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Al-Hasan ibn al-Qasim al-Alawi

الحسن بن القاسم العلوي

An Alid missionary (da'i) descended from al-Hasan ibn Ali (may God be pleased with him), killed in Tabaristan by Asfar 1.

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Abbasid Fragmentation
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Persia & Central Asia
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Overview

An Alid summoner, of the descendants of al-Hasan ibn Ali, whom Asfar killed in Tabaristan. 2 See Tabaristan.

Ibn al-Athir's account

In Ibn al-Athir he took al-Rayy and drove out the followers of al-Sa'id Nasr ibn Ahmad, and seized Qazvin, Zanjan, Abhar and Qum. With him was Makan ibn Kaki al-Daylami. He met Asfar ibn Shiruya at Sariya and was defeated, then he fled and was killed in 316 AH. 3

He used to order his Daylami companions to be upright, and forbade them to wrong the subjects and drink wine, so they hated him for it. They agreed to summon Harusandan to hand him over, and to set up Abu al-Husayn ibn al-Atrush in his place. Ahmad al-Tawil at Damghan uncovered their plot and wrote to the summoner to inform him, and he took his precautions. 3

People and things also explored

Abu Muslim Enters Marw and His Partisans Fall upon Mudar· The Akhlat fitna and massacre (604 AH)· Ali declines to keep Muawiya in office· Letters between Ali and Muawiya after the Camel· Ali moves the capital to Kufa· Ali refuses to lead prayer while the caliph is besieged· The breach of the Granada terms and the revolt of the Alpujarras· Amr ibn Ma'dikarib's apostasy after the Prophet's death

Sources

  1. Al-Mas'udi, Muruj al-dhahab wa-ma'adin al-jawhar, ed. Kamal Hasan Mar'i (al-Maktaba al-'Asriyya, 2005) , juz' 4 p. 125
  2. Al-Mas'udi, Muruj al-dhahab wa-ma'adin al-jawhar, ed. Kamal Hasan Mar'i (al-Maktaba al-'Asriyya, 2005) , juz' 4 p.125
  3. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p.139-140
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Abu Muslim Enters Marw and His Partisans Fall upon Mudar

In 130 Abu Muslim entered the wall of Marw and took up residence in the governor's house on Thursday, 9 Jumada I. The cause was that Sulayman ibn Kathir objected to Ali ibn al-Kirmani's reconciliation with Nasr ibn Sayyar: 'Are you not ashamed to make peace with Nasr, when he killed your men and your companions only yesterday?' Ali ibn al-Kirmani was seized by anger, reversed his position, and the truce among the Arabs broke. Nasr ibn Sayyar sent to Abu Muslim asking him to join Mudar, and Rabi'a and Qahtan sent the same request. Abu Muslim ordered that envoys of both sides come before him to choose between them, and told the Shi'a to choose Rabi'a and Qahtan, since authority lay with Mudar, who were Marwan's agents and the killers of Yahya ibn Zayd. When his letter was read to the seventy assembled, Mazid ibn Shaqiq al-Sulami stood and said: 'Mudar are the killers of the Family of the Prophet and helpers of the Umayyads and partisans of Marwan al-Ja'di; our blood is on their necks and our wealth in their hands, and Nasr ibn Sayyar, Marwan's governor in Khurasan, has the khutba given for him from his pulpit and calls him amir al-mu'minin; we are innocent of that before God.' The seventy agreed with him; he rose, and humiliation and dejection came upon Mudar, while Ali ibn al-Kirmani and his companions returned glad and victorious. Abu Muslim had stayed at Alin for twenty-nine days, then moved on to al-Makhwan, stayed three months at Khunda, and then entered the wall of Marw.