Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3445
The Year 257 AH
مَسِيرِ الْمُولَّدِ لِحَرْبِ الزَّنْجِ وَفِيهَا، فِي ذِي الْقَعْدَةِ، أَمَرَ الْمُعْتَمِدُ أَحْمَدَ الْمُوَلَّدَ بِالْمَسِيرِ إِلَى الْبَصْرَةِ لِحَرْبِ الزَّنْجِ، فَنَزَلَ الْأُبُلَّةَ، وَجَاءَ بَرِّيَّةُ فَنَزَلَ الْبَصْرَةَ، وَاجْتَمَعَ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا خَلْقٌ كَثِيرٌ، فَسَيَّرَ الْعَلَوِيَّ إِلَى حَرْبِ الْمُوَلَّدِ يَحْيَى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ، فَسَارَ إِلَيْهِ فَقَاتَلَهُ عَشَرَةَ أَيَّامٍ، ثُمَّ وَطَّنَ الْمُوَلَّدَ نَفْسَهُ عَلَى الْمُقَامِ، فَكَتَبَ الْعَلَوِيُّ إِلَى يَحْيَى يَأْمُرُهُ بِتَبْيِيتِ الْمَوْلَّدِ، وَوَجَّهَ إِلَيْهِ الشَّذَا مَعَ أَبِي اللَّيْثِ الْأَصْفَهَانِيِّ، فَبَيَّتَهُ، وَنَهَضَ الْمُوَلَّدُ فَقَاتَلَهُ تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةَ، وَمِنَ الْغَدِ إِلَى الْعَصْرِ، ثُمَّ انْهَزَمَ عَنْهُ. وَدَخَلَ الزَّنْجُ عَسْكَرَهُ فَغَنِمُوا مَا فِيهِ، فَاتَّبَعَهُ يَحْيَى إِلَى الْجَامِدَةِ، فَأَوْقَعَ بِأَهْلِهَا، وَنَهَبَ تِلْكَ الْقُرَى جَمِيعَهَا، وَسَفَكَ مَا قَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الدِّمَاءِ، ثُمَّ رَجَعَ إِلَى نَهْرِ مَعْقِلٍ.
Translation
✧ The march of al-Muwallad to fight the Zanj In this year, in Dhū al-Qaʿdah, al-Muʿtamid ordered Aḥmad al-Muwallad to march to al-Baṣrah to fight the Zanj. He encamped at al-Ubullah, and Barriyyah came and encamped at al-Baṣrah, and a great multitude of its people gathered to him. He sent the ʿAlawī to fight al-Muwallad Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad, so he marched against him and fought him for ten days. Then al-Muwallad resolved to remain, so the ʿAlawī wrote to Yaḥyā ordering him to launch a night attack on al-Muwallad, and he sent the shadhā with Abū al-Layth al-Iṣfahānī. He attacked him by night, and al-Muwallad rose and fought him that night, and from the next day until the afternoon, then he fled from him. The Zanj entered his camp and plundered what was in it. Yaḥyā pursued him to al-Jāmidah, fell upon its people, plundered all those villages, and shed whatever blood he could. Then he returned to Nahr Maʿqil.
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