Tarikh (al-Tabari) 4408
Then the year 372 AH began
ذِكْرُ وِلَايَةِ صَمْصَامِ الدَّوْلَةِ الْعِرَاقَ وَمُلْكِ أَخِيهِ شَرَفِ الدَّوْلَةِ بِلَادَ فَارِسَ لَمَّا تُوُفِّيَ عَضُدُ الدَّوْلَةِ اجْتَمَعَ الْقُوَّادُ وَالْأُمَرَاءُ عَلَى وَلَدِهِ أَبِي كَالِيجَارَ الْمَرْزُبَانِ، فَبَايَعُوهُ وَوَلَّوْهُ الْإِمَارَةَ، وَلَقَّبُوهُ صَمْصَامَ الدَّوْلَةِ، فَلَمَّا وَلِيَ خَلَعَ عَلَى أَخَوَيْهِ أَبِي الْحُسَيْنِ أَحْمَدَ، وَأَبِي طَاهِرٍ فَيْرُوزْشَاهْ، وَأَقْطَعَهُمَا فَارِسَ، وَأَمَرَهُمَا بِالْجِدِّ فِي السَّيْرِ لِيَسْبِقَا أَخَاهُمَا شَرَفَ الدَّوْلَةِ أَبَا الْفَوَارِسِ شِيرَزِيلَ إِلَى شِيرَازَ. فَلَمَّا وَصَلَا إِلَى أَرَّجَانَ أَتَاهُمَا خَبَرُ وُصُولِ شَرَفِ الدَّوْلَةِ إِلَى شِيرَازَ، فَعَادَا إِلَى الْأَهْوَازِ. وَكَانَ شَرَفُ الدَّوْلَةِ بِكَرْمَانَ، فَلَمَّا بَلَغَهُ خَبَرُ وَفَاةِ أَبِيهِ سَارَ مُجِدًّا إِلَى فَارِسَ فَمَلَكَهَا، وَقَبَضَ عَلَى نَصْرِ بْنِ هَارُونَ النَّصْرَانِيِّ، وَزِيرِ أَبِيهِ، وَقَتَلَهُ لِأَنَّهُ كَانَ يُسِيءُ صُحْبَتَهُ أَيَّامَ أَبِيهِ، وَأَصْلَحَ أَمْرَ الْبِلَادِ، وَأَطْلَقَ الشَّرِيفَ أَبَا الْحُسَيْنِ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عُمَرَ الْعَلَوِيَّ وَالنَّقِيبَ أَبَا أَحْمَدَ الْمُوسَوِيَّ ( وَالِدَ الشَّرِيفِ الرَّضِيِّ )، وَالْقَاضِيَ أَبَا مُحَمَّدِ بْنَ مَعْرُوفٍ، وَأَبَا نَصْرٍ خُوَاشَاذَهْ، وَكَانَ عَضُدُ الدَّوْلَةِ حَبَسَهُمْ، وَأَظْهَرَ مُشَاقَّةَ أَخِيهِ صَمْصَامِ الدَّوْلَةِ، وَقَطَعَ خُطْبَتَهُ، وَخَطَبَ لِنَفْسِهِ، وَتَلَقَّبَ بِتَاجِ الدَّوْلَةِ، وَفَرَّقَ الْأَمْوَالَ، وَجَمَعَ الرِّجَالَ، وَمَلَكَ الْبَصْرَةَ وَأَقْطَعَهَا أَخَاهُ أَبَا الْحُسَيْنِ، فَبَقِيَ كَذَلِكَ ثَلَاثَ سِنِينَ إِلَى أَنْ قَبَضَ عَلَيْهِ شَرَفُ الدَّوْلَةِ، عَلَى مَا نَذْكُرُهُ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى. فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ صَمْصَامُ الدَّوْلَةِ بِمَا فَعَلَهُ شَرَفُ الدَّوْلَةِ سَيَّرَ إِلَيْهِ جَيْشًا وَاسْتَعْمَلَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْأَمِيرَ ( أَبَا الْحَسَنِ بْنَ دَبْعَشَ، حَاجِبَ عَضُدِ الدَّوْلَةِ، فَجَهَّزَ تَاجُ الدَّوْلَةِ عَسْكَرًا، وَاسْتَعْمَلَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْأَمِيرَ ) أَبَا الْأَعَزِّ دُبَيْسَ بْنَ عَفِيفٍ الْأَسَدِيَّ، فَالْتَقَيَا بِظَاهِرِ قُرْقُوبَ، وَاقْتَتَلُوا، فَانْهَزَمَ عَسْكَرُ صَمْصَامِ الدَّوْلَةِ، وَأُسِرَ دَبْعَشُ، فَاسْتَوْلَى حِينَئِذٍ أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ بْنُ عَضُدِ الدَّوْلَةِ عَلَى الْأَهْوَازِ، وَأَخَذَ مَا فِيهَا وَفِي رَامَهُرْمُزَ، وَطَمِعَ فِي الْمُلْكِ، وَكَانَتِ الْوَقْعَةُ فِي رَبِيعٍ الْأَوَّلِ سَنَةَ ثَلَاثٍ وَسَبْعِينَ وَثَلَاثِمِائَةٍ.
Translation
