Muhammad ibn Mus'ab al-Thaqafi

محمد بن مصعب الثقفي

Muhammad ibn Mus'ab ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi; sent on Sadusan he took the samaniyya-brokered aman — kharaj, hostages, and four thousand Zutt auxiliaries.

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The Umayyad Period
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Muhammad ibn Musab al-Thaqafi. Muhammad ibn al-Qasim sent him to Sudusan with horses and asses. Its people asked for safe conduct, and the Samaniyya intervened on this. He granted them safe conduct, imposed a land tax on them, took hostages from them, and then left with four thousand of the Zutt. 1

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The Sulh of al-Birun and Sadusan

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Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi· al-Birun· The Sulh of al-Birun and Sadusan

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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.