وقعة دير الجماجم

وقعة دير الجماجم

82 ھ

The battle of Dayr al-Jamajim between al-Hajjaj and Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath. Al-Tabari records it under the year 82 AH, while noting that some placed it in 83 AH ¹. He describes how the lines were arranged that day ². In al-Mas'udi's account, al-Hajjaj and Ibn al-Ash'ath met at the place known as Dayr al-Jamajim, and there were more than eighty engagements between them in which a multitude perished; this was in 82 AH, and the outcome went against Ibn al-Ash'ath, who went on until he reached the kings of India. Al-Hajjaj kept scheming to kill him until he was killed and his head was brought to him ³.