Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3327
The Year 229 AH
ثُمَّ دَخَلَتْ سَنَةُ تِسْعٍ وَعِشْرِينَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ فِي هَذِهِ السَّنَةِ حَبَسَ الْوَاثِقُ الْكُتَّابَ، وَأَلْزَمَهُمْ أَمْوَالًا عَظِيمَةً، وَأَخَذَ مِنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ إِسْرَائِيلَ ثَمَانِينَ أَلْفَ دِينَارٍ بَعْدَ أَنْ ضَرَبَهُ، وَمِنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ وَهْبٍ كَاتِبِ إِيتَاخَ أَرْبَعَ مِائَةِ أَلْفِ دِينَارٍ، وَمِنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ رَبَاحٍ وَكُتَّابِهِ مِائَةَ أَلْفِ دِينَارٍ، وَمِنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ الْخَصِيبِ وَكُتَّابِهِ أَلْفَ أَلْفَ دِينَارٍ، وَمِنْ نَجَاحٍ سِتِّينَ أَلْفَ دِينَارٍ، وَمِنْ أَبِي الْوَزِيرِ مِائَةَ أَلْفٍ وَأَرْبَعِينَ أَلْفَ دِينَارٍ. وَكَانَ سَبَبُ ذَلِكَ; أَنَّهُ جَلَسَ لَيْلَةً مَعَ أَصْحَابِهِ، فَسَأَلَهُمْ عَنْ نَكْبَةِ الْبَرَامِكَةِ، فَحَكَى لَهُ عُرُودُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ أَنَّ جَارِيَةً لِعَدُولٍ الْخَيَّاطِ أَرَادَ الرَّشِيدُ شِرَاءَهَا، ( فَاشْتَرَاهَا ) بِمِائَةِ أَلْفِ دِينَارٍ، وَأَرْسَلَ إِلَى يَحْيَى بْنِ خَالِدٍ أَنْ يُعْطِيَهُ ( ذَلِكَ، فَقَالَ يَحْيَى: هَذَا مِفْتَاحُ سُوءٍ، إِذَا أَخَذَ ثَمَنَ جَارِيَةٍ بِمِائَةِ أَلْفِ دِينَارٍ، فَهُوَ أَحْرَى أَنْ يَطْلُبَ الْمَالَ عَلَى قَدْرِ ذَلِكَ )، فَأَرْسَلَ يَحْيَى إِلَيْهِ: إِنَّنِي لَا أَقْدِرُ عَلَى هَذَا الْمَالِ، فَغَضِبَ الرَّشِيدُ، وَأَعَادَ: لَا بُدَّ مِنْهَا، فَأَرْسَلَ يَحْيَى قِيمَتَهَا دَرَاهِمَ، فَأَمَرَ أَنْ تُجْعَلَ عَلَى طَرِيقِ الرَّشِيدِ لِيَسْتَكْثِرَهَا، فَفَعَلَ ذَلِكَ، فَاجْتَازَ الرَّشِيدُ بِهَا، فَسَأَلَ عَنْهَا، فَقِيلَ: هَذَا ثَمَنُ الْجَارِيَةِ، فَاسْتَكْثَرَهَا، فَأَمَرَ بِرَدِّ الْجَارِيَةِ، وَقَالَ لِخَادِمٍ لَهُ: اضْمُمْ إِلَيْكَ هَذَا الْمَالَ، وَاجْعَلْ لِي بَيْتَ مَالٍ لِأُضَمَّ إِلَيْهِ مَا أُرِيدُ، وَسَمَّاهُ " بَيْتُ مَالِ الْعَرُوسِ "، وَأَخَذَ فِي التَّفْتِيشِ عَنِ الْأَمْوَالِ، فَوَجَدَ الْبَرَامِكَةَ قَدْ فَرَّطُوا فِيهَا. وَكَانَ يَحْضُرُ عِنْدَهُ مَعَ سُمَّارِهِ رَجُلٌ يُعْرَفُ بِأَبِي الْعَوْدِ لَهُ أَدَبٌ، فَأَمَرَ لَيْلَةً لَهُ بِثَلَاثِينَ أَلْفَ دِرْهَمٍ، فَمَطَلَهُ بِهَا يَحْيَى، فَاحْتَالَ أَبُو الْعَوْدِ فِي تَحْرِيضِ الرَّشِيدِ عَلَى الْبَرَامِكَةِ، وَكَانَ قَدْ شَاعَ تَغَيُّرُ الرَّشِيدِ عَلَيْهِمْ، فَبَيْنَمَا هُوَ لَيْلَةً