The Storming of Daybul
فتح الديبل وكسر منارة البد
Muhammad reached Daybul on a Friday with the fleet behind him — trench, spears, banners, and the mangonel 'al-Arus' worked by five hundred men against the great budd whose tall mast bore a revolving red banner. Al-Hajjaj's letters, exchanged every three days, ordered the eastern arm shortened and the crew told to break the mast he described; broken, the kafirs' defiance sank, the sally was driven back, and ladders went up — a Muradi of Kufa first over — the city stormed, three days of killing, the temple's sadin slain, Dahir's agent fled; Muhammad marked out a Muslim quarter, built the mosque, and settled four thousand. Mansur ibn Hatim saw the broken mast, and al-Mu'tasim's governor Anbasa ibn Ishaq al-Dabbi razed the minaret's top for a prison before his removal; his successor Harun ibn Abi Khalid was killed there.
At a glance
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Review
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Connections
- Had participant
- Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi· Dahir, King of Sind· عنبسة بن إسحاق الضبي
- Occurred at
- al-Daybul
People and things also explored
The Battle and Death of Dahir· The Daybul Pirates and the Cry 'ya Hajjaj'· al-Qummi's War on the Buja Lands· The Sulh of al-Rur· The Allafis' Coup on the Makran Frontier· The Sulh of al-Birun and Sadusan· al-Junayd's Sind Wars· The Fitting-out of Muhammad ibn al-Qasim
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “The Storming of Daybul”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/daybul-siege/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.