The Forced Taking of Istakhr
فتح أصطخر عنوة
Ibn Amir marched on Istakhr in 28h — Mahak truced for its folk, he left for Jur, and they broke and killed his agent; Jur fallen, he returned and took Istakhr by storm after heavy fighting and mangonels — forty thousand Ajam killed, most house-holders and asawira chiefs who had sheltered there destroyed, some say near a hundred thousand. On his vanguard Ubaydallah ibn Ma'tar al-Taymi had met them at Bramjard and fallen, buried in Bramjard's garden; Ibn Amir hurried — Abu Barza al-Aslami right, Ma'qil ibn Yasar left, Imran ibn al-Husayn horse, Khalid ibn al-Mu'ammar foot — and drove them inside. In another telling they betrayed under Ibn Abbas's Iraq governorship for Ali and were reconquered.
At a glance
- Era
- The Rashidun Caliphate
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Connections
- Had participant
- عبد الله بن عامر· Mahak· Ubaydallah ibn Ma'tar al-Taymi
- Occurred at
- Istakhr
People and things also explored
Conquest of Jur· Conquest of Surraq· Conquest of Tabaristan· The Death of Yazdgard ibn Shahriyar· Digging of the Ubulla Canal· The Conquest of Naysabur· Hakim ibn Jabala's Report on the Indian Frontier· Ibn Amir's Crossing of the River and his Thanksgiving Ihram
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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