al-Hajjaj's Daylam Expedition

بعث الحجاج إلى الديلم

When the Kurds ravaged during Ibn al-Ash'ath's revolt, al-Hajjaj sent Amr ibn Hani' al-Absi with Damascenes who routed and slaughtered them, then ordered him against Daylam with twelve thousand — among them eighty of Banu Ujul and their Kufan clients, including Muhammad ibn Sinan al-Ujli, who settled a Dastaba village then built a house in Qazwin's suburb; the frontier folk rebuked him for exposing himself and them, he ignored them, his household built with him outside the town, others followed, and so the suburb grew.

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Era: The Umayyad Period
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In the days of the rising of Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath, the Kurds raided and spread corruption. Al-Hajjaj sent Amr ibn Hani al-Absi against the people of Damascus, who defeated them and killed a great number. ¹

The expedition against the Daylam

Then al-Hajjaj ordered him to raid the Daylam, and he raided them with twelve thousand men. Among them were eighty of the Banu Ajl and their clients from Kufa, among them Muhammad ibn Sinan al-Ujli. ¹

The origin of the quarter of Qazwin

Muhammad ibn Sinan settled in a village of the villages of Dastabi, then went on to Qazwin and built a house in its outer quarter. The people of the frontier blamed him, but he paid no heed. His household built outside the city with him, and then the people moved and built until the outer quarter of the city was complete. ¹

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Had participant: Amr ibn Hani' al-Absi· Muhammad ibn Sinan al-Ujli· al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi
Occurred at: Daylam

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Abd al-Malik's Coinage Reform· Abu Dulaf's Daylam Campaign· The Sibayn Reclamation and Maslama's Estates· The Arabization of Iraq's Kharaj Diwan· The Basra Dar al-Imara Saga· Death of al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf· Killing of Abdallah ibn al-Zubayr· Umar's Expulsion of the Christians of Najran

Sources

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

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