✧ Mention of the governorship of Ṣamṣām al-Dawlah over Iraq and the kingship of his brother Sharaf al-Dawlah over the lands of Fārs When ʿAḍud al-Dawlah died, the commanders and emirs gathered around his son Abū Kālījār al-Marzubān, and they pledged allegiance to him and appointed him to the emirate, and they titled him Ṣamṣām al-Dawlah. When he took office, he bestowed robes of honor upon his two brothers Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad and Abū Ṭāhir Fīrūzshāh, and he granted them Fārs as fiefs, and he ordered them to hasten their march in order to reach Shiraz before their brother Sharaf al-Dawlah Abū al-Fawāris Shīrzayl. When they reached Arrajān, news came to them of Sharaf al-Dawlah's arrival at Shiraz, so they returned to al-Ahwāz. Sharaf al-Dawlah had been in Kirmān, and when news of his father's death reached him, he hastened to Fārs and took possession of it. He seized Naṣr b. Hārūn al-Naṣrānī, his father's vizier, and killed him because he had mistreated him during his father's time. He set the affairs of the lands in order, and he released the sharīf Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad b. ʿUmar al-ʿAlawī, the naqīb Abū Aḥmad al-Mūsawī (the father of al-Sharīf al-Raḍī), the judge Abū Muḥammad b. Maʿrūf, and Abū Naṣr Khūāshādhah, whom ʿAḍud al-Dawlah had imprisoned. He openly opposed his brother Ṣamṣām al-Dawlah, cut off the invocation of his name in the Friday sermon, and had the sermon delivered in his own name. He adopted the title Tāj al-Dawlah, distributed funds, gathered men, and took possession of al-Baṣrah, granting it as a fief to his brother Abū al-Ḥusayn. He remained thus for three years until Sharaf al-Dawlah seized him, as we shall mention, God Almighty willing. When Ṣamṣām al-Dawlah heard of what Sharaf al-Dawlah had done, he dispatched an army against him and placed in command of it the emir Abū al-Ḥasan b. Dabʿash, the chamberlain of ʿAḍud al-Dawlah. Tāj al-Dawlah equipped a force and placed in command of it the emir Abū al-Aʿazz Dubays b. ʿAfīf al-Asadī. They met at the outskirts of Qurqūb and fought, and the army of Ṣamṣām al-Dawlah was defeated, and Dabʿash was taken prisoner. Thereupon Abū al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAḍud al-Dawlah took control of al-Ahwāz and seized what was in it and in Rāmahurmuz, and he coveted the kingship. The battle took place in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 373 AH.
Grades by grader
No grade is recorded for this wording. Ask what scholars say about its grade