Tarikh (al-Tabari) 4229
Then the year 355 AH began
ذِكْرُ مَا تَجَدَّدَ بِعُمَانَ وَاسْتِيلَاءِ مُعِزِّ الدَّوْلَةِ عَلَيْهِ قَدْ ذَكَرْنَا فِي السَّنَةِ الَّتِي قَبْلَ هَذِهِ خَبَرَ عُمَانَ وَدُخُولَ الْقَرَامِطَةِ إِلَيْهَا، وَهَرَبَ نَافِعٍ عَنْهَا، فَلَمَّا هَرَبَ نَافِعٌ، وَاسْتَوْلَى الْقَرَامِطَةُ عَلَى الْبَلَدِ، كَانَ مَعَهُمْ كَاتِبٌ يُعْرَفُ بِعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ يَنْظُرُ فِي أَمْرِ الْبَلَدِ، وَكَانَ بِعُمَانَ قَاضٍ لَهُ عَشِيرَةٌ وَجَاهٌ، فَاتَّفَقَ هُوَ وَأَهْلُ الْبَلَدِ أَنْ يُنَصِّبُوا فِي الْإِمْرَةِ رَجُلًا يُعْرَفُ بِابْنِ طُغَانَ، وَكَانَ مِنْ صِغَارِ الْقُوَّادِ بِعُمَانَ، وَأَدْنَاهُمْ مَرْتَبَةً، فَلَمَّا اسْتَقَرَّ ( فِي الْإِمْرَةِ ) خَافَ مِمَّنْ فَوْقَهُ مِنَ الْقُوَّادِ، فَقَبَضَ عَلَى ثَمَانِينَ قَائِدًا، فَقَتَلَ بَعْضَهُمْ، وَغَرَّقَ بَعْضَهُمْ. وَقَدِمَ الْبَلَدَ ابْنَا أُخْتٍ لِرَجُلٍ مِمَّنْ قَدْ غَرَّقَهُمْ، فَأَقَامَا مُدَّةً، ثُمَّ إِنَّهُمَا دَخَلَا عَلَى طُغَانَ يَوْمًا مِنْ أَيَّامِ السَّلَامِ، فَسَلَّمَا عَلَيْهِ، فَلَمَّا تَقَوَّضَ الْمَجْلِسُ قَتَلَاهُ، فَاجْتَمَعَ رَأْيُ النَّاسِ عَلَى تَأْمِيرِ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مَرْوَانَ، وَهُوَ مِنْ أَقَارِبِ الْقَاضِي، فَوَلِيَ الْإِمَارَةَ بَعْدَ امْتِنَاعٍ مِنْهُ، وَاسْتَكْتَبَ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَحْمَدَ الَّذِي كَانَ مَعَ الْهَجَرِيِّينَ، فَأَمَرَ عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ كَاتِبَهُ عَلِيًّا أَنْ يُعْطِيَ الْجُنْدَ أَرْزَاقَهُمْ صِلَةً، فَفَعَلَ ذَلِكَ، فَلَمَّا انْتَهَى إِلَى الزِّنْجِ، وَكَانُوا سِتَّةَ آلَافِ رَجُلٍ، ( وَلَهُمْ بَأْسٌ وَشِدَّةٌ )، قَالَ لَهُمْ عَلِيٌّ: إِنَّ الْأَمِيرَ عَبْدَ الْوَهَّابِ أَمَرَنِي أَنْ أُعْطِيَ الْبِيضَ مِنَ الْجُنْدِ كَذَا وَكَذَا، ( وَأَمَرَ لَكُمْ بِنِصْفِ ) ذَلِكَ، فَاضْطَرَبُوا وَامْتَنَعُوا، فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: هَلْ لَكَمَ أَنْ تُبَايِعُونِي فَأُعْطِيَكُمْ مِثْلَ سَائِرِ الْأَجْنَادِ ؟ فَأَجَابُوهُ إِلَى ذَلِكَ، وَبَايَعُوهُ، وَأَعْطَاهُمْ مِثْلَ الْبِيضِ مِنَ الْجُنْدِ، فَامْتَنَعَ الْبِيضُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ، وَوَقَعَ بَيْنَهُمْ حَرْبٌ، فَظَهَرَ الزِّنْجُ عَلَيْهِمْ، فَسَكَنُوا، وَاتَّفَقُوا مَعَ الزِّنْجِ وَأَخْرَجُوا عَبْدَ الْوَهَّابِ مِنَ الْبَلَدِ، فَاسْتَقَرَّ فِي الْإِمَارَةِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ. ثُمَّ إِنَّ مُعِزَّ الدَّوْلَةِ سَارَ إِلَى وَاسِطَ لِحَرْبِ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ شَاهِينَ، وَلِإِرْسَالِ جَيْشٍ إِلَى عُمَانَ، فَلَمَّا وَصَلَ إِلَى وَاسِطَ قَدِمَ عَلَيْهِ نَافِعٌ الْأَسْوَدُ الَّذِي كَانَ صَاحِبَ عُمَانَ، فَأَحْسَنَ إِلَيْهِ، وَأَقَامَ لِلْفَرَاغِ مِنْ أَمْرِ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ شَاهِينَ، عَلَى مَا نَذْكُرُهُ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى. وَانْحَدَرَ مِنْ وَاسِطَ إِلَى الْأُبُلَّةِ، فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ، فَأَقَامَ بِهَا يُجَهِّزُ الْجَيْشَ وَالْمَرَاكِبَ لِيَسِيرُوا إِلَى عُمَانَ، فَفَرَغَ مِنْهُ، وَسَارُوا مُنْتَصَفَ شَوَّالٍ، وَاسْتَعْمَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ أَبَا الْفَرَجِ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ فَسَانْجِسَ، وَكَانُوا فِي مِائَةِ قِطْعَةٍ، فَلَمَّا كَانُوا بِسِيرَافَ انْضَمَّ إِلَيْهِمُ الْجَيْشُ الَّذِي جَهَّزَهُ عَضُدُ الدَّوْلَةِ مِنْ فَارِسَ نَجْدَةً لِعَمِّهِ مُعِزِّ الدَّوْلَةِ، فَاجْتَمَعُوا وَسَارُوا إِلَى عُمَانَ، وَدَخَلَهَا تَاسِعَ ذِي الْحِجَّةِ، وَخَطَبَ لِمُعِزِّ الدَّوْلَةِ فِيهَا، وَقَتَلَ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا مَقْتَلَةً عَظِيمَةً، وَأُحْرِقَتْ مَرَاكِبُهُمْ، وَهِيَ تِسْعَةٌ وَثَمَانُونَ مَرْكَبًا.
