Battle of Fakhkh

Coordinates: 21°27′11.34″N 39°48′24.42″E / 21.4531500°N 39.8067833°E / 21.4531500; 39.8067833

Battle of Fakhkh Part of the Civil wars of the early Caliphates Date 11 June 786 C.E. Location Fakhkh near Mecca Result Abbasid Victory Belligerents Abbasid Caliphate Alids Commanders and leaders Mūsa ibnʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn al-Manṣūr Al-Ḥusayn ibn Al-Ḥasan ibn Al-Ḥasan ibn Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAli ibn Abī Ṭālib † Strength unknown unknown Casualties and losses unknown unknown

Civil wars of the early Caliphates Ridda wars First Fitna Second Fitna Revolt of Ibn al-Ash'ath Revolt of Yazid ibn al-Muhallab Revolt of Harith ibn Surayj Zaydi Revolt Berber Revolt Third Fitna Abbasid Revolution Alid Revolt (762–763) Alid Revolt (786) Qaysi–Yamani war Fourth Fitna Anarchy at Samarra Kharijite Rebellions

The Battle of Fakhkh (Arabic: موقعة فخ‎) on 11 June 786 CE was fought between the forces of the Abbasid Caliphate, under Sulayman ibn Abi Ja'far, one of the sons of Caliph al-Mansur, and the supporters of a pro-Alid rebellion in Mecca under Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of Hasan ibn Ali. The Abbasid army easily crushed the Alid rebellion at the wadi of Fakhkh near Mecca, and Husayn was executed along with many other members of the Alid house. One of the Alids, Idris ibn Abdallah, fled the battlefield to the Maghreb, and established there the Idrisid dynasty.

Sources

• Bosworth, C. E., ed. (1989). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXX: The ʿAbbāsid Caliphate in Equilibrium. The Caliphates of Musa al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid, A.D. 785–809/A.H. 169–193. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. pp. 14–39. ISBN 0-88706-564-3.