Al-Bidayah wa an-NihayahIbn Kathir

In Ramadan of that same year al-Muʿtazz bestowed robes of honour upon Bughā al-Sharābī, placing on him the diadem and the two sashes.

On the day of ʿĪd al-Fiṭr a fierce engagement took place at a locality called al-Bawāzīj ⦗1⦘. A man named Musāwir ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd had there raised the Khārijite slogan of “arbitration belongs only to Allah” ⦗2⦘, and about seven hundred Khārijites gathered around him. Against him advanced Bundār al-Ṭabarī with three hundred of his followers. They met that day and fought bitterly: roughly fifty of the Khārijites were slain, two hundred and fifty of Bundār’s men were killed, and Bundār himself fell among the dead—may Allah have mercy on him.

Musāwir then set out for Hulwān ⦗3⦘. Its inhabitants fought him, aided by pilgrims from Khurāsān, yet Musāwir killed nearly four hundred of them—may Allah disgrace him—and many of his own men also perished.

With three days of Shawwāl remaining Wasīf the Turk was killed. The common people tried to plunder his house in Sāmarrāʾ and those of his children, but they were unable to do so. Al-Muʿtazz placed everything that had been under Wasīf’s control in the charge of Bughā al-Sharābī.

On the night of the fourteenth of Dhū al-Qaʿda of this year the moon was eclipsed ⦗4⦘ until most of it disappeared and its light was lost. As the eclipse ended Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāhir, the governor of Iraq in Baghdad, died; ulcerations in his head and throat had finally overcome him.

When his body was brought so that the funeral prayer might be performed, his brother ʿUbayd Allāh and his son Ṭāhir disputed over who should lead it. The quarrel grew so heated that swords were drawn and stones were hurled, while the rabble shouted, “Ṭāhir! Manṣūr!” ʿUbayd Allāh withdrew to the eastern quarter with the commanders and leading men, entered his house, and—being his brother’s chosen executor—assumed control. When news of the incident reached al-Muʿtazz, he sent robes of honour and the governorship to ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāhir, and ʿUbayd Allāh rewarded the bearer of the robes with fifty thousand dirhams.

In this same year the caliph al-Muʿtazz banished his brother Abū Aḥmad from Surrā Man Raʾā to Wāsiṭ, then to Basra, after which he was returned to Baghdad and lodged in the eastern quarter, in the palace of Dīnār ibn ʿAbd Allāh.

(1) A town near Tikrit at the mouth of the Lower Zab where it flows into the Tigris; today it belongs to the Mosul region. Yaqut. (2) i.e., he said: “There is no judgment except to Allah.” (3) In al-Tabari it reads mada (“it passed”). (4) In the printed edition it reads khusif khusufahu, in agreement with al-Tabari. Ibn al-Athir remarks that in hadith literature khusuf is frequently applied to the sun, although in Arabic the proper term is kusuf (not khusuf), and that a lunar eclipse (khusuf of the moon) is called kusufahu. The most precise usage is kusifat al-shams and khusifa al-qamar. In Al-Lisan: khusuf.
وفي رمضان منها خَلَعَ المعتر على بُغَا الشرابيّ وألبَسَه التَّاجَ والوشاحين. وفي يوم عيد الفطر كانت وقعة هائلة عند مكان يقال له: البَوازِيْج (١) ، وذلك أنَّ رجلًا يقال له: "مُساور بن عبد الحميد" حكّم (٢) فيها، والتفَّ عليه نحو من سبعمئة من الخوارج، فقصَدَ له رجلٌ يقال له: "بُنْدار الطبريّ" في ثلاثمئة من أصحابه، فالتقوا في هذا اليوم، فاقتتلوا قتالًا شديدًا، فقُتِلَ من الخوارج نحو من خمسين، وقُتِلَ من أصحاب بُنْدار مئتان وخمسون رجلًا، وقُتِلَ بُنْدَار فيمن قُتِلَ: (رحمه الله) . ثم صَمَدَ (٣) مُساور إلى حُلوان، فقاتله أهلُها، وأعانهم حُجّاج أهلِ خراسان، فقتَلَ مُساور منهم نحوًا من أربعمئة إنسانٍ؛ قبَّحه اللّه. وقُتِلَ من أصحابه جماعة كثيرون أيضًا. ولثلاث بَقِين من شوال قُتِلَ وصيف التركيّ، وأرادت العامة أن تنتهبَ دارَه بسامُرّا ودورَ أولاده، فلم يمكنهم ذلك. جعَلَ المعتزُّ الخليفة ما كان إليه إلى بُغَا الشرابيّ. وفي ليلة أربعَ عشرة من ذي القعدة من هذه السنة كُسِفَ (٤) القمرُ حتَّى غاب أكثرُه وغرق نورُه، وعند انتهاء كُسُوفه مات محمد بن عبد اللّه بن طاهر نائبُ العراق ببغداد. وكانت عِلَّتُه قروحًا في رأسه وحَلْقِه فذبحته. ولمَّا أتي به لِيُصلَّى عليه اختلف أخوه عُبيدُ اللّه وابنُه طاهر، أيُّهما يُصلّي عليه، وتنازعا حتى جُذبت السّيوف، وترامى الناس بالحجارة، وصاحت الغَوْغَاءُ: يا طاهر، يا منصور؛ فمال عُبيدُ اللّه إلى الشرقية ومعه القواد وأكابر الناس، فدخل داره وكان أخوه قد أوصى إليه. وحين بلَغَ المعتزَّ ما وقع، بعثَ بالخِلَع والولاية لِعُبيد اللّه بن محمد بن عبد اللّه بن طاهر، فأطلَقَ عُبيد اللّه للذي قدِمَ بالخلع خمسين ألف درهم. وفيها: نَفَى الخليفةُ المعتزُّ أخاه أبا أحمد من سُرَّ مَنْ رأى إلى واسط، ثم إلى البصرة، ثم رُدَّ إلى بغداد، [فأنزل في الشرقية، في قصر دينار بن عبد اللّه.
(١) بلد قرب تكريت على فم الزاب الأسفل حيث يصب في دجلة، وهي الآن من أعمال الموصل. ياقوت. (٢) أي قال: لا حكم إلا للّه. (٣) في الطبري: مضى. (٤) في ط: خُسِف خسوفه، ويوافق ذلك ما جاء في الطبري. قال ابن الأثير: ورد الخسوف في الحديث كثيرًا للشمس، والمعروف لها في اللغة الكسوف لا الخسوف، وخسوف القمر: كسوفه. وأجود الكلام: كسفت الشمس وخسف القمر. اللسان: خسف.

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