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al-Mufarraj ibn Sallam

المفرج بن سلام

In al-Baladhuri: succeeded Khalafun al-Barbari in the Great Land, opened twenty-four fortresses, wrote Egypt's postmaster asking the imam's contract over his district to leave the usurpers' state, built a congregational mosque, then his companions mutinied and killed him — one copy reads al-Mufarrikh.

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Al-Mufarraj ibn Sallam, written in one copy "al-Mufarrakh", who rose in the great land after Khalfun the Berber. 1

The conquest and the death

Al-Baladhuri says that he took twenty-four fortresses and seized them. He wrote to the postal officer in Egypt asking that the imam confirm his governorship over his district, so that he might leave the limits of the usurpers. He built a congregational mosque, then his companions rioted against him and killed him. 1 See the fortresses of al-Mufarraj.

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

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al-Mutawakkil ala Allah· سوران· Barah· al-Mufarraj ibn Sallam's Conquest of Twenty-Four Fortresses

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p. 328
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