Translation
✧ Mention of what happened anew in Oman and Muʿizz al-Dawlah's seizure of it We have mentioned in the year before this the report of Oman and the Qarāmiṭah's entry into it, and Nāfiʿ's flight from it. When Nāfiʿ fled and the Qarāmiṭah seized the town, there was with them a secretary known as ʿAlī b. Aḥmad who looked after the affairs of the town. In Oman there was a judge who had a clan and standing, and he and the people of the town agreed to appoint as commander a man known as Ibn Ṭughān, who was among the lesser commanders in Oman and the lowest of them in rank. When he was established (in the command), he feared those commanders above him, so he seized eighty commanders, killing some of them and drowning others. Two nephews of a man whom he had drowned came to the town, and they stayed for a time. Then one day during the days of salutation they entered upon Ṭughān and greeted him, and when the assembly broke up they killed him. The people's opinion settled on appointing ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Aḥmad b. Marwān, who was one of the judge's relatives, and he assumed the command after refusing it. He appointed as his secretary ʿAlī b. Aḥmad, the one who had been with the Hajarīs. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ordered his secretary ʿAlī to give the troops their stipends as a gift, and he did so. When he came to the Zanj, who numbered six thousand men (and they possessed strength and fierceness), ʿAlī said to them: "The emir ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ordered me to give the white troops such-and-such, and he ordered for you half of that." They became agitated and refused, so he said to them: "Would you pledge allegiance to me so that I give you the like of the rest of the troops?" They agreed to that and pledged allegiance to him, and he gave them the like of the white troops. The white troops refused that, and war broke out between them. The Zanj prevailed over them, and they submitted and came to terms with the Zanj, expelling ʿAbd al-Wahhāb from the town. Thus ʿAlī b. Aḥmad became established in the command. Then Muʿizz al-Dawlah marched to Wāsiṭ to fight ʿImrān b. Shāhīn and to send an army to Oman. When he reached Wāsiṭ, Nāfiʿ al-Aswad, who had been the ruler of Oman, came to him, and he treated him well. He stayed to finish the matter of ʿImrān b. Shāhīn, as we shall mention, God Almighty willing. He went down from Wāsiṭ to al-Ubullah in the month of Ramaḍān, and stayed there equipping the army and the ships to march to Oman. He finished that, and they marched in the middle of Shawwāl. He appointed over them Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad b. al-ʿAbbās b. Fasānjis, and they were in one hundred vessels. When they were at Sīrāf, the army that ʿAḍud al-Dawlah had equipped from Fārs as reinforcement for his uncle Muʿizz al-Dawlah joined them, and they gathered and marched to Oman. They entered it on the ninth of Dhū al-Ḥijjah, and the khuṭbah was pronounced for Muʿizz al-Dawlah there. He killed a great number of its people, and their ships—eighty-nine vessels—were burned.
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