Sarjun b. Mansur al-Rumi

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Sarjūn b. Mansūr al-Rumī (Arabic: سَرْجُون بن منصور الرومي) (d. 86/705) was one of the advisors of both Mu'awiya b. Abi Sufyan and Yazid b. Mu'awiya. When people of Kufa pledged allegiance to Muslim b. 'Aqil, it was on Sarjun’s advice that Yazid appointed 'Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad as the governor of Kufa in order to suppress them.

Sarjun was a Levantine Christian[1] and a servant of Mu'awiya.[2] He was his scribe[3] and advisor in governmental affairs,[4] also in charge of recording the tax records (diwan al-kharaj).[5] After the death of Mu'awiya, Sarjun kept functioning in the court of Yazid b. Mu'awiya.[6] Some believe that he and Akhtal al-Nasrani (Akhtal the Christian) were Yazid’s close servants at the time of drinking wine.[7] When people of Kufa pledged allegiance to Muslim b. 'Aqil, it was on Sarjun’s advice that Yazid appointed 'Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad as the governor of Kufa in order to suppress them.[8] Sarjun showed Yazid a note from Mu'awiya and said, “on his deathbed, Mu'awiya wrote this note that if there was a rebellion in Kufa, 'Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad should be appointed as its governor.”[9]

During the region of Marwan b. Hakam and his son, 'Abd al-Malik b. Marwan, Sarjun worked as a scribe; however, 'Abd al-Malik dismissed him as he failed in performing the task.[10] It is said that he was the scribe of the public treasure (bayt al-mal) during the reign of 'Abd al-Malik b. Marwan.[11] He died in 86/705.[12]

Notes

  1. ↑ Masʿūdī, al-Tanbīh wa al-ishrāf, p. 265.
  2. ↑ Balādhurī, Ansāb al-ashrāf, vol. 5, p. 159, 288; Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk, vol. 5, p. 356; Mufīd, al-Irshād, vol. 2, p. 42.
  3. ↑ Balādhurī, Ansāb al-ashrāf, vol. 5, p. 159.
  4. ↑ Ibn Kathīr, al-Bidāya wa l-nihāya, vol. 8, p. 146.
  5. ↑ Khalīfa b. Khayyāṭ. Tārīkh, p. 141; Masʿūdī, al-Tanbīh wa al-ishrāf, p. 261.
  6. ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk, vol. 5, p. 348; Balādhurī, Ansāb al-ashrāf, vol. 5, p. 354, 379.
  7. ↑ Abu l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī, al-ʾAghānī, vol. 17, p. 4.
  8. ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk, vol. 5, p. 356; Mufīd, al-Irshād, vol. 2, p. 42; Balādhurī, Ansāb al-ashrāf, vol. 5, p. 379.
  9. ↑ Balādhurī, Ansāb al-ashrāf, vol. 5, p. 379; Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk, vol. 5, p. 356.
  10. ↑ Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih, al-ʿIqd al-farīd, vol. 4, p. 252.
  11. ↑ Balādhurī, Ansāb al-ashrāf, vol. 7, p. 222
  12. ↑ Khalīfa b. Khayyāṭ. Tārīkh, p. 189.

References

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  • Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih, Aḥmad Muḥammad. Al-ʿIqd al-farīd. Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 1407 AH/1987.
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