Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3272
The Year 215 AH
ثُمَّ دَخَلَتْ سَنَةُ خَمْسَ عَشْرَةَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ ذِكْرُ غَزْوَةِ الْمَأْمُونِ إِلَى الرُّومِ فِي هَذِهِ السَّنَةِ سَارَ ( الْمَأْمُونُ إِلَى الرُّومِ ) فِي الْمُحَرَّمِ، فَلَمَّا سَارَ اسْتَخْلَفَ عَلَى بَغْدَاذَ إِسْحَاقَ بْنَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُصْعَبٍ، وَوَلَّاهُ مَعَ ذَلِكَ السَّوَادَ، وَحُلْوَانَ، وَكُوَرَ دِجْلَةَ، فَلَمَّا صَارَ الْمَأْمُونُ بِتَكْرِيتَ قَدِمَ عَلَيْهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ - عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ - فَلَقِيَهُ بِهَا، فَأَجَارَهُ، وَأَمَرَهُ بِالدُّخُولِ بِابْنَتِهِ أُمِّ الْفَضْلِ، وَكَانَ زَوَّجَهَا مِنْهُ، فَأُدْخِلَتْ عَلَيْهِ، فَلَمَّا كَانَ أَيَّامَ الْحَجِّ سَارَ بِأَهْلِهِ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ فَأَقَامَ بِهَا. وَسَارَ الْمَأْمُونُ عَلَى طَرِيقِ الْمَوْصِلِ حَتَّى صَارَ إِلَى مَنْبِجَ، ثُمَّ إِلَى دَابِقَ، ثُمَّ إِلَى أَنْطَاكِيَةَ، ثُمَّ إِلَى الْمَصِّيصَةِ وَطَرَسُوسَ، وَدَخَلَ مِنْهَا إِلَى بِلَادِ الرُّومِ فِي جُمَادَى الْأُولَى، وَدَخَلَ ابْنُهُ الْعَبَّاسُ مِنْ مَلْطِيَةَ، فَأَقَامَ الْمَأْمُونُ عَلَى حِصْنِ قُرَّةَ حَتَّى افْتَتَحَهُ عَنْوَةً، وَهَدَمَهُ لِأَرْبَعٍ بَقِينَ مِنْ جُمَادَى الْأُولَى. وَقِيلَ: إِنَّ أَهْلَهُ طَلَبُوا الْأَمَانَ فَأَمَّنَهُمُ الْمَأْمُونُ، وَفَتَحَ قَبْلَهُ حِصْنَ مَاجِدَةَ بِالْأَمَانِ، وَوَجَّهَ أَشْنَاسَ إِلَى حِصْنِ سُنْدُسَ، فَأَتَاهُ بِرَئِيسِهِ، ( وَوَجَّهَ عُجَيْفًا وَجَعْفَرًا الْخَيَّاطَ إِلَى صَاحِبِ حِصْنِ سِنَاذَ، فَسَمِعَ وَأَطَاعَ. وَفِيهَا عَادَ ) الْمُعْتَصِمُ مِنْ مِصْرَ، فَلَقِيَ الْمَأْمُونَ قَبْلَ دُخُولِهِ الْمَوْصِلَ، وَلَقِيَهُ مَنْوِيلُ، وَعَبَّاسُ بْنُ الْمَأْمُونِ بِرَأْسِ عَيْنٍ. وَفِيهَا تَوَجَّهَ الْمَأْمُونُ بَعْدَ خُرُوجِهِ مِنْ بِلَادِ الرُّومِ إِلَى دِمَشْقَ.
Translation
✧ Then the year two hundred and fifteen entered. Account of al-Maʾmūn’s expedition against the Byzantines In this year al-Maʾmūn marched against the Byzantines in Muḥarram. When he set out, he appointed as his deputy over Baghdādh Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. Muṣʿab, and additionally placed in his charge the Sawād, Ḥulwān, and the districts of the Tigris. When al-Maʾmūn reached Takrīt, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Mūsā b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib ﷺ came to him and met him there. He gave him protection and ordered him to enter into marriage with his daughter Umm al-Faḍl, whom he had previously married to him, and she was then given to him. When the days of the pilgrimage came, he traveled with his family to Madinah and stayed there. Al-Maʾmūn proceeded by way of al-Mawṣil until he reached Manbij, then Dābiq, then Anṭākiyah, then al-Maṣṣīṣah and Ṭarsūs. He entered the Byzantine lands from there in Jumādā al-Ūlā, while his son al-ʿAbbās entered from Malaṭyah. Al-Maʾmūn besieged the fortress of Qurrah until he captured it by force and demolished it, with four nights remaining of Jumādā al-Ūlā. It is said that its people asked for safe-conduct, and al-Maʾmūn granted them safety. Before that, he had captured the fortress of Mājidah by capitulation. He dispatched Ashnās to the fortress of Sundus, and he brought him its commander. He dispatched ʿUjayf and Jaʿfar al-Khayyāṭ to the lord of the fortress of Sinādh, and he heard and obeyed. In this year al-Muʿtaṣim returned from Egypt and met al-Maʾmūn before he entered al-Mawṣil. Manwīl and ʿAbbās b. al-Maʾmūn met him at Raʾs ʿAyn. In this year, after leaving the Byzantine lands, al-Maʾmūn headed to Damascus.
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