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The Conquest of Andalusia
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him to the extremity of the land of the Berbers, where he built a city which he called al-ʿAbbâsîyah. Abu-Ḥâtim as-Saddarâti-l-Ibâḍi (one of the inhabitants of Saddarâtah and a freedman of the Kindah) fought against Hizârmard; and the latter suffered martyrdom together with some members of his family. The frontier region broke out in revolt, and the city he had established was destroyed.

Hizârmard was succeeded by Yazîd ibn-Ḥâtim ibn-Ḳabîṣah ibn-al-Muhallab,[1] who rebelled at the head of 50,000 men and was accompanied to Jerusalem by abu-Jaʿfar al-Manṣûr who spent large sums of money on him. Yazîd advanced until he met abu-Ḥâtim in Tripoli [Ar. Aṭrâbulus]. He killed him and made his entrance to Ifrîḳiyah, where everything went smoothly with him.

Yazîd ibn-Ḥâtim was succeeded by Rauḥ ibn-Ḥâtim, and the latter by al-Faḍl ibn-Rauḥ, who was slain by the troops that rose up against him.

I was informed by Ahmad ibn-Nâḳid, a freedman of the banu-l-Aghlab, that al-Aghlab ibn-Sâlim at-Tamimi,[2] of Maru ar-Rûdh,[3] was among those who came from Khurâsân with al-Musauwidah.[4] Al-Aghlab was appointed by Mûsa-l-Hâdi governor of al-Maghrib. When al-Aghlab came to Ḳairawân Ifrîḳiyah, Ḥarîsh, who was once in the army of the frontier region of Tûnis, gathered a body of men, with whom he marched against him and besieged him. Al-Aghlab later made a sortie, and in the battle which followed was hit by an arrow and fell dead. Neither his followers nor those of Ḥarîsh knew of it. At last Ḥarîsh

  1. Kindi, pp. 111–117.
  2. Ibid., p. 110.
  3. Hamadhâni, Buldân, pp. 319–322.
  4. The partisans of the Abbasid dynasty, so called because they wore black clothes.