Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (22/230)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

612 AH: The Georgians raided Azerbaijan, seized its wealth, and carried off more than one hundred thousand captives, according to Abū Shāmah (1).

Al-Malik al-Kāmil sent his son al-Masʿūd, who took Yemen without resistance but then oppressed its people, behaved arrogantly, and rebelled.

Khwarazm Shāh suddenly descended upon Ghazna, occupied it, and installed his son Jalāl al-Dīn Mangubirti as governor.

Kaykāwūs, ruler of Rūm, routed the Franks and took Antioch from them, though it soon passed to the prince of Tripoli.

In the same year Minkalī, lord of Isfahan, Rayy, and Hamadan, was defeated and killed.

613 AH: Four ropes (2) for hoisting the Dome’s Eagle (3)—each thirty-two cubits long—were brought in through Bab al-Faraj (4) as far as Bab al-Nāṭifiyyīn, set up to raise the finial, and then drawn taut.

The moat of the citadel (5) was cleared; everyone toiled at the work, jurists and Sufis included, and al-Muʿaẓẓam himself took part. An open-air prayer ground was established there, and the Friday sermon was delivered in it.

Hail fell on Basra, the smaller stones the size of bitter oranges.

614 AH: A great flood occurred.

Sibt al-Jawzī (6), showing scant piety, said:

(1) Dhayl al-Rawdatayn, p. 89. (2) In Dhayl al-Rawdatayn the word appears as “awtad” (a scribal slip). (3) I.e. the Eagle Dome (Qubbat al-Nasr) in the Umayyad Great Mosque of Damascus. The author states in his Tarikh al-Islam—citing his own autograph—“Abu Shama said: In that year the wooden beams (al-awtar) were brought in for the Eagle Dome of the mosque” (Ms. Aya Sofya 3011, fol. 230). Compare Dhayl al-Rawdatayn, p. 92. (4) The copyist of the base manuscript mistakenly wrote “al-Faranj” (the Franks). (5) That is the moat of Bab al-Sirr. (6) Mirat al-Zaman, vol. 8, p. 582.

وَفِي سَنَةِ ٦١٢: أَغَارتِ الكُرْجُ عَلَى أَذْرَبِيْجَانَ، وَغَنِمُوا الأَمْوَالَ، وَأَزْيَدَ مِنْ مائَةِ أَلْفِ أَسِيْرٍ، قَالَهُ أَبُو شَامَةَ (١) . وَبَعَثَ الملكُ الكَامِلُ وَلَدَهُ المَسْعُوْدَ، فَأَخَذَ اليَمَنَ بِلاَ كُلْفَةٍ وَظَلَمَ وَعَتَا وَتَمرَّدَ. وَتَوثَّبَ خُوَارِزْم شَاه عَلَى غَزْنَةَ، فَتَمَلَّكهَا، وَجَعَلَ بِهَا وَلدَهُ جَلاَلَ الدِّيْنِ منْكُوبرِي. وَهَزَمَ صَاحِبُ الرُّوْمِ كيكَاوس الفِرَنْجَ، وَأَخَذَ مِنْهُم أَنطَاكيَةَ، ثُمَّ صَارَت لِبِرِنْسَ طَرَابُلُسَ. وَفِيْهَا: كُسِرَ مُنْكلِي صَاحِبُ أَصْبَهَانَ وَالرَّيِّ وَهَمَذَانَ وَقُتِلَ. وَفِي سَنَةِ ٦١٣: أُحْضِرَتْ أَرْبَعَةُ أَوتَارٍ (٢) لِنَسْرِ القُبَّةِ (٣) ، طُولُ اثْنَيْنِ وَثَلاَثِيْنَ ذَرَاعاً، أُدْخِلَتْ مِنْ بَابِ الفَرَجِ (٤) إِلَى بَابِ النَّاطِفِيِّينَ، وَأُقِيمَتْ لأَجْلِ القرنَة، ثُمَّ مُدِّدَتْ. وَحُرِّرَ خَنْدَقُ القَلْعَةِ (٥) ، وَعَمِلَ فِيْهِ كُلُّ أَحَدٍ، وَالفُقَهَاءُ وَالصُّوْفِيَّةُ. وَالمُعَظَّمُ بِنَفْسِهِ، وَأُنشِئَ المُصلَّى، وَعُمِلَ بِهِ الخَطْبَةُ. وَوَقَعَ بِالبَصْرَةِ بَرَدٌ صِغَارُهُ كَالنَّارِنْجِ. وَفِي سَنَةِ ٦١٤: كَانَ الغَرقُ. قَالَ سِبْطُ الجَوْزِيِّ (٦) - بِقِلَّةِ وَرَعٍ -:

(١) ذيل الروضتين: ٨٩. (٢) في ذيل الروضتين: " أوتاد " مصحف. (٣) يعني: لقبة النسر في جامع دمشق الأموي، وقد قال المؤلف في " تاريخ الإسلام " - ونقلت من خطه -: " قال أبو شامة: فيها أحضرت الاوتار الخشب لاجل نسر قبة الجامع " (الورقة: ٢٣٠ أيا صوفيا: ٣٠١١) وقارن: ذيل الروضتين: ٩٢. (٤) شطح قلم ناسخ الأصل فكتب " الفرنج ". (٥) هو خندق باب السر. (٦) مرآة الزمان: ٨ / ٥٨٢.