مسير صاحب الزنج إلى البصرة

مسير صاحب الزنج إلى البصرة

255 ھ

In 255 the Zanj leader emerged on the Furat of Basra in Shawwal and gathered to him the Zanj who had been clearing the salt flats ¹. Elsewhere al-Tabari gives his arrival in Basra as 254 ²; al-Suyuti has the fighting with the Zanj run from the accession of al-Mu'tamid in the year fifty-six until the year seventy, when the Zanj chief was killed ³. According to al-Mas'udi his emergence was at Bi'r Nakhl in Madinat al-Fath and Karkh of Basra, on the night of Thursday three nights before the end of Ramadan, in the year 255, in the caliphate of al-Muhtadi ⁴