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يزيد بن محمد المهلبي

يزيد بن محمد المهلبي

The poet; when al-Mutawakkil resolved to dwell at Damascus he warned 'the lovely woman is worn out by divorce' — the caliph returned; he later elegized him 'a caliph none attained what he attained' 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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A poet mentioned by al-Suyuti and al-Mas'udi. When al-Mutawakkil resolved to settle in Damascus, he composed verses warning him against leaving Iraq. Then he changed his mind and returned. He lamented him afterwards in a poem whose opening line is: "A caliph who did not attain what any man attained" 1.

al-Mas'udi reports that he composed verses on the death of al-Muntasir, and that he was one of the Shi'a of the family of Abu Talib 2.

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al-Mutawakkil ala Allah

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al-Mufarraj ibn Sallam's Conquest of Twenty-Four Fortresses· al-Qummi's War on the Buja Lands· Bugha al-Kabir's Pacification of the Armenian March· The Conquest of Barah· Demolition of the tomb of al-Husayn· The Founding of al-Mutawakkiliyya· Christians Bound to Wear the Honey-Coloured Dress· Al-Mutawakkil's resolve to reside in Damascus

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  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 541,544
  2. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 519
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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.