiyah, ʿAmr, al-Mughīrah b. Shuʿbah, Qays b. Saʿd, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Budayl al-Khuzāʿī. Qays and Ibn Budayl were with ʿAlī, and al-Mughīrah was staying apart in al-Ṭāʾif. When the affair became settled for Muʿāwiyah, Saʿd b. Abī Waqqāṣ entered upon him and said: "Peace be upon you, O king!" Muʿāwiyah laughed and said: "What harm would it have done you, O Abū Isḥāq, if you had said: O Commander of the Faithful?" He said: "Do you say it joyfully, laughing? By God, I would not love that I had assumed it by what you assumed it by."
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