Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3022
Then the year 182 AH began
أَخَذَ الرَّشِيدُ لِوَلَدِهِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْمَأْمُونِ الْبَيْعَةَ بِوِلَايَةِ الْعَهْدِ مِنْ بَعْدِ أَخِيهِ مُحَمَّدٍ ابْنِ زُبَيْدَةَ الْأَمِينِ، وَذَلِكَ بِالرَّقَّةِ بَعْدَ مَرْجِعِهِ مِنَ الْحَجِّ. وفِي سَنَةُ اثْنَتَيْنِ وَثَمَانِينَ وَمِائَةٍ بَايَعَ الرَّشِيدُ لِعَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْمَأْمُونِ بِوِلَايَةِ الْعَهْدِ بَعْدَ الْأَمِينِ، وَوَلَّاهُ خُرَاسَانَ وَمَا يَتَّصِلُ بِهَا إِلَى هَمَذَانَ، وَلَقَّبَهُ الْمَأْمُونَ، وَسَلَّمَهُ إِلَى جَعْفَرِ بْنِ يَحْيَى. ( وَهَذَا مِنَ الْعَجَائِبِ، فَإِنَّ الرَّشِيدَ قَدْ رَأَى مَا صَنَعَ أَبُوهُ وَجَدُّهُ الْمَنْصُورُ بِعِيسَى بْنِ مُوسَى، حَتَّى خَلَعَ نَفْسَهُ مِنْ وِلَايَةِ الْعَهْدِ، وَمَا صَنَعَ أَخُوهُ الْهَادِي لِيَخْلَعَ نَفْسَهُ مِنَ الْعَهْدِ، فَلَوْ لَمْ يُعَاجِلْهُ الْمَوْتُ لَخَلَعَهُ، ثُمَّ هُوَ يُبَايِعُ لِلْمَأْمُونِ بَعْدَ الْأَمِينِ، وَحُبُّكَ الشَّيْءَ يُعْمِي وَيُصِمُّ ). ثم وَجَّهَهُ إِلَى مَدِينَةِ السَّلَامِ، وَمَعَهُ مِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ: جَعْفَرُ بْنُ الْمَنْصُورِ، وَعَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ صَالِحٍ. وَمِنَ الْقُوَّادِ: عَلِيُّ بْنُ عِيسَى، فَبُويِعَ لَهُ بِمَدِينَةِ السَّلَامِ حِينَ قَدِمَهَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ الزَّعْفَرَانِيُّ. قَالَ: لَمَّا قَدِمَ الشَّافِعِيُّ إِلَى بَغْدَادَ وَافَقَ عَقْدَ الرَّشِيدِ لِلْأَمِينِ وَالْمَأْمُونِ [عَلَى الْعَهْدِ ]. قَالَ: فَبَكَّرَ النَّاسُ لِيُهَنِّئُوا الرَّشِيدَ، فَجَلَسُوا فِي دَارِ الْعَامَّةِ يَنْتَظِرُونَ الْإِذْنَ، قَالَ: فَجَعَلَ النَّاسُ يَقُولُونَ: كَيْفَ نَدْعُو لَهُمَا ؟ فَإِنَّا إِذَا فَعَلْنَا ذَلِكَ كَانَ دُعَاءً عَلَى الْخَلِيفَةِ، وَإِنْ لَمْ نَدْعُ لَهُمَا كَانَ تَقْصِيرًا ؟ قَالَ: فَدَخَلَ الشَّافِعِيُّ ؓ، فَجَلَسَ، فَقِيلَ لَهُ فِي ذَلِكَ، فَقَالَ: اللَّهُ الْمُوَفِّقُ. فَلَمَّا أَذِنَ دَخَلَ النَّاسُ، وَكَانَ أَوَّلَ مُتَكَلِّمٍ الشَّافِعِيُّ ؓ فَقَالَ: لَا قَصَّرَا عَنْهَا وَلَا بَلَغْتُهُمَا حَتَّى تَطُولَ عَلَى يَدَيْكَ طُوَالُهَا
Translation
✧ Al-Rashīd took the oath of allegiance for his son ʿAbd Allāh al-Maʾmūn as heir apparent after his brother Muḥammad b. Zubaydah al-Amīn. That was at al-Raqqah after his return from the pilgrimage. In the year 182 AH, al-Rashīd pledged allegiance to ʿAbd Allāh al-Maʾmūn as heir apparent after al-Amīn, appointed him over Khurāsān and what is connected to it as far as Hamadhān, gave him the title al-Maʾmūn, and handed him over to Jaʿfar b. Yaḥyā. (This is one of the wonders, for al-Rashīd had seen what his father and his grandfather al-Manṣūr had done with ʿĪsā b. Mūsā, until he removed himself from the succession, and what his brother al-Hādī did to make him remove himself from the succession; had death not overtaken him quickly he would have removed him. Then he pledges allegiance to al-Maʾmūn after al-Amīn; love for a thing blinds and deafens.) Then he sent him to the City of Peace, and with him from his household were Jaʿfar b. al-Manṣūr and ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ṣāliḥ, and from the commanders ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā. Allegiance was sworn to him in the City of Peace when al-Ḥusayn b. al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Zaʿfarānī arrived there. He said: When al-Shāfiʿī came to Baghdad, it coincided with al-Rashīd's contract for al-Amīn and al-Maʾmūn [for the succession]. He said: The people went early to congratulate al-Rashīd, and they sat in the public hall waiting for permission. He said: People began to say: How should we pray for the two of them? If we do that, it would be a prayer against the caliph, and if we do not pray for them, it would be a shortcoming. He said: Al-Shāfiʿī ؓ entered and sat down, and he was asked about that. He said: "God is the one who grants success." When permission was given, the people entered, and the first to speak was al-Shāfiʿī ؓ, and he said: No shortcoming in it, nor have I reached the two of them—until their long life extends under your hands.
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