al-Junayd ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Murri

Al-Junayd ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Murri, an Umayyad governor whom Hisham appointed over Khurasan in 112 AH. He fought the Turks and had campaigns. He died in Merv. ¹

Al-Baladhuri says that the advance guard of al-Junayd captured Ibn Khaqan while he was drunk and hunting, and he sent him to Hisham. Hisham sent him twenty thousand men, thirty thousand spears and thirty thousand shields, and allotted pay for fifteen thousand. ¹

The report says that the propagandists of the Banu Hashim spread through his governorship, and that he brought the regions of Tokharistan back to peace after they had broken it. ¹

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