Tarikh (al-Tabari) 4200
Then the year 352 AH began
وَحَكَى ابْنُ الْجَوْزِيِّ فِي " الْمُنْتَظَمِ " عَنْ ثَابِتِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ الْمُؤَرِّخِ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي جَمَاعَةٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَوْصِلِ مِمَّنْ أَثِقُ بِهِمْ أَنَّ بَعْضَ بَطَارِقَةِ الْأَرْمَنِ أَنْفَذَ فِي سَنَةِ ثِنْتَيْنِ وَخَمْسِينَ وَثَلَاثِمِائَةٍ إِلَى نَاصِرِ الدَّوْلَةِ بْنِ حَمْدَانَ رَجُلَيْنِ مِنَ الْأَرْمَنِ مُلْتَصِقَيْنِ، سِنُّهُمَا خَمْسٌ وَعِشْرُونَ سَنَةً، مُلْتَحِمَيْنِ وَمَعَهُمَا أَبُوهُمَا، وَلَهُمَا سُرَّتَانِ وَبِطَنَّانِ وَمَعِدَتَانِ، وَجُوعُهُمَا يَخْتَلِفُ، وَكَانَ أَحَدُهُمَا يَمِيلُ إِلَى النِّسَاءِ، وَالْآخَرُ يَمِيلُ إِلَى الْغِلْمَانِ، وَكَانَ يَقَعُ بَيْنَهُمَا خُصُومَةٌ وَتَشَاجُرٌ، وَرُبَّمَا حَلَفَ أَحَدُهُمَا لَا يُكَلِّمُ الْآخَرَ، فَيَمْكُثُ كَذَلِكَ أَيَّامًا، ثُمَّ يَصْطَلِحَانِ، فَوَهَبَهُمَا نَاصِرُ الدَّوْلَةِ أَلْفَيْ دِرْهَمٍ، وَخَلَعَ عَلَيْهِمَا، وَدَعَاهُمَا إِلَى الْإِسْلَامِ، فَيُقَالُ: إِنَّهُمَا أَسْلَمَا. وَأَرَادَ أَنْ يَبْعَثَهُمَا إِلَى بَغْدَادَ لِيَرَاهُمَا النَّاسُ، ثُمَّ رَجَعَ عَنْ ذَلِكَ، ثُمَّ إِنَّهُمَا رَجَعَا إِلَى بَلَدِهِمَا مَعَ أَبِيهِمَا، فَاعْتَلَّ أَحَدُهُمَا، وَمَاتَ وَأَنْتَنَ رِيحُهُ، وَبَقِيَ الْآخَرُ لَا يُمْكِنُهُ التَّخَلُّصُ مِنْهُ، وَقَدْ كَانَ اتِّصَالُ مَا بَيْنَهُمَا مِنَ الْخَاصِرَتَيْنِ، وَقَدْ كَانَ نَاصِرُ الدَّوْلَةِ أَرَادَ فَصْلَ أَحَدِهِمَا عَنِ الْآخَرِ، وَجَمَعَ الْأَطِبَّاءَ لِذَلِكَ فَلَمْ يُمْكِنْ، فَلَمَّا مَاتَ أَحَدُهُمَا حَارَ أَبُوهُمَا فِي فَصْلِهِ عَنْ أَخِيهِ، فَاتَّفَقَ اعْتِلَالُ الْآخَرِ مِنْ غَمِّهِ وَنَتْنِ رَائِحَةِ أَخِيهِ، فَمَاتَ غَمًّا، فَدُفِنَا جَمِيعًا فِي قَبْرٍ وَاحِدٍ.
Translation
✧ Ibn al-Jawzī related in al-Muntaẓam on the authority of Thābit b. Sinān the historian, who said: A group of people from Mosul whom I trust told me that one of the Armenian patricians sent in the year 352 AH to Nāṣir al-Dawla b. Ḥamdān two Armenian men who were conjoined, their age being twenty-five years, fused together, and with them was their father. They had two navels, two bellies, and two stomachs, and their hunger differed. One of them inclined toward women, and the other inclined toward boys. Dispute and quarrelling would occur between them, and sometimes one of them would swear not to speak to the other, and he would remain like that for days, then they would make peace. Nāṣir al-Dawla gave them two thousand dirhams, bestowed robes of honor upon them, and invited them to Islam, and it is said that they converted. He wanted to send them to Baghdad so that people might see them, then he changed his mind about that. Then they returned to their country with their father. One of them fell ill and died, and his odor became foul, and the other remained unable to free himself from him. Their connection was from the two flanks. Nāṣir al-Dawla had wanted to separate one of them from the other and gathered physicians for that, but it was not possible. When one of them died, their father was at a loss as to how to separate him from his brother. It happened that the other fell ill from his grief and the stench of his brother's odor, and he died of grief, so they were both buried in a single grave.
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