al-Harith ibn Surayj

Al-Harith ibn Surayj, a man of Khurasan, who disputed command there with Nasr ibn Sayyar, and was killed in Khurasan in 128 AH as printed before the paragraph. ³

Al-Tabari says that in Khurasan there were those who disputed with Nasr ibn Sayyar, among them al-Kirmani and al-Harith ibn Surayj. ³ Al-Harith pursued the defeated people of Balkh until he entered it, then came to Merv with a large host. ^{4 5}

Al-Harith came out for single combat, and struck his opponent on the left shoulder and felled him, according to the report. ⁶ He protected Khaqan during his withdrawal, when his mule was caught in the mud, according to the report. ^{7 8}

• The year of his death (128) is taken from the printed note before the paragraph as it appears.
• A report on page 660 has been left out, because it is unclear from the scanned text to whom the words are attributed.
• Most of the reports are "according to the report": al-Tabari relates them from named transmitters, and they have not yet been compared with other sources.
• The order of events between Balkh and Merv is not settled by the text as read, and it has not been arranged chronologically here.
• The references are to scan page numbers. Reports whose scanned text was garbled have been left out.