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علي بن الجهم

علي بن الجهم

The poet; he recited to al-Mutawakkil while rolling two pearls, won one, then composed 'in Sur man Ra'a an imam of justice... his two hands in bounty are paired udders — the right gives nothing the left does not match' and won the second; he had also praised al-Wathiq 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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موجز

علي بن الجهم شاعر اتصل بالخلفاء العباسيين. يروي السيوطي أنه دخل على المتوكل وبيده درّتان، فأنشده قصيدة فأعطاه إحداهما، ثم أنشده أبياتاً أخرى فأعطاه الثانية. ويذكر أنه مدح الواثق بقصيدة. 2

مصرعه

يذكر المسعودي أن المتوكل نفاه إلى خراسان سنة 232هـ، وقيل 239هـ، وأنه خرج سنة 249هـ فلقيته خيل الكلبيين قرب قنسرين فقتلته. ويصفه بأنه كان منحرفاً عن علي، مظهراً للتسنن، عذب الألفاظ. 3

وينقل ابن فضل الله العمري رواية أخرى: أنه صُلب على باب قصر الشاذياخ بنيسابور. 4

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المتوكل على الله· Qasr al-Shadiyakh

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al-Mufarraj ibn Sallam's Conquest of Twenty-Four Fortresses· al-Qummi's War on the Buja Lands· Bugha al-Kabir's Pacification of the Armenian March· The Conquest of Barah· هدم قبر الحسين· The Founding of al-Mutawakkiliyya· الزام النصارى بالعسلي· عزم المتوكل على سكنى دمشق

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p. 534,542
  2. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p.534,542
  3. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p.497
  4. Masalik al-absar fi mamalik al-amsar — al-Umari (1924 printing), p.233
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al-Mufarraj ibn Sallam's Conquest of Twenty-Four Fortresses

In al-Baladhuri: after Khalafun rose a man called al-Mufarraj — one copy: al-Mufarrikh — ibn Sallam who opened twenty-four fortresses and seized them; he wrote the postmaster in Egypt his news and that he deemed the absentee prayer unlawful for himself and the Muslims with him, asking the imam to contract him over his district and appoint him, to leave the state of usurpers — and he built a congregational mosque. Then his companions mutinied and killed him; Sawran — also read Sudan — succeeded and sent his envoy to al-Mutawakkil asking patent and letter of appointment, but al-Mutawakkil died before the envoy reached him, and al-Muntasir died whose caliphate was six months; al-Musta'in Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Mu'tasim ordered his Maghreb agent Utamish — the caliph's mawla — to contract it for him, but before his envoy could leave Samarra Utamish was killed and Wasif the caliph's mawla took the district and contracted and dispatched it.