The ransom exchange between Muslims and Byzantines, 295

الفداء بين المسلمين والروم سنة ٢٩٥

c. 907 CE · 295 AH

In 295 the ransom exchange with the Byzantines freed three thousand souls — men and women — before al-Muktafi's death that Dhu'l-Qa'da 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Anatolia
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890900910920 c.
Abbasid Fragmentation

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In 295 the ransom exchange between the Muslims and the Byzantines freed three thousand souls of men and women; and in Dhu'l-Qa'da of that year al-Muktafi bi'llah died 1.

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al-Muktafi bi-Allah

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Wasif ibn Sawartekin· al-Muktafi bi-Allah

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  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 358-359
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Al-Muktafi's commander sent against Zikrawayh the Qarmatian; he met him via al-Qadisiyya on the Khaffan road on Saturday 8 Rabi' I 294, slaughtered his host and struck Zikrawayh a blow that entered his brain — he died five days later.