Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3630
The year 288 AH
فِي سَنَةُ ثَمَانٍ وَثَمَانِينَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ وَقَعَ الْوَبَاءُ بِأَذْرَبِيجَانَ فَمَاتَ مِنْهُ خَلْقٌ كَثِيرٌ إِلَى أَنْ فَقَدَ النَّاسُ مَا يُكَفِّنُونَ بِهِ الْمَوْتَى، وَكَانُوا يَتْرُكُونَهُمْ عَلَى الطُّرُقِ غَيْرَ مُكَفَّنِينَ وَلَا مُدَفَّنِينَ. وَفِيهَا تُوُفِّيَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي السَّاجِ بِأَذْرَبِيجَانَ فِي الْوَبَاءِ الْكَثِيرِ الْمَذْكُورِ ، فَاجْتَمَعَ أَصْحَابُهُ، فَوَلَّوُا ابْنَهُ دُيُودَادَ، وَاعْتَزَلَهُمْ عَمُّهُ يُوسُفُ بْنُ أَبِي السَّاجِ مُخَالِفًا لَهُمْ، فَاجْتَمَعَ إِلَيْهِ نَفَرٌ يَسِيرٌ، فَأَوْقَعَ بِابْنِ أَخِيهِ دُيُودَادَ، وَهُوَ فِي عَسْكَرِ أَبِيهِ فَهَزَمَهُ، وَعَرَضَ عَلَيْهِ يُوسُفُ الْمُقَامَ مَعَهُ فَأَبَى، وَسَلَكَ طَرِيقَ الْمَوْصِلِ إِلَى بَغْدَاذَ، وَكَانَ ذَلِكَ فِي رَمَضَانَ. وَفِيهَا، فِي صَفَرٍ دَخَلَ طَاهِرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ اللَّيْثِ بِلَادَ فَارِسَ فِي عَسْكَرِهِ، وَأَخْرَجُوا عَنْهَا عَامِلَ الْخَلِيفَةِ، فَكَتَبَ الْأَمِيرُ إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ السَّامَانِيُّ إِلَى طَاهِرٍ يَذْكُرُ لَهُ أَنَّ الْخَلِيفَةَ الْمُعْتَضِدَ قَدْ وَلَّاهُ سِجِسْتَانَ، وَأَنَّهُ سَائِرٌ إِلَيْهَا، فَعَادَ طَاهِرٌ لِذَلِكَ. وَفِيهَا وَلَّى الْمُعْتَضِدُ مَوْلَاهُ بَدْرًا فَارِسَ، وَأَمَرَهُ بِالشُّخُوصِ إِلَيْهَا لَمَّا بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ طَاهِرًا تَغَلَّبَ عَلَيْهَا، فَسَارَ إِلَيْهِ فِي جَيْشٍ عَظِيمٍ فِي جُمَادَى الْآخِرَةِ، فَلَمَّا قَرُبَ مِنْ فَارِسَ تَنَحَّى عَنْهَا مَنْ كَانَ بِهَا مِنْ أَصْحَابِ طَاهِرٍ، فَدَخَلَهَا بَدْرٌ، وَجَبَى خَرَاجَهَا، وَعَادَ طَاهِرٌ إِلَى سِجِسْتَانَ، كَمَا ذَكَرْنَاهُ مِنْ مُرَاسَلَةِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ السَّامَانِيِّ إِلَيْهِ بِأَنَّهُ يُرِيدُ [ أَنْ ] يَقْصِدَ سِجِسْتَانَ. وَفِيهَا تَغَلَّبَ بَعْضُ الْعَلَوِيِّينَ عَلَى صَنْعَاءَ، فَقَصَدَهُ بَنُو يَعْفُرَ فِي جَمْعٍ كَثِيرٍ، فَقَاتَلُوهُ، فَهَزَمُوهُ، وَنَجَا هَارِبًا نَحْوُ خَمْسِينَ فَارِسًا، وَأَسَرُوا ابْنًا لَهُ، وَدَخَلَهَا بَنُو يَعْفُرَ، وَخَطَبُوا فِيهَا لِلْمُعْتَضِدِ. وَفِيهَا سَيَّرَ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ كَوْرَةَ صَاحِبَهُ نِزَارَ بْنَ مُحَمَّدٍ إِلَى صَائِفَةِ الرُّومِ فَغَزَا، وَفَتَحَ حُصُونًا كَثِيرَةً لِلرُّومِ، وَعَادَ وَمَعَهُ الْأَسْرَى. وَفِيهَا قَرُبَ أَصْحَابُ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْجَنَّابِيِّ مِنَ الْبَصْرَةِ، فَخَافَ أَهْلُهَا، وَهَمُّوا بِالْهَرَبِ مِنْهَا، فَمَنَعَهُمْ مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَالِيهِمْ. وَفِيهَا فِي ذِي الْحِجَّةِ، قُتِلَ وَصَيْفٌ خَادِمُ ابْنِ أَبِي السَّاجِ، وَصُلِبَتْ جُثَّتُهُ بِبَغْدَاذَ، وَقِيلَ إِنَّهُ مَاتَ وَلَمْ يُقْتَلْ. وَحَجَّ بِالنَّاسِ هَذِهِ السَّنَةَ هَارُونُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْمُكَنَّى أَبَا بَكْرٍ. ومِنْهَا أَنَّ الرُّومَ قَصَدُوا بِلَادَ الرَّقَّةِ فِي جَحَافِلَ مِنَ الْبَحْرِ وَالْبَرِّ فَقَتَلُوا خَلْقًا وَأَسَرُوا نَحْوًا مِنْ خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ أَلْفًا مِنَ الذُّرِّيَّةِ. وَمِنْهَا أَنَّ بِلَادَ أَرْدَبِيلَ أَصَابَتْهَا رِيحٌ شَدِيدَةٌ مِنْ بَعْدِ الْعَصْرِ إِلَى ثُلْثِ اللَّيْلِ ثُمَّ زُلْزِلُوا زِلْزَالًا شَدِيدًا وَاسْتَمَرَّ ذَلِكَ أَيَّامًا فَتَهَدَّمَتِ الدُّورُ وَالْمَنَازِلُ وَخُسِفَ بِآخَرِينَ مِنْهُمْ وَكَانَ جُمْلَةُ مَنْ مَاتَ تَحْتَ الْهَدْمِ مِائَةَ أَلْفٍ وَخَمْسِينَ أَلْفًا، فَإِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ. وَفِي سَنَةِ ثَمَانٍ: ظَهَرَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الشِّيعِيُّ بِالْمَغْرِبِ ، فَدَعَا قَبِيلَةَ كِنَانَةَ إِلَى الْإِمَامِ الْمَهْدِيِّ، فَاسْتَجَابُوا، فَهَذَا أَوَّلُ ظُهُورِ الْعُبَيْدِيَّةِ الَّذِينَ صَارُوا مُلُوكَ دِيَارِ مِصْرَ.
