Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2554
The Year 118 AH
وَفِي سنة ثماني عشرة ومائة حَجَّ بِالنَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ هِشَامِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ الْمَخْزُومِيُّ أَمِيرُ الْمَدِينَةِ وَمَكَّةَ وَالطَّائِفِ وَقِيلَ: إِنَّ إِمْرَةَ الْمَدِينَةِ كَانَتْ مَعَ خَالِدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ مَرْوَانَ. وَالصَّحِيحُ أَنَّهُ كَانَ قَدْ عُزِلَ، وَوُلِّيَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ هِشَامِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ وَكَانَتْ إِمْرَةُ الْعِرَاقِ إِلَى خَالِدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْقَسْرِيِّ وَإِلَيْهِ الْمَشْرِقُ، وَعَامِلُهُ عَلَى خُرَاسَانَ أَخُوهُ أَسَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، وَعَامِلُهُ عَلَى أَرْمِينِيَّةَ وَأَذْرَبِيجَانَ مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، وَعَلَى الْبَصْرَةِ وَأَحْدَاثِهَا وَقَضَائِهَا وَالصَّلَاةِ بِأَهْلِهَا بِلَالُ بْنُ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ. وعن الْمَدَائِنِيُّ، قَالَ: نَظَرَ مَالِكُ بْنُ دِينَارٍ إِلَى رَجُلٍ قَدِ اشْتَرَى سَمَكَةً بِسِتَّةِ دَرَاهِمَ، وَثِيَابُهُ تُسَاوِي ثَلَاثَةَ دَرَاهِمَ، فَقَالَ: يَا هَذَا، اشْتَرَيْتَ سَمَكَةً بِسِتَّةِ دَرَاهِمَ وَثِيَابُكَ لَعَلَّهَا تُسَاوِي ثَلَاثَةَ دَرَاهِمَ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: يَا أَبَا يَحْيَى لَسْتُ أُرِيدُهَا لِنَفْسِي إِنَّمَا اشْتَرَيْتُهَا لِلْأَمِيرِ الظَّالِمِ الَّذِي يُطَالِبُنَا بِمَا لَا نُطِيقُ -وَذَكَرَ لَهُ بِلَالَ بْنَ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ- قَالَ: فَامْضِ مَعِي إِلَيْهِ، فَمَضَى فَاسْتَأْذَنَ فَأَذِنَ لَهُ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: يَا ذَا الرَّجُلُ، أَزِلْ عَنِ النَّاسِ مَا تَعْتَمِدُهُ مِنَ الظُّلْمِ، وَلَا تَعْرِضْ لِهَذَا الْبَائِسِ، قَالَ: قَدْ أَزَلْتُ عَنْهُ الْمَظْلَمَةَ لِمَكَانِكَ يَا أَبَا يَحْيَى، ادْعُ اللَّهَ لِي دَعْوَةً، قَالَ: وَمَا يَنْفَعُكَ أَنْ أَدْعُوَ لَكَ وَعَلَى بَابِكَ مِائَتَانِ يَدْعُونَ عَلَيْكَ.
Translation
✧ In the year one hundred and eighteen, Muḥammad b. Hishām b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhzūmī, governor of al-Madīnah, Makkah, and al-Ṭāʾif, led the people in the Pilgrimage. It is said that the governorship of al-Madīnah was with Khālid b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān. The correct view is that he had been dismissed and Muḥammad b. Hishām b. Ismāʿīl was appointed. The governorship of al-ʿIrāq belonged to Khālid b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Qasrī, and to him belonged the East. His governor over Khurāsān was his brother Asad b. ʿAbd Allāh; his governor over Armīniyyah and Adharbayjān was Marwān b. Muḥammad; and over al-Baṣrah, its events, its judiciary, and leading its people in prayer was Bilāl b. Abī Burdah. From al-Madāʾinī, who said: Mālik b. Dīnār looked at a man who had bought a fish for six dirhams while his clothes were worth three dirhams, and said: "O you, you bought a fish for six dirhams while your clothes are perhaps worth three dirhams." The man said to him: "O Abā Yaḥyā, I do not want it for myself; I only bought it for the unjust governor who demands from us what we cannot bear"—and he mentioned Bilāl b. Abī Burdah to him. He said: "Then come with me to him." So he went and sought permission, and he granted him permission. He said to him: "O you man, remove from the people the injustice you practice, and do not expose this wretched man to it." He said: "I have removed the injustice from him for your sake, O Abā Yaḥyā. Supplicate God for me with one supplication." He said: "What benefit would it be for me to supplicate for you when at your gate there are two hundred supplicating against you?"
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