Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3595
The Year 280 AH from the Emigration
بِنَاءِ دَارِ الْخِلَافَةِ بِبَغْدَادَ أَوَّلُ مَنْ بَنَاهَا الْمُعْتَضِدُ فِي سنة ثمانين ومائتين وَكَانَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ سَكَنَهَا مِنَ الْخُلَفَاءِ إِلَى آخَرِ دَوْلَتِهِمْ وَكَانَتْ أَوَّلًا دَارًا لِلْحَسَنِ بْنِ سَهْلٍ تُعْرَفُ بِالْقَصْرِ الْحَسَنِيِّ ثُمَّ صَارَتْ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ لِابْنَتِهِ بُورَانَ الَّتِي تَزَوَّجَ بِهَا الْمَأْمُونُ فَعَمَّرَتْ فِيهَا حَتَّى اسْتَنْزَلَهَا الْمُعْتَضِدُ عَنْهَا فَأَجَابَتْهُ إِلَى ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ أَصْلَحَتْ مَا وَهَى مِنْهَا وَرَمَّمَتْ مَا كَانَ قَدْ شَعِثَ فِيهَا وَفَرَشَتْ فِي كُلِّ مَوْضِعٍ مِنْهَا مَا يَلِيقُ بِهِ مِنَ الْمَفَارِشِ، وَأَسْكَنَتْ فِيهِ مَا يَلِيقُ بِهِ مِنَ الْجَوَارِي وَالْخَدَمِ وَأَعَدَّتْ بِهَا الْمَآكِلَ الشَّهِيَّةَ وَمَا يَحْسُنُ ادِّخَارُهُ فِي ذَلِكَ الزَّمَانِ ثُمَّ أَرْسَلَتْ بِمَفَاتِيحِهَا إِلَى الْمُعْتَضِدِ، فَلَمَّا دَخَلَهَا أَذْهَلَهُ مَا رَأَى فِيهَا مِنَ الْخَيْرَاتِ ثُمَّ وَسَّعَهَا وَزَادَ فِيهَا وَجَعَلَ لَهَا سُورًا حَوْلَهَا وَكَانَتْ قَدْرَ مَدِينَةِ شِيرَازَ وَبَنَى الْمَيْدَانَ ثُمَّ بَنَى قَصْرًا مُشْرِفًا عَلَى دِجْلَةَ، ثُمَّ بَنَى الْمُكْتَفِي التَّاجَ، ثُمَّ كَانَتْ أَيَّامُ الْمُقْتَدِرِ فَزَادَ فِيهَا زِيَادَاتٍ عَظِيمَةً جِدًّا، وَتَأَخَّرَتْ آثَارُهَا إِلَى أَيَّامِ التَّتَارِ الَّذِينَ خَرَّبُوا بَغْدَادَ وَسَبَوْا مَنْ كَانَ بِهَا مِنَ الْحَرَائِرِ الْآمِنَاتِ، كَمَا سَيَأْتِي بَيَانُهُ فِي مَوْضِعِهِ مِنْ سَنَةِ سِتٍّ وَخَمْسِينَ وَسِتِّمِائَةٍ. قَالَ الْخَطِيبُ: وَالَّذِي يُشْبِهُ أَنْ تَكُونَ بُوَرَانُ سَلَّمَتْ دَارَ الْخِلَافَةِ إِلَى الْمُعْتَمِدِ، فَإِنَّهَا لَمْ تَعِشْ إِلَى أَيَّامِ الْمُعْتَضِدِ.
Translation
✧ The building of the Abode of the Caliphate in Baghdad The first to build it was al-Muʿtaḍid in the year two hundred and eighty. He was the first of the caliphs to reside in it until the end of their dynasty. It was originally a residence of al-Ḥasan b. Sahl, known as al-Qaṣr al-Ḥasanī. Then it passed after that to his daughter Būrān, whom al-Maʾmūn married. She made improvements in it until al-Muʿtaḍid asked her to vacate it, and she responded to that. Then she repaired what had deteriorated in it and restored what had become dilapidated therein, and furnished in every place thereof what was suitable of furnishings, and housed therein what befitted it of slave-girls and servants, and prepared therein appetizing foods and what was good to store in that time. Then she sent its keys to al-Muʿtaḍid. When he entered it, what he saw therein of good things bewildered him. Then he enlarged it and added to it and made a wall around it, and it was the size of the city of Shīrāz. He built the maydān, then built a palace overlooking the Tigris, then al-Muktafī built the Tāj. Then came the days of al-Muqtadir, and he added to it very great additions, and its traces lasted until the days of the Tatars who destroyed Baghdad and took captive the free, secure women who were in it, as will be explained in its place under the year six hundred and fifty-six. Al-Khaṭīb said: It seems likely that Būrān handed over the Abode of the Caliphate to al-Muʿtamid, for she did not live until the days of al-Muʿtaḍid.
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