Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2252
The Year 65 AH
مَوْتِ مَرْوَانَ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ مِنْ سنة خمس وستين مَاتَ مَرْوَانُ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ. وَكَانَ سَبَبُ مَوْتِهِ أَنَّ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنَ يَزِيدَ لَمَّا حَضَرَتْهُ الْوَفَاةُ لَمْ يَسْتَخْلِفْ أَحَدًا، وَكَانَ حَسَّانُ بْنُ بِحَدْلٍ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَجْعَلَ الْأَمْرَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ فِي أَخِيهِ خَالِدِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، وَكَانَ صَغِيرًا، وَحَسَّانُ خَالُ أَبِيهِ يَزِيدَ، فَبَايَعَ حَسَّانُ مَرْوَانَ بْنَ الْحَكَمِ وَهُوَ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَجْعَلَ الْأَمْرَ بَعْدَهُ لِخَالِدٍ، فَلَمَّا بَايَعَهُ هُوَ وَأَهْلُ الشَّامِ قِيلَ لِمَرْوَانَ تَزَوَّجْ أُمَّ خَالِدٍ، وَهِيَ بِنْتُ أَبِي هَاشِمِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ، حَتَّى يَصْغُرَ شَأْنُهُ فَلَا يَطْلُبُ الْخِلَافَةَ، فَتَزَوَّجَهَا، فَدَخَلَ خَالِدٌ يَوْمًا عَلَى مَرْوَانَ وَعِنْدَهُ جَمَاعَةٌ وَهُوَ يَمْشِي بَيْنَ صَفَّيْنِ، فَقَالَ مَرْوَانُ: وَاللَّهِ إِنَّكَ لَأَحْمَقُ ! تَعَالَ يَا ابْنَ الرَّطْبَةِ الِاسْتِ ! يُقَصِّرُ بِهِ لِيُسْقِطَهُ مِنْ أَعْيُنِ أَهْلِ الشَّامِ. فَرَجَعَ خَالِدٌ إِلَى أُمِّهِ فَأَخْبَرَهَا، فَقَالَتْ لَهُ: لَا يَعْلَمَنَّ ذَلِكَ مِنْكَ إِلَّا أَنَا، أَنَا أَكْفِيكَهُ. فَدَخَلَ عَلَيْهَا مَرْوَانُ فَقَالَ لَهَا: هَلْ قَالَ لَكِ خَالِدٌ فِيَّ شَيْئًا ؟ قَالَتْ: لَا، إِنَّهُ أَشَدُّ لَكَ تَعْظِيمًا مِنْ أَنْ يَقُولَ فِيكَ شَيْئًا. فَصَدَّقَهَا وَمَكَثَ أَيَّامًا، ثُمَّ إِنَّ مَرْوَانَ نَامَ عِنْدَهَا يَوْمًا، فَغَطَّتْهُ بِوِسَادَةٍ حَتَّى قَتَلَتْهُ، فَمَاتَ وَكَانَ ذَلِكَ فِي ثَالِثِ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ سَنَةَ خَمْسٍ وَسِتِّينَ بِدِمَشْقَ، وَلَهُ مِنَ الْعُمْرِ ثَلَاثٌ وَسِتُّونَ سَنَةً. وَقِيلَ: إِحْدَى وَسِتُّونَ وَقِيلَ: إِحْدَى وَثَمَانُونَ سَنَةً. وَكَانَتْ إِمَارَتُهُ تِسْعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ. وَقِيلَ: عَشَرَةَ أَشْهُرٍ إِلَّا ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ. وَأَرَادَ عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ قَتْلَ أُمِّ خَالِدٍ، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: يَظْهَرُ عِنْدَ الْخَلْقِ أَنَّ امْرَأَةً قَتَلَتْ أَبَاكَ، فَتَرَكَهَا. وَلَمَّا تُوُفِّيَ مَرْوَانُ قَامَ ( بِأَمْرِ الشَّامِ ) بَعْدَهُ ابْنُهُ عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ، ( وَكَانَ بِمِصْرَ ابْنُهُ عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بِطَاعَةِ أَخِيهِ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ. وَكَانَ عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ ) وُلِدَ لِسَبْعَةِ أَشْهُرٍ، فَكَانَ النَّاسُ يَذُمُّونَهُ لِذَلِكَ، قِيلَ: إِنَّهُ اجْتَمَعَ عِنْدَهُ قَوْمٌ مِنَ الْأَشْرَافِ، فَقَالَ لِعُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ زِيَادِ بْنِ ظَبْيَانَ الْبَكْرِيِّ: بَلَغَنِي أَنَّكَ لَا تُشْبِهُ أَبَاكَ، فَقَالَ: بَلَى وَاللَّهِ إِنِّي لَأَشْبَهُ بِهِ مِنَ الْمَاءِ بِالْمَاءِ وَالْغُرَابِ بِالْغُرَابِ، وَلَكِنْ إِنْ شِئْتَ أَخْبَرْتُكَ بِمَنْ لَمْ تُنْضِجْهُ الْأَرْحَامُ، وَلَمْ يُولَدْ بِالتَّمَامِ، وَلَمْ يُشْبِهِ الْأَخْوَالَ وَالْأَعْمَامَ. قَالَ: مَنْ ذَلِكَ ؟ قَالَ: سُوِيدُ بْنُ مَنْجُوفٍ، فَلَمَّا خَرَجَ عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ وَسُوِيدٌ قَالَ لَهُ سُوِيدٌ: مَا سَرَّنِي بِمَقَالَتِكَ لَهُ حُمْرُ النَّعَمِ. فَقَالَ عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ: وَمَا سَرَّنِي وَاللَّهِ بِاحْتِمَالِكَ إِيَّايَ وَسُكُوتِكَ سُودُهَا.
