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

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 30: The ʿAbbāsid Caliphate in Equilibrium: The Caliphates of Mūsā al-Hādī and Hārūn al-Rashīd, A.D. 785–809/A.H. 169–192. SUNY series in Near Eastern studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. pp. 14–39. ISBN 978-0-88706-564-4.