Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2984
The year 175 AH
ظَفَرِ هِشَامٍ بِأَخَوَيْهِ وَمَطْرُوحٍ وَفِيهَا فَرَغَ هِشَامُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، صَاحِبُ الْأَنْدَلُسِ، مِنْ أَخَوَيْهِ سُلَيْمَانَ وَعَبْدِ اللَّهِ، وَأَجْلَاهُمَا عَنِ الْأَنْدَلُسِ، فَلَمَّا خَلَا سِرُّهُ مِنْهُمَا انْتَدَبَ لِمَطْرُوحِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ يَقْظَانَ، فَسَيَّرَ إِلَيْهِ جَيْشًا كَثِيفًا، وَجَعَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ أَبَا عُثْمَانَ عُبَيْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عُثْمَانَ. فَسَارُوا إِلَى مَطْرُوحٍ، وَهُوَ بِسَرَقُسْطَةَ، فَحَصَرُوهُ بِهَا، فَلَمْ يَظْفَرُوا بِهِ، فَرَجَعَ أَبُو عُثْمَانَ عَنْهُ، وَنَزَلَ بِحِصْنِ طَرَسُونَةَ، بِالْقُرْبِ مِنْ سَرَقُسْطَةَ، وَبَثَّ سَرَايَاهُ عَلَى أَهْلِ سَرَقُسْطَةَ يُغِيرُونَ وَيَمْنَعُونَ عَنْهُمُ الْمِيرَةَ. ثُمَّ إِنَّ مَطْرُوحًا خَرَجَ فِي بَعْضِ الْأَيَّامِ، آخِرَ النَّهَارِ، يَتَصَيَّدُ، فَأَرْسَلَ الْبَازِي عَلَى طَائِرٍ، فَاقْتَنَصَهُ، فَنَزَلَ مَطْرُوحٌ لِيَذْبَحَهُ بِيَدِهِ، وَمَعَهُ صَاحِبَانِ لَهُ قَدِ انْفَرَدَ بِهِمَا عَنْ أَصْحَابِهِ، فَقَتَلَاهُ وَاحْتَزَّا رَأْسَهُ وَأَتَيَا بِهِ أَبَا عُثْمَانَ، فَسَارَ إِلَى سَرَقُسْطَةَ، فَكَاتَبَهُ أَهْلُهَا بِالطَّاعَةِ، فَقَبِلَ مِنْهُمْ، وَسَارَ إِلَيْهَا فَنَزَلَهَا، وَأَرْسَلَ رَأْسَ مَطْرُوحٍ إِلَى هِشَامٍ.
Translation
✧ Hishām's victory over his two brothers and Maṭrūḥ In this year, Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the ruler of al-Andalus, finished with his two brothers Sulaymān and ʿAbd Allāh, and expelled them from al-Andalus. When his mind was free of them, he turned his attention to Maṭrūḥ b. Sulaymān b. Yaqẓān and dispatched a large army against him, placing over them Abū ʿUthmān ʿUbayd Allāh b. ʿUthmān. They marched against Maṭrūḥ, who was in Saraqusta (Zaragoza), and besieged him there but did not capture him. Abū ʿUthmān then withdrew and encamped at the fortress of Tarasūna (Tarazona), near Saraqusta, and sent out his raiding parties against the people of Saraqusta, making incursions and cutting off supplies from them. Then one day, near the end of the day, Maṭrūḥ went out hunting. He released a falcon at a bird and it caught it. Maṭrūḥ dismounted to slaughter it with his own hand, accompanied by two of his companions with whom he had separated from the rest of his men. They killed him, cut off his head, and brought it to Abū ʿUthmān. He then marched to Saraqusta, whose people wrote to him offering obedience. He accepted it from them, went there, and entered the city. He sent the head of Maṭrūḥ to Hishām.
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