Tarikh (al-Tabari) 3836
Then the Year 322 AH Began
ذِكْرُ خِلَافَةِ الرَّاضِي بِاللَّهِ هُوَ أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ الْمُقْتَدِرِ بِاللَّهِ، وَلَمَّا قُبِضَ الْقَاهِرُ سَأَلُوا الْخَدَمَ عَنِ الْمَكَانِ الَّذِي فِيهِ أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ بْنُ الْمُقْتَدِرِ، فَدَلُّوهُمْ عَلَيْهِ، وَكَانَ هُوَ وَوَالِدَتُهُ مَحْبُوسِينَ، فَقَصَدُوهُ، وَفَتَحُوا عَلَيْهِ وَدَخَلُوا فَسَلَّمُوا عَلَيْهِ بِالْخِلَافَةِ، وَأَخْرَجُوهُ وَأَجْلَسُوهُ عَلَى سَرِيرِ الْقَاهِرِ يَوْمَ الْأَرْبِعَاءِ لِسِتٍّ خَلَوْنَ مِنْ جُمَادَى الْأُولَى، وَلَقَّبُوهُ بِالرَّاضِي بِاللَّهِ، وَبَايَعَهُ الْقُوَّادُ وَالنَّاسُ، وَأَمَرَ بِإِحْضَارِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عِيسَى وَأَخِيهِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، وَصَدَرَ عَنْ رَأْيِهِمَا فِيمَا يَفْعَلُهُ، وَاسْتَشَارَهُمَا وَأَرَادَ عَلِيَّ بْنَ عِيسَى عَلَى الْوِزَارَةِ، فَامْتَنَعَ لِكِبَرِهِ، وَعَجْزِهِ، وَضَعْفِهِ، وَأَشَارَ بِابْنِ مُقْلَةَ. ثُمَّ إِنَّ سِيمَا قَالَ لِلرَّاضِي: إِنَّ الْوَقْتَ لَا يَحْتَمِلُ أَخْلَاقَ عَلِيٍّ، وَابْنَ مُقْلَةَ أَلْيَقُ بِالْوَقْتِ، فَكَتَبَ لَهُ أَمَانًا وَأَحْضَرَهُ وَاسْتَوْزَرَهُ، فَلَمَّا وَزَرَ، أَحْسَنَ إِلَى كُلِّ مَنْ أَسَاءَ إِلَيْهِ، وَأَحْسَنَ سِيرَتَهُ، وَقَالَ: عَاهَدْتُ اللَّهَ عِنْدَ اسْتِتَارِي بِذَلِكَ، فَوَفَّى بِهِ، وَأَحْضَرَ الشُّهُودَ وَالْقُضَاةَ، وَأَرْسَلَهُمْ إِلَى الْقَاهِرِ ; لِيَشْهَدُوا عَلَيْهِ بِالْخَلْعِ، فَلَمْ يَفْعَلْ، فَسُمِلَ مِنْ لَيْلَتِهِ، فَبَقِيَ أَعْمَى لَا يُبْصِرُ. وَأَرْسَلَ ابْنُ مُقْلَةَ إِلَى الْخُصَيْبِيِّ وَعِيسَى الْمُتَطَبِّبِ بِالْأَمَانِ، فَظَهَرَا وَأَحْسَنَ إِلَيْهِمَا، وَاسْتَعْمَلَ الْخُصَيْبِيَّ وَوَلَّاهُ، وَاسْتَعْمَلَ الرَّاضِيَ بِاللَّهِ عَلَى الشُّرْطَةِ بَدْرًا الْخَرْشَنِيَّ، وَاسْتَعْمَلَ ابْنَ مُقْلَةَ أَبَا الْفَضْلِ بْنَ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ الْفُرَاتِ، فِي جُمَادَى الْأُولَى، نَائِبًا عَنْهُ عَلَى سَائِرِ الْعُمَّالِ بِالْمَوْصِلِ، وَقَرْدَى، وَبَازَبْدِيِّ، وَمَارِدَيْنِ، وَطُورِ عَبْدِينَ، وَدِيَارِ الْجَزِيرَةِ، وَدِيَارِ بَكْرٍ، وَطَرِيقِ الْفُرَاتِ، وَالثُّغُورِ الْجَزْرِيَّةِ وَالشَّامِيَّةِ، وَأَجْنَادِ الشَّامِ، وَدِيَارِ مِصْرَ، يَصْرِفُ مَنْ يَرَى، وَيَسْتَعْمِلُ مَنْ يَرَى فِي الْخَرَاجِ، وَالْمُعَاوِنِ، وَالنَّفَقَاتِ، وَالْبَرِيدِ وَغَيْرِ ذَلِكَ. وَأَرْسَلَ إِلَى مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ رَائِقٍ يَسْتَدْعِيهِ لِيُوَلِّيَهُ الْحَجَبَةَ، وَكَانَ قَدِ اسْتَوْلَى عَلَى الْأَهْوَازِ وَأَعْمَالِهَا، وَدَفَعَ عَنْهَا ابْنَ يَاقُوتٍ، ( وَلَمْ يَبْقَ بِيَدِ ابْنِ يَاقُوتٍ ) مِنْ تِلْكَ الْوَلَايَةِ إِلَّا السُّوسُ، وَجُنْدَيْسَابُورُ، وَهُوَ يُرِيدُ الْمَسِيرَ إِلَى أَصْبَهَانَ أَمِيرًا عَلَيْهَا، عَلَى مَا ذَكَرْنَاهُ، وَكَانَ ذَلِكَ آخَرَ أَيَّامِ الْقَاهِرِ، فَلَمَّا وَلِيَ الرَّاضِي، وَاسْتَحْضَرَهُ، سَارَ إِلَى وَاسِطَ، وَأَرْسَلَ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ يَاقُوتٍ يَخْطُبُ الْحَجَبَةَ، فَأُجِيبُ إِلَيْهَا، فَسَارَ فِي أَثَرِ ابْنِ رَائِقٍ، وَبَلَغَ ابْنَ رَائِقٍ الْخَبَرُ، فَلَمْ يَقِفْ وَسَارَ مِنْ وَاسِطَ مُصْعِدًا إِلَى بَغْدَاذَ يُسَابِقُ ابْنَ يَاقُوتٍ، فَلَمَّا وَصَلَ إِلَى الْمَدَائِنِ، لَقِيَهُ تَوْقِيعُ الرَّاضِي يَأْمُرُهُ بِتَرْكِ دُخُولِ بَغْدَاذَ، وَتَقْلِيدِهِ الْحَرْبَ وَالْمُعَاوِنَ بِوَاسِطَ، مُضَافًا إِلَى مَا بِيَدِهِ مِنَ الْبَصْرَةِ وَغَيْرِهَا، فَعَادَ مُنْحَدِرًا فِي دِجْلَةَ، وَلَقِيَهُ ابْنُ يَاقُوتٍ مُصْعِدًا فِيهَا أَيْضًا، فَسَلَّمَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَى بَعْضٍ، وَأُصْعِدَ ابْنُ يَاقُوتٍ إِلَى بَغْدَاذَ فَتَوَلَّى الْحَجَبَةَ عَلَى مَا نَذْكُرُهُ.