عِنْدَ الرَّشِيدِ يُحَدِّثُهُ، وَسَاقَ الْحَدِيثَ إِلَى أَنْ أَنْشَدَهُ قَوْلَ عُمَرَ بْنِ أَبِي رَبِيعَةَ: وَعَدَتْ هِنْدٌ وَمَا كَانَتْ تَعِدْ لَيْتَ هِنْدًا أَنْجَزَتْنَا مَا تَعِدْ وَاسْتَبَدَّتْ مَرَّةً وَاحِدَةً إِنَّمَا الْعَاجِزُ مَنْ لَا يَسْتَبِدْ فَقَالَ الرَّشِيدُ: أَجَلْ إِنَّمَا الْعَاجِزُ مَنْ لَا يَسْتَبِدُّ. وَكَانَ يَحْيَى قَدِ اتَّخَذَ مِنْ خُدَّامِ الرَّشِيدِ خَادِمًا يَأْتِيهِ بِأَخْبَارِهِ، فَعَرَّفَهُ ذَلِكَ، فَأَحْضَرَ أَبَا الْعَوْدِ، وَأَعْطَاهُ ثَلَاثِينَ أَلْفَ دِرْهَمٍ، وَمِنْ عِنْدِهِ عِشْرِينَ أَلْفَ دِرْهَمٍ، وَأَرْسَلَ إِلَى ابْنَيْهِ الْفَضْلِ وَجَعْفَرٍ، فَأَعْطَى كُلَّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا عِشْرِينَ أَلْفًا، وَجَدَّ الرَّشِيدُ فِي أَمْرِهِمْ حَتَّى أَخَذَهُمْ، فَقَالَ الْوَاثِقُ: صَدَقَ وَاللَّهِ جِدِّي، إِنَّمَا الْعَاجِزُ مَنْ لَا يَسْتَبِدُّ، وَأَخَذَ فِي ذِكْرِ الْخِيَانَةِ وَمَا يَسْتَحِقُّ أَهْلُهَا، فَلَمْ يَمْضِ غَيْرُ أُسْبُوعٍ حَتَّى نَكَبَهُمْ. تولية بعض الولاة ومن حج بالناس تلك السنة وَفِيهَا وَلِيَ شِيرُ بَاسْبَانَ لِإِيتَاخَ الْيَمَنَ، وَسَارَ إِلَيْهَا. وَفِيهَا تَوَلَّى مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ صَالِحِ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ الْمَدِينَةَ. وَحَجَّ بِالنَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ. قتل غرسية وكثير من المشركين بالأندلس فيها جهز عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ عَسْكَرًا كَبِيرًا، وَاسْتَعْمَلَ عَلَيْهِ ابْنَهُ مُحَمَّدًا، وَسَيَّرَهُ إِلَى مُوسَى فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ مِنْ سَنَةِ تِسْعٍ وَعِشْرِينَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ، وَتَقَدَّمَ مُحَمَّدٌ إِلَى بَنْبَلُونَةَ، فَأَوْقَعَ عِنْدَهَا بِجَمْعٍ كَثِيرٍ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ، وَقُتِلَ فِيهَا غرسية وَكَثِيرٌ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ. ثُمَّ عَادَ مُوسَى إِلَى الْخِلَافِ عَلَى عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، فَجَهَّزَ جَيْشًا كَبِيرًا وَسَيَّرَهُمْ إِلَى مُوسَى، فَلَمَّا رَأَى ذَلِكَ طَلَبَ الْمُسَالَمَةَ، فَأُجِيبَ إِلَيْهَا، وَأَعْطَى ابْنَهُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ رَهِينَةً، وَوَلَّاهُ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ مَدِينَةَ تُطِيلَةَ، فَسَارَ مُوسَى إِلَيْهَا فَوَصَلَهَا، وَأَخْرَجَ كُلَّ مَنْ يَخَافُهُ، وَاسْتَقَرَّ فِيهَا.
