Abu Ishaq Muhammad ibn Harun al-Rashid (Arabic: أبو إسحاق عباس بن هارون الرشيد), better known by his regnal name al-Mu'tasim bi-'llah (Arabic: المعتصم بالله; 794 – January 842) was the eighth Abbasid caliph, ruling from 833 to his death in 842.[1] He succeeded his half-brother al-Ma'mun.
The famous incident related to the capturing of the Muslim Woman by the Christians:
A Muslim woman is
captured, she is imprisoned, and a kaafir slaps her.
She shouts out and cries, ‘O Mu’tasim where are you?’
When she says this, the kaafir laughs at her and says ‘yes, indeed your man Mu’tasim is coming. He’s coming in a black and white horse to save you.’
When this news reached Mu’tasim, he purchased seventeen thousand black and white horses. Mu’tasim dispatches the army, (the commander is Mu’tasim) and they go towards the kuffars land, where the kuffars army is defeated and crushed.
The Muslim woman and the kaafir are brought to Mu’tasim.
Mu’tasim says to the woman, ‘tell this kaafir that Mu’tasim has come on a black and white horse to save you.
She shouts out and cries, ‘O Mu’tasim where are you?’
When she says this, the kaafir laughs at her and says ‘yes, indeed your man Mu’tasim is coming. He’s coming in a black and white horse to save you.’
When this news reached Mu’tasim, he purchased seventeen thousand black and white horses. Mu’tasim dispatches the army, (the commander is Mu’tasim) and they go towards the kuffars land, where the kuffars army is defeated and crushed.
The Muslim woman and the kaafir are brought to Mu’tasim.
Mu’tasim says to the woman, ‘tell this kaafir that Mu’tasim has come on a black and white horse to save you.
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Once a Muslim woman was being teased
by Jews in the Jewish quarter of what was then Byzantium bordering the Muslim
empire. The Jews pulled at her hijab and mocked her in a most ignoble manner.
She cried and wrote to the Caliph addressing him in her letter, "wa Mu'tasimah!" (an emotional plea) and told him of what had happened. When the Caliph heard of this news, he was so outraged he dropped the cup of water he was drinking.
Immediately, Caliph Mu'tasim wrote back to the Roman Emperor of Byzantium, saying:
"Ya kalb ar-Rum! (Oh you Roman dog!) I have an army of men that stretch from where I stand (Baghdad) to where you stand (Constantinople), who love to fight and die as much as your men love to live."
She cried and wrote to the Caliph addressing him in her letter, "wa Mu'tasimah!" (an emotional plea) and told him of what had happened. When the Caliph heard of this news, he was so outraged he dropped the cup of water he was drinking.
Immediately, Caliph Mu'tasim wrote back to the Roman Emperor of Byzantium, saying:
"Ya kalb ar-Rum! (Oh you Roman dog!) I have an army of men that stretch from where I stand (Baghdad) to where you stand (Constantinople), who love to fight and die as much as your men love to live."
Here's another version of the story:
When Byzantines invaded Malatya, lots
of citizens were killed, and there was a woman who had been captured by the
Romans, she screamed "Ya Mo'atasimah" which translates to "O
Mu'tasim", she was asking for help. When the Caliph al-Mu'tasim was told
of what was said by the woman, it is said that he had a cup of water and he
left the cup immediately and commanded to deploy a massive army to retaliate
against the Romans.
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"Wa Mu'tasima!"
[The story that Shaykh Zahīr narrated in his video titled 'Heroes of Islām']
In Ibn Athīr's famous history book al-Kāmil, he mentions the story in our history of al-Mu'tasim, who was from the Banū '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.]MA 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 army 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 Allāh's Messenger ﷺ expelled the Banū Qaynuqa, for humiliating a Muslim woman.
[The story that Shaykh Zahīr narrated in his video titled 'Heroes of Islām']
In Ibn Athīr's famous history book al-Kāmil, he mentions the story in our history of al-Mu'tasim, who was from the Banū '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.]MA 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 army 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 Allāh's Messenger ﷺ expelled the Banū Qaynuqa, for humiliating a Muslim woman.
