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Conquest of Jur

فتح جور

Jur, Ardashir-Khurra's city, where Harim ibn Hayyan stood — the Muslims besieged it and came away to besiege Istakhr, raiding the countryside as if broken. When Ibn Amir sat before it they fought then fortified, and he took it by the sword in 29h; another telling: raided for years until they entered by a hidden way they held to till the city fell. Ibn Amir also took al-Karyan and Fashjan of Darabjird — neither had joined the Hirbadh's sulh, and both had breached.

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Era: The Rashidun Caliphate
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Overview

Jur is the city of Ardashir Khurra. al-Baladhuri relates that Harim ibn Hayyan was stationed there, and that the Muslims kept attacking it and then withdrawing from it. ¹

The conquest

When Ibn Amir came down before it, they fought him and then fortified themselves. He took it by the sword, by force, in 29 AH. It is related that it had been raided for several years without its being taken, until the Muslims entered the city by a hidden entrance to it. ¹

Ibn Amir also conquered al-Karyan and Fashjan of Darabjird, which had not entered the treaty of al-Hurbadh and had broken it.

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Had participant: Abd Allah ibn Amir· Harim ibn Hayyan al-Abdi
Occurred at: Jur

People and things also explored

the conquest of Khurasan (30 AH)· Conquest of Surraq· Conquest of Tabaristan· The Death of Yazdgard ibn Shahriyar· Digging of the Ubulla Canal· The Forced Taking of Istakhr· The Conquest of Naysabur· The Joint Conquests of Fars

Sources

Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)

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the conquest of Khurasan (30 AH)

Khurasan under 'Abdallah ibn 'Amir with al-Ahnaf ibn Qays in the van: the Tabasayn — Khurasan's gates — and Quhistan bought peace at 600,000 dirhams; al-Aswad ibn Kulthum the ascetic died at Bayhaq's breach and was left unburied by his own wish («raise me from the bellies of beast and bird«); Nishapur was let in at night through a quarter-master's treachery, its grand marzban ransoming all at a million dirhams; Herat a million, Marw 2,200,000. At Tukharistan al-Ahnaf made peace on condition a Muslim enter the fortress, give the adhan there and stay till he marched out — then wrenched the lance from the king of Sughaniyan's hand as he charged.