Bashshar ibn Muslim al-Bahili

بشار بن مسلم الباهلي

Bashshar ibn Muslim ibn Amr al-Bahili, Qutayba's brother; he gifted al-Hajjaj a horse that won him the race — the grant was seven hundred jarib (some say four hundred) for which he dug the canal named Nahr Bashshar.

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The Umayyad Period
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Bashshar ibn Muslim ibn Amr al-Bahili, brother of Qutayba ibn Muslim. He gave al-Hajjaj a horse, which won a race for him, so al-Hajjaj granted him seven hundred jaribs, and it is said four hundred. 1

Bashshar dug for this land the river known as "the river of Bashshar". 1

The first and second reports about the size of the grant are both in the source, and the page is not fixed; this needs an additional source.

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Qutayba's Baykand, Bukhara and Nizak's Killing

People and things also explored

Nizak· قتيبة بن مسلم الباهلي· Baykand· Qutayba's Baykand, Bukhara and Nizak's Killing

Sources

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

Nizak, lord of Badghis or the Juzjan; he campaigned with Qutayba at Baykand in 87h — then Qutayba killed and crucified him in Tukharistan.