al-Ḥasan, as we shall relate. Yet some report that al-Ḥasan ibn Qaḥṭaba took part in the summer expedition together with ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Imām in the year 140 AH; Allah knows best.

That same year al-Manṣūr enlarged the Sacred Mosque in Mecca. The year was extraordinarily fertile—so much so that it was dubbed “the Year of Plenty,” although others place that abundance in 140 AH.

In it al-Manṣūr dismissed his uncle Sulaymān from the governorship of Baṣra. Afraid for their lives, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī and his followers went into hiding. The caliph wrote to his deputy in Baṣra, Sufyān ibn Muʿāwiya, urging him to send ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī to the court. Sufyān attacked with his troops, killed some of them, seized ʿAbd Allāh—his uncle—and imprisoned him. The rest of the party he sent to Abū Dāwūd, the governor of Khurāsān, who executed them there.

In that year the pilgrimage was led by al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās.

Those who died in the same year were: ʿAmr ibn Mujāhid; Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Hād; and the ascetic Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd, a disciple of al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī.

Then the year 140 AH began.

A band of soldiers in Khurāsān rose against Abū Dāwūd, the provincial governor, and besieged his residence. He appeared above them, calling on his troops to come to his aid. Leaning against a brick in the wall, it gave way, he fell, broke his back, and died. Until a new governor arrived, the province was administered by ʿĀṣim, the chief of police. The caliph then dispatched ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Azdi, who assumed control of Khurāsān, executed a number of commanders on the charge that they were advocating the caliphate of the family of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, imprisoned others, and compelled Abū Dāwūd’s deputies to collect the arrears in their possession.

That year the caliph al-Manṣūr himself led the Hajj. He entered the state of iḥrām at al-Ḥīra, performed the pilgrimage, returned to Madīnah, then journeyed to Jerusalem, paid his respects there, travelled through Syria to al-Raqqa, and continued on to al-Hāshimiyyah near Kūfa. The provincial governors remained as previously listed, except in Khurāsān, where Abū Dāwūd had died and been replaced by ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Azdi.

Among those who died this year was Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind.