حصار بغداد في حرب الأمين والمأمون

c. 812 CE · c. 196 AH

The siege of Baghdad lasted fifteen months; most Abbasids and the pillars of the state joined al-Ma'mun's army until none fought for al-Amin but Baghdad's rabble and harafish. His affairs rotted, the army collapsed, the treasuries ran dry, the people suffered, and ruin multiplied from the fighting and the mangonels and naphtha until Baghdad's beauties were effaced and laments composed over it. As year 198 opened Tahir ibn al-Husayn entered Baghdad by the sword, and al-Amin fled with his mother and household from the palace to Madinat al-Mansur {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 475-476}.

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In year 195 al-Amin gave Ali ibn Isa ibn Mahan the mountain lands — Hamadhan, Nihawand, Qum and Isfahan — and he left Baghdad in mid-Jumada II with forty thousand in unmatched array, carrying a silver shackle with which he meant, he boasted, to bind al-Ma'mun. Al-Ma'mun sent Tahir ibn al-Husayn with under four thousand; victory was Tahir's — Ali was slaughtered, his army routed, his head carried to al-Ma'mun and paraded through Khurasan, and men greeted al-Ma'mun as caliph. News reached al-Amin as he fished: 'Woe to you — leave me; Kawthar has caught two fish and I have caught nothing yet' {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 475}.

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وقعة طاهر بن الحسين مع علي بن عيسى