مروان بن أبي الجنوب

Overview

Marwan ibn Abi al-Janub, a poet whom the museum's sources mention at the assembly of al-Mutawakkil. ²

The prize

Al-Suyuti relates that al-Mutawakkil rewarded him for a poem with a hundred and twenty thousand, and fifty garments. He also relates that he said a verse about the caliph meaning that he feared he would become tyrannical, and asked that the gifts be withheld. Al-Mutawakkil answered that he would not withhold them until his generosity drowned him. ²

In al-Mas'udi

Al-Mas'udi says that he composed verses on the oath of allegiance al-Mutawakkil gave to his three sons, and addressed the caliph as "O tenth of the caliphs". ³

The date of his birth, his death and his full lineage need an additional source.

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.

مروان بن أبي الجنوب

At a glance

Overview

The prize

In al-Mas'udi

Connections

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Sources

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al-Mufarraj ibn Sallam's Conquest of Twenty-Four Fortresses