Imran ibn Musa's Sind and the Zutt-Mayd Wars

Al-Baladhuri relates the governorship of Imran ibn Musa over the frontier of Sind in the caliphate of al-Mu'tasim, and his fighting against the Zutt and the Mayd. ¹

Al-Mu'tasim wrote to Imran ibn Musa appointing him over the frontier. He went out to al-Qaqan, who are Zutt, fought them, and built a city he called al-Bayda, and settled troops in it. Then he came to al-Mansura and went on to Qandabil, where he fought its usurper Muhammad ibn al-Khalil and took it. ¹

Imran raided the Mayd and killed three thousand of them. He took the poll tax from the Zutt, and ordered each man of them to take a dog with him at a review. Then he dug a canal from the sea that he ran into the marsh of the Mayd until its water became salt. ¹

Partisanship arose between the Nizari and the Yamani, and Imran inclined toward the Yamani. Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Hubari went against him and killed him by surprise. ¹

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