Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2669
The Year 130 AH
ذِكْرُ قَتْلِ نَبَاتَةَ بْنِ حَنْظَلَةَ وَفِي هَذِهِ السَّنَةِ قُتِلَ نَبَاتَةُ بْنُ حَنْظَلَةَ عَامِلُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ هُبَيْرَةَ عَلَى جُرْجَانَ، وَكَانَ يَزِيدُ بْنُ هُبَيْرَةَ بَعَثَهُ إِلَى نَصْرٍ، فَأَتَى فَارِسَ وَأَصْبَهَانَ ثُمَّ سَارَ إِلَى الرَّيِّ وَمَضَى إِلَى جُرْجَانَ، وَكَانَ نَصْرٌ بِقُومِسَ عَلَى مَا تَقَدَّمَ، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: إِنَّ قُومِسَ لَا تَحْمِلُنَا، فَسَارَ إِلَى جُرْجَانَ فَنَزَلَهَا مَعَ نَبَاتَةَ وَخَنْدَقُوا عَلَيْهِمْ. وَأَقْبَلَ قَحْطَبَةُ إِلَى جُرْجَانَ فِي ذِي الْقَعْدَةِ، فَقَالَ قَحْطَبَةُ: يَا أَهْلَ خُرَاسَانَ أَتَدْرُونَ إِلَى مَنْ تَسِيرُونَ وَمَنْ تُقَاتِلُونَ ؟ إِنَّمَا تُقَاتِلُونَ بَقِيَّةَ قَوْمٍ حَرَّقُوا بَيْتَ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى ! وَكَانَ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ قَحْطَبَةَ عَلَى مُقَدِّمَةِ أَبِيهِ، فَوَجَّهَ جَمْعًا إِلَى مَسْلَحَةِ نَبَاتَةَ وَعَلَيْهَا رَجُلٌ يُقَالُ لَهُ ذُؤَيْبٌ، فَبَيَّتُوهُمْ فَقَتَلُوا ذُؤَيْبًا وَسَبْعِينَ رَجُلًا مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ فَرَجَعُوا إِلَى الْحَسَنِ. وَقَدِمَ قَحْطَبَةُ فَنَزَلَ بِإِزَاءِ نَبَاتَةَ وَأَهْلِ الشَّامِ فِي عِدَّةٍ لَمْ يَرَ النَّاسُ مِثْلَهَا، فَلَمَّا رَآهُمْ أَهْلُ خُرَاسَانَ هَابُوهُمْ حَتَّى تَكَلَّمُوا بِذَلِكَ وَأَظْهَرُوهُ، فَبَلَغَ قَحْطَبَةَ قَوْلُهُمْ، فَقَامَ فِيهِمْ فَقَالَ: يَا أَهْلَ خُرَاسَانَ هَذِهِ الْبِلَادُ كَانَتْ لِآبَائِكُمْ، وَكَانُوا يُنْصَرُونَ عَلَى عَدُوِّهِمْ لِعَدْلِهِمْ وَحُسْنِ سِيرَتِهِمْ حَتَّى بَدَّلُوا وَظَلَمُوا فَسَخِطَ اللَّهُ - عَزَّ وَجَلَّ - عَلَيْهِمْ فَانْتَزَعَ سُلْطَانَهُمْ وَسَلَّطَ عَلَيْهِمْ أَذَلَّ أُمَّةٍ كَانَتْ فِي الْأَرْضِ عِنْدَهُمْ، فَغَلَبُوهُمْ عَلَى بِلَادِهِمْ، وَكَانُوا بِذَلِكَ يَحْكُمُونَ بِالْعَدْلِ وَيُوفُونَ بِالْعَهْدِ وَيَنْصُرُونَ الْمَظْلُومَ، ثُمَّ بَدَّلُوا وَغَيَّرُوا وَجَارُوا فِي الْحُكْمِ، وَأَخَافُوا أَهْلَ الْبِرِّ وَالتَّقْوَى مِنْ عِتْرَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ; فَسَلَّطَكُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ لِيَنْتَقِمَ مِنْهُمْ بِكُمْ، لِتَكُونُوا أَشَدَّ عُقُوبَةً لِأَنَّكُمْ طَلَبْتُمُوهُمْ بِالثَّأْرِ، وَقَدْ عَهِدَ إِلَيَّ الْإِمَامُ أَنَّكُمْ تَلْقَوْنَهُمْ فِي مِثْلِ هَذِهِ الْعُدَّةِ فَيَنْصُرُكُمُ اللَّهُ - عَزَّ وَجَلَّ - عَلَيْهِمْ فَتَهْزِمُونَهُمْ وَتَقْتُلُونَهُمْ. فَالْتَقَوْا فِي مُسْتَهَلِّ ذِي الْحِجَّةِ سَنَةَ ثَلَاثِينَ يَوْمَ الْجُمْعَةِ، فَقَالَ لَهُمْ قَحْطَبَةُ قَبْلَ الْقِتَالِ: إِنَّ الْإِمَامَ أَخْبَرَنَا أَنَّكُمْ تُنْصَرُونَ عَلَى عَدُوِّكُمْ هَذَا الْيَوْمَ مِنْ هَذَا الشَّهْرِ، وَكَانَ عَلَى مَيْمَنَتِهِ ابْنُهُ الْحَسَنُ، فَاقْتَتَلُوا قِتَالًا شَدِيدًا، فَقُتِلَ نَبَاتَةُ، وَانْهَزَمَ أَهْلُ الشَّامِ فَقُتِلَ مِنْهُمْ عَشَرَةُ آلَافٍ، وَبَعَثَ إِلَى أَبِي مُسْلِمٍ بِرَأْسِ نَبَاتَةَ.
