Ibn Bishr on the wealth of the Fad’aan

The Najdi chronicler Ibn Bishr had this to say under the year 1229 Hijri (1814-15) the year of the death of the Wahhabi leader Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz:

As to the number of agents he [Saud] would send to collect taxes in camels and sheep from the Bedouins of the Peninsula of the Arabs [living] beyond the two Holy Shrines [Mecca and Medina], Oman, Yemen, Iraq and Sham, and also from the Bedouins of Najd between these [lands], one of his [Saud’s] retinue, who later became a scribe for him, told me that the agents he [Saud] had sent to the Fad’aan, the well-known ‘Anazah Bedouins, [once] came back with their tax receipts, which amounted to forty thousand rials, not counting the revenues of the tax collectors, and eight mares of the choice horses, while the revenue collected by these agents [from other Bedouin tribes] did not normally exceed 2,500 to 3,000 riyals.

8 Replies to “Ibn Bishr on the wealth of the Fad’aan”

  1. Very interesting. The Sauds will not have succeeded in buying Nawal al kheir, the paternal grandmother of my stallion Hussam Shamal. It would have been a wonderful acquisition for the Sauds because in addition to being keiheilan al Mussinah one of the last mares to be born in the desert. When would they have done it? nothing is known about what their breeding policy was or is.

  2. Yes, Ibn Bishr, Ibn Ghannam, Al-Bassam (the Najdi masterpiece), and Suleiman Al-Najdi (Al-Dakhil). All of these shaped Najdi history and the Wahhabi movement. Among the events mentioned by Ibn Bishr in his manuscript is that in the year 1262 AH, 1845 AD, the killing of Falah bin Mani’ bin Hathlin, the father of Rakan bin Hathlin, ownership of Al-Dahm athidaat Al-Badan, and the armed robbery he committed Falah bin Mani’ bin Hathlin against One of the caravans coming for Hajj . Otherwise, essentially the one who carried out this action, his brother Hizam bin Mani’ bin Hathlin, mentioned Also in Abbas Pasha’s manuscript regarding the subject al- duhamm. Ibn Bishr also mentioned Ghasab bin Sharaan Al-Otaibi, who was assassinated at the beginning of or shortly before the fall of Diriyah under the leadership of Ibrahim Pasha in the year 1233 AH, 1818 AD. He was also mentioned by Khalid bin Hasher bin Warik Al Asim Al Qahtani in the Abbas Pasha manuscript in relation to Al-Dahham Al-Najib. Ibn Bishr also mentioned regarding the events of the entry of Abdulaziz bin Muhammad bin Saud and some of the Banu Khalid and the sabaa from Anza and some of al Rulaa, including hadhud bin Qadran, intoaa Karbala/Iraq in the year 1216 AH 1802. These events were mentioned in the manuscript of Abbas Pasha in relation to the subject of the Saqlawiyaha’t of ibn Sudan.

      1. You mean regarding Al-Saqlawiyya Ibn Sudan on page 82.. righat?

        The day the mare was inseminated, ibn Saud has doing, and The Arban gathered( day of al Arban) with Al-Shtewi Abu Adbi, and invaded Deirat Al-Husseini, Al-Mashhad, Iraq…etc.

        If If you mean abut this story.. It occurred in the year 1802 during the time of Abdulaziz bin Muhammad bin Saud, the second ruler of the first Saudi state.

        1. Yes, page 82 about the daughter of the mare of Hadhud, when Abd al Aziz raided Karbala and Najaf (previous called Mashhad). But I don’t believe that this is the same war as the war called al-Arban (you will see a reference in the manuscript of the day of al Arban IN NAJD). The mysterious battle known as al-Arban took place in Najd, and I think it was earlier than 1802.

          1. Read the book Encyclopedia of the History of Iraq between Two Occupations and you will find the truth of what I say. This is considered black history for the Iraqis, especially the Shiites, and white history for the Najdis, when Ibn Saud and his Arabs from Najd took control of
            ، Karbala out of geographical expansion,
            In retaliation for what he did
            which led one of the Shiite Kurds to assassinate him in the Turaif Mosque in Diriyah in Riyadh in the year 1803. In retaliation for what he did about a year ago.

            Naturally, revenge came for the year before that, specifically the year 1802 in the eighteenth century.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abdulaziz_bin_Muhammad_Al_Saud&diffonly=true

            https://archive.org/details/01-1_20201123_202011

            1. You misunderstood me. I agree that the story mentioned by Shtaywi of the Sbaa in the APM took place around the time of the Wahhabi raid on Karbala and Najaf, so 1802. I agree with you on that.

              But I think there was another war called yawm al-Arban in Najd and i think this was was before that.

  3. For Noticed : Ibrahim passha*
    He is Ibrahim bin Muhammad bin Ali Pasha (1789-1848) who eliminated the first Saudi state and Prince Abdullah Ibn Saud, the last ruler of the first Saudi state, before power passed to Faisal bin Turki, ruler of Najd in the second Saudi state.

    It was also mentioned in all Najdi manuscripts and sources, such as Ibn Bishr, Al-Ghanam, Al-Basam, and many others, and it was mentioned in many foreign Arab sources.

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