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Ibn al-Ash'ath's Tabaristan Campaign

غزوة ابن الأشعث طبرستان

Tabaristan

Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad made Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath ibn Qays al-Kindi governor of Tabaristan; he treated with them and bound a compact, they let him in, then seized the narrows, killed his son Abu Bakr and crushed his skull — Muhammad escaped, and the raiders of that frontier stayed wary of driving deep into enemy land.

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The Umayyad Period
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Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad appointed Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath ibn Qays al-Kindi over Tabaristan, according to al-Baladhuri. 1

The account

Muhammad made peace with its people and drew up a covenant with them. Then they gave him time until he entered, and they seized the passes against him, and killed his son Abu Bakr. Muhammad escaped. 1

After that the Muslims continued to raid that frontier, wary of pushing deep into enemy land. 1

The governor who appointed him was Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad. The date is not given in the data: an additional source is needed.

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Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath al-Kindi· Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad
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Tabaristan

People and things also explored

Battle of al-Khazir· Conquest of Tabaristan· Hayyan's Treaty with the Ispahbadh· The killing of Muslim ibn Aqil in Kufa· Marzuq's Ruse upon the Ispahbadh· Masmala's Destruction in Tabaristan· Mazyar ibn Qarin's Revolt· Sa'id ibn al-'As's Tabaristan campaign (30 AH)

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Battle of al-Khazir

In 66 AH Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad set out with the armies of Syria toward Iraq. When he reached Mosul he met Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar al-Nakha'i, who commanded the cavalry of Iraq on behalf of al-Mukhtar, at al-Khazir. It was a great battle in which Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, al-Husayn ibn Numayr, Shurahbil ibn Dhi al-Kala' and leading men of Syria were killed. The book states that al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd sent a force led by Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar to fight Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, that the victory went to Ibn al-Ashtar, and that the Syrian troops suffered killing and drowning. It also says that the rout of the Syrian troops came at the moment when the vein of tribal zeal between Qays and Yemen throbbed.