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Jumay' ibn Hadir's Ruling on Samarqand's Delegation

حكم جميع بن حاضر في وفود سمرقند

Samarqand

Under Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz a Samarqand delegation charged that Qutayba had entered their city and settled Muslims on treachery; Umar ordered his governor to set a qadi over the claim — Jumay' ibn Hadir al-Baji ruled the Muslims must leave unless the city fight them on even terms — and the Samarqandis, loath to fight, confirmed the Muslims, who stayed among them.

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Samarqand

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Overview

When Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz became caliph, a group from Samarqand came to him and complained that Qutayba had entered their city and settled the Muslims in it by treachery. 1

The ruling

Umar wrote to his governor to appoint a judge for them to examine what they had mentioned; if he decided that the Muslims should leave, they would leave. He appointed Jumay ibn Hadir al-Bahili, who ruled that the Muslims should leave, on the basis that they would repudiate them on equal terms. 1

The outcome

The people of Samarqand disliked war and acknowledged the Muslims, and they stayed among them. 1

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عمر بن عبد العزيز· Jumay' ibn Hadir al-Baji
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Samarqand

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The Building of the Fortress of Masisa· The Basra Dar al-Imara Saga· Death of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz· Umar's Expulsion of the Christians of Najran· The Founding of al-Ramla· Habib's Sind, the Kings' Conversion, and the Muhallabids' End· Isma'il ibn Abdallah and Umar II's Mission to the Berbers· Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah's Governorship of Armenia

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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The Building of the Fortress of Masisa

In al-Baladhuri from al-Waqidi and others: in year 84 Abdullah ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan led the summer raid, entering by the pass of Antioch and coming to Masisa, where he built its fortress on the ancient foundation and settled garrison troops among them three hundred picked men of known valour and stoutness — the Muslims had never dwelt there before — and built a mosque atop the fortress hill; Abu al-Khattab al-Azdi says the first to build its fortress in Islam was Abd al-Malik through his son Abdullah in year 84, its building and garrisoning complete in year 85; the fortress held a church called Herya which the summer columns from Antioch would reach and winter at yearly, numbering a thousand five hundred to two thousand; Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz went out to Herya-Masisa meaning to demolish it and the forts between it and Antioch, saying 'I hate for the Byzantines to besiege its people', until the people showed him it was populated only to shield Antioch and that razing it would leave the enemy no barrier before it, so he held back and built them a congregational mosque by Kafarbayya with a cistern bearing his name — called the fortress mosque, ruined in al-Mu'tasim's caliphate; then Hisham built the rabad, Marwan ibn Muhammad built the suburb east of the Jayhan with a wall, timber gate and moat, and Abu al-Abbas set four hundred more men at Masisa, granting them estates.