al-Harith ibn Miskin

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Al-Harith ibn Miskin, a companion of Malik. ²

The judgeship of Egypt

Al-Mutawakkil appointed him judge of Egypt in 237 AH, after he refused for a time, replacing Ibn Abi al-Layth. He humiliated the judge who had been dismissed, having him beaten twenty lashes every day so that grievances might be returned to their owners. ²

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al-Mufarraj ibn Sallam's Conquest of Twenty-Four Fortresses

In al-Baladhuri: after Khalafun rose a man called al-Mufarraj — one copy: al-Mufarrikh — ibn Sallam who opened twenty-four fortresses and seized them; he wrote the postmaster in Egypt his news and that he deemed the absentee prayer unlawful for himself and the Muslims with him, asking the imam to contract him over his district and appoint him, to leave the state of usurpers — and he built a congregational mosque. Then his companions mutinied and killed him; Sawran — also read Sudan — succeeded and sent his envoy to al-Mutawakkil asking patent and letter of appointment, but al-Mutawakkil died before the envoy reached him, and al-Muntasir died whose caliphate was six months; al-Musta'in Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Mu'tasim ordered his Maghreb agent Utamish — the caliph's mawla — to contract it for him, but before his envoy could leave Samarra Utamish was killed and Wasif the caliph's mawla took the district and contracted and dispatched it.

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al-Mufarraj ibn Sallam's Conquest of Twenty-Four Fortresses