وفاة المعتصم

وفاة المعتصم

تقریباً 5 فروری 842 عیسوی · 11 ربیع الاول 227 ھ

Al-Mu'tasim died Thursday, 11 Rabi' I 227; in his illness he kept saying 'the ruse is gone — there is no ruse'. He had resolved to march to the far west against the Umayyad of al-Andalus — 'the Umayyads ruled when none of us had rule; we rule and this Umayyad holds al-Andalus? Reckon what is needed to fight him' — when his illness grew heavy and he died ¹.