خروج مازيار بن قارن

خروج مازيار بن قارن

225 ھ

طبرستان

Al-Ma'mun gave Mazyar ibn Qarin Tabaristan, al-Ruwayan and Dumbawand, named him Muhammad and gave him the Ispahbadh's rank; al-Mu'tasim confirmed him, then he apostatized and broke faith six years into the caliphate. Abdallah ibn Tahir sent his uncle al-Hasan ibn al-Husayn with Khurasan's men and the caliph sent Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Mus'ab; Mazyar's brother Quhyar ibn Qarin, nursing slights, was secretly theirs. The ruse: al-Hasan hides, Quhyar tells Mazyar al-Hasan offers aman at another spot — marching there, Quhyar's signal brings the ambushers out of the thickets, he seizes Mazyar's belt, they take him unharmed, no pledge — carried to Samarra in 225, flogged to death before al-Mu'tasim, crucified beside Babak at the arch by the shurta-hall; Quhyar was killed by his brother's retainers, and Tabaristan, plain and mountain, was conquered for Abdallah ibn Tahir and Tahir after him.