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Salam al-Tayfuri

سلام الطيفوري

Sulayman ibn Qayrat's partner in Sisar's pastures; in al-Baladhuri, of Tayfur — Abu Ja'far al-Mansur's mawla gifted to al-Mahdi.

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The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period · The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Persia & Central Asia
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Salam al-Tayfuri, a partner of Sulayman ibn Qirat in the pastures of Sisar. al-Baladhuri reports that Tayfur was a client of Abu Ja'far al-Mansur, who gave him to al-Mahdi 1.

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Participated in
The Building of Sisar

People and things also explored

Muhammad al-Mahdi· Harun al-Rashid· Murra ibn Ali al-Rudhayni· Sulayman ibn Qayrat· Sisar· The Building of Sisar

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Muhammad al-Mahdi

Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Mansur, al-Mahdi, third Abbasid caliph; in al-Baladhuri: he sent his son Harun raiding Byzantine lands in year 163, besieging Damalu — its people by some reports settled at Baghdad on his ruling, spared and named for their town — and he completed what remained of the march-cities' and fortresses' works after his father al-Mansur, adding to their garrisons, ordered al-Hadath built and bequeathed the building of Tarsus on al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba's description; in his caliphate a body of Qinnasrin's hadir converted and he had the khadra written at their hands.