سليمان بن عبد الملك
بنو امیہ کے ساتویں خلیفہ (96 سے 99ھ/715 سے 717ء)، عبد الملک بن مروان کے بیٹے۔ اسلامی انسائیکلوپیڈیا کے مطابق وہ غالباً مدینہ میں تقریباً 55ھ میں پیدا ہوئے، ولید کے دور میں جند فلسطین کے والی رہے اور 96ھ میں بلا مزاحمت تخت نشین ہوئے۔ ان کے دور میں قسطنطنیہ کے خلاف عظیم مہم ہوئی جو ناکام محاصرے پر ختم ہوئی، اور ان کی وفات دابق میں 99ھ میں ہوئی.
عہد · اموی خلافت · سلسلے میں نمبر 7 · 715–717ء
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اموی مسجدِ اقصیٰ، ولید اول کے عہد میں تکمیل کو پہنچی
بیت المقدس کی اموی مسجد ستونوں والی بڑی مسجدوں کی طرز پر بنی: قبلہ کے عرض میں کئی رواق اور وسط میں گنبدِ صخرہ کے محور پر ایک چوڑا راستہ؛ پرانا تعمیراتی سامان دوبارہ استعمال ہوا اور مسجد یا تو نئے سرے سے بنائی گئی یا ولید بن عبدالملک کے عہد میں مکمل ہوئی ؛ مقدسی کے مطابق عبدالملک نے پہلی بنیاد پر تعمیر کی ۔ یہ شہر کی جامع مسجد اور پورے حرم کا چھتا ہوا حصہ تھی۔
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تأسيس الرملة
In al-Baladhuri: al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik gave his brother Sulayman command of the Filastin jund, and he settled at Lydda then founded the city of al-Ramla and made it an amsar — the first thing he built being his palace and the house known as Dar al-Sabbaghin with a central cistern, then he laid out the mosque's plan and built it, taking the caliphate before completing it and finishing it in his reign, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz completing it while reducing the plan, saying 'the people of al-Ramla are content with this measure'; when Sulayman built for himself he gave people leave to build and they did, digging the canal called Barada and wells for them, a Christian clerk of Lydda named al-Batriq ibn al-Nakka overseeing the expenditure on the works and the congregational mosque; the city of al-Ramla did not exist before Sulayman, its site being a sandy tract; the Umayyads spent on its wells and canal after him, then the Abbasids did likewise, the charge issuing yearly from caliph to caliph until al-Mu'tasim entered it in the register, whence it became a standing annuity reckoned to the claimants.
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ولاية الجرّاح بن عبد الله على أرمينية
In al-Baladhuri: Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik gave Armenia to Adi ibn Adi ibn Amira al-Kindi — Adi ibn Amira being one of those who settled al-Raqqa having parted with Ali ibn Abi Talib — then Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz appointed him, he being the owner of the Nahr Adi at al-Baylaqan, though some say Umar's governor was Hatim ibn al-Nu'man, which is unsound; then Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik appointed Mi'laq ibn Saffar al-Bahrani, removed him for al-Harith ibn Amr al-Ta'i, who raided the Lakz and took Rustaq Hamsadan; and al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami of Mudhhij governed Armenia, settling at Bardha'a, where its conflicting measures and weights were laid before him and he set them on justice and fulness, making a measure called al-Jarrahi which its people deal by to this day; then he crossed the Kurr and marched until he passed the river called al-Samur, reaching the Khazars and killing them in a great slaughter, and fought the people of Bilad Hamzin, then compounded with them to transfer them to a rustaq.