Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3788
Then the Year 318 AH Began
ذِكْرُ عَزْلِ ابْنِ مُقْلَةَ وَوِزَارَةِ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ وَفِي سَنَةُ ثَمَانِيَ عَشْرَةَ وَثَلَاثِمِائَةٍ عُزِلَ الْوَزِيرُ أَبُو عَلِيٍّ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُقْلَةَ مِنْ وِزَارَةِ الْخَلِيفَةِ. وَكَانَ سَبَبُ عَزْلِهِ أَنَّ الْمُقْتَدِرَ كَانَ يَتَّهِمُهُ بِالْمَيْلِ إِلَى مُؤْنِسٍ الْمُظَفَّرِ، وَكَانَ الْمُقْتَدِرُ مُسْتَوْحِشًا مِنْ مُؤْنِسٍ، وَيُظْهِرُ لَهُ الْجَمِيلَ، فَاتَّفَقَ أَنَّ مُؤْنِسًا خَرَجَ إِلَى أَوَانَا، وَعُكْبَرَا، فَرَكِبَ ابْنُ مُقْلَةَ إِلَى دَارِ الْمُقْتَدِرِ آخِرَ جُمَادَى الْأُولَى، فَقُبِضَ عَلَيْهِ. وَكَانَ بَيْنَ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَاقُوتٍ وَبَيْنَ ابْنِ مُقْلَةَ عَدَاوَةٌ، فَأَنْفَذَ إِلَى دَارِهِ، بَعْدَ أَنْ قَبَضَ عَلَيْهِ، وَأَحْرَقَهَا لَيْلًا. وَكَانَ قَدْ أَنْفَقَ عَلَيْهَا مِائَةَ أَلْفِ دِينَارٍ، فَانْتَهَبَ النَّاسُ أَخْشَابَهَا وَمَا وَجَدُوا فِيهَا مِنْ حَدِيدٍ وَرَصَاصٍ وَغَيْرِ ذَلِكَ، وَصَادَرَهُ الْخَلِيفَةُ بِمِائَتَيْ أَلْفِ دِينَارٍ. وَأَرَادَ الْمُقْتَدِرُ أَنْ يَسْتَوْزِرَ الْحُسَيْنَ بْنَ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، وَكَانَ مُؤْنِسٌ قَدْ عَادَ فَأَنْفَذَ ( إِلَى الْمُقْتَدِرِ مَعَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عِيسَى يَسْأَلُ أَنْ يُعَادَ ابْنُ مُقْلَةَ، فَلَمْ يُجِبِ ) الْمُقْتَدِرُ إِلَى ذَلِكَ، وَأَرَادَ قَتْلَ ابْنِ مُقْلَةَ، فَرَدَّهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ، فَسَأَلَ مُؤْنِسٌ أَنْ لَا يَسْتَوْزِرَ الْحُسَيْنَ، فَتَرَكَهُ، وَاسْتَوْزَرَ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنَ الْحَسَنِ مُنْتَصَفَ جُمَادَى الْأُولَى، وَأَمَرَ الْمُقْتَدِرُ بِاللَّهِ عَلِيَّ بْنَ عِيسَى بِالِاطِّلَاعِ عَلَى الدَّوَاوِينِ، وَأَنْ لَا يَنْفَرِدَ سُلَيْمَانُ عَنْهُ بِشَيْءٍ، وَصُودِرَ أَبُو عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُقْلَةَ بِمِائَتَيْ أَلْفِ دِينَارٍ، وَكَانَتْ مُدَّةُ وِزَارَتِهِ سَنَتَيْنِ وَأَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ وَثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ.
Translation
✧ Mention of the dismissal of Ibn Muqlah and the vizierate of Sulaymān b. al-Ḥasan In the year three hundred and eighteen, the vizier Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad b. Muqlah was dismissed from the vizierate of the caliph. The reason for his dismissal was that al-Muqtadir suspected him of inclining toward Muʾnis al-Muẓaffar, and al-Muqtadir was wary of Muʾnis while showing him friendliness. It happened that Muʾnis went out to Awānā and ʿUkbarā, and Ibn Muqlah rode to the palace of al-Muqtadir at the end of Jumādā al-Ūlā, and he was seized. There was enmity between Muḥammad b. Yāqūt and Ibn Muqlah, so he sent to his house, after he had seized him, and burned it at night. He had spent one hundred thousand dinars on it, and people plundered its timber and what they found in it of iron, lead, and other things. The caliph confiscated from him two hundred thousand dinars. Al-Muqtadir wanted to appoint al-Ḥusayn b. al-Qāsim b. ʿAbd Allāh as vizier, but Muʾnis had returned and sent to al-Muqtadir with ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā asking that Ibn Muqlah be restored, but al-Muqtadir did not accede to that and wanted to kill Ibn Muqlah, but he dissuaded him from that. Muʾnis then asked that he not appoint al-Ḥusayn as vizier, so he left him and appointed Sulaymān b. al-Ḥasan as vizier in the middle of Jumādā al-Ūlā. Al-Muqtadir bi-llāh ordered ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā to oversee the bureaus and that Sulaymān should not act independently of him in anything. Abū ʿAlī b. Muqlah was fined two hundred thousand dinars, and the duration of his vizierate was two years, four months, and three days.
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