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al-Fadhusfan

الفادوسفان

Isbahan's aged marzban; in al-Baladhuri, betrayed by his besieged cityfolk, he fled with thirty archers toward Kirman — Ibn Budayl pursued, dueled him, struck his saddle-bow, and honored him with terms for his townspeople, to whom he said 'I saw you slackening for days — you earned what I did to you.'

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Era
The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period · The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Overview

Al-Fadhusfan, the marzban (military governor) of Isfahan, an old man. Ibn Badil was his contemporary, according to al-Baladhuri. 1

The peace

Al-Baladhuri relates that he was secretary to the people of the city, who let him down. He went out with thirty archers fleeing towards Kerman to join Yazdgerd. Ibn Badil followed him and challenged him to single combat, and his blow fell on the pommel of his saddle and broke it. He then offered him peace on behalf of his people, and he accepted and surrendered the city. 1

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Participated in
The Conquest of Isbahan

People and things also explored

Jizya (capitation on treaty peoples)· Kharaj (land tax)· Abdallah ibn Budayl· al-Ahnaf ibn Qays· Umar ibn al-Khattab· Isbahan· Jayy· The Conquest of Isbahan

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Jizya (capitation on treaty peoples)

Jizya in al-Baladhuri is what the People of the Book pay per head under treaty in return for confirmation in their religion and lands: he reports from al-Zuhri 'the first of the People of the Book to pay the jizya, so far as we know, were the people of Najran, who were Christians; then the people of Ayla, Adhruh and the people of Adhri'at paid jizya in the Tabuk campaign'; its forms with him include a dinar per hālim per year — the treaty of Ayla totalling three hundred dinars, Jurash a dinar per hālim plus hospitality for Muslims, Adhruh a hundred dinars every Rajab, and the Jews of Maqna a quarter of the 'uruk catch, a quarter of the women's spinning and a quarter of the fruits — beyond which the people of Maqna owed 'no jizya and no corvée'; when Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz took office he had the people of Najran counted, found them at a tithe of their former number and said 'I see this treaty is a jizya on their heads, not a treaty on their lands — and the jizya of the dead and of the Muslim lapses', so he set them at two hundred hullas.