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Al‐Mansur said to him: "O Hajjajj, surely Ibrahim has come to know my rough side, my difficult
direction, and my coarse horn. He has been encouraged to walk towards me from Basrah by these
countries neighboring the troops of the Commander of the faithful; the people of Iraq have
agreed with him on opposition and disobedience to me. I have shot each country with its own
stone and every district with its own arrow. I have sent to them a noble, blessed, victorious one,
'Isa b. Musa along with many troops and equipment. I have sought help from Allah against him
(Ibrahim) and regarded Him as sufficient to him, for surely the Commander of the faithful has
neither strength nor force except through Him."
When Ibrahim had troops supplied with numbers and equipment, he decided to go to war against
al‐Mansur. However, his companions from Basrah advised him to stay in Basrah and to send the
troops; if they had escaped, he would have reinforced them with other than them. Some people
from Kufa said: "Surely there are many groups of people in Kufa. If they saw you, they would die
before you; and if they did not see you, many reasons would hold them back (from fighting)." As
for Ibrahim, he responded to the viewpoint of the Kufans. As a result he himself headed for al‐
Mansur to war against him. If he had stayed in Basrah, he would have overcome those events and
won a victory.
Al‐Mansur sent an army of fifty thousand fighters to battle against Ibrahim. He appointed 'Isa b.
Musa, his crown prince, as a command‐in‐chief over the army and appointed Hemid b. Qahtaba as
commander over its vanguard. He said to him when he saw him off: "Surely these wicked people
(the ast3rs) claim that when you meet Ibrahim, your companions will wander about one time in
order to find him, then they will come to, and the final result will be yours."
Ibrahim along with his troops covered the desert; he was heard reciting al‐Qatami's poetry lines:
If a wise man manage the affairs, then Whayb will end what he can do.
The disobedience to the one who is compassionate to you is of that which increases you in
strength when you hear from him.
The best of things is that which you receive from him, and not that you follow him with following.
But when the leather is cut, is won‐out and defective, so artisans are overcome.[1]
[1] Al‐Kamil, vol. 5, p. 18.
This indicates that he repented of his walking (towards al‐Mansur), for he came to know that if
had stayed in Basrah, it would have been better for him. Then he along with his troops headed for
Bakhimra, and not for Kufa lest the honors should be violated and the children should be killed.
Some people advised him to walk towards Kufa, for it would be more guaranteed, but he did not
respond to them out of fear of what we have mentioned.
The fire of the war broke out between the two sides, and al‐Mansur's army was defeated and its
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