Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3238
The Year 211 AH
ذِكْرُ قَتْلِ السَّيِّدِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ وَفِيهَا قُتِلَ السَّيِّدُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ الْأَزْدِيُّ أَمِيرُ الْمَوْصِلِ، وَسَبَبُ قَتْلِهِ أَنَّ زُرَيْقَ بْنَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ صَدَقَةَ الْأَزْدِيَّ الْمَوْصِلِيَّ كَانَ قَدْ تَغَلَّبَ عَلَى الْجِبَالِ مَا بَيْنَ الْمَوْصِلِ وَأَذْرَبِيجَانَ، وَجَرَى بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ السَّيِّدِ حُرُوبٌ كَثِيرَةٌ، فَلَمَّا كَانَ هَذِهِ السَّنَةَ جَمَعَ زُرَيْقٌ جَمْعًا كَثِيرًا، قِيلَ: كَانُوا أَرْبَعِينَ أَلْفًا، وَسَيَّرَهُمْ إِلَى الْمَوْصِلِ لِحَرْبِ السَّيِّدِ، فَخَرَجَ إِلَيْهِمْ فِي أَرْبَعَةِ آلَافٍ، فَالْتَقَوْا بِسُوقِ الْأَحَدِ، فَحِينَ رَآهُمُ السَّيِّدُ حَمَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَحْدَهُ، وَهَذِهِ كَانَتْ عَادَتُهُ أَنْ يَحْمِلَ وَحْدَهُ بِنَفْسِهِ، وَحَمَلَ عَلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ زُرَيْقٍ، فَاقْتَتَلَا، فَقَتَلَ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا صَاحِبَهُ، لَمْ يُقْتَلْ غَيْرُهُمَا. وَكَانَ هَذَا الرَّجُلُ قَدْ حَلَفَ بِالطَّلَاقِ إِنْ رَأَى السَّيِّدَ أَنْ يَحْمِلَ عَلَيْهِ فَيَقْتُلَهُ أَوْ يُقْتَلَ دُونَهُ ; لِأَنَّهُ كَانَ لَهُ عَلَى زُرَيْقٍ كُلَّ سَنَةٍ مِائَةُ أَلْفِ دِرْهَمٍ، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: بِأَيِّ سَبَبٍ تَأْخُذُ هَذَا الْمَالَ ؟ فَقَالَ: لِأَنَّنِي مَتَى رَأَيْتُ السَّيِّدَ قَتَلْتُهُ، وَحَلَفَ عَلَى ذَلِكَ فَوَفَّى بِهِ. فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ الْمَأْمُونَ قَتْلُهُ غَضِبَ لِذَلِكَ، وَوَلَّى مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ حُمَيْدٍ الطُّوسِيَّ حَرْبَ زُرَيْقٍ وَبَابَكَ الْخُرَّمِيِّ، وَاسْتَعْمَلَهُ عَلَى الْمَوْصِلِ.
Translation
✧ Mention of the killing of al-Sayyid b. Anas In this year, al-Sayyid b. Anas al-Azdī, governor of al-Mawṣil, was killed. The reason for his killing was that Zurayq b. ʿAlī b. Ṣadaqah al-Azdī al-Mawṣilī had seized control of the mountains between al-Mawṣil and Adharbayjān, and many wars took place between him and al-Sayyid. When this year came, Zurayq gathered a large force, said to have been forty thousand, and dispatched them to al-Mawṣil to fight al-Sayyid. He went out against them with four thousand. They met at Sūq al-Aḥad. When al-Sayyid saw them, he charged them alone, and this was his custom, to charge alone by himself. A man from Zurayq's companions charged him, and they fought, and each one of them killed his opponent; no one else was killed. This man had sworn by divorce that if he saw al-Sayyid he would charge him and kill him or be killed before him; because he had from Zurayq every year one hundred thousand dirhams. It was said to him, "For what reason do you take this money?" He said, "Because whenever I see al-Sayyid, I will kill him," and he swore to that and fulfilled it. When al-Maʾmūn learned of his killing, he became angry at that, and appointed Muḥammad b. Ḥumayd al-Ṭūsī to wage war against Zurayq and Bābak al-Khurramī, and placed him in charge of al-Mawṣil.
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