Sa'id ibn Amr ibn Aswad al-Harashi

Sa'id ibn Amr ibn Aswad al-Harashi, one of the governors of the frontier regions in the Umayyad period ¹.

Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik sent him to Armenia at the head of the vanguard of Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik. He fought the Khazars, who had besieged Warthan, drove them away from it and defeated them. Then Maslama's letter reached him, blaming him for fighting them before Maslama's arrival. He was seized, shackled and imprisoned at Barda'a until Hisham wrote ordering his release. Hisham then appointed him over the frontier two years after Maslama ¹. He took part in Maslama's campaign against the Khazars, and held the frontier between Maslama and Marwan during Marwan's expedition to the Caucasus ¹.

The book al-Dawla al-Umawiyya reports that Maslama equipped him with ten thousand men to fight the Kharijite Shawdhab, and that Shawdhab and his companions were killed in the year 101 AH ². Then Umar ibn Hubayra appointed him over Khurasan ³.

He took charge of Khurasan after Abd al-Rahman ibn Nu'aym. He ended the uprising in Sughd and Tukharistan, made peace with the people of Kish, and restored Muslim control over Transoxiana. The mawali took part in it, and so did the governor of Samarqand, Gurak ⁴.

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