the city of Aleppo and tried to drive them out of their city. The Hâshim tribe of the people of Aleppo wrote to all the Arab tribes of the vicinity asking for help. The first to come to their support and aid was al-ʿAbbâs ibn-Zufar ibn-ʿÂṣim al-Hilâli (according to his maternal pedigree, because umm-ʿAbdallâh ibn-al-ʿAbbâs was Lubâbah, daughter of al-Ḥârith ibn-Ḥazn ibn-Bujair ibn-al-Huzam of the Hilâl tribe). The people of that Ḥâḍir could not resist this al-ʿAbbâs and his men. They were therefore expelled from their Ḥâḍir, and that at the time of the insurrection of Muḥammad ibn-ar-Rashîd; and their Ḥâḍir was destroyed. They moved to Ḳinnasrîn whose people met them with food and clothing. No sooner had they entered the city, than they attempted to subjugate it and were therefore driven out. Thus they were dispersed over the land, some settling in Takrît (whom I myself have seen) and others in Armenia and various other regions.
Al-ʿAbbâs ibn-Zufar in Aleppo. I was told by al-Mutawakkil that he heard a sheikh of the banu-Ṣâliḥ ibn-ʿAli ibn-ʿAbdallâh ibn-ʿAbbâs say to al-Muʿtaṣim, in the year in which the latter invaded 'Ammûrîyah',[1] that when al-ʿAbbâs ibn-Zufar al-Hilâli arrived in Aleppo for the support of the Hashimites, some of their women called him saying, "Our hope, uncle, is in Allah and in thee!" To this al-ʿAbbâs answered, "There is no danger, if it be the will of Allah; may Allah disappoint me, if I should disappoint you!"
Ḥiyâr bani-l-Ḳaʿḳâʿ. Ḥiyâr bani-l-Ḳaʿḳâ was a well-known town in pre-Islamic time. In it was the stopping place of al-Mundhir ibn-Mâʾ as-Samâʾ al-Lakhmi, the king of al-Ḥîrah. It was also settled by the banu-l-Ḳaʿḳâʿ ibn-Khulaid … ibn-Baghîḍ, who chose it for their abode and after whom it was thus called.
- ↑ Mushtarik, p. 317; Yâḳût, vol. iii, p. 730.
