Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Constantinople, where he burned a thousand villages, carried off twenty-thousand captives, and killed around ten-thousand people. Yaḥyā ibn Aktham was then removed from the judiciary, and four thousand jarīb (plots of land) together with one-hundred-thousand dinars were taken from him. (1)

In the year 240 AH: the people of Khalat (2) heard a cry from the sky, and a great many of them died on account of it. (3)

In the year 241 AH: the stars churned and scattered like locusts for most of the night, a terrifying portent indeed. (4)

During that same year, the king of the Beja (5) rose up, and the Egyptians marched out to fight him. They charged the Beja, whose camels bolted; a battle ensued, their forces broke apart, and many were slain. Their king then came to al-Mutawakkil under a pledge of safety—even though his people were idol-worshippers. (6)

In the year 242 AH: a violent earthquake struck Qūmis, Damghan, Rayy, Ṭabaristān, Nishapur, and Isfahan, killing some forty-odd thousand people and toppling half the city of Damghan. (7)

(1) Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, vol. 7, p. 74 (events of the year 240/854): “In that year Yahya b. Aktham was dismissed from the judiciary, and seventy-five thousand dinars together with four thousand jurayb of land in Basra were confiscated from him.” The same notice appears in al-Tabari, Tarikh, vol. 9, pp. 197–198. (2) Pronounced with a short “i” on the first consonant and ending with an undotted t; it refers to the principal town of Central Armenia. (3) Tarikh al-Khulafa, p. 348; al-Nujum al-Zahira, vol. 2, p. 301. (4) Ibn Kathir, Tarikh, vol. 10, p. 324; al-Nujum al-Zahira, vol. 2, p. 304. (5) Tarikh al-Tabari and Ibn Kathir read al-Baja. (6) Al-Tabari, Tarikh, vol. 9, pp. 203, 206; al-Kamil, vol. 7, p. 77; Ibn Kathir, Tarikh, vol. 10, p. 324. (7) Al-Tabari, Tarikh, vol. 9, p. 207; al-Kamil, vol. 7, p. 81; Ibn Kathir, Tarikh, vol. 10, p. 343; al-Nujum al-Zahira, vol. 2, p. 307.
القُسْطَنْطِيْنِيَّة، وَأَحْرَقَ أَلْفَ قَرْيَةٍ، وَسَبَى عِشْرِيْنَ ألْفاً، وَقَتَلَ نَحْوَ العَشْرَةِ آلاَفٍ، وَعُزِلَ يَحْيَى بنُ أَكْثَمَ مِنَ القَضَاءِ، وَأُخِذَ مِنْهُ أَرْبَعَةُ آلاَفِ جَرِيْبٍ وَمَائةُ أَلْفِ دِيْنَارٍ (١) . وَفِي سَنَةِ أَرْبَعِيْنَ: فِيْهَا سَمِعَ أَهْلُ خَلاَطٍ (٢) صَيحَةً مِنَ السَّمَاءِ، مَاتَ مِنْهَا جَمَاعَةٌ كَثِيْرَةٌ (٣) . وَفِي سَنَةِ ٢٤١: مَاجَتِ النُّجُوْمُ، وَتنَاثَرَتْ شِبْهَ الجَرَادِ أَكْثَرَ اللَّيْلِ، فَكَانَ ذَلِكَ آيَةً مُزْعِجَةً (٤) . وَفِيْهَا: خَرَجَ مَلِكُ البُجَاةِ (٥) ، وَسَارَ المِصْرِيُّونَ لِحَرْبِهِ، فَحَمَلُوا عَلَى البُجَاةِ، فَنَفَرَتْ جِمَالُهُم، وَكَانُوا يقَاتِلُونَ، ثُمَّ تَمَزَّقُوا، وَقُتِلَ خَلْقٌ، وَجَاءَ مَلِكُهُمْ بِأَمَانٍ إِلَى المُتَوَكِّلِ، وَهُمْ يَعْبُدُوْنَ الأَصْنَامَ (٦) . وَفِي سَنَةِ ٢٤٢: الزَلْزَلَةُ بِقُومِسَ وَالدَّامَغَانِ، وَالرَّيِّ وَطَبَرِسْتَانَ، وَنَيْسَابُوْرَ، وَأَصْبَهَانَ، وَهَلَكَ مِنْهَا بِضْعَةٌ وَأَرْبَعُوْنَ أَلْفاً، وَانْهَدَّ نِصْفُ مَدِيْنَةِ الدَّامَغَانِ (٧) .
(١) قال ابن الأثير في " الكامل " ٧ / ٧٤ بحوادث ٢٤٠ هـ: في هذه السنة عزل يحيى بن أكثم عن القضاء، وقبض منه ما مبلغه خمسة وسبعون ألف دينار، وأربعة آلاف جريب بالبصرة. وكذا في " تاريخ الطبري " ٩ / ١٩٧، ١٩٨. (٢) بكسر أوله، وآخره طاء مهملة: هي قصبة أرمينية الوسطى. (٣) " تاريخ الخلفاء ": ٣٤٨، و" النجوم الزاهرة " ٢ / ٣٠١. (٤) " تاريخ ابن كثير " ١٠ / ٣٢٤، و" النجوم الزاهرة " ٢ / ٣٠٤. (٥) في " تاريخ الطبري " و" ابن كثير ": البجة. (٦) " تاريخ الطبري " ٩ / ٢٠٣، ٢٠٦، و" الكامل " ٧ / ٧٧، و" تاريخ ابن كثير " ١٠ / ٣٢٤. (٧) " تاريخ الطبري " ٩ / ٢٠٧، و" الكامل " ٧ / ٨١، و" تاريخ ابن كثير " ١٠ / ٣٤٣، و" النجوم الزاهرة " ٢ / ٣٠٧.

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