Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2189
The caliphate of Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān
وِلَايَةِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ خُرَاسَانَ وفي سنة تسع وخمسين عَزَلَ مُعَاوِيَةُ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ ابْنَ أُمِّ الْحَكَمِ عَنِ الْكُوفَةِ وَوَلَّى عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ زِيَادِ بْنِ سُمَيَّةَ خُرَاسَانَ وَذَلِكَ أَنَّ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ قَدِمَ وَافِدًا عَلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ، فَقَالَ: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، أَمَا لَنَا حَقٌّ ؟ قَالَ: بَلَى، قَالَ: فَمَاذَا تُوَلِّينِي ؟ قَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ: النُّعْمَانُ بْنُ بَشِيرٍ بِالْكُوفَةِ، وَهُوَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، وَعُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَلَى الْبَصْرَةِ وَخُرَاسَانَ، وَعَبَّادُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَلَى سِجِسْتَانَ، وَلَسْتُ أَرَى عَمَلًا يُشْبِهُكَ إِلَّا أَنْ أُشْرِكَكَ فِي عَمَلِ أَخِيكَ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ، قَالَ: أَشْرِكْنِي فَإِنَّ عَمَلَهُ وَاسِعٌ يَحْتَمِلُ الشَّرِكَةَ، فَوَلَّاهُ خُرَاسَانَ. رَوَى أَبُو حَفْصٍ الْأَزْدِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَمِّي، قَالَ: قَدِمَ عَلَيْنَا قَيْسُ بْنُ الْهُثَيْمِ السُّلَمِيِّ، وَقَدْ وَجَّهَهُ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ زِيَادٍ، فَأَخَذَ أَسْلَمَ بْنَ زُرْعَةَ الْكِلَابِيَّ فَحَبَسَهُ، ثُمَّ قَدِمَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ، فَأَغْرَمَ أَسْلَمَ بْنَ زُرْعَةَ ثَلَاثَمِائَةِ أَلْفِ دِرْهَمٍ. قَالَ عُلَمَاءُ السِّيَرِ: أَقَامَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بِخُرَاسَانَ سَنَتَيْنِ، ثُمَّ قَدِمَ عَلَى يَزِيدَ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ بَعْدَ قَتْلِ الْحُسَيْنِ، وَاسْتَخْلَفَ عَلَى خُرَاسَانَ قَيْسَ بْنَ الْهُثَيْمِ. فَقَالَ يَزِيدُ لِعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ: كَمْ قَدِمْتَ بِهِ مَعَكَ مِنَ الْمَالِ ؟ قَالَ: عِشْرُونَ أَلْفَ أَلْفِ دِرْهَمٍ، قَالَ: إِنْ شِئْتَ حَاسَبْنَاكَ وَقَبَضْنَاهَا مِنْكَ، وَرَدَدْنَاكَ عَلَى عَمَلِكَ، وَإِنْ شِئْتَ سَوَّغْنَاكَ وَعَزَلْنَاكَ، وَتُعْطِي عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ جَعْفَرٍ خَمْسَمِائَةِ أَلْفِ دِرْهَمٍ، قَالَ: بَلْ تُسَوِّغُنِي مَا قُلْتَ، وَتَسْتَعْمِلُ عَلَيْهَا غَيْرِي. ثُمَّ بَعَثَ إِلَى ابْنِ جَعْفَرٍ أَلْفَ أَلْفِ دِرْهَمٍ، وَقَالَ: خَمْسُمِائَةِ أَلْفٍ مِنْ قِبَلِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، وَخَمْسُمِائَةِ أَلْفِ دِرْهَمٍ مِنْ قِبَلِي.
Translation
✧ The Appointment of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ziyād over Khurasan In the year fifty-nine, Muʿāwiyah dismissed ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, son of Umm al-Ḥakam, from al-Kūfah and appointed ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ziyād b. Sumayyah over Khurasan. That was because ʿAbd al-Raḥmān came as a delegate to Muʿāwiyah and said: “O Commander of the Faithful, do we not have a right?” He said: “Indeed.” He said: “Then over what will you appoint me?” Muʿāwiyah said: “Al-Nuʿmān b. Bashīr is in al-Kūfah, and he is a man from among the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and ʿUbayd Allāh b. Ziyād is over al-Baṣrah and Khurasan, and ʿAbbād b. Ziyād is over Sijistān. I do not see any office befitting you except that I make you a partner in the office of your brother ʿUbayd Allāh b. Ziyād.” He said: “Make me a partner, for his office is vast and can bear partnership.” So he appointed him over Khurasan. Abū Ḥafṣ al-Azdī narrated, saying: My uncle related to me, saying: Qays b. al-Huthaym al-Sulamī came to us, having been sent by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ziyād, and he seized Aslam b. Zurʿah al-Kilābī and imprisoned him. Then ʿAbd al-Raḥmān arrived and fined Aslam b. Zurʿah three hundred thousand dirhams. The scholars of the biographies said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān remained in Khurasan for two years, then he came to Yazīd b. Muʿāwiyah after the killing of al-Ḥusayn, having appointed Qays b. al-Huthaym as his successor over Khurasan. Yazīd said to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān: “How much wealth have you brought with you?” He said: “Twenty million dirhams.” He said: “If you wish, we will call you to account, take it from you, and return you to your office; and if you wish, we will grant it to you and dismiss you, on condition that you give ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaʿfar five hundred thousand dirhams.” He said: “Rather, grant me what you have said, and appoint someone else over it.” Then he sent to Ibn Jaʿfar one million dirhams, and said: “Five hundred thousand on behalf of the Commander of the Faithful, and five hundred thousand dirhams from myself.”
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