The Killing of Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr in Egypt

قتل محمد بن أبي بكر بمصر

c. 658 CE · c. 38 AH

In al-Baladhuri: when Uthman was killed and Muhammad ibn Abi Hudhayfa seized Egypt — he had made it hostile to Uthman — Ali gave Qays ibn Sa'd ibn Ubada al-Ansari Egypt, dismissed him, employed Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Siddiq over it, dismissed him, gave it to Malik al-Ashtar who sickened at al-Qulzum, then gave Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr it a second time and sent him back to it — whereupon Mu'awiya ibn Khudayj killed him and burned him inside a donkey's belly.

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قطع الخطبة العبيدية وإقامة الخطبة العباسية بمصر

Al-Imad al-Katib: Salah al-Din opened the year 567 with Egypt's greatest obedience — the Abbasid khutba, first Jumu'a at Fustat's mosque, the second at Cairo; al-Adid died that Ashura, and the palace's treasures sold for ten years. Shihab al-Din ibn Abi Asrun bore the news to Baghdad, and al-Imad wrote a general proclamation read across the lands of Islam — 'no minbar remains in those lands but the khutba for our lord al-Mustadi' is upon it'. Ibn al-Athir adds: Nur al-Din ordered it, Salah al-Din feared an Egyptian rising, and the Ajami called al-Amir al-Alim mounted the minbar before the khatib and prayed for al-Mustadi' — 'not two goats butted over it'. The khutba spread to Yemen, Barqa, Tawzar and Egypt to Aswan; Ibn al-Jawzi wrote his book al-Nasr ala Misr {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 681-683}.

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قطع الخطبة العبيدية وإقامة الخطبة العباسية بمصر