Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3542
The Year 270 AH from the Prophetic Emigration
ذِكْرُ عِدَّةِ حَوَادِثَ وَفِي سنة سبعين ومائتين فِي جُمَادَى الْأُولَى تُوُفِّيَ هَارُونُ بْنُ الْمُوَفَّقِ بِبَغْدَاذَ . وَفِيهَا، كَانَ فِدَاءُ أَهْلِ سِنْدِيَّةَ عَلَى يَدِ يَازْمَانَ وَفِيهَا، فِي شَعْبَانَ شَغَبَ أَصْحَابُ أَبِي الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ الْمُوَفَّقِ عَلَى صَاعِدِ بْنِ مَخْلَدٍ، وَهُوَ وَزِيرُ الْمُوَفَّقِ، وَطَلَبُوا الْأَرْزَاقَ، وَقَاتَلَهُمْ أَصْحَابُ صَاعِدٍ، وَكَانَ بَيْنَهُمْ حَرْبٌ شَدِيدَةٌ قُتِلَ فِيهَا جَمَاعَةٌ، وَأُسِرَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ أَبِي الْعَبَّاسِ جَمَاعَةٌ، وَلَمْ يَكُنْ أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ حَاضِرًا، كَانَ قَدْ خَرَجَ مُتَصَيِّدًا، وَدَامَتِ الْحَرْبُ إِلَى بَعْدِ الْمَغْرِبِ، ثُمَّ كَفَّ بَعْضُهُمْ عَنْ بَعْضٍ، ثُمَّ وَضَعَ الْعَطَاءَ مِنَ الْغَدِ، وَاصْطَلَحُوا. وَفِيهَا كَانَتْ وَقْعَةٌ بَيْنَ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ كُنْدَاجِيقَ وَبَيْنَ ابْنِ دَعْبَاشَ ( وَكَانَ ابْنُ دَعْبَاشَ ) بِالرَّقَّةِ عَامِلًا عَلَيْهَا، وَعَلَى الثُّغُورِ وَالْعَوَاصِمِ لِابْنِ طُولُونَ، وَابْنُ كُنْدَاجِيقَ عَلَى الْمَوْصِلِ لِلْخَلِيفَةِ. وَفِيهَا ابْتَدَأَ إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُوسَى بِبِنَاءِ مَدِينَةِ لَارَدَةَ مِنَ الْأَنْدَلُسِ، وَكَانَ مُخَالِفًا لِمُحَمَّدٍ صَاحِبِ الْأَنْدَلُسِ، ثُمَّ صَالَحَهُ فِي الْعَامِ الْمَاضِي، فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ صَاحِبُ بَرْشِلُونَةَ الْفِرِنْجِيُّ جَمَعَ وَحَشَدَ وَسَارَ يُرِيدُ مَنْعَهُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ، فَسَمِعَ بِهِ إِسْمَاعِيلُ، فَقَصَدَهُ وَقَاتَلَهُ، فَانْهَزَمَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ، وَقُتِلَ أَكْثَرُهُمْ، وَبَقِيَ أَكْثَرُ الْقَتْلَى فِي تِلْكَ الْأَرْضِ دَهْرًا طَوِيلًا. وَفِي هَذِهِ السَّنَةِ قُتِلَ مَلِكُ الرُّومِ الصَّقْلَبِيُّ. وَفِيهَا: بَنَى أَحْمَدُ بْنُ طُولُونَ أَرْبَعَةَ أَرْوِقَةٍ عَلَى قَبْرِ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ، وَأَمَرَ أَنْ يُسْرَجَ هُنَاكَ، وَأَجْلَسَ أَقْوَامًا مَعَهُمْ الْمَصَاحِفَ يَقْرَءُونَ الْقُرْآنَ. وَحَجَّ بِالنَّاسِ فِي هَذِهِ السَّنَةِ: هَارُونُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَاشِمِيُّ. وَفِي هَذِهِ السَّنَةِ: انْبَثَقَ بِبَغْدَادَ فِي نَهْرِ عِيسَى بَثْقٌ، فَجَاءَ الْمَاءُ إِلَى الْكَرْخِ فَهَدَمَ سَبْعَةَ آلَافِ دَارٍ . وَفِيهَا: نَازَلَتِ الرُّومُ طَرَسُوسَ فِي مِائَةِ أَلْفٍ، فَكَانَتِ النُّصْرَةُ لِلْمُسْلِمِينَ ، وَغَنِمُوا مَا لَا يُحْصَى، وَكَانَ فَتْحًا عَظِيمًا عَدِيمَ الْمِثْلِ. وَفِيهَا: ظَهَرَتْ دَعْوَةُ الْمَهْدِيِّ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ جَدِّ بَنِي عُبَيْدٍ خُلَفَاءَ الْمِصْرِيِّينَ الرَّوَافِضَ بِالْيَمَنِ، وَأَقَامَ عَلَى ذَلِكَ إِلَى سَنَةِ ثَمَانٍ وَسَبْعِينَ، فَحَجَّ تِلْكَ السَّنَةَ وَاجْتَمَعَ بِقَبِيلَةٍ مِنْ كُتَامَةَ، فَأَعْجَبَهُمْ حَالُهُ، فَصَحِبَهُمْ إِلَى مِصْرَ، وَرَأَى مِنْهُمْ طَاعَةً وَقُوَّةً فَصَحِبَهُمْ إِلَى الْمَغْرِبِ، فَكَانَ ذَلِكَ أَوَّلَ شَأْنِ الْمَهْدِيِّ.
