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Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib's Raid on Sus and the Sudan Lands

غزوة عبد الرحمن بن حبيب للسوس وأرض السودان

between 720 and 741 CE

al-Sus al-Aqsa

In al-Baladhuri: Abdallah ibn al-Habhab, mawla of Banu Salul, was employed over Ifriqiya, and he sent raiding Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib ibn Abi Ubayda ibn Uqba ibn Nafi' al-Fihri to Sus and the Sudan lands — he triumphed as none had ever seen, taking among their women two girls each with but a single breast, they being called Tarajan — a copy's margin noting them of a race called al-Barbarwajan.

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Era
The Umayyad Period
Region
Maghreb
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · The Umayyad Period

Overview

al-Baladhuri reports that Abd Allah ibn al-Habhab, a client of the Banu Salul, when he was appointed over Ifriqiya, sent Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri on a raid to al-Sus and the land of the Sudan. 1

The victory

al-Baladhuri says he gained a victory such as no one had seen. He took two women of that land, whom they called "Tarajan". In a marginal note in one copy, they are said to be of a people called "Barbarwajan". 1

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Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri· Abdallah ibn al-Habhab
Occurred at
al-Sus al-Aqsa

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Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib's Independent Rule of the Maghreb Frontier· The Paderborn Plot and Charlemagne's Campaign against al-Andalus· حبيب بن عبد الرحمن الفهري· إلياس بن حبيب· Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri· Abdallah ibn al-Habhab· al-Sus al-Aqsa

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p. 324
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib's Independent Rule of the Maghreb Frontier

In al-Baladhuri: when al-Walid ibn Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik rose, Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri opposed him — beloved in that frontier for his grandfather Uqba ibn Nafi's traces there — and prevailed over it, Hanzala withdrawing; Yazid ibn al-Walid sent no governor to the Maghreb, and when Marwan ibn Muhammad rose, Abd al-Rahman corresponded with him, showed obedience and sent gifts — his scribe being Khalid ibn Rabi'a al-Ifriqi, between whom and Abd al-Hamid ibn Yahya ran friendship and letters — so Marwan confirmed him over the frontier; then Ilyas ibn Habib ruled after him, then Habib ibn Abd al-Rahman, then the Berbers and the Ibadis of the Khawarij prevailed.