Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2147
The caliphate of Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān
وِلَايَةِ مَسْلَمَةَ بْنِ مُخَلَّدٍ إِفْرِيقِيَّةَ وَفِي سنة خمسين عُزِلَ مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ حُدَيْجٍ. عَنْ مِصْرَ وَوَلِيَ مَسْلَمَةُ بْنُ مُخَلَّدٍ مِصْرَ وَإِفْرِيقِيَةَ وَالْمَغْرِبَ كُلَّهُ . فَلَمَّا عَزَلَ مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنَ حُدَيْجٍ السَّكُونِيَّ عَنْ مِصْرَ عَزَلَ عُقْبَةَ عَنْ إِفْرِيقِيَّةَ وَجَمَعَهَا لِمَسْلَمَةَ بْنِ مُخَلَّدٍ، فَهُوَ أَوَّلُ مَنْ جُمِعَ لَهُ الْمَغْرِبُ مَعَ مِصْرَ، فَوَلَّى مَسْلَمَةُ إِفْرِيقِيَّةَ مَوْلًى لَهُ يُقَالُ لَهُ أَبُو الْمُهَاجِرِ، فَقَدِمَ إِفْرِيقِيَّةَ وَأَسَاءَ عَزْلَ عُقْبَةَ وَاسْتَخَفَّ بِهِ، وَسَارَ عُقْبَةُ إِلَى الشَّامِ وَعَاتَبَ مُعَاوِيَةَ عَلَى مَا فَعَلَهُ بِهِ أَبُو الْمُهَاجِرِ، فَاعْتَذَرَ إِلَيْهِ وَوَعَدَهُ بِإِعَادَتِهِ إِلَى عَمَلِهِ، وَتَمَادَى الْأَمْرُ فَتُوُفِّيَ مُعَاوِيَةُ وَتَوَلَّى بَعْدَهُ ابْنُهُ يَزِيدُ، فَاسْتَعْمَلَ عُقْبَةَ بْنَ نَافِعٍ عَلَى الْبِلَادِ سَنَةَ اثْنَتَيْنِ وَسِتِّينَ، فَسَارَ إِلَيْهَا. وَقَدْ ذَكَرَ الْوَاقِدِيُّ أَنَّ عُقْبَةَ بْنَ نَافِعٍ وَلِيَ إِفْرِيقِيَّةَ سَنَةَ سِتٍّ وَأَرْبَعِينَ وَاخْتَطَّ الْقَيْرَوَانَ، وَلَمْ يَزَلْ عُقْبَةُ عَلَى إِفْرِيقِيَّةَ إِلَى سَنَةِ اثْنَتَيْنِ وَسِتِّينَ، فَعَزَلَهُ يَزِيدُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ: وَاسْتَعْمِلْ أَبَا الْمُهَاجِرِ مَوْلَى الْأَنْصَارِ، فَحَبَسَ عُقْبَةَ وَضَيَّقَ عَلَيْهِ، فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ يَزِيدَ بْنَ مُعَاوِيَةَ مَا فُعِلَ بِعُقْبَةَ كَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ يَأْمُرُهُ بِإِطْلَاقِهِ وَإِرْسَالِهِ إِلَيْهِ، فَفَعَلَ ذَلِكَ، وَوَصَلَ عُقْبَةُ إِلَى يَزِيدَ فَأَعَادَهُ إِلَى إِفْرِيقِيَّةَ وَالِيًا عَلَيْهَا، فَقَبَضَ عَلَى أَبِي الْمُهَاجِرِ وَأَوْثَقَهُ.
Translation
✧ The appointment of Maslamah b. Mukhallad over Ifrīqiyyah. In the year fifty, Muʿāwiyah b. Ḥudayj was dismissed from Egypt, and Maslamah b. Mukhallad was appointed over Egypt, Ifrīqiyyah, and the entire Maghrib. When Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān dismissed Muʿāwiyah b. Ḥudayj al-Sakūnī from Egypt, he dismissed ʿUqbah from Ifrīqiyyah and combined them for Maslamah b. Mukhallad. He was the first for whom the Maghrib was combined with Egypt. Maslamah appointed over Ifrīqiyyah a freedman of his called Abū al-Muhājir. He arrived in Ifrīqiyyah and mistreated ʿUqbah in his dismissal and belittled him. ʿUqbah traveled to Syria and reproached Muʿāwiyah for what Abū al-Muhājir had done to him. He apologized to him and promised to restore him to his post. Matters continued until Muʿāwiyah died, and after him his son Yazīd assumed power. He appointed ʿUqbah b. Nāfiʿ over the lands in the year sixty-two, and he set out for them. Al-Wāqidī mentioned that ʿUqbah b. Nāfiʿ governed Ifrīqiyyah in the year forty-six and founded al-Qayrawān. ʿUqbah remained over Ifrīqiyyah until the year sixty-two, when Yazīd b. Muʿāwiyah dismissed him: And he appointed Abū al-Muhājir, the freedman of the Anṣār, so he imprisoned ʿUqbah and treated him harshly. When news reached Yazīd b. Muʿāwiyah of what had been done to ʿUqbah, he wrote to him ordering his release and sending him to him, which he did. ʿUqbah reached Yazīd, who restored him to Ifrīqiyyah as its governor. He seized Abū al-Muhājir and bound him.
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