Translation
✧ Mention of several events And in the year two hundred and seventy, in Jumādā al-Ūlā, Hārūn b. al-Muwaffaq died in Baghdādh. In it, the ransom of the people of Sindiyyah took place at the hand of Yāzmān. In it, in Shaʿbān, the companions of Abū al-ʿAbbās b. al-Muwaffaq rioted against Ṣāʿid b. Makhlad, who was the vizier of al-Muwaffaq, and they demanded stipends. The companions of Ṣāʿid fought them, and there was a severe battle between them in which a group was killed, and a group of the companions of Abū al-ʿAbbās was taken captive. Abū al-ʿAbbās was not present; he had gone out hunting. The battle continued until after sunset, then they ceased fighting one another. The next day the stipend was distributed, and they made peace. In it there was a battle between Isḥāq b. Kundājīq and Ibn Daʿbāsh. Ibn Daʿbāsh was in al-Raqqah as governor over it and over the frontier fortresses and the ʿAwāṣim for Ibn Ṭūlūn, while Ibn Kundājīq was over al-Mawṣil for the caliph. In it Ismāʿīl b. Mūsā began building the city of Lārida in al-Andalus. He had been in opposition to Muḥammad, the ruler of al-Andalus, but then made peace with him in the previous year. When the Frankish lord of Barshalūnah heard of it, he gathered and mobilized and marched, intending to prevent him from that. Ismāʿīl heard of him and went to meet him and fought him. The polytheists were defeated, and most of them were killed; most of the slain remained on that ground for a long time. And in this year the Byzantine king al-Ṣaqlabī was killed. In it, Aḥmad b. Ṭūlūn built four porticoes over the grave of Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān and ordered that lamps be lit there, and he seated people with copies of the Qurʾān to recite the Qurʾān. And the people were led on the pilgrimage in this year by Hārūn b. Muḥammad al-Hāshimī. And in this year a breach occurred in Baghdad in the Nahr ʿĪsā canal, and the water reached al-Karkh and destroyed seven thousand houses. In it, the Byzantines besieged Ṭarsūs with one hundred thousand men, but victory was for the Muslims, and they gained incalculable booty; it was a great victory without parallel. In it, the call of the Mahdī ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUbayd, ancestor of the Banū ʿUbayd, the Egyptian caliphs, the Rāfiḍīs, appeared in Yemen. He remained upon that until the year two hundred and seventy-eight, then he performed the pilgrimage that year and met with a tribe of Kutāmah. They were impressed by his condition, so he accompanied them to Miṣr. He saw obedience and strength in them, so he accompanied them to the Maghrib. That was the beginning of the affair of the Mahdī.
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