Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3257
The Year 213 AH
وَفِيهَا قَتَلَ أَهْلُ مَارِدَةَ مِنَ الْأَنْدَلُسِ عَامِلَهُمْ، فَثَارَتِ الْفِتْنَةُ عِنْدَهُمْ، فَسَيَّرَ إِلَيْهِمْ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ جَيْشًا، فَحَصَرَهُمْ، وَأَفْسَدَ زَرْعَهُمْ وَأَشْجَارَهُمْ، فَعَاوَدُوا الطَّاعَةَ، وَأُخِذَتْ رَهَائِنُهُمْ، وَعَادَ الْجَيْشُ بَعْدَ أَنْ خَرَّبُوا سُورَ الْمَدِينَةِ. ثُمَّ أَرْسَلَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ إِلَيْهِمْ بِنَقْلِ حِجَارَةِ السُّورِ إِلَى النَّهْرِ ; لِئَلَّا يَطْمَعَ أَهْلُهَا فِي عِمَارَتِهِ، فَلَمَّا رَأَوْا ذَلِكَ عَادُوا إِلَى الْعِصْيَانِ، وَأَسَرُوا الْعَامِلَ عَلَيْهِمْ، وَجَدَّدُوا بِنَاءَ السُّورِ وَأَتْقَنُوهُ. فَلَمَّا دَخَلَتْ سَنَةُ أَرْبَعَ عَشْرَةَ سَارَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ، صَاحِبُ الْأَنْدَلُسِ، فِي جُيُوشِهِ إِلَى مَارِدَةَ، وَمَعَهُ رَهَائِنُ أَهْلِهَا، فَلَمَّا بَارَزَهَا رَاسَلَهُ أَهْلُهَا، وَافْتَكُّوا رَهَائِنَهُمْ بِالْعَامِلِ الَّذِي أَسَرُوهُ وَغَيْرِهِ، وَحَصَرَهُمْ، وَأَفْسَدَ بَلَدَهُمْ وَرَحَلَ عَنْهُمْ. ثُمَّ سَيَّرَ إِلَيْهِمْ جَيْشًا سَنَةَ سَبْعَ عَشْرَةَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ، فَحَصَرُوهَا، وَضَيَّقُوا عَلَيْهَا، وَدَامَ الْحِصَارُ، ثُمَّ رَحَلُوا عَنْهُمْ. فَلَمَّا دَخَلَتْ سَنَةُ ثَمَانِيَ عَشْرَةَ سَيَّرَ إِلَيْهَا جَيْشًا، فَفَتَحَهَا، وَفَارَقَهَا أَهْلُ الشَّرِّ وَالْفَسَادِ. وَكَانَ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا إِنْسَانٌ اسْمُهُ مَحْمُودُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ الْمَارِدِيُّ، فَحَصَرَهُ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ فِي جَمْعٍ كَثِيرٍ مِنَ الْجُنْدِ، وَصَدَقُوهُ الْقِتَالَ، فَهَزَمُوهُ وَقَتَلُوا كَثِيرًا مِنْ رِجَالِهِ، وَتَبِعَتْهُمُ الْخَيْلُ، فَأَفْنَوْهُمْ قَتْلًا وَأَسْرًا وَتَشْرِيدًا. وَمَضَى مَحْمُودُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ الْمَارِدِيُّ فِيمَنْ سَلِمَ مَعَهُ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ إِلَى مُنْتِ سَالُوطَ، فَسَيَّرَ إِلَيْهِ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ جَيْشًا سَنَةَ عِشْرِينَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ، فَمَضَوْا هَارِبِينَ عَنْهُ إِلَى حَلْقَبَ فِي رَبِيعٍ الْآخِرِ مِنْهَا، فَأَرْسَلَ سَرِيَّةً فِي طَلَبِهِمْ، فَقَاتَلَهُمْ مَحْمُودٌ، فَهَزَمَهُمْ، وَغَنِمَ مَا مَعَهُمْ، وَمَضَوْا لِوِجْهَتِهِمْ، فَلَقِيَهُمْ جَمْعٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ مُصَادَفَةً، فَقَاتَلُوهُمْ ثُمَّ كَفَّ بَعْضُهُمْ عَنْ بَعْضٍ، وَسَارُوا، فَلَقِيَهُمْ سَرِيَّةٌ أُخْرَى، فَقَاتَلُوهُمْ، فَانْهَزَمَتِ السَّرِيَّةُ، وَغَنِمَ مَحْمُودٌ مَا فِيهَا. وَسَارَ حَتَّى أَتَى مَدِينَةَ مِينَةَ، فَهَجَمَ عَلَيْهَا وَمَلَكَهَا، وَأَخَذَ مَا فِيهَا مِنْ دَوَابَّ وَطَعَامٍ، وَفَارَقُوهَا، فَوَصَلُوا إِلَى بِلَادِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ، فَاسْتَوْلَوْا عَلَى قَلْعَةٍ لَهُمْ، فَأَقَامُوا بِهَا خَمْسَةَ أَعْوَامٍ وَثَلَاثَةَ أَشْهُرٍ، فَحَصَرَهُمْ أَذْفُونْسُ مَلِكُ الْفِرِنْجِ، فَمَلَكَ الْحِصْنَ، وَقَتَلَ مَحْمُودًا وَمَنْ مَعَهُ، وَذَلِكَ سَنَةَ خَمْسٍ وَعِشْرِينَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ فِي رَجَبٍ، وَانْصَرَفَ مَنْ فِيهَا.
Translation
✧ In this year, the people of Mārida in al-Andalus killed their governor, and strife arose among them. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān sent an army against them, which besieged them and destroyed their crops and trees. They returned to obedience, hostages were taken from them, and the army withdrew after demolishing the city wall. Then ʿAbd al-Raḥmān sent word to them to transport the stones of the wall to the river, so that its inhabitants would not aspire to rebuild it. When they saw that, they returned to rebellion, seized the governor over them, and rebuilt the wall and made it strong. When the year 214 entered, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the ruler of al-Andalus, marched with his armies to Mārida, taking with him the hostages of its people. When he appeared before it, its people corresponded with him and ransomed their hostages with the governor whom they had seized and others. He besieged them, ravaged their land, and departed from them. Then in the year 217 he sent an army against them, which besieged the city and pressed it hard, and the siege continued, then they departed from them. When the year 218 entered, he sent an army to it and conquered it, and the people of evil and corruption left it. Among its people was a man named Maḥmūd b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Māridī. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. al-Ḥakam besieged him with a large force of soldiers, and they fought him fiercely. They routed him and killed many of his men; the cavalry pursued them and annihilated them by killing, capturing, and scattering. Maḥmūd b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Māridī went with those of his companions who survived to Munt Sālūṭ. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān sent an army against him in the year 220, and they fled from him to Ḥalqaba in Rabīʿ II of that year. He sent a detachment in pursuit of them. Maḥmūd fought them, routed them, and captured what they had. They went on their way, and a group of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān's men encountered them by chance. They fought them, then some desisted from others, and they marched on. Another detachment met them, and they fought them; the detachment was defeated, and Maḥmūd captured what was in it. He marched until he came to the city of Mīna, fell upon it, took possession of it, and seized the beasts and food in it. They left it and reached the lands of the polytheists. They took possession of a fortress of theirs and stayed there for five years and three months. Adhfūnsh, king of the Franks, besieged them, took the fortress, and killed Maḥmūd and those with him. That was in Rajab of the year 225, and those in it departed.
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