Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3323
The Year 227 AH
بَابُ ذِكْرِ خِلَافَةِ الْوَاثِقِ اسْمُهُ هَارُونُ بْنُ الْمُعْتَصِمِ، وَيُكَنَّى أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ، وُلِدَ بِطَرِيقِ مَكَّةَ سَنَةَ تِسْعِينَ وَمِائَةٍ، وَأُمُّهُ أُمُّ وَلَدٍ [رُومِيَّةٌ] تُسَمَّى قَرَاطِيسَ، وَكَانَ أَبْيَضَ يَعْلُوهُ صُفْرَةٌ، وَقِيلَ: كَانَ مُشْرَبًا بِحُمْرَةٍ، جَمِيلًا رَبْعَةً، حَسَنَ الْجِسْمِ، قَاتِمَ الْعَيْنِ، فِيهَا نُكْتَةُ بَيَاضٍ. بُويِعَ الْوَاثِقُ بِسَامُرَّاءَ يَوْمَ تُوُفِّيَ الْمُعْتَصِمُ، وَذَلِكَ يَوْمَ الْأَرْبِعَاءِ لِثَمَانِ لَيَالٍ خَلَوْنَ مِنْ رَبِيعٍ الْأَوَّلِ سَنَةَ سَبْعٍ وَعِشْرِينَ. قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي الدُّنْيَا: بُويِعَ هَارُونُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ فِي الْيَوْمِ الَّذِي تُوُفِّيَ فِيهِ أَبُوهُ الْمُعْتَصِمُ بِسَامُرَّاءَ، وَهُوَ يَوْمَئِذٍ ابْنُ تِسْعٍ وَعِشْرِينَ سَنَةً، وَوَرَدَ رَسُولُهُ بَغْدَادَ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ عَلَى إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، فَلَمْ يُظْهِرْ ذَلِكَ، وَدَعَا لِلْمُعْتَصِمِ عَلَى مِنْبَرَيْ بَغْدَادَ وَهُوَ مَيِّتٌ، فَلَمَّا كَانَ مِنَ الْغَدِ يَوْمَ السَّبْتِ، أَمَرَ إِسْحَاقَ بْنَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْهَاشِمِيَّ وَالْقُوَّادَ وَالنَّاسَ بِحُضُورِ دَارِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَحَضَرُوا، فَقَرَأَ كِتَابَهُ عَلَى النَّاسِ بِنَعْيِ أَبِيهِ، وَأَخَذَ الْبَيْعَةَ، فَبَايَعَ النَّاسَ.
Translation
✧ Chapter: Mention of the Caliphate of al-Wāthiq His name was Hārūn b. al-Muʿtaṣim, and his kunya was Abū Jaʿfar. He was born on the road to Makkah in the year 190 AH. His mother was an umm walad, a Byzantine woman named Qarāṭīs. He was fair-skinned with a tinge of yellowness, and it was said: he had a reddish complexion. He was handsome, of medium height, with a good body, dark eyes, in which there was a speck of white. Al-Wāthiq was given the oath of allegiance in Sāmarrāʾ on the day al-Muʿtaṣim died, which was Wednesday, eight nights remaining of Rabīʿ al-Awwal in the year 227 AH. Abū Bakr b. Abī al-Dunyā said: Hārūn b. Muḥammad was given the oath of allegiance on the day his father al-Muʿtaṣim died in Sāmarrāʾ, and on that day he was twenty-nine years old. His messenger arrived in Baghdad on Friday to Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm, but he did not make it public, and he prayed for al-Muʿtaṣim on the pulpits of Baghdad while he was dead. When the next day, Saturday, came, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm ordered the Hāshimīs, the commanders, and the people to attend the palace of the Commander of the Faithful, so they attended, and he read his letter to the people announcing the death of his father and took the oath of allegiance, and the people swore allegiance.
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