Sawra ibn al-Hurr al-Hanzali

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Sawra ibn al-Hurr al-Hanzali, a commander from the Umayyad period. Sa'id ibn Abd al-Aziz, and after him his son, sent him beyond the Oxus ¹.

Beyond the Oxus

He stayed at Ishtikhan after the Turks had come to it. He fought them and defeated them, and for a time prevented the people from pursuing them. Then he met the Turks again, and they defeated him and inflicted heavy killing on his companions ¹.

The dates of these events are not recorded in the museum's data, and the entry needs an additional source.

Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik

Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan the Umayyad; in al-Baladhuri: the Baghras lands were his and he endowed them in the way of good, as were Ayn al-Salur and its pond; he granted companies of Rabi'a estates that were later seized and passed to al-Ma'mun; marching against the Byzantines from the Jaziran marches he camped at Balis, whose people with those of Nuwaylis, Qasirin, Ayidin and Siffin asked him to dig them a channel from the Euphrates to water their land in return for a third of their yield after the sultan's tithe — he did, digging the river named Nahr Maslama, and they kept the bargain while he repaired and strengthened the city's wall; Balis and its villages passed to his heirs until the blessed dynasty came, when Abu al-Abbas granted them to Sulayman ibn Ali.

Sawra ibn al-Hurr al-Hanzali

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Beyond the Oxus

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Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik