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The date palm man sold his kingdom for a high price for the sake of peace from the kharaj. This was his opinion, which no wise person saw as ugly, but rather as its brother. So, Uthman continued to scheme against him until he counted all their date palms and compensated each palm annually with one and a half miles, as a punishment for them. He found their necks bound by what was imposed upon them and the offerings of date palms and others, so they paid only one and a half miles annually, which weakened its people. They knew the plague of homelands, but their dirhams did not run out. He had seven units prepared for jihad, equipped with perfection, strength, and weapons. He did not deploy them for any period or environment. For twenty-four years, except for one expedition that was defeated by ease and was in enemy territory, and they rescued those who were captured. His expeditions were for the people, with long spoils and booty, so that no expedition went out except with booty or spoils. And so-and-so returned without booty. Whenever booty was obtained, it went to the treasury and houses, and he gave the leaders what they wanted and did not care about them until their husbands' anger was aroused, and they sought his downfall due to his injustice. Likewise, his great injustice, the like of which was not heard of except from him. When God willed the end of his reign, the seven raiding parties went out for jihad and captured four, with abundant wealth and jewels. This happened many times as usual with them. Their souls were not satisfied with this, but their minds united to depose him. They deposed him on the first day of Sha'ban in the year thirty-three. And all the reason for this was the aforementioned four. For the soldiers who took it were the stationed ones, and he was at sea. However, he gave them five riyals each, otherwise they would besiege him and depose him. When they entered and demanded this, he refused them and gave them one riyal each in their share, and they had a share in which they would divide the spoils according to what they agreed upon in the city, dividing the spoils as some had determined. Before they went out on this expedition, which was the most important, he gave them two riyals each for assistance. When they returned and he wanted to settle with them according to what they had agreed upon, the book's narrator mentioned that he wanted to deceive them with what he had promised them before the expedition, and they were divided by shares. Some had ten, and some had a thousand. Ten of them had eight, and so on. For the owner of ten, eight riyals were given, and for each share, one riyal was given. Some took it, and some refused. He sent to the scribe to take the papers, but he refused to be satisfied with his share and to extend the matter to the sky. And what might make a sign for some of the youth on its cover. And this increased, and the hearts of the soldiers were angered. "My bag is yours, and Rajab Bey, the collector, is yours. His words are their answer. What can they do?" When it was evening of that day, which was Saturday, the twenty-ninth of Rajab in the year thirty-three, one of them sent a pigeon with a cry, with coffee in the Turkish market, and it was crowded.