The second is that when the Rafidites captured Jabal al-Ṣāliḥiyya (1) — during the domination of the tyrant Ghazan — one of their leading men (2) proposed that the mountain be plundered, its people enslaved and killed, and their houses burned (3) in revenge for their being Sunnis. He even branded them “Nasibis.” (4) What befell Jabal al-Ṣāliḥiyya (5) as a result of that statement and that incitement is well known.
They add: the Rafidites were paid back in kind, at the suggestion of a senior Sunni notable, measure for measure, the retribution carried out by the ruler and the armies of Islam. The adviser just mentioned is (6) the very shaykh already referred to.
When the mountain was taken and the army, after the victory, marched on to protected Damascus, people of every rank—high and low—flocked to the shaykh, visiting him, greeting him (7), congratulating him on his safety, and asking him how the mountain had been besieged, how its inhabitants had been fought, and what correspondence and other dealings had taken place between them and the army.
The shaykh narrated all of this.