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al-Birun

البيرون

al-Birun of Sind; its people's preemptive sulh to al-Hajjaj held — they brought fodder and admitted Muhammad ibn al-Qasim in peace.

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Birun: a city in Sind. Its people sent two envoys to al-Hajjaj, and they made peace with him. When Muhammad ibn al-Qasim came to it, they prepared fodder for him, let him into their city, and kept to the peace. 1

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The Sulh of al-Birun and Sadusan

People and things also explored

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

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Birun”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/birun/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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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.