مقتل قتيبة بن مسلم

مقتل قتيبة بن مسلم

96 ھ

In 96 Tabari records the killing of Qutayba ibn Muslim in Khurasan. He says the cause was al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik's effort to make his son Abd al-Aziz heir, so he secretly won over commanders and poets against Qutayba ¹. Earlier Tabari had recorded Qutayba's conquest of Kashgar and his campaign into China ². The book says Qutayba renounced obedience to Sulayman after the death of al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik, that the letter of appointment from Sulayman reached him after he had rebelled, and that Waki' ibn Hassan and his companions killed him in Dhu'l-Hijja of 96 AH. It comments that he died a jahili death in rebellion, but that he had good deeds for which pardon may be hoped ³.