Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2177
The caliphate of Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān
عَزْلِ ابْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ خُرَاسَانَ وَاسْتِعْمَالِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ وَفِي سنة ست وخمسين وَلَّى مُعَاوِيَةُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ عَلَى خُرَاسَانَ وَسَبَبُ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ سَأَلَ مُعَاوِيَةَ أَنْ يَسْتَعْمِلَهُ عَلَى خُرَاسَانَ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّ بِهَا عُبَيْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ زِيَادٍ: فَقَالَ: وَاللَّهِ لَقَدِ اصْطَنَعَكَ أَبِي حَتَّى بَلَغْتَ بِاصْطِنَاعِهِ الْمَدَى الَّذِي تُجَارَى إِلَيْهِ وَلَا تُسَامَى، فَمَا شَكَرْتَ بَلَاءَهُ وَلَا جَازَيْتَهُ وَقَدَّمْتَ هَذَا، يَعْنِي يَزِيدَ، وَبَايَعْتَ لَهُ، وَاللَّهِ لَأَنَا خَيْرٌ مِنْهُ أَبًا وَأُمًّا وَنَفْسًا ! فَقَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: أَمَّا بَلَاءُ أَبِيكَ فَقَدْ يَحِقُّ عَلَيْكَ الْجَزَاءُ بِهِ، وَقَدْ كَانَ مِنْ شُكْرِي لِذَلِكَ أَنِّي قَدْ طَلَبْتُ بِدَمِهِ، وَأَمَّا فَضْلُ أَبِيكَ عَلَى أَبِيهِ فَهُوَ وَاللَّهِ خَيْرٌ مِنِّي، وَأَمَّا فَضْلُ أُمِّكَ عَلَى أُمِّهِ فَلَعَمْرِي امْرَأَةٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ خَيْرٌ مِنِ امْرَأَةٍ مِنْ كَلْبٍ، وَأَمَّا فَضْلُكَ عَلَيْهِ فَوَاللَّهِ مَا أُحِبُّ أَنَّ الْغُوطَةَ مُلِئَتْ لِيَزِيدَ رِجَالًا مِثْلَكَ. فَقَالَ لَهُ يَزِيدُ: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ابْنُ عَمِّكَ وَأَنْتَ أَحَقُّ مَنْ نَظَرَ فِي أَمْرِهِ، قَدْ عَتَبَ عَلَيْكَ فَأَعْتِبْهُ. فَوَلَّاهُ حَرْبَ خُرَاسَانَ، وَوَلَّى إِسْحَاقَ بْنَ طَلْحَةَ خَرَاجَهَا وَكَانَ إِسْحَاقُ ابْنُ خَالَةِ مُعَاوِيَةَ، أُمُّهُ أُمُّ أَبَانٍ بِنْتُ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ، فَلَمَّا صَارَ بِالرَّيِّ مَاتَ إِسْحَاقُ فَوَلِيَ سَعِيدٌ حَرْبَهَا وَخَرَاجَهَا، فَلَمَّا قَدِمَ خُرَاسَانَ قَطَعَ النَّهْرَ إِلَى سَمَرْقَنْدَ، فَخَرَجَ إِلَيْهِ الصُّغْدَ فَتَوَاقَفُوا يَوْمًا إِلَى اللَّيْلِ وَلَمْ يَقْتَتِلُوا، فَقَالَ مَالِكُ بْنُ الرَّيْبِ: مَا زِلْتَ يَوْمَ الصُّغْدِ تُرْعِدُ وَاقِفًا مِنَ الْجُبْنِ حَتَّى خِفْتُ أَنْ تَتَنَصَّرَا فَلَمَّا كَانَ مِنَ الْغَدِ اقْتَتَلُوا فَهَزَمَهُمْ سَعِيدٌ وَحَصَرَهُمْ فِي مَدِينَتِهِمْ، فَصَالَحُوهُ وَأَعْطَوْهُ رَهْنًا مِنْهُمْ خَمْسِينَ غُلَامًا مِنْ أَبْنَاءِ عُظَمَائِهِمْ، فَسَارَ إِلَى تِرْمِذَ فَفَتَحَهَا صُلْحًا وَلَمْ يَفِ لِأَهْلِ سَمَرْقَنْدَ وَجَاءَ بِالْغِلْمَانِ مَعَهُ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ: وَكَانَ مِمَّنْ قُتِلَ مَعَهُ قُثَمُ بْنُ عَبَّاسِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ.
Translation
✧ The dismissal of Ibn Ziyād from Khurāsān and the appointment of Saʿīd b. ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān In the year fifty-six, Muʿāwiyah appointed Saʿīd b. ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān over Khurāsān. The reason for that was that he asked Muʿāwiyah to appoint him over Khurāsān, and he said: "ʿUbayd Allāh b. Ziyād is there." He said: "By Allah, my father favored you until by his favor you reached the utmost limit to which one may aspire and beyond which none may be challenged, yet you did not show gratitude for his kindness nor repay him, and you have put forward this one—meaning Yazīd—and pledged allegiance to him. By Allah, I am better than him in father, mother, and self!" Muʿāwiyah said: "As for your father's kindness, repayment for it is indeed incumbent upon you, and part of my gratitude for that was that I sought his blood. As for your father's superiority over his father, he is, by Allah, better than me. As for your mother's superiority over his mother, by my life, a woman of Quraysh is better than a woman of Kalb. As for your superiority over him, by Allah, I would not love that the Ghūṭah be filled for Yazīd with men like you." Then Yazīd said to him: "O Commander of the Faithful, he is your cousin, and you are the most entitled to look into his affair. He has reproached you, so satisfy him." So he appointed him over the war of Khurāsān, and appointed Isḥāq b. Ṭalḥah over its tax revenues. Isḥāq was the son of Muʿāwiyah's maternal aunt; his mother was Umm Abān bt. ʿUtbah b. Rabīʿah. When he reached al-Rayy, Isḥāq died, so Saʿīd took charge of its war and its tax revenues. When he arrived in Khurāsān, he crossed the river to Samarqand. The people of Ṣughd came out to him, and they stood facing each other for a day until nightfall without fighting. Mālik b. al-Rayb said: You kept trembling while standing on the day of Ṣughd from cowardice, until I feared you would become a Christian. The next day they fought, and Saʿīd defeated them and besieged them in their city. They made peace with him and gave him hostages from among them: fifty young boys from the sons of their nobles. Then he marched to Tirmidh and conquered it by treaty, but he did not fulfill his pledge to the people of Samarqand, and he brought the boys with him to Madinah. Among those who were killed with him was Qutham b. ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib.
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