Mu'awiya's abduction of the patrikios

al-Mas'udi reports that a Byzantine patrician struck the face of a captive from Quraysh, and the captive cried out: "O Islam! Where are you for us, O Mu'awiya?" Mu'awiya devised a stratagem that took years, with a man from Tyre called Martan in Greek, who often raided at sea. ¹

Mu'awiya built him a ship that nothing could catch for speed. The man traded to Constantinople until the patrician longed for a Sogdian carpet. The Tyrian spread the carpet on the deck of the ship and hid men beneath it with oars. When the patrician came down from his estate on the gulf to look at the carpet, the Tyrian struck with his heel, and the ship snatched him away into the middle of the gulf. ¹

The patrician was brought to Mu'awiya, and the Qurashi took retribution from him on a carpet that was the pride of the Romans. Then Mu'awiya treated him well, clothed him and sent him back with gifts. al-Mas'udi quotes the Byzantine king as saying that this was the most cunning of kings and the most shrewd of Arabs, and that had he intended to seize him, the trick would have worked for him. He mentions that in Mu'awiya's days no Muslim captive was wronged. ¹

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