علي بن الجهم

Overview

Ali ibn al-Jahm, a poet who was associated with the Abbasid caliphs. Al-Suyuti relates that he entered upon al-Mutawakkil holding two pearls, recited an ode, and was given one of them; then he recited other verses and was given the second. He also praised al-Wathiq in an ode. ²

His end

Al-Mas'udi says that al-Mutawakkil banished him to Khurasan in 232 AH, though it is said 239 AH, and that when he set out in 249 AH the horsemen of the Kalbiyyun met him near Qinnasrin and killed him. He describes him as hostile to Ali, displaying Sunnism, and sweet in his phrasing. ³

Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari relates another report: that he was crucified at the gate of the palace of al-Shadhiyakh in Nishapur. ⁴

al-Mufarraj ibn Sallam's Conquest of Twenty-Four Fortresses

In al-Baladhuri: after Khalafun rose a man called al-Mufarraj — one copy: al-Mufarrikh — ibn Sallam who opened twenty-four fortresses and seized them; he wrote the postmaster in Egypt his news and that he deemed the absentee prayer unlawful for himself and the Muslims with him, asking the imam to contract him over his district and appoint him, to leave the state of usurpers — and he built a congregational mosque. Then his companions mutinied and killed him; Sawran — also read Sudan — succeeded and sent his envoy to al-Mutawakkil asking patent and letter of appointment, but al-Mutawakkil died before the envoy reached him, and al-Muntasir died whose caliphate was six months; al-Musta'in Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Mu'tasim ordered his Maghreb agent Utamish — the caliph's mawla — to contract it for him, but before his envoy could leave Samarra Utamish was killed and Wasif the caliph's mawla took the district and contracted and dispatched it.

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al-Mufarraj ibn Sallam's Conquest of Twenty-Four Fortresses