Tarikh (al-Tabari) 4017
Then the year 333 AH began
ذِكْرُ مِلْكِ سَيْفِ الدَّوْلَةِ مَدِينَةَ حَلَبَ وَحِمْصَ فِي هَذِهِ السَّنَةِ سَارَ سَيْفُ الدَّوْلَةِ ( عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي الْهَيْجَاءِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَمْدَانَ ) إِلَى حَلَبَ، فَمَلَكَهَا وَاسْتَوْلَى عَلَيْهَا، وَكَانَ مَعَ الْمُتَّقِي لِلَّهِ بِالرَّقَّةِ، فَلَمَّا عَادَ الْمُتَّقِي إِلَى بَغْدَاذَ وَانْصَرَفَ الْإِخْشِيدُ إِلَى الشَّامِ، بَقِيَ يَأْنَسُ الْمُؤْنِسِيُّ بِحَلَبَ، فَقَصَدَهُ سَيْفُ الدَّوْلَةِ، ( فَلَمَّا نَازَلَهَا، فَارَقَهَا يَأْنَسُ وَسَارَ إِلَى الْإِخْشِيدِ، فَمَلَكَهَا سَيْفُ الدَّوْلَةِ )، ثُمَّ سَارَ مِنْهَا إِلَى حِمْصَ، فَلَقِيَهُ بِهَا عَسْكَرُ الْإِخْشِيدِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ طُغْجَ، صَاحِبِ الشَّامِ وَمِصْرَ مَعَ مَوْلَاهُ كَافُورٍ، وَاقْتَتَلُوا، فَانْهَزَمَ عَسْكَرُ الْإِخْشِيدِ وَكَافُورٌ، وَمَلَكَ سَيْفُ الدَّوْلَةِ مَدِينَةَ حِمْصَ، وَسَارَ إِلَى دِمَشْقَ فَحَصَرَهَا، فَلَمْ يَفْتَحْهَا أَهْلُهَا لَهُ فَرَجَعَ. وَكَانَ الْإِخْشِيدُ قَدْ خَرَجَ مِنْ مِصْرَ إِلَى الشَّامِ، وَسَارَ خَلْفَ سَيْفِ الدَّوْلَةِ، فَالْتَقَيَا بِقِنَّسْرِينَ، فَلَمْ يَظْفَرْ أَحَدُ الْعَسْكَرَيْنِ بِالْآخَرِ، وَرَجَعَ سَيْفُ الدَّوْلَةِ إِلَى الْجَزِيرَةِ، فَلَمَّا عَادَ الْإِخْشِيدُ إِلَى دِمَشْقَ، رَجَعَ سَيْفُ الدَّوْلَةِ إِلَى حَلَبَ، وَلَمَّا مَلَكَ سَيْفُ الدَّوْلَةِ حَلَبَ، سَارَتِ الرُّومُ إِلَيْهَا، فَخَرَجَ إِلَيْهِمْ، فَقَاتَلَهُمْ بِالْقُرْبِ مِنْهَا، فَظَفَرَ بِهِمْ وَقَتَلَ مِنْهُمْ.
Translation
✧ Mention of Sayf al-Dawlah's taking possession of the city of Aleppo and Homs In this year Sayf al-Dawlah (ʿAlī b. Abī al-Hayjāʾ ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥamdān) marched to Aleppo, and he took possession of it and seized control of it. He had been with al-Muttaqī li-llāh at al-Raqqah. When al-Muttaqī returned to Baghdādh and al-Ikhshīd departed to Syria, Yaʾnas al-Muʾnisī remained in Aleppo, so Sayf al-Dawlah made for him. When he encamped against it, Yaʾnas withdrew from it and went to al-Ikhshīd, and Sayf al-Dawlah took possession of it. Then he marched from it to Homs, where the army of al-Ikhshīd Muḥammad b. Ṭughj, lord of Syria and Egypt, met him with his client Kāfūr, and they fought. The army of al-Ikhshīd and Kāfūr were defeated, and Sayf al-Dawlah took possession of the city of Homs. Then he marched to Damascus and besieged it, but its people did not open it to him, so he turned back. Al-Ikhshīd had come out from Egypt to Syria and marched behind Sayf al-Dawlah. They met at Qinnasrīn, but neither army prevailed over the other, and Sayf al-Dawlah returned to the Jazīrah. When al-Ikhshīd returned to Damascus, Sayf al-Dawlah returned to Aleppo. And when Sayf al-Dawlah took possession of Aleppo, the Byzantines marched against it, so he went out to them and fought them near it, and he prevailed over them and killed some of them.
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