Muhammad ibn Harun al-Namari

محمد بن هارون النمري

Muhammad ibn Harun ibn Dhar' al-Namari; al-Hajjaj's Makran governor — in his day the king of Jazirat al-Yaqut gifted al-Hajjaj Muslim-born orphans of merchant fathers.

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The Umayyad Period
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Muhammad ibn Harun ibn Dharʿ al-Numari. Al-Baladhuri relates that al-Hajjaj appointed him over the frontier of Makran after a famine. In his governorship the king of the island of Yaqut sent to al-Hajjaj women who had been born Muslims, whose fathers had died as merchants. 1

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The Allafis' Coup on the Makran Frontier· The Fitting-out of Muhammad ibn al-Qasim

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Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi· Makran· al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik· Imran ibn Musa al-Barmaki· Jahm ibn Zahr al-Ju'fi· Mujja'a ibn Si'r al-Tamimi· Sa'id ibn Aslam ibn Zur'a al-Kilabi· The Allafis' Coup on the Makran Frontier

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  1. 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.