يعقوب بن السكيت

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Yaqub ibn al-Sikkit, an imam in Arabic, whom al-Mutawakkil appointed to teach his sons ¹.

His death

al-Suyuti reports that al-Mutawakkil asked him in the year 244 AH: "Which of them do you love more, al-Mu'tazz and al-Mu'ayyad, or al-Hasan and al-Husayn?" He answered: "Qanbar, the client of Ali, is better than both of them." So he ordered the Turks to trample his belly until he died. It is also said that he ordered his tongue cut out, and he died, and he sent his blood-money to his son ¹.

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.

يعقوب بن السكيت

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