Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3698
The year 311 AH of the Prophetic Hijrah
الْقَرَامِطَةِ وَقَتْلِ الْجَنَّابِيِّ فِي سنة إحدى وثلاثمائة قُتِلَ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ بَهْرَامَ الْجَنَّابِيُّ كَبِيرُ الْقَرَامِطَةِ قَتَلَهُ خَادِمٌ لَهُ صَقْلَبِيٌّ فِي الْحَمَّامِ، فَلَمَّا قَتَلَهُ اسْتَدْعَى رَجُلًا مِنْ أَكَابِرِ رُؤَسَائِهِمْ وَقَالَ لَهُ: السَّيِّدُ يَسْتَدْعِيكَ، فَلَمَّا دَخَلَ قَتَلَهُ، فَفَعَلَ ذَلِكَ بِأَرْبَعَةِ نَفَرٍ، ( مِنْ رُؤَسَائِهِمْ )، وَاسْتَدْعَى الْخَامِسَ، فَلَمَّا دَخَلَ فَطِنَ لِذَلِكَ، فَأَمْسَكَ بِيَدِ الْخَادِمِ وَصَاحَ، فَدَخَلَ النَّاسُ، وَصَاحَ النِّسَاءُ، وَجَرَى بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ الْخَادِمِ مُنَاظَرَاتٌ ثُمَّ قَتَلُوهُ. وَكَانَ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ قَدْ عَهِدَ إِلَى ابْنِهِ سَعِيدٍ، وَهُوَ الْأَكْبَرُ، فَعَجَزَ عَنِ الْأَمْرِ، فَغَلَبَهُ أَخُوهُ الْأَصْغَرُ أَبُو طَاهِرٍ سُلَيْمَانُ، وَكَانَ شَهْمًا شُجَاعًا، وَيَرِدُ مِنْ أَخْبَارِهِ مَا يُعْلَمُ بِهِ مَحَلُّهُ. وَلَمَّا قُتِلَ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ كَانَ قَدِ اسْتَوْلَى عَلَى هَجَرَ وَالْإِحْسَاءِ وَالْقَطِيفِ وَالطَّائِفِ، وَسَائِرِ بِلَادِ الْبَحْرَيْنِ، وَكَانَ الْمُقْتَدِرُ قَدْ كَتَبَ إِلَى أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْمُتَغَلِّبِ عَلَى هَجَرَ، فَتَقَدَّمَ إِلَيْهِ بِمُكَاتَبَتِهِ، فَكَتَبَ كِتَابًا طَوِيلًا يَتَضَمَّنُ الْحَثَّ عَلَى طَاعَةِ الْخُلَفَاءِ، وَيُعَاتِبُهُ عَلَى تَرْكِهِ الطَّاعَةَ، وَيُوَبِّخُهُ عَلَى مَا يَحْكِي عَنْ أَصْحَابِهِ مِنْ إِعْلَانِ الْكُفْرِ وَإِنْكَارِهِمْ عَلَى مَنْ يُسَبِّحُ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَيُقَدِّسُهُ، وَاطِّرَاحِهِمُ الصَّلَوَاتِ وَالزَّكَوَاتِ، وَاسْتِهْزَائِهِمْ بِأَهْلِ الدِّينِ [وَاسْتِرْقَاقِهِمُ الْأَحْرَارَ]، ثُمَّ تَوَاعُدِهِ فِيهِ بِالْحَرْبِ إِنْ لَمْ يُطِعْ فَوَصَلَ الْكِتَابُ إِلَيْهِ، وَقَدْ قُتِلَ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ
Translation
✧ The Qarāmiṭa and the killing of al-Jannābī In the year three hundred and eleven, Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥasan b. Bahrām al-Jannābī, the chief of the Qarāmiṭa, was killed. A Slavic servant of his killed him in the bathhouse. When he had killed him, he summoned a man from among their foremost leaders and said to him, “The master summons you.” When he entered, he killed him. He did this with four men of their leaders, and he summoned the fifth. When he entered, he sensed that, so he seized the servant’s hand and cried out. The people entered, and the women cried out, and there occurred between them and the servant arguments, then they killed him. Abū Saʿīd had entrusted the affair to his son Saʿīd, the eldest, but he was incapable of the matter, so his younger brother Abū Ṭāhir Sulaymān overcame him. He was resolute and courageous, and reports of his deeds came that showed his standing. When Abū Saʿīd was killed, he had seized control of Hajar, al-Iḥsāʾ, al-Qaṭīf, al-Ṭāʾif, and the rest of the lands of al-Baḥrayn. Al-Muqtadir had written to Abū Saʿīd, who had taken control of Hajar, ordering him to correspond with him. He wrote a long letter that included urging obedience to the caliphs, reproaching him for abandoning obedience, rebuking him for what was reported about his companions openly professing unbelief, their denying those who glorify God (mighty and majestic is He) and declare Him holy, their discarding prayers and alms, and their mocking the people of religion [and their enslaving free persons]. Then he threatened him in it with war if he did not obey. The letter reached him after Abū Saʿīd had been killed.
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