Translation
✧ Mention of the killing of Nabātah b. Ḥanẓalah In this year, Nabātah b. Ḥanẓalah, the governor of Yazīd b. Hubayrah over Jurjān, was killed. Yazīd b. Hubayrah had sent him to Naṣr, so he came to Fārs and Iṣbahān, then marched to al-Rayy and proceeded to Jurjān, while Naṣr was at Qūmis, as previously mentioned. It was said to him: 'Qūmis cannot sustain us,' so he marched to Jurjān and encamped there with Nabātah, and they dug a trench around themselves. Qaḥṭabah advanced to Jurjān in Dhū al-Qaʿdah. Qaḥṭabah said: 'O people of Khurāsān, do you know to whom you are marching and whom you are fighting? You are only fighting the remnant of a people who burned the House of Allah, the Exalted!' Al-Ḥasan b. Qaḥṭabah was in command of his father's vanguard. He sent a detachment to the outpost of Nabātah, which was commanded by a man called Dhuʾayb. They attacked them at night and killed Dhuʾayb and seventy of his companions, then returned to al-Ḥasan. Qaḥṭabah arrived and encamped facing Nabātah and the people of Syria in a multitude the like of which people had never seen. When the people of Khurāsān saw them, they were awed by them to the point that they spoke of it and made it known. Their words reached Qaḥṭabah, so he stood among them and said: 'O people of Khurāsān, these lands belonged to your forefathers, and they used to be granted victory over their enemy because of their justice and good conduct, until they changed and wronged, so Allah—Mighty and Majestic—became angry with them, stripped them of their authority, and set over them the most despised nation that was then on earth, and they conquered their lands. In that, they used to rule with justice, fulfill covenants, and aid the oppressed. Then they changed and altered, and deviated in judgment, and frightened the people of righteousness and piety from the family of the Messenger of Allah; so He set you over them to exact retribution from them through you, so that you might be a severer punishment, because you seek them for vengeance. The Imam has covenanted to me that you will meet them in a multitude like this, and Allah—Mighty and Majestic—will grant you victory over them, and you will rout them and kill them.' They met at the beginning of Dhū al-Ḥijjah in the year thirty, on Friday. Qaḥṭabah said to them before the fighting: 'The Imam informed us that you will be granted victory over your enemy on this day of this month.' His son al-Ḥasan was on his right wing. They fought a severe battle, and Nabātah was killed, and the people of Syria were routed, and ten thousand of them were killed. He sent Nabātah's head to Abū Muslim.
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