مصادرة مسعود أموال الخلافة وجواب المقتفي

مصادرة مسعود أموال الخلافة وجواب المقتفي

تقریباً 1136 عیسوی · تقریباً 530 ھ

Mas'ud stripped the caliphal palace — four mares and eight mules left in the stable — then in 531 seized all the caliph's estates and demanded a hundred thousand dinars. Al-Muqtafi's answer: 'What wonder — you know what befell al-Mustarshid's wealth at your hands, what al-Rashid took, and that you seized the furniture, the mint, the estates and the tolls. From what shall we raise it? Nothing remains but to hand you the palace itself — I have sworn to God not to take a grain wrongfully from the Muslims'. The sultan desisted, and in Jumada I the caliph's lands were restored ¹.