Tarikh (al-Tabari) 4365
Then the year 366 AH began
ذِكْرُ الْقَبْضِ عَلَى أَبِي الْفَتْحِ بْنِ الْعَمِيدِ فِي هَذِهِ السَّنَةِ قَبَضَ عَضُدُ الدَّوْلَةِ عَلَى أَبِي الْفَتْحِ بْنِ الْعَمِيدِ، وَزِيرِ أَبِيهِ، وَسَمَلَ عَيْنَهُ الْوَاحِدَةَ وَقَطَعَ أَنْفَهُ. وَكَانَ سَبَبُ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ أَبَا الْفَتْحِ لَمَّا كَانَ بِبَغْدَاذَ مَعَ ( عَضُدِ الدَّوْلَةِ، عَلَى مَا شَرَحْنَاهُ، وَسَارَ ) عَضُدُ الدَّوْلَةِ نَحْوَ فَارِسَ تَقَدَّمَ إِلَى أَبِي الْفَتْحِ بِتَعْجِيلِ الْمَسِيرِ عَنْ بَغْدَاذَ إِلَى الرَّيِّ، فَخَالَفَهُ وَأَقَامَ، وَأَعْجَبَهُ الْمُقَامُ بِبَغْدَاذَ، وَشَرِبَ مَعَ بَخْتِيَارَ، وَمَالَ فِي هَوَاهُ، وَاقْتَنَى بِبَغْدَاذَ أَمْلَاكًا وَدُورًا عَلَى عَزْمِ الْعَوْدِ إِلَيْهَا إِذَا مَاتَ رُكْنُ الدَّوْلَةِ، ثُمَّ صَارَ يُكَاتِبُ بَخْتِيَارَ بِأَشْيَاءَ يَكْرَهُهَا عَضُدُ الدَّوْلَةِ. ( وَكَانَ لَهُ نَائِبٌ يَعْرِضُهَا عَلَى بَخْتِيَارَ، فَكَانَ ذَلِكَ النَّائِبُ يُكَاتِبُ بِهَا عَضُدَ الدَّوْلَةِ ) سَاعَةً فَسَاعَةً، ( فَلَمَّا مَلَكَ عَضُدُ الدَّوْلَةِ ) بَعْدَ مَوْتِ أَبِيهِ، كَتَبَ إِلَى أَخِيهِ فَخْرِ الدَّوْلَةِ بِالرَّيِّ يَأْمُرُهُ بِالْقَبْضِ عَلَيْهِ وَعَلَى أَهْلِهِ وَأَصْحَابِهِ، فَفَعَلَ ذَلِكَ، وَانْقَلَعَ بَيْتُ الْعَمِيدِ عَلَى يَدِهِ كَمَا ظَنَّهُ أَبُوهُ الْفَضْلُ. وَكَانَ أَبُو الْفَتْحِ لَيْلَةَ قُبِضَ قَدْ أَمْسَى مَسْرُورًا، فَأَحْضَرَ النُّدَمَاءَ وَالْمُغَنِّينَ، وَأَظْهَرَ مِنَ الْآلَاتِ الذَّهَبِيَّةِ، وَالزُّجَاجِ الْمَلِيحِ، وَأَنْوَاعِ الطِّيبِ مَا لَيْسَ لِأَحَدٍ مِثْلُهُ، وَشَرِبُوا، وَعَمِلَ شِعْرًا وَغُنِّيَ لَهُ فِيهِ وَهُوَ: دَعَوْتُ الْمُنَى وَدَعَوْتُ الْعُلَى فَلَمَّا أَجَابَا دَعَوْتُ الْقَدَحْ وَقُلْتُ لِأَيَّامِ شَرْخِ الشَّبَابِ إِلَيَّ فَهَذَا أَوَانُ الْفَرَحْ إِذَا بَلَغَ الْمَرْءُ آمَالَهُ فَلَيْسَ لَهُ بَعْدَهَا مُقْتَرَحْ فَلَمَّا غُنِّيَ فِي الشِّعْرِ اسْتَطَابَهُ، وَشَرِبَ عَلَيْهِ إِلَى أَنْ سَكِرَ، وَقَامَ وَقَالَ لِغِلْمَانِهِ: اتْرُكُوا الْمَجْلِسَ عَلَى مَا هُوَ عَلَيْهِ لِنَصْطَبِحَ غَدًا، وَقَالَ لِنُدَمَائِهِ: بَكِّرُوا إِلَيَّ غَدًا لِنَصْطَبِحَ، وَلَا تَتَأَخَّرُوا. فَانْصَرَفَ النُّدَمَاءُ، وَدَخَلَ هُوَ إِلَى بَيْتِ مَنَامِهِ، فَلَمَّا كَانَ السَّحَرُ دَعَاهُ مُؤَيَّدُ الدَّوْلَةِ فَقَبَضَ عَلَيْهِ، وَأَرْسَلَ إِلَى دَارِهِ فَأَخَذَ جَمِيعَ مَا فِيهَا وَمِنْ جُمْلَتِهِ ذَلِكَ الْمَجْلِسُ بِمَا فِيهِ.
Translation
✧ Mention of the arrest of Abu al-Fath b. al-ʿAmid In this year, ʿAḍud al-Dawlah arrested Abu al-Fath b. al-ʿAmid, the vizier of his father, put out his one eye, and cut off his nose. The reason for this was that when Abu al-Fath was in Baghdad with ʿAḍud al-Dawlah, as we have explained, and ʿAḍud al-Dawlah set out toward Fars, he had ordered Abu al-Fath to hasten the departure from Baghdad to al-Rayy, but he disobeyed him and stayed, being pleased with residing in Baghdad. He drank with Bakhtiyar, inclined toward him, and acquired estates and houses in Baghdad, resolving to return to them when Rukn al-Dawlah died. Then he began corresponding with Bakhtiyar about matters that displeased ʿAḍud al-Dawlah. He had a deputy who presented them to Bakhtiyar, and that deputy would inform ʿAḍud al-Dawlah of them hour by hour. When ʿAḍud al-Dawlah came to power after his father's death, he wrote to his brother Fakhr al-Dawlah in al-Rayy ordering him to arrest him and his family and his companions. He did that, and the house of al-ʿAmid was uprooted at his hand, just as his father al-Faḍl had feared. On the night of his arrest, Abu al-Fath had spent the evening happy. He brought in drinking companions and singers, and displayed gold vessels, fine glass, and kinds of perfume the like of which no one else possessed. They drank, and he composed poetry that was sung to him, which is: I called desire and called high rank; when they answered, I called the cup, and said to the days of youth's prime: 'Come to me, for this is the time of joy.' When a man attains his hopes, he has no further request after them. When it was sung in the poem, he found it pleasing, and he drank over it until he became drunk. Then he rose and said to his servants, 'Leave the gathering as it is so that we may drink in the morning tomorrow,' and he said to his drinking companions, 'Come to me early tomorrow to drink, and do not be late.' The companions departed, and he entered his bedroom. At dawn, Muʾayyid al-Dawlah summoned him and arrested him, and sent to his house and seized everything in it, including that gathering with all it contained.
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