The battle at the gate of Shiraz, 297

In 297 Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Faryabi, on the caliphal vizier Ibn al-Furat's orders, met Subkari at the gate of Shiraz, defeated him twice and besieged him in the city, until Subkari fled into the Khurasan desert road and al-Faryabi took Fars for the caliph's army. ¹

When Mu'nis returned without Subkari, his secretary Abd al-Rahman ibn Ja'far took control of affairs; Subkari's men resented him and spread word that he was the caliph's own secretary who had bound most of the commanders by oath. He was seized, fettered and imprisoned, and Isma'il ibn Ibrahim al-Batti was made secretary in his place — who pushed Subkari into rebellion and withheld what was due to the caliph. ²

Ibn al-Furat saw that Mu'nis leaned toward Subkari, so he detached the secretary Wasif, a body of commanders and Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Faryabi, and charged him with the conquest of Fars. Muhammad ibn Ja'far marched to Fars and met Subkari at the gate of Shiraz; Subkari broke for the city and fortified himself inside it. ²

Al-Faryabi pursued and besieged him there; Subkari sallied out and fought a second battle, was defeated and his baggage plundered. He entered the Khurasan desert road, where the lord of Khurasan caught him, while Muhammad ibn Ja'far took possession of Fars and appointed over it Qanbaj, the Anashin servant; the correct account is that the conquest of Fars was in 298. ¹