The Daybul Pirates and the Cry 'ya Hajjaj'

al-Baladhuri relates the story of a ship carrying women who had been sent as a gift to al-Hajjaj by the king of the Island of Yaqut. Men of the Med, from Daybul, intercepted it with warships and took it with all that was on it. One of the women, of Banu Yarbu', cried out: "O Hajjaj!" ^{1 2}

• When al-Hajjaj learned of this, he said: "At your service."
• He sent to Dahir asking him to release the women, and Dahir said that thieves had taken them, whom he could not control.
• al-Hajjaj sent Ubayd Allah ibn Nabhan to attack Daybul, and he was killed.
• Then he wrote to Budayl ibn Tahfa al-Bajali, who was in Oman, ordering him to march on Daybul. His horse bolted with him, and the enemy surrounded him and killed him. Some said that he was killed by the Zutt of al-Budha. ¹

The island was called the Island of Yaqut, as the source relates, for the beauty of its women. ¹

The report carries no date, and so it needs an additional source for dating.