فتح السند

فتح السند

89 ھ – 96 ھ

Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi prepared the conquest of the province of Sind once his authority was settled in southern Persia, and entrusted it to his cousin Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi, who was under twenty years of age, supplying him with six thousand soldiers from Syria. Setting out from the district of Mahran, he besieged al-Daybul after three days of fighting, left a garrison there and built it a mosque, then advanced through al-Bayrun, Rawwad, Brahmanabad, al-Rur and Bahrur, and crossed the Bias river to Multan. The book mentions that al-Hajjaj died while Ibn al-Qasim was still on the campaign, after which Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik removed him from command and imprisoned him until he died ¹²³.