Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Posts about Abu Muslim
Ibn Khallikan writes in Wafayāt al-Aʿyān (وفيات الأعيان وأنباء أبناء الزمان), vol. 3, p. 155:
Different opinions were held respecting Abu Muslim's origin : some stated that he was of Arabian descent, others of Persian, and others again of Kurdish. It is in allusion to the last opinion that Abú Dulàma (see vol. I. page 534) said :
O Abu Mujrim! God never replaces by afflictions the favours which he grants to his creatures, unless his creatures misapply them. Ah! thou wouldst meditate treason against the empire of al-Mansur! Is it not true that thy own progenitors, the Kurds, were always a race of traitors? Thou didst menace me with death, Abu Mujrim! but that lion with which thou didst threaten me, has turned upon thyself!"
In these lines Abū Dulāma (d. 778) says that Abu Muslim al-Khurasani was a Kurd.
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Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Despite all that the Kurdish people gave to Islam, they were the biggest losers in the relationship, as the story of Abu Muslim al-Khurasani, who led the Abbasid war against the Umayyads and destroyed the caliphate, shows. The Abbasid Caliph Abu Ja'far al-Mansur killed him because of the reality of the relationship.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
When people differed in the lineage of Abu Muslim, some of them were from the Arabs, some from the foreigners, and some from the Kurds.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Abu Dulama [al-Tawil] says:
Abu Mujrim, God does not change a blessing upon His servant until the servant changes it. Did you attempt treachery during the reign of al-Mansur? Indeed, the people of treachery are your fathers the Kurds, Abu Mujrim. You feared death, so the lion of the rose attacked you with what you feared me with.
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Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
People differed about the lineage of Abu Muslim. It was said that he was from the Arabs, and it was said that he was from the Persians, and it was said that he was from the Kurds. In this regard, Abu Dulamah, who was mentioned earlier, said: “Mulla Abu Mujrim, God does not change a blessing upon His servant until the servant changes it.”
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
It is narrated that he spent some of his days with Rawḥ ibn Ḥātim ibn Qabīṣa al-Muhallabī, but most of them at the court of the caliphs, who treated him as a companion because his anecdotes made them laugh. It is said that no poet gained as much from al-Manṣūr in particular as he did, and that he first earned al-Manṣūr’s rewards by praising him for killing Abū Muslim al-Khurāsānī.
In the poem he says:
“Abū Mujrim, God does not change a blessing upon His servant until the servant changes it. Did you attempt treachery in the reign of the Mahdi? Indeed, the people of treachery are your forefathers, the Kurds.”
In these lines, “the Mahdi” refers to al-Manṣūr.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Abū Dulāma, an Arab poet at the court of al-Manṣūr, wrote a poem about him that traces his origin to the Kurds. According to Abū Dulāma and other writers, the forebears of Abū Muslim al-Khurāsānī were Kurds who lived in Khurasan at the beginning of Islam and before it.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Abū Muslim, leader of the Abbasid call
His name was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muslim. He is said to have been born in the year 100 AH, but accounts of his lineage differ widely. Some said he was from Isfahan, others from Khurasan, and others that he was of Arab descent. He claimed to be a son of Salīṭ ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, while the poet Abū Dulāma attributed him to the Kurds in these verses:
“Abū Mujrim, God does not change a blessing upon His servant until the servant changes it. Did you attempt treachery in the reign of al-Manṣūr? Indeed, the people of treachery are your forefathers, the Kurds. Abū Mujrim, you threatened me with death, and the tawny lion turned on you with what you threatened me with.”
His family’s origin was traced to Idrīs ibn ʿĪsā, the grandfather of Abū Dulaf, who lived on the borders of Isfahan. Abū Jaʿfar had him killed at Rūmiyyat al-Madāʾin in the year 137 AH.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
sufficient to point out here the extraordinary effort made by Abu Muslim al-Khurasani, that Kurdish Muslim who devoted himself to serving the faith and on whose shoulders the foundations of the young Abbasid state were laid and he witnessed its golden age with his own eyes.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
It was said that Abu Muslim was brave, wise, resourceful, decisive, and chivalrous. It was also said that he was a murderer, merciless, and cruel in his whip and sword. He killed six hundred thousand of those known for their patience, in addition to those who were not known and those who were killed in wars and riots. Some of them were asked: Was Abu Muslim better or Al-Hajjaj? He said: I do not say that Abu Muslim is better than anyone, but Al-Hajjaj was worse than him. Some people claimed that Abu Muslim was from a village in Marv. It was also said: He was from the Arabs, heard the hadith and narrated poetry. It was also said that he was a slave. Some poets attributed him to the Kurds when they satirized him. In the year 140 AH, Al-Mansur sent Abdul Wahhab, his nephew Ibrahim bin Muhammad
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Abū Muslim al-Khurāsānī was one of the Kurds of the East, that is, of Iran. Part of the Gutians who lived north of Elam in ancient times belonged to the Gutians who once held the lands from Elam to Mount Amanos near the Mediterranean coast and ruled over that vast area; those who lived in the mountains north of Elam later formed an independent state called Anshan.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Abū Muslim al-Khurāsānī was a Kurd.
