Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

And another said:
تالله ما فعلت علوج أمية
معشار ما فعلت بنو العباس
By Allah the gruff Umayyads did not do a tenth of what the Abbasids are
doing. 1
The conclusion of the aforementioned discussion is the following two things:
1.
Amiable relationship was the default nature between the Alawids and the
Abbasids, even in the eras in which there were multiple clashes between
them. For example, when Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr, who was considered to
be the harshest to them when he clashed with them, performed Ḥajj in
140 A.H he distributed huge sums of money to the Alawids 2 and he also
pardoned one of the revolutionists after Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq interceded for
him. 3
Likewise al-Rashīd would also not delay in settling the debts of the Alawids
who sought assistance from him as big as they might have been. But at the
same time he would fight the revolutionists and subdue them. 4
2.
The struggle between them was due to worldly matters, for in essence it
revolved around seeking rulership.
2. Ideological clashes
The Abbasids had learnt from the very beginning the importance of an ideological
clash and the impact it might have in supporting their viewpoint and grounding
them, similar to what had transpired with the Umayyads before them.
1 I don’t know who said this. See: Simṭ al-Nujūm al-ʿAwālī 3/362; al-Darajāt al-Rafīʿah p. 8.
2 Al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh 5/140.
3 Simṭ al-Nujūm al-ʿAwālī 4/141.
4 Al-Muntaẓam 9/210.
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