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Amr's Four Lieutenants Carry the Fustat Terms through Egypt

توجيهات عمرو الأربعة لقرى مصر

c. 20 AH

Ayn Shams → Al-Fayyum → Tinnis → Damietta

In al-Baladhuri, from a group who witnessed Egypt's conquest: when Amr ibn al-As (may God be pleased with him) took al-Fustat he sent Abdallah ibn Hudhafa al-Sahmi to Ayn Shams, who gained its land and compounded its villages on Fustat's terms; sent Kharija ibn Hudhafa al-Adawi to al-Fayyum, al-Ashmunayn, Ikhmim, al-Bashrudat and the Sa'id's villages, who did likewise; sent Umayr ibn Wahb al-Jumahi to Tinnis, Dimyat, Tuna, Damira, Shata, Diqahla, Bana and Busir, who did likewise; and sent Utba ibn Amir al-Juhani — or, some say, his mawla Wardan, lord of Suq Wardan in Egypt — to all lower Egypt's villages, who did likewise; thus was Amr's conquest of Egypt completed and its land made kharaj-land.

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Era
The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Egypt & Nile
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Al-Baladhuri reports from a group who witnessed the conquest of Egypt that Amr ibn al-As, when he conquered Fustat, sent four men to the villages of Egypt, and each made a peace with the people of what he was sent to, on the terms of Fustat. 1

Those sent

He sent Abd Allah ibn Hudhafa al-Sahmi to Ayn Shams. He sent Kharija ibn Hudhafa al-Adawi to al-Fayyum, al-Ashmunayn, Akhmim and the villages of Upper Egypt. 1

He sent Umayr ibn Wahb al-Jumahi to Tinnis, Damietta, Tuna, Dumayra, Shata and Daqhaliya. He sent Utba ibn Amir al-Juhani to all the villages of the lower land; it is also said it was his client Wardan. 1

The outcome

Amr brought together the conquest of Egypt, and its land became land of tribute. 1

The date

The date is about 20 AH, in the wake of the conquest of Fustat; it is derived. 2

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Had participant
Abdullah ibn Hudhafa al-Sahmi· Kharija ibn Hudhafa al-Adawi· Umayr ibn Wahb al-Jumahi· Utba ibn Amir al-Juhani· Wardan, Amr's Mawla· Amr ibn al-As
Occurred at
Ayn Shams· Al-Fayyum· Tinnis· Damietta

People and things also explored

The Conquest of Alexandria· Conquest of Egypt and Alexandria· The Letters to Rulers and Kings· The Roman Recapture of Alexandria and Its Recovery from Manuel· the Alexandria rising and its recovery (25 AH)· Ali spares Amr ibn al-As after he was exposed· Amr's Dismissal and Ibn Abi Sarh's Sole Charge of Egypt· The Battle of Dathin

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p.304-305
  2. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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In al-Baladhuri on Ibn Lahia's chain from Yazid ibn Abi Habib: the Muqawqis compounded with Amr ibn al-As — that those Romans who wished might depart, those wishing to stay remain on a stated footing, and two dinars be laid on the Copts; when word reached the king of the Romans he grew most wroth, sent hosts who shut Alexandria's gate and declared war on Amr, whereupon the Muqawqis came out to him saying 'I ask three things of you: offer the Romans nothing like what you offered me, for they have deceived me; do not break with the Copts, for the breach came not from them; and if I die, have me buried in a church in Alexandria that he named' — and Amr answered 'it is yours'. Amr then took Alexandria by force, writing to Umar ibn al-Khattab: 'To proceed — God has opened Alexandria to us by force, violently, with neither covenant nor contract' — though in Yazid ibn Abi Habib's reading it was all treaty.