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Harb ibn Salm ibn Ziyad

حرب بن سلم بن زياد

Harb ibn Salm ibn Ziyad; he contested his canal with Abd al-A'la ibn Abdallah ibn Amir — and when the verdict turned to Abd al-A'la, Harb yielded 'it is yours, sheikh of the counsel', Abd al-A'la yielded back 'it is yours', and when his mawlas warned Harb had only come after the judgment swung, he answered 'never shall I take back what I made his'.

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The Umayyad Period
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Harb ibn Salm ibn Ziyad, of the Umayyad period, son of Salm ibn Ziyad. Al-Baladhuri reports in "The Conquests of the Lands" that a river was named after him, and that he disputed it with Abd al-Ala ibn Abd Allah ibn Amir. 1

The account of the river

When the judgement went in favour of Abd al-Ala, Harb came to him and said that he regretted the dispute and that the river was his. Abd al-Ala returned the river to him. Then the clients of Abd al-Ala said to Harb that he had come only after the judgement had gone in favour of their master. Harb answered that he would never go back on what he had given him. 1

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Sallam ibn Ziyad

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Salm ibn Ziyad's Khurasan· Salm ibn Ziyad's Ordeal under Ibn al-Zubayr· زياد بن أبي سفيان· Sallam ibn Ziyad

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  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Salm ibn Ziyad's Khurasan

Yazid ibn Mu'awiya gave Salm ibn Ziyad Khurasan; the Khwarizmians truced at four hundred thousand borne to him. He crossed the river with his wife Umm Muhammad bint Abdallah ibn Uthman ibn Abi al-As al-Thaqafi — the first Arab woman across — came to Samarqand whose folk gave him a thousand-fold bloodwit; a son born to him was named al-Sughdi; his wife borrowed the Sughd lord's wife's jewels, wore and returned them. From Sughd he sent an army to Khujanda — with A'sha Hamdan among them — defeated; then back at Marw he campaigned again across the river and killed Bandun the Sughdi, whose people had mustered for him.