“Abū Mujrim, God does not change a blessing upon His servant until the servant changes it. Did you attempt treachery in the reign of al-Manṣūr? Indeed, the people of treachery are your forefathers, the Kurds. Abū Mujrim, you threatened me with death, and the tawny lion turned on you with what you threatened me with.”
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024
Ibn Khalikhan says in (Wafayāt al-Aʿyān وفيات الأعيان وأنباء أبناء الزمان) vol.3 p.155 :
Different opinions were held respecting Abu Muslim's origin : some stated that he was of Arabian descent, others of Persian, and others again of Kurdish. It is in allusion to the last opinion that Abú Dulàma (see vol. I. page 534) said :
O Abu Mujrim! God never replaces by afflictions the favours which he grants to his creatures, unless his creatures misapply them. Ah! thou wouldst meditate treason against the empire of al-Mansur! Is it not true that thy own progenitors, the Kurds, were always a race of traitors? Thou didst menace me with death, Abu Mujrim! but that lion with which thou didst threaten me, has turned upon thyself!"
Abū dulāma (d.778) says that Abu Muslim al Khorasani is Kurdish
Posted by Median Library contributor · 5 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 5 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 5 September 2024
Muhammad Mardokh on Abū Muslim al-Khurāsānī:
Amir ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muslim, known as Abu Muslim Khorasani, was one of the famous generals of Iran and the nobles of Khorasan, from an old Kurdish family of that region, known for his tact, intelligence, competence and courage. Abu Muslim was born in 100 AH. Some historians have said that his lineage was Arab or Persian, but because of the following verses by Abū Dulāma, Ibn Khallikān holds that he was a Kurd:
“Abū Mujrim, God does not change a blessing upon His servant until the servant changes it. Did you attempt treachery in the reign of al-Manṣūr? Indeed, the people of treachery are your forefathers, the Kurds. Abū Mujrim, you threatened me with death, and the tawny lion turned on you with what you threatened me with.”
The late Ustad Rashid Yasimi, in his book on Kurdish history, citing the Shabestan history, wrote: “The accession of Abu al-ʿAbbas al-Saffah to the caliphate, and the obedience of Abu Muslim the Kurd and his army, is further evidence for our claim. Abu Muslim alone provided the means for the Abbasids’ victory and for the downfall of the Umayyads. In a short time he gathered many followers and raised a large army. Although he outwardly fought for the Abbasids, in his heart he wished for the independence of Iran.”
Abu Muslim’s followers adopted black banners because they wore black clothes. They were called “Musawwida”, or “Siyah-jamagan” (the black-clad), and black became the emblem of the Abbasids. Abu Muslim’s power soon grew, and he defeated the last Umayyad caliph, Marwan al-Himar.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 16 September 2024
He placed Abbasi in the caliphate around the year 132 AH) Bani Abbas, after they reached the caliphate, were inwardly afraid of Abu Muslim until Abu Jafar Mansour became the second caliph of Abbasi in the year 137 and according to
Some 136 and some 140 AH. They killed him.
Al-Maarif Farid and Jedi, vol. 5, Tarikh Ibn Khalqan, Egyptian edition, vol. 1, p. 280, Tarikh Gard, Rashid Yasmi Mashahir al-Kurd
Part 2, pp. 17 and 18
Posted by Median Library contributor · 16 September 2024
Kurdish nationalist movement and it's origin and development
By Wadie Jwaideh
Posted by Median Library contributor · 23 September 2024
Ibn Khallikān includes Abū Muslim al-Khurāsānī in his Wafayāt al-Aʿyān (“Deaths of the Eminent”), where he is called Abu Muslim Kurd Khorasani.
Al-Muqaddasī, in Aḥsan al-Taqāsīm fī Maʿrifat al-Aqālīm, written some 1,040 years ago, records thirty-three Kurdish tribes in Fars, and five tribal districts in Fars.
Al-Iṣṭakhrī, writing some 1,080 years ago, said that the families in Fars were too many to count.
Ibn Ḥawqal, writing some 1,047 years ago, named tribes of Fars such as the Khosrowiyya, Shahkaniyya, Istamahriyya, Azarkaniyya, Bandad-Mihriyya, Ramaniyya, Mihrakiyya and Shahwayh. In his description of the mountain lands as far as Hemedan, he speaks of foothills with both cold and warm climates.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 31 October 2024
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”Abu Muslim was portrayed as of Kurdish origin”
Posted by Zagrosian · 12 July 2025