الحسن بن قحطبة

الحسن بن قحطبة

al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba, a commander of the Khurasani armies; in al-Baladhuri: al-Mansur sent him raiding from Hadithat al-Mawsil in year 149, and he went with al-Abbas ibn Muhammad to Malatya and the siege of Kamkh; in Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ibrahim's army at Malatya's building in year 140 he would carry stone to hand the builder and fed the people from his own purse with field-kitchens — Abd al-Wahhab denounced him to Abu Ja'far, who answered 'O boy! al-Hasan feeds from his own money, and you feed from mine' and let him feed without a caller — and al-Mahdi sent him raiding in year 162, when he ranged Byzantine lands, chose the site of Madinat al-Hadath and spoke to al-Mahdi of building it and Tarsus.