Tarikh (al-Tabari) 4118
Then the year 344 AH began
وَفِيهَا أَنْشَأَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ الْأُمَوِيُّ صَاحِبُ الْأَنْدَلُسِ مَرْكِبًا كَبِيرًا لَمْ يُعْمَلْ مِثْلُهُ، وَسَيَّرَ فِيهِ أَمْتِعَةً إِلَى بِلَادِ الشَّرْقِ، فَلَقِيَ فِي الْبَحْرِ مَرْكِبًا فِيهِ رَسُولٌ مِنْ صِقِلِّيَةَ إِلَى الْمُعِزِّ، فَقَطَعَ عَلَيْهِ أَهْلُ الْمَرْكِبِ الْأَنْدَلُسِيِّ، وَأَخَذُوا مَا فِيهِ، وَأَخَذُوا الْكُتُبَ الَّتِي إِلَى الْمُعِزِّ، فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ الْمُعِزَّ، فَعَمَّرَ أُسْطُولًا وَاسْتَعْمَلَ عَلَيْهِ الْحَسَنَ بْنَ عَلِيٍّ صَاحِبَ صِقِلِّيَةَ، وَسَيَّرَهُ إِلَى الْأَنْدَلُسِ، فَوَصَلُوا إِلَى الْمِرْيَةِ، فَدَخَلُوا الْمَرْسَى وَأَحْرَقُوا جَمِيعَ مَا فِيهِ مِنَ الْمَرَاكِبِ، وَأَخَذُوا ذَلِكَ الْمَرْكِبَ، وَكَانَ قَدْ عَادَ مِنَ الْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةِ، وَفِيهِ أَمْتِعَةٌ لِعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، وَجِوَارٍ مُغَنِّيَاتٍ، وَصَعِدَ مِنَ الْأُسْطُولِ إِلَى الْبَرِّ فَقَتَلُوا وَنَهَبُوا، وَرَجَعُوا سَالِمِينَ إِلَى الْمَهْدِيَّةِ. وَلَمَّا سَمِعَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ الْأُمَوِيُّ، سَيَّرَ أُسْطُولًا إِلَى بَعْضِ بِلَادِ إِفْرِيقِيَّةَ، فَنَزَلُوا وَنَهَبُوا، فَقَصَدَتْهُمْ عَسَاكِرُ الْمُعِزِّ، فَعَادُوا إِلَى مَرَاكِبِهِمْ، وَرَجَعُوا إِلَى الْأَنْدَلُسِ وَقَدْ قَتَلُوا وَقُتِلَ مِنْهُمْ ( خَلْقٌ كَثِيرٌ ).
Translation
✧ In it, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Umawī, ruler of al-Andalus, built a great ship the like of which had never been made, and sent in it goods to the lands of the east. At sea it encountered a ship carrying a messenger from Sicily to al-Muʿizz. The people of the Andalusian ship fell upon it, seized what was in it, and took the letters addressed to al-Muʿizz. When that reached al-Muʿizz, he fitted out a fleet and placed over it al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī, ruler of Sicily, and sent it to al-Andalus. They reached al-Mariyya, entered the harbor, and burned all the ships in it, and seized that ship, which had returned from Alexandria, and in it were goods belonging to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and singing slave-girls. Some of the fleet went ashore and killed and plundered, then returned safely to al-Mahdiyya. When ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Umawī heard of it, he sent a fleet to some of the lands of Ifrīqiya. They landed and plundered. The armies of al-Muʿizz made for them, so they returned to their ships and went back to al-Andalus, having killed, and many of them were killed.
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