Mutarrif's Killing and Mukram's Vendetta

مقتل مطرف وثأر مكرم

Mus'ab made Mutarrif ibn Saydan al-Bahili his Basra police chief; he executed the highwayman al-Nabi ibn Ziyad ibn Zubyan and flogged his Tamimi partner. Transferred to al-Ahwaz, Mutarrif was met by Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad ibn Zubyan's avenging host across a river — he crossed and was stabbed dead. Mus'ab sent Mukram ibn Mutarrif on the blood-feud; he camped where Askar Mukram stands and missed him — Ibn Zubyan reached Abd al-Malik, fought at his side against Mus'ab, killed him and took his head; al-Ba'ith sang 'we spared you — the best affair is sufficiency — we gave Ibn Saydan a bitter cup'.

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Abu al-Mukhtar's Satire on the Ahwaz Officials

Abu al-Mukhtar Yazid ibn Qabs al-Sa'iq raised his poem against the Ahwaz officials to Umar: 'Tell the Commander of the Faithful, God's trustee in command and ban — leave not the rustaq-folk and villagers who gulp God's wealth; send to al-Hajjaj and learn his account, to Juzz and to Bishr, forget neither Nafi', nor Ibn Ghallab of Nasr's lords, nor al-Nu'man, nor the Banu-Ghazwan son-in-law, ask Shibl for the money and Ibn Muharrish.' Umar mulcted every named man of half his wealth — till he took a sandal and left a sandal — and when Abu Bakra objected 'I left you nothing' came 'your brother holds the treasury and Ubulla's tithes and lends you capital': ten thousand was taken, or half his estate.

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