Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2603
Then the Year 125 AH Began
قَالَ ابْنُ جَرِيرٍ: وَفِيهَا قَدِمَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ، وَمَالِكُ بْنُ الْهَيْثَمِ، وَلَاهِزُ بْنُ قُرَيْظٍ، وَقَحْطَبَةُ بْنْ شَبِيبٍ مَكَّةَ فَلَقُوا - فِي قَوْلٍ أَهْلِ السِّيَرِ - مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عَلِيٍّ فَأَخْبَرُوهُ بِقِصَّةِ أَبِي مُسْلِمٍ فَقَالَ: أَحَرٌّ هُوَ أَمْ عَبْدٌ ؟ فَقَالُوا: أَمَّا هُوَ فَيَزْعُمُ أَنَّهُ حُرٌّ، وَأَمَّا مَوْلَاهُ فَيَزْعُمُ أَنَّهُ عَبْدٌ. فَاشْتَرَوْهُ فَأَعْتَقُوهُ، وَدَفَعُوا إِلَى مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ مِائَتَيْ أَلْفِ دِرْهَمٍ وَكُسْوَةً بِثَلَاثِينَ أَلْفًا، وَقَالَ لَهُمْ: لَعَلَّكُمْ لَا تَلْقَوْنِي بَعْدَ عَامِكُمْ هَذَا، فَإِنْ مُتُّ فَإِنَّ صَاحِبَكُمْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنَ مُحَمَّدٍ - يَعْنِي ابْنَهُ - فَإِنَّهُ ابْنِي، فَأُوصِيكُمْ بِهِ. وَمَاتَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ فِي مُسْتَهَلِّ ذِي الْقِعْدَةِ فِي هَذِهِ السَّنَةِ بَعْدَ أَبِيهِ عَلِيٍّ بِسَبْعِ سِنِينَ.
Translation
✧ Ibn Jarīr said: In this year Sulaymān b. Kathīr, Mālik b. al-Haytham, Lāhiz b. Qurayẓ, and Qaḥṭabah b. Shabīb came to Makkah and met—according to the statement of the historians of the sīrah—Muḥammad b. ʿAlī. They informed him of the affair of Abū Muslim. He said: Is he free or a slave? They said: As for him, he claims that he is free, but as for his master, he claims that he is a slave. So they bought him and manumitted him, and they handed over to Muḥammad b. ʿAlī two hundred thousand dirhams and clothing worth thirty thousand. He said to them: Perhaps you will not meet me after this year of yours. If I die, then your leader is Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad—meaning his son—for he is my son, and I enjoin you to him. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī died at the beginning of Dhū al-Qaʿdah in this year, seven years after his father ʿAlī.
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