فتح السند

al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi prepared the conquest of Sind and assigned it to his cousin Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi, who was under twenty years of age. He sent him six thousand soldiers from the people of Syria. ¹

Ibn al-Qasim besieged Dibal after three days of fighting, left a garrison there and built a mosque for it. He then moved on to al-Biruni, Raur, Brahmanabad and al-Rur and Bahrur, and crossed the Bayas river to Multan. ²

The book says that al-Hajjaj died while Ibn al-Qasim was still on the conquest, and then Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik dismissed him and imprisoned him until he died. ³

A note: the book gives the period as 89–96 AH, and in one place writes the year "589", which is probably a printing error. The date needs an additional source.