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The name of Qāsim.

Al-Mutawakkil appointed Ṭarīma bin Naṣr. In the year Al-Libbī. And in the following year, bin Hurka. He replaced him with Ishmael bin Al-Mutawakkil. In the year Al-Armanī in the second. And in his year, and in that year, Ḥātim bin Hurma was replaced by ʿAlī bin.

This was replaced by Isḥāq bin Yaḥyā Al-Jabalī. And in the era of the Caliphate after his father, Al-Muntasir. After him, his second son, Al-Muʿizz billāh, and after him, his third son, Al-Muʾayyad billāh. He divided his kingdom.

He appointed Al-Muntasir over Africa and all of the Maghreb from Al-ʿArīsh to the furthest borders of the Maghreb, including Egypt. He also added Qinnasrīn, Ṣūdā, and between the two rivers, Diyār Bakr, Mosul, and all the lands through which the Tigris flows, Mecca, Medina, and ʿAdan, and Ḥaḍramawt, Al-Baḥrayn, Sindh, and all of Iraq, and Kufa, and all its dependencies. He appointed Al-Muntasir over Khurasan, Tabaristan, Fars, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. He appointed Al-Muʾayyad over Damascus, Hims, Jordan, and Palestine. As for Al-Muntasir, he was not satisfied with what was divided for him and coveted the Caliphate.

before his father's death, so he began to plot to depose him. He appointed ʿAbd ʿUmar over Egypt. In the year Al-Wāḥid bin Yaḥyā. And in the year And in the year, Al-Mutawakkil ordered the construction of a fortress in the city of Farama and fortresses. ʿAnasa bin Isḥāq. And in the year another year in Damietta and Tinnis. ʿAnasa was in charge of their construction and spent vast sums of money as a defense against the raids of the Romans. However, they had barely fortified themselves when the Romans attacked Damietta and conquered it, killing many Muslims, and taking captive women, children, and dhimmis. When this news reached ʿAnasa, he mounted his horse on the day of sacrifice with his army, and many people fled. They informed him that the Romans had marched to Tinnis and fortified themselves in Al-Ashmūm. ʿAnasa did not pursue them. Yaḥyā bin Al-Faḍl wrote to the Caliph Al-Mutawakkil billāh a letter containing these verses: "Do you accept that your people are plundered and destroyed? And that Tinnis is taken before our very eyes, and the Romans are close to Damietta, and the Romans are still in Al-Ashmūm, doing as they did to Damietta, and the war is arranged.

So, from Damietta, not an inch, and I do not know from helplessness what to do and what to avoid.

So do not delay, for we are in a lost land, and the enemy is about to be lost."

In the year, Al-Muntasir marched to his father in Samarra and began to spread rumors and conspire with the corrupt against his father. He appointed Yazīd bin ʿAbd Allāh as his successor over Egypt. In the year Yazīd bin ʿAbd Allāh went to Damietta to guard it, then he departed before the arrival of the Romans in Farama. He was stationed at the Nile gauge on the island of Rawḍa. It had fallen and he did not meet them. In the year 85117.

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