Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2657
Then the Year 131 AH Began
ذِكْرُ مُحَارَبَةِ قَحْطَبَةَ أَهْلَ نَهَاوَنْدَ وَدُخُولِهَا وَلَمَّا قُتِلَ ابْنُ ضُبَارَةَ كَتَبَ قَحْطَبَةُ بِذَلِكَ إِلَى ابْنِهِ الْحَسَنِ وَهُوَ يُحَاصِرُ نَهَاوَنْدَ، فَلَمَّا أَتَاهُ الْكِتَابُ كَبَّرَ هُوَ وَجُنْدُهُ وَنَادَوْا بِقَتْلِهِ، فَقَالَ عَاصِمُ بْنُ عُمَيْرٍ السَّعْدِيُّ: مَا نَادَى هَؤُلَاءِ بِقَتْلِهِ إِلَّا وَهُوَ حَقٌّ ! فَاخْرُجُوا إِلَى الْحَسَنِ بْنِ قَحْطَبَةَ فَإِنَّكُمْ لَا تَقُومُونَ لَهُ فَتَذْهَبُونَ حَيْثُ شِئْتُمْ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَأْتِيَهُ أَبُوهُ أَوْ مَدَدٌ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ. فَقَالَتِ الرَّجَّالَةُ: تَخْرُجُونَ وَأَنْتُمْ فُرْسَانٌ عَلَى خُيُولٍ وَتَتْرُكُونَنَا ؟ وَقَالَ لَهُ مَالِكُ بْنُ أَدْهَمَ الْبَاهِلِيُّ: لَا أَبْرَحُ حَتَّى يَقْدَمَ عَلِيَّ قَحْطَبَةُ. وَأَقَامَ قَحْطَبَةُ عَلَى أَصْبَهَانَ عِشْرِينَ يَوْمًا، ثُمَّ سَارَ فَقَدِمَ عَلَى ابْنِهِ بِنَهَاوَنْدَ فَحَصَرَهُمْ ثَلَاثَةَ أَشْهُرٍ: شَعْبَانُ وَرَمَضَانُ وَشَوَّالٌ، وَوَضَعَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْمَجَانِيقَ، وَأَرْسَلَ إِلَى مَنْ بِنَهَاوَنْدَ مِنْ أَهْلِ خُرَاسَانَ يَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَيْهِ وَأَعْطَاهُمُ الْأَمَانَ، فَأَبَوْا ذَلِكَ. ثُمَّ أَرْسَلَ إِلَى أَهْلِ الشَّامِ بِمِثْلِ ذَلِكَ، فَأَجَابُوهُ وَقَبِلُوا أَمَانَهُ، وَبَعَثُوا إِلَيْهِ يَسْأَلُونَهُ أَنْ يَشْغَلَ عَنْهُمْ أَهْلَ الْمَدِينَةِ بِالْقِتَالِ لِيَفْتَحُوا لَهُ الْبَابَ الَّذِي يَلِيهِمْ، فَفَعَلَ ذَلِكَ قَحْطَبَةُ وَقَاتَلَهُمْ، فَفَتَحَ أَهْلُ الشَّامِ الْبَابَ، فَخَرَجُوا، فَلَمَّا رَأَى أَهْلُ خُرَاسَانَ ذَلِكَ سَأَلُوهُمْ عَنْ خُرُوجِهِمْ، فَقَالُوا: أَخَذْنَا الْأَمَانَ لَنَا وَلَكُمْ. فَخَرَجَ رُؤَسَاءُ أَهْلِ خُرَاسَانَ، فَدَفَعَ قَحْطَبَةُ كُلَّ رَجُلٍ مِنْهُمْ إِلَى قَائِدٍ مِنْ قُوَّادِهِ، ثُمَّ أَمَرَ فَنُودِيَ: مَنْ كَانَ بِيَدِهِ أَسِيرٌ مِمَّنْ خَرَجَ إِلَيْنَا فَلْيَضْرِبْ عُنُقَهُ وَلْيَأْتِنَا بِرَأْسِهِ ! فَفَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ، فَلَمْ يَبْقَ أَحَدٌ مِمَّنْ كَانَ قَدْ هَرَبَ مِنْ أَبِي مُسْلِمٍ إِلَّا قُتِلَ إِلَّا أَهْلَ الشَّامِ، فَإِنَّهُ وَفَّى لَهُمْ وَخَلَّى سَبِيلَهُمْ وَأَخَذَ عَلَيْهِمْ أَنْ لَا يُمَالِئُوا عَلَيْهِ عَدُوًّا، وَلَمْ يَقْتُلْ مِنْهُمْ أَحَدًا. وَكَانَ مِمَّنْ قُتِلَ مِنْ أَهْلِ خُرَاسَانَ: أَبُو كَامِلٍ، وَحَاتِمُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ سُرَيْجٍ، وَابْنُ نَصْرِ بْنِ سَيَّارٍ، وَعَاصِمُ بْنُ عُمَيْرٍ، وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ عَقِيلٍ، وَبَيْهَسٌ. وَلَمَّا حَاصَرَ قَحْطَبَةُ نَهَاوَنْدَ أَرْسَلَ ابْنَهُ الْحَسَنَ إِلَى مَرْجِ الْقَلْعَةِ، فَقَدَّمَ الْحَسَنُ خَازِمَ بْنَ خُزَيْمَةَ إِلَى حُلْوَانَ وَعَلَيْهَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِ الْكِنْدِيُّ، فَهَرَبَ مِنْ حُلْوَانَ وَخَلَّاهَا.
