Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3786
Then the Year 318 AH Began
هَلَاكِ الرِّجَالِ الْمُصَافِيَّةِ فِي سَنَةُ ثَمَانِيَ عَشْرَةَ وَثَلَاثِمِائَةٍ، فِي الْمُحَرَّمِ هَلَكَ الرَّجَّالَةُ الْمُصَافِيَّةُ، وَأُخْرِجُوا مِنْ بَغْدَاذَ بَعْدَ ( مَا عَظُمَ شَرُّهُمْ، وَقَوِيَ أَمْرُهُمْ. وَكَانَ سَبَبُ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُمْ لَمَّا أَعَادُوا ) الْمُقْتَدِرَ إِلَى الْخِلَافَةِ، عَلَى مَا ذَكَرْنَاهُ، زَادَ إِدْلَالُهُمْ وَاسْتِطَالَتُهُمْ، وَصَارُوا يَقُولُونَ أَشْيَاءَ لَا يَحْتَمِلُهَا الْخُلَفَاءُ، مِنْهَا أَنَّهُمْ يَقُولُونَ: مَنْ أَعَانَ ظَالِمًا سَلَّطَهُ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ، وَمَنْ يُصْعِدُ الْحِمَارَ إِلَى السَّطْحِ يَقْدِرُ يَحُطُّهُ، وَإِنْ لَمْ يَفْعَلِ الْمُقْتَدِرُ مَعَنَا مَا نَسْتَحِقُّهُ، قَاتَلْنَاهُ بِمَا يَسْتَحِقُّ، إِلَى غَيْرِ ذَلِكَ. وَكَثُرَ شَغَبُهُمْ وَمُطَالَبَتُهُمْ، وَأَدْخَلُوا فِي الْأَرْزَاقِ أَوْلَادَهُمْ، وَأَهْلِيهِمْ، وَمَعَارِفَهَمْ، وَأَثْبَتُوا أَسْمَاءَهُمْ، فَصَارَ لَهُمْ فِي الشَّهْرِ مِائَةُ أَلْفٍ وَثَلَاثُونَ أَلْفَ دِينَارٍ. وَاتَّفَقَ أَنْ شَغَبَ الْفُرْسَانُ فِي طَلَبِ أَرْزَاقِهِمْ، فَقِيلَ لَهُمْ: إِنَّ بَيْتَ الْمَالِ فَارِغٌ وَقَدِ انْصَرَفَتِ الْأَمْوَالُ إِلَى الرَّجَّالَةِ ( فَثَارَ بِهِمُ الْفُرْسَانُ، فَاقْتَتَلُوا، فَقُتِلَ مِنَ الْفُرْسَانِ جَمَاعَةٌ، وَاحْتَجَّ الْمُقْتَدِرُ بِقَتْلِهِمْ عَلَى الرَّجَّالَةِ )، وَأَمَرَ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ يَاقُوتٍ فَرَكِبَ، وَكَانَ قَدِ اسْتُعْمِلَ عَلَى الشُّرْطَةِ، فَطَرَدَ الرَّجَّالَةَ عَنْ دَارِ الْمُقْتَدِرِ، وَنُودِيَ فِيهِمْ بِخُرُوجِهِمْ عَنْ بَغْدَاذَ، وَمَنْ أَقَامَ قُبِضَ عَلَيْهِ وَحُبِسَ، وَهُدِمَتْ دُورُ زُعَمَائِهِمْ، وَقُبِضَتْ أَمْلَاكُهُمْ، وَظَفِرَ بَعْدَ النِّدَاءِ، بِجَمَاعَةٍ مِنْهُمْ فَضَرَبَهُمْ، وَحَلَقَ لِحَاهُمْ، وَشَهَّرَ بِهِمْ. وَهَاجَ السُّودَانُ تَعَصُّبًا لِلرَّجَّالَةِ، فَرَكِبَ مُحَمَّدٌ أَيْضًا فِي الْحُجَرِيَّةِ، وَأَوْقَعَ بِهِمْ، وَأَحْرَقَ مَنَازِلَهُمْ، فَاحْتَرَقَ فِيهَا جَمَاعَةٌ كَثِيرَةٌ مِنْهُمْ، وَمِنْ أَوْلَادِهِمْ، وَمِنْ نِسَائِهِمْ، فَخَرَجُوا إِلَى وَاسِطَ، وَاجْتَمَعَ بِهَا مِنْهُمْ جَمْعٌ كَثِيرٌ، ( وَتَغَلَّبُوا عَلَيْهَا )، وَطَرَحُوا عَامِلَ الْخَلِيفَةِ، فَسَارَ إِلَيْهِمْ مُؤْنِسٌ، فَأَوْقَعَ بِهِمْ، وَأَكْثَرَ الْقَتْلَ فِيهِمْ، فَلَمْ تَقُمْ لَهُمْ بَعْدَهَا رَايَةٌ.
Translation
✧ The destruction of the infantrymen In the year three hundred and eighteen, in Muḥarram, the infantrymen were destroyed, and they were expelled from Baghdādh after their evil had become great, and their power had strengthened. The reason for that was that when they restored al-Muqtadir to the caliphate, as we have mentioned, their presumptuousness and arrogance increased, and they began to say things that caliphs do not tolerate. Among them, they would say: "Whoever helps an oppressor, God gives the oppressor power over him," and "Whoever brings a donkey up to the roof can bring it down," and "If al-Muqtadir does not do for us what we deserve, we will fight him as he deserves," and other such things. Their turbulence and their demands increased, and they enrolled their children, their families, and their acquaintances in the stipends, and they registered their names, so that they received one hundred and thirty thousand dinars per month. It happened that the cavalry rioted demanding their stipends, and it was said to them: "The treasury is empty, and the funds have gone to the infantrymen." So the cavalry rose against them, and they fought, and a group of the cavalrymen was killed, and al-Muqtadir used their killing as an argument against the infantrymen, and he ordered Muḥammad b. Yāqūt, who had been appointed over the police, to ride, and he drove the infantrymen away from the palace of al-Muqtadir, and it was proclaimed among them that they must leave Baghdādh, and whoever remained would be arrested and imprisoned. The houses of their leaders were demolished, and their properties were confiscated. After the proclamation, a group of them was seized, and he beat them, shaved their beards, and paraded them in disgrace. The blacks rose up in solidarity with the infantrymen, so Muḥammad also rode with the chamberlains, and he fell upon them, and burned their dwellings, in which a great number of them, their children, and their women were burned. So they went out to Wāsiṭ, and a large group of them gathered there, and they took control of it, and they expelled the caliph's governor. Then Muʾnis marched against them, and he fell upon them, and inflicted great slaughter among them, and after that no banner was raised for them.
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