Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2135
The caliphate of Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān
عَزْلِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو عَنْ مِصْرَ وَوِلَايَةِ ابْنِ حُدَيْجٍ وَكَانَ عُثْمَانِيًّا، فَمَرَّ بِهِ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: يَا مُعَاوِيَةُ قَدْ أَخَذْتَ جَزَاءَكَ مِنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ، قَدْ قَتَلْتَ أَخِي مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ لِتَلِيَ مِصْرَ فَقَدَ وُلِيتَهَا. فَقَالَ: مَا قَتَلْتُ مُحَمَّدًا إِلَّا بِمَا صَنَعَ بِعُثْمَانَ. فَقَالَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ: فَلَوْ كُنْتَ إِنَّمَا تَطْلُبُ بِدَمِ عُثْمَانَ لَمَا شَارَكْتَ مُعَاوِيَةَ فِيمَا صَنَعَ حَيْثُ عَمِلَ عَمْرٌو بِالْأَشْعَرِيِّ مَا عَمِلَ فَوَثَبْتَ أَوَّلَ النَّاسِ فَبَايَعْتَهُ.
Translation
✧ The dismissal of ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAmr from Egypt and the appointment of Ibn Ḥudayj And he was an ʿUthmānī, so ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Bakr passed by him and said to him: O Muʿāwiyah, you have received your reward from Muʿāwiyah. You killed my brother Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr so that you might govern Egypt, and now you have been appointed over it. He replied: I did not kill Muḥammad except for what he did to ʿUthmān. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān said: If you were only seeking blood for ʿUthmān, you would not have participated with Muʿāwiyah in what he did when ʿAmr acted against al-Ashʿarī as he did, and you were the first of the people to leap up and pledge allegiance to him.
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