> "Wa Mu'tasima!"

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"Wa Mu'tasima!"


In Ibn Atheer's famous history book Al Kaamil, he mentions the story in our history of a King called Al Mu'tasim, who was from the Banu Abbas.



The event goes like this;

A Muslim woman was captured by the Romans and imprisoned, so the Romans laughed at her. The leader of the Roman king sarcastically said, "You won't ever leave this place until the muslim king himself removes you from these shackles." The woman shouted "Wa Mu'tasima!" (Oh my grief, Mu'tasima!).

The Roman King laughed at her and said : "He will never come to save you unless he was riding "ablaq" (a kind of horse that is colored with black and white). (he said this in a way of mocking her and showing the impossibility of the situation.)


A Muslim man who was in the land of the Romans heard the woman call out the Muslim kings name, he found out she was Muslim. So he ran to the Muslims and told them about what he had heard.


When Al Mu'tasim heard of the news, he gathered a whole army, and said the famous quote "When the first person of my army reaches the land of the Romans, the last of my army will have left us (i.e. the Muslim barracks)." He made the entire armyl ride the "ablaq" horses. So they set off, and he went with them on his black and white horse too.

When they reached there, he took control of the area, captured it and himself entered the prison where the Muslim woman had been imprisoned.


"Who are you?" she said.

"I am al-Mu'tasim." He freed her from her shackles, a sign of humiliation for the Romans.


Al Mu'tasim took over the land where this occurred, because they had waged war against the believers by humiliating a Muslim woman. Just like Allah's Messenger expelled the Banu Qaynuqa, for humiliating a Muslim woman.

[Assad]

SubhanAllah! What a touching story and the show of courage by the pious Muslim Kings of the past!

Bro I dont understand this statement which he said:

"When the first person of my army reaches the Romans, the last of my army will have left us.

What did he meant by that?

[Qatada]

asalam alykum

He meant that when the first muslim soldier enters the land of the romans, the last one will have left from the muslim army barracks (like where the soldiers live) or maybe his castle. allahu a'lam.

[Ibn Al Akwa]

Wa 'Alaykum as-Salaam

Famous story, im curious bro, is that the actual translation of the text in Ibn Atheer's book? Or is it a summarised version?

[Qatada]

asalam alykum

Just a summary of the story.

[Raied]

wow. very good post bro.

[Aayah]

Amazing story, I remember they taught us that story since we were in the primary school. We really in a dire need for another Mu'tasim these days.

about the story, I dont know what is the translation you used brother, but just to add something from the story I knew:

when the woman shouted Wa Mu'tasima, the Roman King laughed at her and said : "he will never come to save you unless he was riding "ablaq" (a kind of horses that is colored with black and white)-----> that was a kind of mocking from the Roman of king to say that Al Mu'tasim will never hear about that woman and will never come to save her.

After Al Mu'tasim heard that, he prepared an army of 4000 soliders and all of them riding the "ablaq" that kind of horses that the Roman King mention------> as a kind of challenging the Roman King.

Subhan Allah look at the real courage of the Muslim Men !!!

Jazak Allah khair for posting brother.

[Umm Sufyaan]

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jazakallahu khair!

[abdulrahman al muhajir]

is it possible to get the full version?