Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3653
The emirate of the Banu Hamdan in Mosul and what they did to the Kurds
الظَّفَرِ بِالْخَلَنْجِيِّ فِي سنة ثَلَاثٍ وَتِسْعِينَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ، ظَهَرَ رَجُلٌ بِمِصْرَ يُقَالُ لَهُ الْخَلَنْجِيُّ فَخَلَعَ الطَّاعَةَ وَاجْتَمَعَ إِلَيْهِ طَائِفَةٌ مِنَ الْجُنْدِ فَأَمَرَ الْخَلِيفَةُ أَحْمَدَ بْنَ كَيْغَلَغَ نَائِبَ دِمَشْقَ وَأَعْمَالِهَا فَرَكِبَ إِلَيْهِ وفِي صَفَرٍ، وَصَلَ عَسْكَرُ الْمُكْتَفِي إِلَى نَوَاحِي مِصْرَ، وَتَقَدَّمَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ كَيْغَلَغَ فِي جَمَاعَةٍ مِنَ الْقُوَّادِ، فَلَقِيَهُمُ الْخَلَنْجِيُّ بِالْقُرْبِ مِنَ الْعَرِيشِ، فَهَزَمَهُمْ أَقْبَحَ هَزِيمَةٍ، فَنَدَبَ جَمَاعَةً مِنَ الْقُوَّادِ إِلَيْهِمْ بِبَغْدَاذَ، وَفِيهِمْ إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ كَيْغَلَغَ، فَخَرَجُوا فِي رَبِيعٍ الْأَوَّلِ وَسَارُوا نَحْوَ مِصْرَ. وَاتَّصَلَتِ الْأَخْبَارُ بِقُوَّةِ الْخَلَنْجِيِّ، فَبَرَزَ الْمُكْتَفِي إِلَى بَابِ الشَّمَّاسِيَّةِ لِيَسِيرَ إِلَى مِصْرَ فِي رَجَبٍ، فَوَصَلَ إِلَيْهِ كِتَابُ فَاتَكٍ فِي شَعْبَانَ يَذْكُرُ أَنَّهُ وَالْقُوَّادَ رَجَعُوا إِلَى الْخَلَنْجِيِّ، وَكَانَتْ بَيْنَهُمْ حُرُوبٌ كَثِيرَةٌ قُتِلَ بَيْنَهُمْ فِيهَا خَلْقٌ كَثِيرٌ، فَإِنَّ آخِرَ حَرْبٍ كَانَتْ بَيْنَهُمْ قُتِلَ فِيهَا مُعْظَمُ أَصْحَابِ الْخَلَنْجِيِّ، وَانْهَزَمَ الْبَاقُونَ، وَظَفِرُوا بِهِمْ، وَغَنِمُوا عَسْكَرَهُمْ، وَهَرَبَ الْخَلَنْجِيُّ، فَدَخَلَ فُسْطَاطَ مِصْرَ، فَاسْتَتَرَ بِهَا عِنْدَ رَجُلٍ مَنْ أَهْلِ الْبَلَدِ، فَدَخَلْنَا الْمَدِينَةَ، فَدَلُّونَا عَلَيْهِ، فَأَخَذْنَاهُ وَمَنِ اسْتَتَرَ عِنْدَهُ، وَهُمْ فِي الْحَبْسِ. فَكَتَبَ الْمُكْتَفِي إِلَى فَاتِكٍ فِي حَمْلِ الْخَلَنْجِيِّ وَمَنْ مَعَهُ إِلَى بَغْدَاذَ، وَعَادَ الْمُكْتَفِي فَدَخَلَ بَغْدَاذَ، وَأَمَرَ بِرَدِّ خَزَائِنِهِ، وَكَانَتْ قَدْ بَلَغَتْ تَكْرِيتَ، فَوَجَّهَ فَاتِكٌ الْخَلَنْجِيَّ إِلَى بَغْدَاذَ، فَدَخَلَهَا هُوَ وَمَنْ مَعَهُ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ، فَأَمَرَ الْمُكْتَفِي بِحَبْسِهِمْ.
Translation
✧ THE CAPTURE OF AL-KHALANJĪ In the year 293, a man called al-Khalanjī appeared in Egypt, renounced obedience, and a group of soldiers gathered around him. The caliph ordered Aḥmad b. Kayghalagh, the deputy of Damascus and its districts, to march against him. In Ṣafar, al-Muktafī's army reached the vicinity of Egypt, and Aḥmad b. Kayghalagh advanced with a company of commanders. Al-Khalanjī met them near al-ʿArīsh and routed them most disgracefully. He then dispatched a group of commanders from Baghdad against them, among them Ibrāhīm b. Kayghalagh. They set out in Rabīʿ al-Awwal and marched towards Egypt. Reports of al-Khalanjī's strength continued to arrive, so al-Muktafī went out to Bāb al-Shammāsiyya in Rajab intending to march to Egypt. In Shaʿbān a letter from Fātik reached him stating that he and the commanders had returned to confront al-Khalanjī, and that there had been many battles between them in which a great number were killed. In the last battle most of al-Khalanjī's followers were killed, the rest were routed, they were captured, and their camp was plundered. Al-Khalanjī fled and entered Fusṭāṭ Miṣr, where he hid with a man of the town. We entered the city, and they pointed him out to us; we seized him and the one who had hidden him, and they are in prison. Al-Muktafī wrote to Fātik ordering him to bring al-Khalanjī and those with him to Baghdad. Al-Muktafī returned and entered Baghdad, and ordered his treasuries to be brought back, which had reached Takrīt. Fātik sent al-Khalanjī to Baghdad, and he and those with him entered it in the month of Ramaḍān. Al-Muktafī ordered them to be imprisoned.
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