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" This circumstance was the cause of his thorough appreciation of the true spirit of Islam and in after life he would frequently recall it in his prayers, murmuring to himself, "Oh, the gentleness of Allah, who hastens not to punish those who have offended Jlim !" Omar ibn Abdul Aziz ascended the throne in the month of Safar, in the 99th year of the Hegira.
Under their Imam (who, in consequence of the terrible revenge he took upon the Ommayads for the murder of his brother, Ibrahim, received the name of as-Saffab or "the Sanguinary," by which appellation he is known in history), the Abbasids conquered Khorasan, and on the 18th Rabia-as-sani, in the 182nd year of the Hegira {25th November, 740 of the Christian era), Abu'l Abbas Abd• ullah was proclaimed Imam and Khalif of the Muslims.
Marwan fled first to Mosul, then to (I) Before coming to the throne 'Omar ibn 'Abdul 'Aziz had for years borne a conspicuous part in the government of the Muslim Empire-Ed.
Iondhsapur, and between the years 750 and 850 of the Christian era the number of physicians was considerable, among whom the following were the most celebrated:- Georgios (Jorjis)-bin-Bakhtyeshun of Jondshapfir lived at the commencement of the Abbasid dynasty, and was the author of a book on Pandects, and also of a work called Risalatu'l }umjumat (" Treatise on the Skull "), which is now lost.