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al‐Mansur, saying to him:
‐Let me stay (alive) for your enemy!
‐Which enemy is more hostile than you?
The swords took Abu Muslim while he was saying: "Pardon me! Pardon me! Pardon me!"
The people finished him off, so al‐Mansur improvised:
You claimed that the debt would not be repaid!
So take your share in full through the measure, O Abu Muslim!
You were watered out of a glass out of which you watered (the people), and that was in the
mouth bitterer than colocynth![1]
Then he ordered his corpse to be thrown into the Tigris, and it was thrown into it.[2] Through that
Abu Muslim's lifetime was treacherously folded at the hand of al‐Mansur; and through that Abu
Muslim lost the affair of his life in this world and the next; and that is the very clear loss!
2. 'Abd Allah b. 'Ali
Al‐Mansur gave security to his uncle 'Abd Allah b. 'Ali and decided not to assassinate him due to
the fact that he revolted against him. However, he broke his promise. He summoned his crown
prince 'Isa b. 'Ali and said to him: "Keep 'Abd Allah b. 'Ali until I return from the hajj. Do not
oppress him. That is because he is my uncle and brother of the present from among the Shaykhs
of your household." Then he secretly summoned him and said to him: "O 'Isa, surly this (i.e., 'Abd
Allah b. 'Ali) intended to remove the caliphate from you and me. You are my crown prince; you
will undertake the caliphate, so take him and cut off his head. Beware of that you be calm and
weak lest you should oppose the affair I have schemed." Then he went to Mecca.[3]
'Isa consulted his secretary, Yunus b. Abi Farwa, and informed him of the affair,
[1] Ibn al‐Athir, Tarikh, vol. 4, p. 355.
[2] Al‐Ya'qubi, Tarikh, vol. 2, p. 399.
[3] Al‐Tabari, Tarikh, vol. 6, p. 266.
and he said to him: "Surely this man has openly handed over his uncle to you before his relatives,
while he has secretly commanded you to kill him. He intends to kill him at your hand, and then he
will condemned you for killing him and kill you. I think that you have to hide him in your house
and tell none about his affair, that you have to send someone to al‐Mansur to tell him that you
have killed him. If he demand you him openly, then you hand him over to him openly. Beware of
that you bring him secretly."[1]
'Isa did that and made public among the 'Abbasids that he had killed him. When al‐Mansur came
back from Mecca, the 'Abbasids went to him. They talked with him about the affair of his uncle,
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