Translation
✧ Mention of the Caliphate of al-Rāḍī bi-llāh He was Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. al-Muqtadir bi-llāh. When al-Qāhir was seized, they asked the servants about the place in which Abū al-ʿAbbās b. al-Muqtadir was, and they directed them to him. He and his mother were imprisoned, so they went to him, opened the door, entered, and saluted him as caliph. They brought him out and seated him on al-Qāhir's throne on Wednesday, the sixth of Jumādā al-Ūlā. They titled him al-Rāḍī bi-llāh, and the commanders and the people swore allegiance to him. He ordered that ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā and his brother ʿAbd al-Raḥmān be brought, and he acted according to their advice in what he did. He consulted them and wanted ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā to be vizier, but he declined because of his advanced age, incapacity, and weakness, and he recommended Ibn Muqlah. Then Sīmā said to al-Rāḍī: "The time cannot tolerate the character of ʿAlī, and Ibn Muqlah is more suitable for the time." So he wrote him a safe-conduct, brought him, and appointed him vizier. When he became vizier, he treated well all those who had mistreated him, and his conduct was good. He said: "I made a covenant with God during my concealment to do so," and he fulfilled it. He brought the witnesses and judges and sent them to al-Qāhir so that they might testify to his deposition, but he would not, so he was blinded that same night, and he remained blind, unable to see. Ibn Muqlah sent to al-Khuṣaybī and ʿĪsā the physician a safe-conduct, and they came out, and he treated them well. He appointed al-Khuṣaybī and gave him office. Al-Rāḍī bi-llāh appointed Badr al-Kharshanī over the police, and he appointed Ibn Muqlah's Abū al-Faḍl b. Jaʿfar b. al-Furāt, in Jumādā al-Ūlā, as his deputy over all the agents in al-Mawṣil, Qardā, Bāzabdī, Māridīn, Ṭūr ʿAbdīn, Diyār al-Jazīrah, Diyār Bakr, the Euphrates route, the Jazīran and Syrian frontiers, the armies of Syria, and the districts of Egypt, to dismiss whom he saw fit and appoint whom he saw fit over the land tax, assistants, expenditures, the postal service, and other matters. He sent to Muḥammad b. Rāʾiq summoning him to appoint him to the chamberlainship. He had taken possession of al-Ahwāz and its districts and had driven Ibn Yāqūt away from them. Nothing remained in the hands of Ibn Yāqūt of that province except al-Sūs and Jundaysābūr, and he wanted to go to Iṣbahān as its governor, as we have mentioned. That was in the last days of al-Qāhir. When al-Rāḍī became caliph and summoned him, he traveled to Wāsiṭ and sent Muḥammad b. Yāqūt to request the chamberlainship. He was granted it, so he set out in the track of Ibn Rāʾiq. The news reached Ibn Rāʾiq, but he did not stop and traveled up from Wāsiṭ to Baghdādh, racing Ibn Yāqūt. When he reached al-Madāʾin, al-Rāḍī's decree met him, ordering him not to enter Baghdādh, and appointing him over the army and assistants at Wāsiṭ, in addition to what he already held of al-Baṣrah and elsewhere. So he returned downstream on the Tigris, and Ibn Yāqūt met him going upstream on it as well, and they greeted one another. Ibn Yāqūt went up to Baghdādh and assumed the chamberlainship, as we shall mention.
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