Translation
✧ Then the year two hundred and twenty-nine entered. In this year, al-Wāthiq imprisoned the secretaries and imposed upon them enormous sums of money. He took from Aḥmad b. Isrāʾīl eighty thousand dinars after flogging him, from Sulaymān b. Wahb, the secretary of Ītākh, four hundred thousand dinars, from Ibrāhīm b. Rabāḥ and his secretaries one hundred thousand dinars, from Aḥmad b. al-Khaṣīb and his secretaries one million dinars, from Najāḥ sixty thousand dinars, and from Abū al-Wazīr one hundred and forty thousand dinars. The reason for that was that one night he sat with his companions and asked them about the downfall of the Barāmikah. ʿUrūd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Anṣārī related to him that a slave girl belonging to ʿAdūl the tailor, whom al-Rashīd wanted to buy, was purchased for one hundred thousand dinars, and he sent to Yaḥyā b. Khālid to give him that amount. Yaḥyā said: 'This is the key to evil. If he takes the price of a slave girl as one hundred thousand dinars, he is more likely to demand wealth in proportion to that.' So Yaḥyā sent to him: 'I am not able to provide this money.' Al-Rashīd became angry and repeated: 'It must be done.' So Yaḥyā sent its value in dirhams, and ordered that they be placed on al-Rashīd's path so that he might consider them excessive. He did so, and al-Rashīd passed by them and asked about them. He was told: 'This is the price of the slave girl.' He considered it excessive and ordered the slave girl to be returned. He said to a servant of his: 'Take this money into your keeping and establish for me a treasury to which I can add what I wish.' He named it 'the bridal treasury' (bayt māl al-ʿarūs). He then began investigating the wealth and found that the Barāmikah had been negligent with it. Among his boon companions there used to attend a man known as Abū al-ʿAwd, who had refinement. One night al-Rashīd ordered for him thirty thousand dirhams, but Yaḥyā delayed giving them to him. Abū al-ʿAwd contrived to incite al-Rashīd against the Barāmikah. It had become known that al-Rashīd had changed toward them. While he was one night with al-Rashīd conversing with him, he led the talk until he recited to him the verse of ʿUmar b. Abī Rabīʿah: Hind promised, but she never keeps her promise— Would that Hind had fulfilled for us what she promised. She acted arbitrarily once, For only the powerless man is he who does not act arbitrarily. Al-Rashīd said: 'Indeed, only the powerless man is he who does not act arbitrarily.' Yaḥyā had taken one of al-Rashīd's servants as a servant who would bring him news of him. He informed him of that. So he summoned Abū al-ʿAwd and gave him thirty thousand dirhams, and from himself twenty thousand dirhams. He sent to his two sons, al-Faḍl and Jaʿfar, and gave each of them twenty thousand. Al-Rashīd pursued their affair until he seized them. Al-Wāthiq said: 'My grandfather spoke truly, by God. Only the powerless man is he who does not act arbitrarily.' He then began speaking of embezzlement and what its perpetrators deserve. No more than a week passed before he brought them down. The appointment of some governors and who led the pilgrims that year In this year, Shīr Bāsabān was appointed over Yemen for Ītākh, and he set out to it. In this year, Muḥammad b. Ṣāliḥ b. al-ʿAbbās took charge of al-Madīnah. Muḥammad b. Dāwūd led the people in the pilgrimage. The killing of Gharsiyah and many polytheists in al-Andalus In it, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān equipped a large army and appointed over it his son Muḥammad, and dispatched him against Mūsā in the month of Ramaḍān of the year two hundred and twenty-nine. Muḥammad advanced to Banbalūnah and inflicted there a defeat upon a large gathering of polytheists. Gharsiyah and many polytheists were killed in it. Then Mūsā returned to opposing ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, so he equipped a great army and sent them against Mūsā. When Mūsā saw that, he sought peace, and it was granted to him. He gave his son Ismāʿīl as a hostage, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān appointed him governor of the city of Ṭuṭīlah. Mūsā set out to it and reached it, expelled everyone he feared, and settled there.
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