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Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah's Governorship of Armenia

ولاية الجرّاح بن عبد الله على أرمينية

between 717 and 730 CE · c. 99 AH

Bardha'a (Partaw) → Armenia

In al-Baladhuri: Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik gave Armenia to Adi ibn Adi ibn Amira al-Kindi — Adi ibn Amira being one of those who settled al-Raqqa having parted with Ali ibn Abi Talib (may God be pleased with him) — then Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz appointed him, he being the owner of the Nahr Adi at al-Baylaqan, though some say Umar's governor was Hatim ibn al-Nu'man, which is unsound; then Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik appointed Mi'laq ibn Saffar al-Bahrani, removed him for al-Harith ibn Amr al-Ta'i, who raided the Lakz and took Rustaq Hamsadan; and al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami of Mudhhij governed Armenia, settling at Bardha'a, where its conflicting measures and weights were laid before him and he set them on justice and fulness, making a measure called al-Jarrahi which its people deal by to this day; then he crossed the Kurr and marched until he passed the river called al-Samur, reaching the Khazars and killing them in a great slaughter, and fought the people of Bilad Hamzin, then compounded with them to transfer them to a rustaq.

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Era
The Umayyad Period
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Umayyad Period

Overview

Al-Baladhuri lists the governors of Armenia in the Umayyad period, and mentions the work of al-Jarrah ibn Abd Allah at Bardha'a and his raid against the Khazars. 1

Governors before him

Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik appointed Adi ibn Adi al-Kindi, and then Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz appointed him. Al-Baladhuri gives a report that Umar's governor was Hatim ibn al-Nu'man, and says it is not established. Then Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik appointed others, among them al-Harith ibn Amr al-Ta'i. 1

Al-Jarrah's governorship

Al-Jarrah came to Bardha'a, and the difference in measures and weights was brought to him; he fixed them and made a measure named the Jarrahi. Al-Baladhuri says that its people used it in their dealings until his time. 1

The raid on the Khazars

He crossed the Kur, marched against the Khazars and killed a great number of them. He fought the people of the land of Hamzin, then made peace with them and moved them to a district. 1

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Had participant
Adi ibn Adi ibn Amira al-Kindi· al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami· سليمان بن عبد الملك· Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz
Occurred at
Bardha'a (Partaw)· Armenia

People and things also explored

The Founding of al-Ramla· The letter of al-Jarrah and Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz's reply· Armenia's Rising under al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba· Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik designates Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz as caliph· Umar II's Da'wa beyond the River and Ibn Ma'mar's Raid· Muwatta 690· Arran· the Armenia–Azerbaijan treaty (25 AH)

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p.289
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The Founding of al-Ramla

In al-Baladhuri: al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik gave his brother Sulayman command of the Filastin jund, and he settled at Lydda then founded the city of al-Ramla and made it an amsar — the first thing he built being his palace and the house known as Dar al-Sabbaghin with a central cistern, then he laid out the mosque's plan and built it, taking the caliphate before completing it and finishing it in his reign, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz completing it while reducing the plan, saying 'the people of al-Ramla are content with this measure'; when Sulayman built for himself he gave people leave to build and they did, digging the canal called Barada and wells for them, a Christian clerk of Lydda named al-Batriq ibn al-Nakka overseeing the expenditure on the works and the congregational mosque; the city of al-Ramla did not exist before Sulayman, its site being a sandy tract; the Umayyads spent on its wells and canal after him, then the Abbasids did likewise, the charge issuing yearly from caliph to caliph until al-Mu'tasim entered it in the register, whence it became a standing annuity reckoned to the claimants.