Translation
✧ Mention of Qaḥṭabah's war against the people of Nahāwand and its entry When Ibn Ḍubārah was killed, Qaḥṭabah wrote about that to his son al-Ḥasan, who was besieging Nahāwand. When the letter reached him, he and his troops said Allāhu akbar and proclaimed his killing. ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmayr al-Saʿdī said: 'These people have not proclaimed his killing unless it is true! Go out to al-Ḥasan b. Qaḥṭabah, for you cannot withstand him, and go wherever you wish before his father or reinforcements from him come to him.' The infantry said: 'Will you go out while you are cavalrymen on horses and leave us?' Mālik b. Adham al-Bāhilī said to him: 'I will not leave until Qaḥṭabah comes upon me.' Qaḥṭabah stayed at Iṣbahān for twenty days, then marched and came to his son at Nahāwand. He besieged them for three months: Shaʿbān, Ramaḍān, and Shawwāl. He set mangonels against them and sent to those in Nahāwand from the people of Khurāsān, calling them to him and granting them amān, but they refused that. Then he sent to the people of Syria something similar. They answered him and accepted his amān. They sent to him asking that he engage the people of the city in fighting to divert them from the gate adjacent to them, so that they could open it for him. Qaḥṭabah did that and fought them. The people of Syria opened the gate and came out. When the people of Khurāsān saw that, they asked them about their coming out. They said: 'We took amān for ourselves and for you.' The leaders of the people of Khurāsān came out. Qaḥṭabah handed each man of them over to one of his commanders. Then he ordered it to be proclaimed: 'Whoever has a prisoner from those who came out to us, let him strike his neck and bring us his head!' They did that. No one who had fled from Abū Muslim remained except that he was killed, except the people of Syria, for he kept faith with them and let them go, taking from them a pledge that they would not assist any enemy against him, and he did not kill anyone of them. Among those killed from the people of Khurāsān were: Abū Kāmil, Ḥātim b. al-Ḥārith b. Surayj, the son of Naṣr b. Sayyār, ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmayr, ʿAlī b. ʿAqīl, and Bayhas. When Qaḥṭabah besieged Nahāwand, he sent his son al-Ḥasan to Marj al-Qalʿah. Al-Ḥasan sent forward Khāzim b. Khuzaymah to Ḥulwān, over which was ʿAbd Allāh b. al-ʿAlāʾ al-Kindī. He fled from Ḥulwān and left it.
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