we can put the agreement in writing.” Naṣr then noticed a moment of heedlessness on Ibn al-Karmānī’s part, so he advanced against him with a large force; they charged, killed him, and slew a number of his followers. Ibn al-Karmānī was struck in the side by a man during the battle and toppled from his mount. Naṣr ordered that he be crucified, and he crucified several others with him—he even hung up a fish beside them. Ibn al-Karmānī’s son thereupon threw in his lot with Abū Muslim al-Khurasānī, and groups from his father’s partisans joined him; together they formed a single front against Naṣr.

Ibn Jarīr (1) relates: In this same year ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar took possession of Fars and its districts, and of Hulwān, Qūmis, Isfahān, and Rayy, after a war too lengthy to recount. ʿĀmir ibn Ḍubārah then met him at Istakhr, routed him, and captured forty thousand of his followers. Among the prisoners was ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās. Ibn Ḍubārah asked him his lineage and said, “What has brought you out with Ibn Muʿāwiyah when you know of his rebellion against the Commander of the Faithful?” He replied, “I was weighed down by a debt, so I came to him about it.” Ḥarb ibn Qaṭan ibn Wahb al-Hilālī stepped forward and begged Ibn Ḍubārah to release him, saying, “He is the son of our sister.” Ibn Ḍubārah granted the request, adding, “I would never kill a man of Quraysh.” He then questioned him about Ibn Muʿāwiyah’s affairs; the prisoner vilified him and accused him and his followers of sodomy. One hundred youths in dyed garments were brought in from among the captives—he had been committing indecencies with them. Ibn Ḍubārah placed ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī on the postal relay to Ibn Hubayrah so that he might inform him of Ibn Ḍubārah’s report concerning Ibn Muʿāwiyah, even though Allah—exalted is He—had already decreed that the fall of the Umayyad rule would come at the hands of this very man, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, and none of them had the slightest inkling of it.

Ibn Jarīr (2) also says: In this same year Abū Ḥamzah the Khārijite arrived for the pilgrimage season (3); he raised the slogan of “arbitration,” opposed Marwān, and declared himself free of him. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik—who was then governor of Mecca, Medina, and al-Ṭāʾif and was in charge of the pilgrims that year—corresponded with them and concluded a pact granting them safety until the Day of Departure (yawm al-nafr). They therefore stood apart from the people at ʿArafāt and then withdrew. When the first Day of Departure arrived, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid hastened away and left Mecca, and the Khārijite entered it without a fight.

A poet composed the following about the event:
A band of men who had forsaken the faith of God
visited the pilgrims, and ʿAbd al-Wāḥid took to flight;
he left his womenfolk and his rulership behind,
bolting away like a runaway camel.
Had his father cut the vein from which he sprang,
his wells would have run pure through the father’s vein.

When ʿAbd al-Wāḥid returned to Medina he set about dispatching detachments to fight the Khārijite, allocating funds, and he increased