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Dahir, King of Sind

داهر ملك السند

Dahir, king of Sind; refusing to free the pirated women — 'pirates beyond my power' — he met Muhammad ibn al-Qasim elephant-backed amid elephants and the Kakira, dismounted, fought, and fell at evening; al-Mada'ini names a Kilabi his killer.

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The Umayyad Period
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Overview

Dahir, king of Sind, who met Muhammad ibn al-Qasim in the battle at the river Mihran. 1

Cause of the campaign

Al-Baladhuri mentions that he refused to free the women taken by pirates from Daybul, and said that they were robbers beyond his reach. So al-Hajjaj sent Muhammad ibn al-Qasim on the campaign against him. 2

The battle

He was on an elephant, with the war elephants and the Kakara around him, and they fought a fierce battle. Then he dismounted and fought until he was killed at evening, and his companions were routed. 1

Al-Mada'ini mentions that a man from Banu Kilab killed him. 2

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Participated in
The Battle and Death of Dahir· The Daybul Pirates and the Cry 'ya Hajjaj'· The Storming of Daybul

People and things also explored

Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi· al-Daybul· عنبسة بن إسحاق الضبي· Budayl ibn Tahfa al-Bajali· Ubaydallah ibn Nabhan· Mihran· The Battle and Death of Dahir· The Daybul Pirates and the Cry 'ya Hajjaj'

Sources

  1. The Umayyad State: Factors of Prosperity and Consequences of Collapse — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi (Part Two, 2005) , p.104
  2. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi

Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi, conqueror of Sind in al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik's caliphate; in al-Baladhuri: al-Walid transferred to Antioch a company of the Sindhi Zutt whom Muhammad ibn al-Qasim had assigned to al-Hajjaj, who sent them on to Syria — as Mu'awiya had earlier, in year 49 or 50, moved companies of Basra's Zutt and Sayabija to the coasts, settling some at Antioch.