Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3741
Then the Year 311 AH Began
ذِكْرُ الْقَرَامِطَةِ وَفِي سَنَةُ إِحْدَى عَشْرَةَ وَثَلَاثِمِائَةٍ قَصَدَ أَبُو طَاهِرٍ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْهَجَرِيُّ الْبَصْرَةَ، فَوَصَلَهَا لَيْلًا فِي أَلْفٍ وَسَبْعِمِائَةِ رَجُلٍ، وَمَعَهُ السَّلَالِيمُ الشَّعْرُ، فَوَضَعَهَا عَلَى السُّورِ، وَصَعِدَ أَصْحَابُهُ فَفَتَحُوا الْبَابَ، وَقَتَلُوا الْمُوَكَّلِينَ بِهِ، وَكَانَ ذَلِكَ فِي رَبِيعٍ الْآخَرِ. وَكَانَ عَلَى الْبَصْرَةِ سُبُكٌ الْمُفْلِحِيُّ، فَلَمْ يَشْعُرْ بِهِمْ إِلَّا فِي السَّحَرِ، وَلَمْ يَعْلَمْ أَنَّهُمُ الْقَرَامِطَةُ بَلِ اعْتَقَدَ أَنَّهُمْ عَرَبٌ تَجَمَّعُوا، فَرَكِبَ إِلَيْهِمْ، وَلَقِيَهُمْ، فَقَتَلُوهُ وَوَضَعُوا السَّيْفَ فِي أَهْلِ الْبَصْرَةِ، وَهَرَبَ النَّاسُ إِلَى الْكَلَإِ ( وَحَارَبُوا الْقَرَامِطَةَ عَشْرَةَ ) أَيَّامٍ، فَظَفِرَ بِهِمُ الْقَرَامِطَةُ، وَقَتَلُوا خَلْقًا كَثِيرًا وَطَرَحَ النَّاسُ أَنْفُسَهُمْ فِي الْمَاءِ، فَغَرِقَ أَكْثَرُهُمْ. وَأَقَامَ أَبُو طَاهِرٍ بِهَا سَبْعَةَ عَشَرَ يَوْمًا يَقْتُلُ وَيَأْسِرُ مَنْ شَاءَ مِنْ نِسَائِهَا وَذَرَارِيِّهَا، وَيَغْنَمُ مَا يَخْتَارُهُ مِنْ أَمْوَالِ أَهْلِهَا، ثُمَّ عَادَ إِلَى بَلَدِهِ هَجَرَ وَذَلِكَ لَمَّا بَعَثَ إِلَيْهِ الْخَلِيفَةُ جُنْدًا مِنْ قِبَلِهِ فَرَّ وَتَرَكَ الْبَلَدَ يَبَابًا، فَإِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ. وَاسْتَعْمَلَ الْمُقْتَدِرُ عَلَى الْبَصْرَةِ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْفَارِقِيَّ، فَانْحَدَرَ إِلَيْهَا وَقَدْ سَارَ الْهَجَرِيُّ عَنْهَا.
Translation
✧ Mention of the Qarmatians In the year 311 AH, Abū Ṭāhir Sulaymān b. Abī Saʿīd al-Hajarī made for al-Baṣrah. He reached it at night with one thousand seven hundred men, and he had hair ropes. He placed them on the wall, and his companions climbed up and opened the gate, and killed those in charge of it. That was in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir. The governor of al-Baṣrah was Subuk al-Mufliḥī, and he did not become aware of them until dawn, and he did not know that they were the Qarmatians, but believed that they were Arabs who had gathered. He rode out to them and met them, and they killed him and put the sword to the people of al-Baṣrah. The people fled to the fodder and fought the Qarmatians for ten days, and the Qarmatians defeated them, and they killed a great many. The people threw themselves into the water, and most of them drowned. Abū Ṭāhir remained there seventeen days, killing and taking captive whom he wished of its women and children, and plundering what he chose of the wealth of its people. Then he returned to his land Hajar. That was when the caliph sent troops against him, and he fled and left the town desolate. Truly, to Allah we belong and to Him we return. Al-Muqtadir appointed Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Fāriqī over al-Baṣrah, and he went down to it after al-Hajarī had departed from it.
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