Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

and then he prayed, “O Allah, grant me my harvest in this world, and allot me no share in the Hereafter.” His prayer was answered.

Muḥriz the scribe said: “Sulaymān had a young servant to whom he was deeply attached, becoming altogether infatuated with him (1). When his wife kept pressing him about it, he dismissed the boy.”

al-Ṣūlī states: “Al-Muwaffaq ruined him and confiscated his property, yet nothing of what he suspected was actually found. Further calamities befell him, and he died in prison in the month of Ṣafar, in the year 272 AH, during the vizierate of Ṣāʿid ibn Makhlad.

He was the father of the vizier ʿUbayd Allah, the grandfather of the vizier al-Qāsim ibn ʿUbayd Allah, and the great-grandfather of the vizier al-Ḥusayn.

  1. The Vile ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿAbdī

He is the tyrant of the Zanj, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (2) al-ʿAbdī of the tribe of ʿAbd al-Qays. He lied and claimed descent from Zayd ibn ʿAlī the Alid. An astrologer, a roadside charlatan, quick-witted, a Harūrī (3), crafty, devious, and unrestrained, he espoused the doctrine of the most depraved of the Khārijites, all the while keeping it hidden

(1) istahtara bihi: he became infatuated with him. This is the opposite of its current colloquial sense, which denotes mockery or derision. (*) al-Tabari, History, vol. 9, pp. 622–626, 636–642, 645–652, 654–661; Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, vol. 7, pp. 205–215, 235–237, up to 406; Ibn Khaldun, al-Ibar, vol. 2, pp. 34–35, 37, 39, 41–43; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, vol. 11, pp. 41–45; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 2, pp. 154–156. (2) Al-Kamil, vol. 7, p. 206, reads: “Ibn Abd al-Rahim.” (3) The term haruriyya refers to the Kharijites who broke with Ali after his return from Siffin to Kufa; they withdrew to Harura, a locality on the outskirts of Kufa where they first assembled, hence their name.
فَقَالَ: اللَّهُمَّ! ائتِنِي حَرْثِي فِي الدُّنْيَا، وَلاَ تَجْعَلْ لِي فِي الآخِرَةِ مِنْ نَصِيْبٍ. فَأُجِيْبَ دُعَاؤُهُ. وَقَالَ مُحْرِزٌ الكَاتِبُ: كَانَ لِسُيلمَانَ غُلاَمٌ يُحِبُّهُ، فَاسْتُهْتِرَ بِهِ (١) ، فَأَلَحَّتْ عَلَيْهِ امْرَأَتُهُ، فَأَبْعَدَهُ. قَالَ الصُّوْلِيُّ: نَكَبَهُ المُوَفَّقُ، وَصَادَرَهُ، فَلَمْ يُوْجَدْ مَعَهُ مَا ظَنَّ فِيْهِ، وَجَرَتْ لَهُ بَعْدُ نَكَبَاتٌ، فَمَاتَ مَحْبُوساً فِي صَفَرٍ، سَنَةَ اثْنَتَيْنِ وَسَبْعِيْنَ وَمائَتَيْنِ، فِي وِزَارَةِ صَاعِدِ بنِ مَخْلَدٍ. وَهُوَ وَالِدُ الوَزِيْرِ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ، وَجَدُّ الوَزِيْرِ القَاسِمِ بنِ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ، وَأَبُو جَدِّ الوَزِيْرِ الحُسَيْنِ. ٦٦ - الخَبِيْثُ عَلِيُّ بنُ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ العَبْدِيُّ * هُوَ طَاغيَةُ الزِّنْجِ، عَلِيُّ بنُ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ (٢) العَبْدِيُّ، مِنْ عَبْدِ القَيْسِ. افْتَرَى وَزَعَمَ أَنَّهُ مِنْ وَلَدِ زَيْدِ بنِ عَلِيٍّ العَلَوِيِّ، وَكَانَ مُنَجِّماً، طرقِيّاً، ذَكِيّاً، حَرُورِيّاً (٣) ، مَاكِراً، دَاهِيَةً مُنْحَلاًّ، عَلَى رَأْي فَجَرَةِ الخَوَارِجِ، يَتَسَتَّرُ
(١) استهتر به: فتن به. وهو على خلاف المتداول على ألسنة الناس اليوم بمعنى الهزء والسخرية. (*) تاريخ الطبري: ٩ / ٦٢٢ - ٦٢٦، ٦٣٦ - ٦٤٢، ٦٤٥ - ٦٥٢، ٦٥٤ - ٦٦١، الكامل لابن الأثير: ٧ / ٢٠٥ - ٢١٥، ٢٣٥ - ٢٣٧، وحتى ٤٠٦، ففي هذه الصفحات أخبار متفرقة عنه، وعن أعمال الزنج ومحاربة الدولة لهم عبر المؤلف: ٢ / ٣٤ - ٣٥، ٣٧، ٣٩، ٤١ - ٤٣، البداية والنهاية: ١١ / ٤١ - ٤٥، شذرات الذهب: ٢ / ١٥٤ - ١٥٦. (٢) في " الكامل " لابن الأثير: ٧ / ٢٠٦: " ابن عبد الرحيم ". (٣) نسبة إلى الحرورية: وهم الخوارج الذين خالفوا عليا ﵁ بعد رجوعه من صفين إلى الكوفة، إذ انحا؟ وا إلى " حروراء " موضع بظاهر الكوفة، وكان أول اجتماعهم به، فسموا " الحروريه ".

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