Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3564
The Year 275 AH
الْحَرْبِ بَيْنَ الطَّائِيِّ، وَفَارِسٍ الْعَبْدِيِّ وَفِي سَنَةُ خَمْسٍ وَسَبْعِينَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ ظَهَرَ فَارِسٌ الْعَبْدِيُّ فِي جَمْعٍ، فَأَخَافَ السَّبِيلَ، وَسَارَ إِلَى دُورِ سَامَرَّا، وَنَهَبَ، فَسَارَ إِلَيْهِ الطَّائِيُّ مُقَاتِلًا، فَهَزَمَهُ الطَّائِيُّ، وَأَخَذَ سَوَادَهُ، ثُمَّ سَارَ الطَّائِيُّ إِلَى دِجْلَةَ لِيَعْبُرَهَا، فَدَخَلَ طَيَّارَةً لَهُ، فَأَدْرَكَهُ بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِ فَارِسٍ فَتَعَلَّقُوا بِكَوْثَلِ الطَّيَّارَةِ، فَرَمَى الطَّائِيُّ نَفْسَهُ فِي الْمَاءِ وَسَبَحَ، فَلَمَّا خَرَجَ مِنْهُ نَفَضَ لِحْيَتَهُ، وَقَالَ: إِيشْ ظَنُّ الْعَبْدِيِّ ؟ أَلَيْسَ أَنَا أَسْبَحُ مِنْ سَمَكَةٍ ؟ ثُمَّ نَزَلَ الطَّائِيُّ السِّنَّ وَالْعَبْدِيُّ بِإِزَائِهِ، قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ بَسَّامٍ فِي الطَّائِيِّ: قَدْ أَقْبَلَ الطَّائِيُّ مَا أَقْبَلَا يَفْتَحُ فِي الْأَفْعَالِ مَا أَجْمَلَا كَأَنَّهُ مِنْ لِينِ أَلْفَاظِهِ صَبِيَّةٌ تَمْضُغُ جَهْدَ الْبَلَا وَجَهْدُ الْبَلَا ضَرْبٌ مِنَ النَّافِطِ يُتَعَلَّكُ. وَفِيهَا قَبَضَ الْمُوَفَّقُ عَلَى الطَّائِيِّ وَقَيَّدَهُ، وَخَتَمَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ لَهُ، وَكَانَ يَلِي الْكُوفَةَ وَسَوَادَهَا، وَطَرِيقَ خُرَاسَانَ، وَسَامَرَّا، وَالشُّرْطَةَ بِبَغْدَاذَ، وَخَرَاجِ بَادُورِيَا، وَقُطْرَبُّلَ، وَمَسِكَنَ.
Translation
✧ The war between al-Ṭāʾī and Fāris al-ʿAbdī In the year 275 AH, Fāris al-ʿAbdī appeared with a group, made the roads unsafe, marched to the houses of Sāmarrā, and plundered. Al-Ṭāʾī marched against him in battle, defeated him, and seized his baggage. Then al-Ṭāʾī went to the Tigris to cross it, and entered a boat of his. Some of Fāris's companions caught up with him and clung to the stern of the boat. Al-Ṭāʾī threw himself into the water and swam. When he came out of it, he shook his beard and said: "What does al-ʿAbdī think? Am I not a better swimmer than a fish?" Then al-Ṭāʾī encamped at al-Sinn and al-ʿAbdī opposite him. ʿAlī b. Bassām said about al-Ṭāʾī: Al-Ṭāʾī has come forward—what a coming! He opens in deeds what is most beautiful. It is as though, from the softness of his words, he is a young girl chewing jahd al-balā. Jahd al-balā is a kind of nāfiṭ that is chewed. In this year al-Muwaffaq seized al-Ṭāʾī, put him in fetters, and sealed all his property. He had governed al-Kūfah and its rural districts, the road to Khurāsān, Sāmarrā, the shurṭah in Baghdādh, and the land tax of Bādūriyā, Quṭrubbul, and Maskin.
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