صدقة بن منصور المزيدي ملك العرب

صدقة بن منصور المزيدي ملك العرب

اپریل 1108 عیسوی · شعبان 501 ھ

Sadaqa ibn Mansur ibn Dubays ibn Ali ibn Mazyad al-Asadi, amir of Banu Mazyad and builder of al-Hilla in Iraq; among the strongest backers of Sultan Muhammad ibn Malikshah against Barkyaruq, who enfeoffed him Wasit and licensed him over Basra — but he sheltered Sarkhab ibn Kaykhusraw and the sultan contested the realm with him; meeting him at the end of Rajab 501 AH with Ubada and Khafaja deserting him, he charged the Turks crying 'I am the king of the Arabs, I am Sadaqa', an arrow pinned him and a Turkish ghulam named Barghash killed him and bore his head to the sultan — in the twenty-first year of his emirate; generous, forbearing, truthful and just, he could read but not write and kept a library of finely copied books.