Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad's Baykand Campaign

حملة عبيد الله بن زياد على بيكند

On Ziyad's death Mu'awiya gave Khurasan to his son Ubaydallah, twenty-five years old; he crossed the river with twenty-four thousand and came on Baykand while the Khatun held Bukhara's city — her summons brought a Turkish swarm the Muslims routed, and as they laid waste she sued for peace and aman: a million dirhams, and he entered the city, taking Ramadin and Baykand, two farsakhs apart and Ramadin her dependency. It is said he also took the Saghaniyan, and brought Bukhara folk to Basra on stipends.

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Era: The Umayyad Period
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Al-Baladhuri relates that after the death of Ziyad, Mu'awiya appointed Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad over Khurasan at the age of twenty-five. He crossed the river with twenty-four thousand men and came to Baykand. ¹

The campaign

The Khatun was in Bukhara; she called the Turks for help, and the Muslims defeated them. Then she asked for peace and safety, and he made peace with her for a million, entered the city, and took Ramadin and Baykand. It is said that he also took al-Saghaniyan, and came to Basra with a number of the people of Bukhara and assigned them stipends. ¹

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Had participant: Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad· The Khatun of Bukhara
Occurred at: Baykand

People and things also explored

Battle of al-Khazir· Ibn al-Ash'ath's Tabaristan Campaign· The killing of Muslim ibn Aqil in Kufa· Qutayba's Baykand, Bukhara and Nizak's Killing· Sa'id ibn Uthman and the Bukhara Host· Sa'id ibn Uthman's Siege of Samarqand· The Khatun of Bukhara· Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad

Sources

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.