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Era: The Rashidun Caliphate · The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region: Persia & Central Asia
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Overview

Sijistan is a region which al-Baladhuri mentions in the context of the conquests. He relates that Yazdegerd went to it, and its king honoured and magnified him, but when Yazdegerd asked him for kharaj, the king became hostile to him, so he went on to Khurasan. ¹

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Site of: Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdallah ibn Amir's Sijistan· the conquest of Sijistan (24 AH)· Ibn al-Ash'ath's End at Sijistan· Qutayba's Coming to Sijistan· The Samanid seizure of Sistan· al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad's Sijistan Campaign· The Habata Unrest in Sijistan· Ubaydallah ibn Abi Bakra's Second Disaster

People and things also explored

Rutbil (the Zunbil)· Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdallah ibn Amir· Abd al-Rahman ibn Jaza' al-Ta'i· Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath· Abdallah ibn Nashira al-Tamimi· Abu Afra'a Umayr al-Mazini· Abu al-Hasan al-Basri· al-Mu'addal ibn Ali ibn al-Layth al-Saffar

Sources

Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p.440

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islam.museum contributors. “Sijistan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/sijistan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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Rutbil (the Zunbil)

Rutbil, king of the Zabils; after the Kabul Shah expelled the Muslims he took Zabulistan and Rukhkhaj to Bust, where al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad routed him and pursued to Rukhkhaj; later he sued Ubaydallah ibn Abi Bakra at Barzan for peace over his land and Kabul's — settled at a million dirhams, ratified by Ziyad.