Translation
✧ In the year two hundred and eighty-eight, a plague occurred in Adharbayjān, from which many people died, until people lacked what to shroud the dead with, and they would leave them on the roads unshrouded and unburied. In it, Muḥammad b. Abī al-Sāj died in Adharbayjān during the aforementioned great plague. His companions gathered and appointed his son Duyūdād, while his uncle Yūsuf b. Abī al-Sāj withdrew from them in opposition. A small number gathered to him, and he fell upon his nephew Duyūdād while he was in his father's camp and routed him. Yūsuf offered him to remain with him, but he refused and took the road to al-Mawṣil toward Baghdādh, and that was in Ramaḍān. In it, in Ṣafar, Ṭāhir b. Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. al-Layth entered the land of Fāris with his army, and they expelled the caliph's governor from it. The Amīr Ismāʿīl b. Aḥmad al-Sāmānī wrote to Ṭāhir, reminding him that the caliph al-Muʿtaḍid had appointed him over Sijistān and that he was proceeding there, so Ṭāhir returned because of that. In it, al-Muʿtaḍid appointed his mawlā Badr over Fāris and ordered him to march there when news reached him that Ṭāhir had seized it. He marched to it with a great army in Jumādā al-Ākhirah. When he drew near Fāris, those of Ṭāhir's companions who were in it withdrew from it, and Badr entered it, collected its kharāj, and Ṭāhir returned to Sijistān, as we mentioned regarding Ismāʿīl al-Sāmānī's correspondence to him that he intended to head for Sijistān. In it, one of the ʿAlawīs seized control of Ṣanʿāʾ. The Banū Yaʿfur marched against him in a great host and fought him, routing him. He escaped fleeing with about fifty horsemen, and they captured a son of his. The Banū Yaʿfur entered it and gave the khuṭbah in it for al-Muʿtaḍid. In it, al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī Kūrah dispatched his companion Nizār b. Muḥammad to the summer expedition against the Byzantines. He raided and conquered many Byzantine fortresses, and returned with captives. In it, the companions of Abū Saʿīd al-Jannābī drew near al-Baṣrah, and its people feared and resolved to flee from it, but their governor prevented them from that. In it, in Dhū al-Ḥijjah, Waṣīf, the servant of Ibn Abī al-Sāj, was killed and his corpse was crucified in Baghdādh. It is also said that he died and was not killed. In this year, Hārūn b. Muḥammad, whose kunyah was Abū Bakr, led the people in the ḥajj. Among the events of this year was that the Byzantines raided the land of al-Raqqah in hosts from sea and land, killing many people and capturing about fifteen thousand children. Among them was that the land of Ardabīl was struck by a severe wind from after ʿaṣr until a third of the night, then they were struck by a severe earthquake that continued for days. Houses and dwellings collapsed, and others among them were swallowed up. The total number who died under the rubble was one hundred and fifty thousand. To Allāh we belong and to Him is our return. In the year 288: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Shīʿī appeared in the Maghrib and called the tribe of Kinānah to the Imām al-Mahdī, and they responded. This is the first appearance of the ʿUbaydīs who became kings of the land of Miṣr.
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