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Abdullah ibn Umayya's Truce with the Second Rutbil

صلح عبد الله بن أمية ورتبيل الثاني

Abd al-Malik gave Khurasan to Umayya ibn Abdallah ibn Khalid ibn Asid, who sent his son Abdullah to Sijistan with covenant while at Kirman. The second Rutbil — king after the slain first — still feared the Muslims and truced Abdullah at Bust for a million; but when gifts and slaves were refused with 'fill this portico with gold or there is no peace', it proved a ruse: Rutbil emptied the land before him, then seized the defiles behind him and pressed him to withdraw taking nothing. Abdullah answered: 'rather take three hundred thousand as sulh, write us a deed, and never raid our land while I govern, nor burn nor ruin' — done; and Abd al-Malik, hearing, dismissed him.

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The Umayyad Period
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Abdullah ibn Umayya· Rutbil (the Zunbil)

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Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdallah ibn Amir's Sijistan· Ibn al-Ash'ath's End at Sijistan· Ma'n ibn Za'ida's Campaign on Rutbil· Qutayba's Coming to Sijistan· Rutbil's War and al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad· Rutbil's Refusal of the Governors' Tribute· Ubaydallah ibn Abi Bakra's Peace with Rutbil· Ubaydallah ibn Abi Bakra's Second Disaster

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  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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