Battle of Dayr al-Aqul
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Rajab 262 AH – Rajab 262 AH
262/876: al-Muwaffaq's victory over Ya'qub the Saffarid at Dayr al-Aqul on the Tigris, the battle that saved the caliphate 1.
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Overview
al-Mas'udi relates that Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar marched toward Iraq in 262 AH with great armies, until he camped at Dayr al-Aqul on the bank of the Tigris between Wasit and Baghdad. 2
The battle
The caliph al-Mu'tamid was at Samarra with al-Qa'im, and he appointed his son al-Mufawwad as deputy. Then al-Muwaffaq Abu Ahmad al-Saffar engaged Ya'qub on Sunday, nine nights into Rajab 262 AH, at the Sayb of the Banu Kuma, and Ya'qub was routed, and al-Mu'tamid was spared his scheming. 2
Sources
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p. 572-573
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p.572-573
- Al-Mas'udi, Muruj al-dhahab wa-ma'adin al-jawhar, ed. Kamal Hasan Mar'i (al-Maktaba al-'Asriyya, 2005)
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