al-Amin (Muhammad)
Draft card for Muhammad al-Amin, sixth Abbasid caliph and al-Ma'mun's rival in the civil war, named from an open reference description (Wikidata); his entries in Tarikh al-Khulafa and Ibn al-Athir's al-Kamil are not yet checked on the page, so no dates are given.
Reign · Abbasid Caliphate · no. 18 in the chain · 809–813 CE
Ruled the caliphate
Events of the reign
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Battles of Hamadhan and Asadabad (195 AH)
After Ali ibn Isa was killed at Rayy, al-Amin sent Abd al-Rahman al-Abnawi with thirty thousand of the Abna'; Tahir ibn al-Husayn defeated him, he held out in Hamadhan for a month and took safe-conduct, then attacked Tahir's men at dawn at Asadabad and was killed, as al-Dinawari reports.
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Clash of Tahir ibn al-Husayn with Ali ibn Isa
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'.
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Birth of Imam al-Bukhari at Bukhara, Shawwal 194/810
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Isma'il ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Mughira ibn Bardizba al-Ju'fi al-Bukhari was born at Bukhara in Shawwal 194 and grew up an orphan; his nisba al-Ju'fi comes from his great-grandfather al-Mughira, a mawla of Yaman al-Ju'fi the governor of Bukhara at whose hands he accepted Islam, and his father Isma'il was one of the scrupulous scholars.
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Orreaga Riot (812)
Draft card for Orreaga Riot (812); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Siege of Baghdad in the war of al-Amin and al-Ma'mun
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.
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Siege of Baghdad
Draft card for the Siege of Baghdad in 812–813, al-Ma'mun's armies closing on al-Amin in the civil war; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Siege of Tripoli (812)
Draft card for Siege of Tripoli (812); its sources are not yet checked on the page.