Translation
✧ The Death of Marwān b. al-Ḥakam In the month of Ramaḍān of the year sixty-five Marwān b. al-Ḥakam died. The cause of his death was that when Muʿāwiyah b. Yazīd was at the point of death, he did not appoint anyone as successor. Ḥassān b. Biḥdal wanted to place the affair after him in his brother Khālid b. Yazīd, and he was young. Ḥassān was the maternal uncle of his father Yazīd. Ḥassān gave allegiance to Marwān b. al-Ḥakam, intending to place the affair after him in Khālid. When he and the people of Syria gave allegiance to him, it was said to Marwān: Marry the mother of Khālid, who is the daughter of Abū Hāshim b. ʿUtbah, so that his standing may be diminished and he will not seek the caliphate. So he married her. One day Khālid entered upon Marwān while a group was with him, and he was walking between two rows. Marwān said: By God, you are indeed a fool! Come here, O son of the moist one of the anus! He belittled him in order to make him fall from the eyes of the people of Syria. Khālid returned to his mother and informed her. She said to him: Let no one know of that from you except me. I shall suffice you against him. Marwān entered upon her and said to her: Did Khālid say anything to you about me? She said: No; he holds you in too much esteem to say anything about you. He believed her and remained some days. Then one day Marwān slept at her place, and she covered him with a pillow until she killed him. He died, and that was on the third of the month of Ramaḍān in the year sixty-five in Damascus. He was sixty-three years of age. It is also said: sixty-one, and it is said: eighty-one years. His rule was nine months. It is also said: ten months less three days. ʿAbd al-Malik wanted to kill the mother of Khālid, but it was said to him: It will become known among the people that a woman killed your father, so he left her alone. When Marwān died, his son ʿAbd al-Malik took charge of the affairs of Syria after him. His son ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz was in Egypt in obedience to his brother ʿAbd al-Malik. ʿAbd al-Malik was born after seven months, and people used to disparage him for that. It is said that a group of nobles gathered with him, and he said to ʿUbayd Allāh b. Ziyād b. Ẓabyān al-Bakrī: I have heard that you do not resemble your father. He said: Indeed, by God, I resemble him as water resembles water and as a crow resembles a crow. But if you wish, I will tell you of one whom wombs did not bring to full term, who was not born complete, and who did not resemble maternal or paternal uncles. He said: Who is that? He said: Suwayd b. Manjūf. When ʿUbayd Allāh and Suwayd went out, Suwayd said to him: It would not please me, in exchange for your words to him, to have red camels. ʿUbayd Allāh said: By God, it would not please me, in exchange for your bearing with me and your silence, to have black ones.
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