Imran ibn Musa's Sind and the Zutt-Mayd Wars
ولاية عمران بن موسى السند وحربه الزط والميد
Al-Mu'tasim gave Imran ibn Musa the thaghr: he drove the Zutt of Qiqan, built al-Bayda and garrisoned it; took hill-top Qandabil from the mutaghallib Muhammad ibn al-Khalil and carried its chiefs to Qusdar; slew three thousand Mayd at Sikkar al-Mayd. On the Rur river he hand-stamped the Zutt, took their jizya, and bound each to keep a dog — till a dog fetched fifty dirhams — then raided the Mayd with Zutt chiefs, cutting a sea-channel that made their marsh water brackish. When Nizari-Yamani strife rose he leaned to the Yemenis, and Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Habbari — whose grandfather came with al-Hakam — killed him unawares.
At a glance
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Review
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Connections
- Had participant
- Imran ibn Musa al-Barmaki· al-Mu'tasim Abu Ishaq ibn al-Rashid
- Occurred at
- al-Qiqan
People and things also explored
Abdallah ibn Sawar at Qiqan· al-Harith ibn Murra's Qiqan Raid and Death· The Allafis' Coup on the Makran Frontier· Bishr ibn Dawud's Revolt and Musa ibn Yahya al-Barmaki's Rule· فتح عمورية· وفاة المعتصم· The Fall of Qaliqala, 133, and its Rebuilding· The Garrisoning of Sur man Ra'a (Samarra)
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “Imran ibn Musa's Sind and the Zutt-Mayd Wars”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/imran-sind-rule/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.