abortive uprising
... that when the Alid Muhammad the Pure Soul launched his abortive uprising against the Abbasids, Caliph al-Mansur is said to have remarked that at last he had "enticed the fox out of his hole"?
... that when the <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Alid" id="mwBn8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alid">Alid</a> <a href="./Muhammad_al-Nafs_al-Zakiyya" id="mwBoA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya">Muhammad the Pure Soul</a> launched his <b id="mwBoE"><a class="mw-redirect" href="./Alid_Revolt_(762–763)" id="mwBoI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alid Revolt (762–763)">abortive uprising</a></b> against the <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Abbasids" id="mwBoM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Abbasids">Abbasids</a>, Caliph <a href="./Al-Mansur" id="mwBoQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Al-Mansur">al-Mansur</a> is said to have remarked that at last he had "enticed the fox out of his hole"?