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The execution of Sa'id ibn Ahmad al-Bahili

إعدام سعيد بن أحمد الباهلي

c. April 872 CE · Rabi' II 258 AH

In 258 Sa'id ibn Ahmad al-Bahili, headman of the Bahila who had exploited the Batihah marshes after the Zanj left them, was sent to Baghdad; al-Mu'tamid ordered him given seven hundred lashes and he was crucified in Rabi' II, driving the remaining Bahili chiefs to join the Zanj 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Levant & Iraq
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In 258 Sa'id b. Ahmad b. Sa'id b. Salm al-Bahili was arrested — headman of the Bahilis who had set their sights on the Bata'ih after the Zanj left it and worked corruption there; sent to Baghdad, al-Mu'tamid 'ala Allah ordered him lashed seven hundred strokes, and he was scourged then crucified in Rabi' II — whereupon the rest of their chiefs joined the Zanj 1.

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سعيد بن أحمد الباهلي

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  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 100
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سعيد بن أحمد الباهلي

Sa'id ibn Ahmad al-Bahili, headman of the Bahila band who coveted the Batayih after the Zanj quit it; haled to Baghdad he died under seven hundred lashes and was crucified — driving the rest of his chiefs into the Zanj.