al-Ashras ibn Abdallah al-Sulami

Ashras ibn Abd Allah al-Sulami, whom Hisham appointed over Khurasan. Al-Baladhuri relates that with him was a Nabataean secretary, known as Abu Umayya, who encouraged him to do evil. He increased the duties of Khurasan and treated the landowners with contempt. He called the people of Transoxiana to Islam and removed the poll tax from those who embraced it, so they came to him in numbers and the land-tax fell. He then took the tax of those who had made peace, and they objected. Thabit Qutna was imprisoned and then released, and the Turks killed him. ¹