Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2851
Then the year 151 AH began
ذِكْرُ وِلَايَةِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ حَاتِمٍ إِفْرِيقِيَّةَ وَقِتَالِ الْخَوَارِجِ لَمَّا بَلَغَ الْمَنْصُورَ مَا حَلَّ بِعُمَرَ بْنِ حَفْصٍ مِنَ الْخَوَارِجِ جَهَّزَ يَزِيدَ بْنَ حَاتِمِ بْنِ قَبِيصَةَ بْنِ أَبِي صُفْرَةَ فِي سِتِّينَ أَلْفَ فَارِسٍ، وَسَيَّرَهُ إِلَى إِفْرِيقِيَّةَ، فَوَصَلَهَا سَنَةَ أَرْبَعٍ وَخَمْسِينَ وَمِائَةٍ. فَلَمَّا قَارَبَهَا سَارَ إِلَيْهِ بَعْضُ جُنْدِهَا وَاجْتَمَعُوا بِهِ وَسَارُوا مَعَهُ إِلَى طَرَابُلُسَ، فَسَارَ أَبُو حَاتِمٍ الْخَارِجِيُّ إِلَى جِبَالِ نَفُوسَةَ، وَسَيَّرَ يَزِيدُ طَائِفَةً مِنَ الْعَسْكَرِ إِلَى قَابِسَ، فَلَقِيَهُمْ أَبُو حَاتِمٍ فَهَزَمَهُمْ، فَعَادُوا إِلَى يَزِيدَ، وَنَزَلَ أَبُو حَاتِمٍ فِي مَكَانٍ وَعْرٍ وَخَنْدَقَ عَلَى عَسْكَرِهِ. وَعَبَّأَ يَزِيدُ أَصْحَابَهُ وَسَارَ إِلَيْهِ، فَالْتَقَوْا فِي رَبِيعٍ الْأَوَّلِ سَنَةَ خَمْسٍ وَخَمْسِينَ، فَاقْتَتَلُوا أَشَدَّ قِتَالٍ، فَانْهَزَمَتِ الْبَرْبَرُ، وَقُتِلَ أَبُو حَاتِمٍ وَأَهْلُ نَجْدَتِهِ، وَطَلَبَهُمْ يَزِيدُ فِي كُلِّ سَهْلٍ وَجَبَلٍ فَقَتَلَهُمْ قَتْلًا ذَرِيعًا، وَكَانَ عِدَّةُ مَنْ قُتِلَ فِي الْمَعْرَكَةِ ثَلَاثِينَ أَلْفًا. وَجَعَلَ آلُ الْمُهَلَّبِ يَقْتُلُونَ الْخَوَارِجَ وَيَقُولُونَ: يَالَثَارَاتِ عُمَرَ بْنِ حَفْصٍ ! وَأَقَامَ شَهْرًا يَقْتُلُ الْخَوَارِجَ، ثُمَّ رَحَلَ إِلَى الْقَيْرَوَانِ. فَكَانَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ حَبِيبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْفِهْرِيُّ مَعَ أَبِي حَاتِمٍ، فَهَرَبَ إِلَى كُتَامَةَ، فَسَيَّرَ إِلَيْهِمْ يَزِيدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ جَيْشًا فَحَصَرُوا الْبَرْبَرَ وَظَفِرُوا بِهِمْ، وَقَتَلُوا مِنْهُمْ خَلْقًا كَثِيرًا، وَهَرَبَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ وَقُتِلَ جَمِيعُ مَنْ كَانَ مَعَهُ وَصَفَتْ إِفْرِيقِيَّةُ. وَأَحْسَنَ يَزِيدُ السِّيرَةَ وَآمَنَ النَّاسَ إِلَى أَنِ انْتَقَضَتْ وَرْفَجُومَةُ ( سَنَةَ أَرْبَعٍ وَسِتِّينَ وَمِائَةٍ بِأَرْضِ الزَّابِ ) وَعَلَيْهَا أَيُّوبُ الْهَوَّارِيُّ، فَسَيَّرَ إِلَيْهِمْ عَسْكَرًا كَثِيرًا ( وَاسْتَعْمَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ يَزِيدَ بْنَ مَجْزَاءَ الْمُهَلَّبِيَّ، فَالْتَقَوْا وَاقْتَتَلُوا، فَانْهَزَمَ يَزِيدُ وَقُتِلَ كَثِيرٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ، وَقُتِلَ الْمُخَارِقُ بْنُ غِفَارٍ صَاحِبُ الزَّابِ. فَوَلِيَ مَكَانَهُ الْمُهَلَّبُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْمُهَلَّبِيُّ، وَأَمَدَّهُمْ يَزِيدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ بِجَمْعٍ كَثِيرٍ، وَاسْتَعْمَلَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْعَلَاءَ بْنَ سَعِيدٍ الْمُهَلَّبِيَّ، وَانْضَمَّ إِلَيْهِمُ الْمُنْهَزِمُونَ وَلَقُوا وَرْفَجُومَةَ ) وَاقْتَتَلُوا، وَاشْتَدَّ الْقِتَالُ، فَانْهَزَمَتِ الْبَرْبَرُ وَأَيُّوبُ، وَقُتِلُوا بِكُلِّ مَكَانٍ حَتَّى أُتِيَ عَلَى آخِرِهِمْ، وَلَمْ يُقْتَلْ مِنَ الْجُنْدِ أَحَدٌ. ثُمَّ مَاتَ يَزِيدُ فِي رَمَضَانَ سَنَةَ سَبْعِينَ وَمِائَةٍ، وَكَانَتْ وِلَايَتُهُ خَمْسَ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً وَثَلَاثَةَ أَشْهُرٍ، وَاسْتَخْلَفَ ابْنَهُ دَاوُدَ عَلَى إِفْرِيقِيَّةَ .
