That year Mayuf ibn Yahya al-Hujuri led the ṣāʾifa (summer campaign), capturing a vast number of Byzantines—well over six thousand prisoners—and seizing rich spoils.

The pilgrimage was conducted by al-Mahdi ibn al-Mansur, the crown prince known as al-Mahdi. Acting as deputy over Mecca and al-Taʾif was Muhammad ibn Ibrahim; over Medina, al-Hasan ibn Zayd; over Kufah, Muhammad ibn Sulayman; over Basrah, Yazid ibn Mansur; and over Egypt, Muhammad ibn Saʿid. Al-Waqidi reports that in this same year al-Mansur also made Yazid ibn Mansur governor of Yemen—Allah knows best.

Those who died in that year were:
• Aban ibn Samʿah;
• Usamah ibn Zayd al-Laythi;
• Thawr ibn Yazid al-Himsi;
• al-Hasan ibn ʿImarah;
• Fitr ibn Khalifah;
• Maʿmar;
• Hisham ibn al-Ghazz.
Allah knows best.

[Then the year 154 AH began.]

In it al-Mansur entered Syria, visited Jerusalem, and outfitted Yazid ibn Hatim with fifty thousand troops, appointing him governor of Ifriqiyah and ordering him to fight the Khawarij. He spent about sixty-three thousand dirhams on this army. That year the ṣāʾifa was led by Zufar ibn ʿAsim al-Hilali.

The pilgrimage was led by Muhammad ibn Ibrahim, and the provincial deputies remained those of the previous year, except for Basrah, which was held by ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ayyub ibn Zabyan.

Among the notable deaths of that year were Abu Ayyub the scribe and his brother Khalid. Al-Mansur ordered that the sons of his brother have their hands and feet cut off and then be beheaded, and his command was carried out.