several times; yet Najāḥ eventually gained the upper hand. Meanwhile the missionaries of the Banū ʿUbayd kept arriving from Egypt, with crowds of their adherents in tow, and the turmoil only intensified until al-Ṣulayḥī emerged(1).
King Najāḥ(2) was a resolute and politically astute ruler, blessed with several distinguished sons.
The reign of Najāḥ the Abyssinian lasted for close to forty years. It is said that al-Ṣulayḥī sent him a concubine who poisoned him in 452 AH(3). After him, his one-eyed son Saʿīd held power for three years, but al-Ṣulayḥī prevailed, so Saʿīd fled to Abyssinia. He returned after some time, and al-Ṣulayḥī was killed in 473 AH—events and wonders taking place in between.
70 – Abū al-Ḥārith al-Basāsīrī, surnamed al-Muẓaffar *
He is Ārsalān the Turk, called al-Basāsīrī, the nisba deriving from a merchant of Fasā who had once sold him. The correct form is Fasawī, but it was uttered irregularly, in the manner of the Persians.
His fortunes rose step by step until he renounced the caliph(4), rebelled against him(5), and began corresponding