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Dinar

دينار

Nihawand's dihqan; in al-Baladhuri, spared by Simak ibn Ubayd after his eight companions fell, he asked to treat with the commander — paying kharaj and jizya for his city's security — whence Nihawand was called Mah Dinar; he would visit Simak thereafter bearing gifts.

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Era
The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Dinar, a dihqan (landed notable) of Nihawand, whose story is recorded by al-Baladhuri in "The Conquests of the Lands". 1

The settlement

According to al-Baladhuri, he asked for safe conduct for Simak ibn Ubayd al-Absi after Simak had killed eight of his companions. He asked to go to their commander to reach a settlement with him over the land and to pay the poll tax. 1

Hudhayfa made a settlement with him over the land tax and the poll tax, and granted safety to the people of his city. Nihawand came to be called Mah Dinar, and he would go to Simak to bring him gifts and show him kindness. 1

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Nihawand's Treaty and the Mah Dinar Name

People and things also explored

Jizya (capitation on treaty peoples)· Kharaj (land tax)· Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman· Simak ibn Ubayd al-Absi· Nihawand· Nihawand's Treaty and the Mah Dinar Name

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p.429
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Jizya (capitation on treaty peoples)

Jizya in al-Baladhuri is what the People of the Book pay per head under treaty in return for confirmation in their religion and lands: he reports from al-Zuhri 'the first of the People of the Book to pay the jizya, so far as we know, were the people of Najran, who were Christians; then the people of Ayla, Adhruh and the people of Adhri'at paid jizya in the Tabuk campaign'; its forms with him include a dinar per hālim per year — the treaty of Ayla totalling three hundred dinars, Jurash a dinar per hālim plus hospitality for Muslims, Adhruh a hundred dinars every Rajab, and the Jews of Maqna a quarter of the 'uruk catch, a quarter of the women's spinning and a quarter of the fruits — beyond which the people of Maqna owed 'no jizya and no corvée'; when Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz took office he had the people of Najran counted, found them at a tithe of their former number and said 'I see this treaty is a jizya on their heads, not a treaty on their lands — and the jizya of the dead and of the Muslim lapses', so he set them at two hundred hullas.