Translation
✧ Mention of Yazīd b. Ḥātim's governorship of Ifrīqiya and the fighting against the Khawārij When al-Manṣūr learned what had befallen ʿUmar b. Ḥafṣ at the hands of the Khawārij, he equipped Yazīd b. Ḥātim b. Qabīṣa b. Abī Ṣufra with sixty thousand horsemen and dispatched him to Ifrīqiya. He reached it in the year 154 AH. When he drew near it, some of its troops marched to him and joined him, and they proceeded with him to Ṭarābulus. Abū Ḥātim the Khārijī marched to the mountains of Nafūsa, and Yazīd sent a contingent of the army to Qābis. Abū Ḥātim met them and routed them, so they returned to Yazīd. Abū Ḥātim encamped in a rugged place and dug a trench around his army. Yazīd marshaled his men and marched against him. They met in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 155 AH and fought a most severe battle. The Berbers were defeated, Abū Ḥātim and the men of his courage were killed, and Yazīd pursued them in every plain and mountain, killing them in great numbers. The number of those killed in the battle was thirty thousand. The family of al-Muhallab kept killing the Khawārij and saying: "O revenge for ʿUmar b. Ḥafṣ!" He remained for a month killing the Khawārij, then departed to al-Qayrawān. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥabīb b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Fihrī was with Abū Ḥātim, and he fled to Kutāma. Yazīd b. Ḥātim sent an army against them, and they besieged the Berbers and prevailed over them, killing many of them. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān fled, and all who were with him were killed, and Ifrīqiya became pacified. Yazīd behaved well and kept the people safe until Warfajūma revolted in the year 164 AH in the land of al-Zāb, under the command of Ayyūb al-Hawwārī. He sent a large army against them and appointed over them Yazīd b. Majzāʾ al-Muhallabī. They met and fought, and Yazīd was defeated and many of his men were killed, and al-Mukhāriq b. Ghifār, the commander of al-Zāb, was killed. Al-Muhallab b. Yazīd al-Muhallabī took his place, and Yazīd b. Ḥātim reinforced them with a large force and appointed over them al-ʿAlāʾ b. Saʿīd al-Muhallabī. The defeated men joined them, and they met Warfajūma and fought. The fighting intensified, and the Berbers and Ayyūb were defeated and killed in every place until the last of them was slain, while not one of the army was killed. Then Yazīd died in Ramaḍān of the year 170 AH. His governorship had lasted fifteen years and three months, and he appointed his son Dāwūd as his successor over Ifrīqiya.
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