Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2457
The Year 102
اسْتِعْمَالِ سَعِيدِ خُذَيْنَةَ عَلَى خُرَاسَانَ لِمَسْلَمَةَ اسْتَعْمَلَ مَسْلَمَةُ عَلَى خُرَاسَانَ سَعِيدَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْعَاصِ بْنِ أُمَيَّةَ، وَهُوَ الَّذِي يُقَالُ لَهُ سَعِيدُ خُذَيْنَةَ، وَإِنَّمَا لُقِّبَ بِذَلِكَ لِأَنَّهُ كَانَ رَجُلًا لَيِّنًا مُتَنَعِّمًا، فَدَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ مَلِكُ أَبْغَرَ وَسَعِيدٌ فِي ثِيَابٍ مُصَبَّغَةٍ، وَحَوْلَهُ مَرَافِقُ مُصَبَّغَةٌ، فَلَمَّا خَرَجَ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ قَالُوا: كَيْفَ رَأَيْتَ الْأَمِيرَ ؟ قَالَ: خُذَيْنَةَ، فَلُقِّبَ خُذَيْنَةَ، وَخُذَيْنَةُ هِيَ الدِّهْقَانَةُ رَبَّةُ الْبَيْتِ. وَكَانَ سَعِيدٌ تَزَوَّجَ ابْنَةَ مَسْلَمَةَ، فَلِهَذَا اسْتَعْمَلَهُ عَلَى خُرَاسَانَ. فَلَمَّا اسْتَعْمَلَ مَسْلَمَةُ سَعِيدًا عَلَى خُرَاسَانَ، سَارَ إِلَيْهَا، فَاسْتَعْمَلَ شُعْبَةَ بْنَ ظُهَيْرٍ النَّهْشَلِيَّ عَلَى سَمَرْقَنْدَ، فَسَارَ إِلَيْهَا، فَقَدِمَ الصُّغْدَ، وَكَانَ أَهْلُهَا كَفَرُوا فِي وِلَايَةِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ نُعَيْمٍ، ثُمَّ عَادُوا إِلَى الصُّلْحِ، فَخَطَبَ شُعْبَةُ أَهْلَ الصُّغْدِ، وَوَبَّخَ سُكَّانَهَا مِنَ الْعَرَبِ وَغَيْرِهِمْ بِالْجُبْنِ، وَقَالَ: مَا أَرَى فِيكُمْ جَرِيحًا، وَلَا أَسْمَعُ أَنَّةً. فَاعْتَذَرُوا إِلَيْهِ بِأَنْ جَبَّنُوا أَمِيرَهُمْ عِلْبَاءَ بْنَ حَبِيبٍ الْعَبْدِيَّ. وَأَخَذَ سَعِيدٌ عُمَّالَ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الَّذِينَ وُلُّوا أَيَّامَ عُمَرَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، فَحَبَسَهُمْ ثُمَّ أَطْلَقَهُمْ، ثُمَّ رُفِعَ إِلَى سَعِيدٍ أَنَّ جَهْمَ بْنَ زَحْرٍ الْجُعْفِيَّ، وَعَبْدَ الْعَزِيزِ بْنَ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْحَجَّاجِ الزَّبِيدِيَّ، وَالْمُنْتَجِعَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْأَزْدِيَّ، وُلُّوا لِيَزِيدَ بْنِ الْمُهَلَّبِ فِي ثَمَانِيَةِ نَفَرٍ وَعِنْدَهُمْ أَمْوَالٌ قَدِ اخْتَانُوهَا [ مِنْ فَيْءِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ. فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِمْ ] فَحَبَسَهُمْ بِقُهُنْدُزِ مَرْوَ، وَحَمَلَ جَهْمَ بْنَ زَحْرٍ عَلَى حِمَارٍ وَأَطَافَ بِهِ، فَضَرَبَهُ مِائَتَيْ سَوْطٍ، وَأَمَرَ بِهِ وَبِالثَّمَانِيَةِ الَّذِينَ حُبِسُوا مَعَهُ فَسُلِّمُوا إِلَى وَرْقَاءَ بْنِ نَصْرٍ الْبَاهِلِيِّ فَاسْتَعْفَاهُ، فَأَعْفَاهُ، فَسَلَّمَهُمْ إِلَى عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ بْنِ دِثَارٍ، وَعَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ دِثَارٍ، وَالزُّبَيْرِ بْنِ نَشِيطٍ مَوْلَى بَاهِلَةَ، فَقَتَلُوا فِي الْعَذَابِ جَهْمَ بْنَ زَحْرٍ، وَعَبْدَ الْعَزِيزِ، وَالْمُنْتَجِعَ، وَعَذَّبُوا الْقَعْقَاعَ وَقُومًا حَتَّى أَشْفَوْا عَلَى الْمَوْتِ، فَلَمْ يَزَالُوا فِي السِّجْنِ حَتَّى غَزَاهُمُ التُّرْكُ وَالصُّغْدُ، فَأَمَرَ سَعِيدٌ بِإِخْرَاجِهِمْ، وَكَانَ يَقُولُ: قَبَّحَ اللَّهُ الزُّبَيْرَ، فَإِنَّهُ قَتَلَ جَهْمًا !
Translation
✧ The appointment of Saʿīd Khudhayna over Khurasan by Maslama Maslama appointed over Khurasan Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Ḥārith b. al-Ḥakam b. Abī al-ʿĀṣ b. Umayya, who was called Saʿīd Khudhayna. He was given that nickname because he was a soft, luxurious man. The king of Abghar entered upon him while Saʿīd was in dyed clothes, with dyed cushions around him. When he left his presence, they said: "How did you see the amir?" He said: "Khudhayna." So he was nicknamed Khudhayna, and Khudhayna is the dihqāna, the mistress of the house. Saʿīd had married Maslama's daughter, so for this reason Maslama appointed him over Khurasan. When Maslama appointed Saʿīd over Khurasan, he went there and appointed Shuʿba b. Ẓuhayr al-Nahshalī over Samarqand. He went there and arrived in Sughd. Its people had apostatized during the governorship of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Nuʿaym, then returned to the peace agreement. Shuʿba addressed the people of Sughd and rebuked its inhabitants, both Arabs and others, for cowardice, saying: "I do not see among you a wounded man, nor do I hear a groan." They excused themselves by saying that they had made their amir ʿIlbāʾ b. Ḥabīb al-ʿAbdī a coward. Saʿīd seized the agents of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbd Allāh who had been appointed during the days of ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. He imprisoned them then released them. Then it was reported to Saʿīd that Jahm b. Zaḥr al-Juʿfī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAmr b. al-Ḥajjāj al-Zubaydī, and al-Muntajiʿ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Azdī had been appointed by Yazīd b. al-Muhallab among eight men, and they had with them wealth that they had embezzled [from the fayʾ of the Muslims. He sent for them] and imprisoned them in the citadel of Marw. He carried Jahm b. Zaḥr on a donkey and paraded him, then struck him with two hundred lashes. He ordered him and the eight who were imprisoned with him to be handed over to Warqāʾ b. Naṣr al-Bāhilī, who asked to be excused, and he excused him. Then he handed them over to ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Dithār, ʿAbd al-Malik b. Dithār, and al-Zubayr b. Nashīṭ, a mawlā of Bāhila. They killed under torture Jahm b. Zaḥr, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and al-Muntajiʿ, and they tortured al-Qaʿqāʿ and a group until they were near death. They remained in prison until the Turks and the Sughd attacked them. Saʿīd ordered their release, and he used to say: "May God make al-Zubayr ugly, for he killed Jahm!"
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