Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3632
Reports of the Qarmatians in Syria
أَخْبَارِ الْقَرَامِطَةِ بِالشَّامِ فِي سَنَةُ تِسْعٍ وَثَمَانِينَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ ظَهَرَ بِالشَّامِ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْقَرَامِطَةِ، وَجَمَعَ جُمُوعًا مِنَ الْأَعْرَابِ، وَأَتَى دِمَشْقَ، وَأَمِيرُهَا طُغَجُ بْنُ جُفٍّ مِنْ قِبَلِ هَارُونَ بْنِ خُمَارَوَيْهِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ طُولُونَ، وَكَانَتْ بَيْنَهُمَا وَقَعَاتٌ. وَكَانَ ابْتِدَاءُ حَالِ هَذَا الْقَرْمَطِيِّ أَنَّ زِكْرَوَيْهِ بْنَ مَهْرَوَيْهِ الَّذِي ذَكَرْنَا أَنَّهُ دَاعِيَةُ قَرْمَطَ هَذَا، لَمَّا رَأَى أَنَّ الْجُيُوشَ مِنَ الْمُعْتَضِدِ مُتَتَابِعَةٌ إِلَى مَنْ بِسَوَادِ الْكُوفَةِ مِنَ الْقَرَامِطَةِ، فَإِنَّ الْقَتْلَ قَدْ أَبَادَهُمْ، سَعَى فِي اسْتِغْوَاءِ مَنْ قَرُبَ مِنَ الْكُوفَةِ مِنَ الْأَعْرَابِ: ( أَسَدٍ، وَطَيٍّ، وَغَيْرِهِمْ )، فَلَمْ يُجِبْهُ مِنْهُمْ أَحَدٌ فَأَرْسَلَ أَوْلَادَهُ إِلَى كَلْبِ بْنِ وَبَرَةَ فَاسْتَغْوَوْهُمْ، فَلَمْ ( يُجِبْهُمْ مِنْهُمْ ) إِلَّا الْفَخِدُ الْمَعْرُوفُ بِبَنِي الْعُلَيْصِ بْنِ ضَمْضَمِ بْنِ عُدَيِّ بْنِ خَبَّابٍ وَمَوَالِيهِمْ خَاصَّةً، فَبَايَعُوا فِي سَنَةِ تِسْعٍ وَثَمَانِينَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ بِنَاحِيَةِ السَّمَاوَةِ ابْنَ زِكْرَوَيْهِ، الْمُسَمَّى بِيَحْيَى، الْمُكَنَّى أَبَا الْقَاسِمِ، فَلَقَّبُوهُ الشَّيْخَ، وَزَعَمَ أَنَّهُ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ. وَقِيلَ: لَمْ يَكُنْ لِمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ وَلَدٌ اسْمُهُ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ، وَزَعَمَ أَنَّ لَهُ بِالْبِلَادِ مِائَةَ أَلْفِ تَابِعٍ، وَأَنَّ نَاقَتَهُ الَّتِي يَرْكَبُهَا مَأْمُورَةٌ، فَإِذَا تَتَبَّعُوهَا فِي مَسِيرِهَا نُصِرُوا، وَأَظْهَرَ عَضُدًا لَهُ ( نَاقِصَةً وَذَكَرَ أَنَّهَا آيَتُهُ )، وَأَتَاهُ جَمَاعَةٌ مِنْ بَنِي الْأَصْبَغِ، وَسُمُّوا الْفَاطِمِيِّينَ، وَدَانُوا بِدِينِهِ، فَقَصَدَهُمْ شِبْلٌ غُلَامُ الْمُعْتَضِدِ مِنْ نَاحِيَةِ الرُّصَافَةِ ( فَاغْتَرُّوهُ فَقَتَلُوهُ، وَأَحْرَقُوا مَسْجِدَ الرُّصَافَةِ )، وَاعْتَرَضُوا كُلَّ قَرْيَةٍ اجْتَازُوا بِهَا، حَتَّى بَلَغُوا وِلَايَةَ هَارُونَ بْنِ خُمَارَوَيْهِ الَّتِي قُوطِعَ عَلَيْهَا طُغَجُ بْنُ جُفٍّ، فَأَكْثَرُوا الْقَتْلَ بِهَا وَالْإِغَارَةَ، فَقَاتَلَهُمْ طُغَجُ، فَهَزَمُوهُ غَيْرَ مَرَّةٍ. وَقَتَلُوا مِنْ أَهْلِهَا خَلْقًا كَثِيرًا وَانْتَهَبُوا مِنْ أَمْوَالِهَا شَيْئًا كَثِيرًا، فَإِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ.
Translation
✧ Reports of the Qarmatians in Syria In the year two hundred and eighty-nine, a man from the Qarmatians appeared in Syria, and he gathered a multitude of Bedouin Arabs and came to Damascus, whose governor was Ṭughj b. Juff, acting on behalf of Hārūn b. Khumārawayh b. Aḥmad b. Ṭūlūn. There were battles between them. The beginning of the affair of this Qarmaṭī was that Zikrawayh b. Mahrawayh, whom we mentioned as being the propagandist of this Qarmaṭ, when he saw that the armies of al-Muʿtaḍid were coming in succession against those of the Qarmatians who were in the Sawād of Kufa, and that the killing had exterminated them, he set about seducing the Bedouin Arabs who were near Kufa, namely Asad, Ṭayyiʾ, and others. But no one of them answered him, so he sent his sons to Kalb b. Wabara, and they seduced them, but no one of them answered them except the subtribe known as Banū al-ʿUlayṣ b. Ḍamḍam b. ʿUdayy b. Khubbāb and their clients specifically. So they pledged allegiance in the year two hundred and eighty-nine in the region of al-Samāwa to the son of Zikrawayh, named Yaḥyā, with the kunya Abū al-Qāsim, and they nicknamed him “the Shaykh.” He claimed that he was Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib. It is said: Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl had no son named ʿAbd Allāh. He claimed that he had in the lands a hundred thousand followers, and that his she-camel which he rode was under divine command; whenever they followed it in its course, they would be victorious. He showed an arm of his that was defective and mentioned that it was his sign. A group from Banū al-Aṣbagh came to him, and they were called the Fāṭimīs, and they professed his religion. Then Shibl, the page of al-Muʿtaḍid, attacked them from the area of al-Ruṣāfa, but they deceived him and killed him, and they burned the mosque of al-Ruṣāfa. They attacked every village they passed by until they reached the province of Hārūn b. Khumārawayh, which had been farmed out to Ṭughj b. Juff, and they caused much killing there and raiding. Ṭughj fought them, but they defeated him more than once. They killed many of its inhabitants and plundered a great amount of its wealth. Indeed, to God we belong and to Him we return.
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