Hamza bin Yusef Al-Sahmi and writing the history of Gorgan A historical study

Abstract

The city of “Gorgan” is one of the most important and oldest cities in Iran, in which he appeared at an earlier time in the eras of cities that witnessed fluctuations and developments in the heart of Islamic history. The reader is pleased once and sad again. It is appropriate, and with different centuries, of a generation of scholars, jurists, literati, saints and knowledgeable poets, and it is that scholars, jurisprudents and literati. We know a small amount of this ancient city in Islamic science and culture, to which many are attributed to it.

Al-Sehmi is considered a model for local religious history books, because in addition to mentioning the city, its plans and architecture, Al-Sahmi was interested in mentioning translations from the narrators of knowledge, especially the men of hadith. The book is divided into 14 parts, in which it is mentioned Fatah Jarjan and its companions and followers who entered it, a chapter on the lineage of Yazid bin Al-Muhallab Fatih Jarjan and his sons, his honor and his news, and he mentioned the workers of the Umayyad and Abbasid states, and the plans of the mosques, and after that he proceeded to the translations arranged in the letters of the dictionary according to the first letter of The name only, then he mentioned the biographies of those known by their surname, then the biographies of women, and afterwards he included a chapter in the lineage that ends with the word al-Jarjani.

Al-Sahmi's authorship of the book is what was popular during the third and fourth centuries AH, the ninth and tenth centuries CE, where historians of regions and cities followed the approach of pride, which sometimes reached the point of fanaticism for the city or region, just as the writing of local books became a systematic phenomenon necessary to satisfy a national or regional tendency, It was expressed by Al-Sahami fanatically for the city or region. Al-Sahmi is distinguished for being one of the encyclopedic historians, as he looked at the entire Gorgan region with its suburbs and suburbs, and Gorgan is located between Tabaristan and Khorasan in the south of the Khazar or Caspian Sea. What is taken against al-Sahami is that he did not give information about the history of Jarjan before Islam, its kings, nor about its religious, social, economic and political conditions, as did other historians of cities and regions, when he entered directly in the history of the conquest of Gorgan and then gave a description of the conquest that took place through reconciliation and payment of tribute and safety To her family