تاريخ الرسل والملوك — الطبري

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«ل يقال له على والحسين المعروف بابن الصعلوك * يذكر فيمة انه ورد عليه كتاب من اى عبد الله بن المتوكل 10 انه قد ولى الخلافة وبايع لد فلما ورد عليه كتاب المستعين بصحة الامر جدد اخذ البيعة على من»

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Mentions: Correspondence (al-mukatabat)· al-Mutawakkil ala Allah

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Diwan al-Barid (the postal diwan)· Diwan al-Insha' (the chancery)· Diwan al-Khatim (the seal registry)· Insha' (creative speech, and its legal application)· Abu Dawud in Khurasan: Qutayba and Ibn Rahwayh, before 240/854· The Sunan composed and shown to Ahmad ibn Hanbal, before 241/855· al-Mufarraj ibn Sallam's Conquest of Twenty-Four Fortresses· al-Qummi's War on the Buja Lands

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Tarikh al-Rusul wa-l-Muluk — al-Tabari

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islam.museum contributors. “تاريخ الرسل والملوك — الطبري — p. 309”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/tareekh-tarikh-tabari-004/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-11.

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Diwan al-Barid (the postal diwan)

The postal diwan as Abu al-Faraj Qudama ibn Ja'far prescribes it in Kitab al-Kharaj wa-Sina'at al-Kitaba: a diwan unto itself receiving dispatches from every province and forwarding each to its destination, presenting the barid masters' reports from all regions to the caliph or composing their digests, overseeing the station-masters, timekeepers and clerks of the relay routes, disbursing their rations and commissioning the keepers of itineraries in every misr — its chief required to be a man of trust. Al-Qalqashandi's Subh al-a'sha traces the barid from the Persian and Roman emperors through Mu'awiya, Abd al-Malik and the Abbasids, its suspension by the Buyids, its revival by al-Zahir Baybars between Egypt and Syria and its collapse after Timur's invasion in 804 AH, and describes the engraved silver plaques couriers wore and the relay stations from the Cairo Citadel to Qus, Alexandria, Damietta, Gaza, Damascus and Aleppo.