a poem organized by a hateful poet, which caused one of the most horrific massacres of Abu al-Abbas the
butcher. As he slaughtered seventy Umayyad princes in one moment. And set up his table
over their corpses and had lunch. Here is the story of the poem that killed the princes of Bani
mother. The author of today's poem is the Shiite poet Sudayf Ibn Maimun Mawla,
Khuza'a. And from a word he knows that he is not of Arab origin, and he is one of the Hejaz poets for
who were contemporaries of the Umayyad and Abbasid states. Spiff did not hide his love
For the Abbasids and his fanaticism for the house. And also his hatred of the Umayyads and his hatred
they are on them. Especially after he was imprisoned by an order from the last ruler of the Umayyads,
Al-Waleed bin Urwa poem . He was the Umayyad governor of Medina. in my
of the era of Caliph Marwan bin Muhammad.” He ordered the poet Sadif to be imprisoned as a punishment for
him. For his constant cursing of the Umayyads. And that flogging every Saturday a hundred lashes
market. Indeed, he used to take him out himself, flog him, and then return him to his prison. Which fueled
hatred of the Umayyads more. This hatred of him was manifested in the incident of
in which he used his poetic firasah. To influence the caliph Abu al-Abbas
. Revenge of the survivors of the Umayyad princes with a poem that caused
with the Umayyad massacre in the palace of the Abbasid caliph, and this is how the scene was.
committed a massacre. Sudif entered the Caliph Abu Al-Abbas the butcher, congratulating the
him with the caliphate and the elimination of the Umayyad state. So he introduced him to himself in advance. He
duties of his obedience and loyalty. In his council, the princes of Banu Umayyah, who came to him, hinted
Caliph and offered him the pledge of allegiance in the hope that they would be forgiven, but
decided this scene. The poet Sudif did not like this, so he improvised a poem addressing Abu al-Abbas, the
he said in some of its verses, “O Imam of the purified from slander, and oh, head of the end
every head you are Mahdi Hashem and her boy how much
Do not tell Abdul Shams stumble and cut every palm and planting. He continued in the meeting,
his provocative words to anger the Caliph and reminding him of the enmity between the
Umayyads and the Abbasids. So he proceeded to complete, I will cut them off, O Caliph, and
with the sword the abomination of the abomination . I remember the death of Hussain and Zaid, and he was killed alongside the
Mahrasi beheaded him. And the dead man who Bahran became equated with strangeness and forgetfulness.
it has offended me, and it was worse for me to be close to Namarq and my chairs. With Al-Hussein mentioning
Zaid and others, the Caliph actually revolted and broke up his council immediately. He said from the sons of the
Umayyah would gather in his council tomorrow, accompanied by their Umayyad master Suleiman bin
Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik al-Umayyad, nicknamed Bab Ghamr, and he was a close friend,
Abu Abbas since the rule of the Umayyads. The Umayyads came the next day in
on time. And Abu al-Abbas Abu Ghamra sat next to him. The poet entered the
guards, Sudif. What hurt him and stirred his jealousy and his deep-seated hatred, so he decided to complete it
what he had started yesterday
Under the ribs there is a sound disease, so put the sword and raise the voice so that you do not see the
on her back. And he continued in this vein and the Caliph recited and filled with thugs
anger. Until Abu Al-Ghamr shouted saying, "May God kill you, won't you be silent?" To get angry at the
Caliph by the screaming of the Umayyads in his council and the silencing of his poet to shout at his angry
in Persian, saying he went, that is, strike and cut off the heads of the Umayyads all, then
looked at their master, Abu Al-Ghamr, and said: There is no good for you after their death, and Al-
and throw him over his people, then order a carpet, so he spread it over them and put his food on a
their bodies, even though some of them were still moaning alive. And when he finished his lunch, he asked for help from the
that the guards would allow them to bury them so that their smell would not disturb him, so he replied that she had an Umayyad
scent more beloved to him than the scent of musk. As for Sadeev, his reward with a thousand is
dirham for his hair? This is how the poem of this hateful poet caused the massacre of
classified among the most horrific massacres committed by Abu al-Abbas, the killer, who
Umayyads. And just as he rebelled against the Umayyads and antagonized them, he came out after the period of the
. What caused his death at the hands of
Caliph Abu Jaafar al-Mansur, who had made a promise to him to kill him, so
betrayed the Abbasids. Do you know someone who is similar to his ability to cause sedition
poet. Have you heard of another massacre caused by a word or poem?