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Sisar is a town in the mountains between Hamadhan, al-Dinawar and Azerbaijan. According to al-Baladhuri, Sulayman ibn Qayrat and Salam al-Tayfuri built it by order of al-Mahdi, as a refuge for his animals and sheep from the destitute (sa'alik). It was named after thirty mounds and a hundred springs. Districts of al-Dinawar and Azerbaijan were attached to it, and it became a district (kura). Al-Rashid stationed a thousand men in it. It was taken from Asim ibn Murra in the caliphate of al-Ma'mun and became one of the estates of the caliphate. ¹

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.

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Muhammad al-Mahdi