Jarir's Stipulation of a Quarter of What He Conquered

اشتراط جرير ربع ما غلب عليه

c. 635 CE · c. 14 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

In al-Baladhuri: Umar went a year not mentioning Iraq for the disaster of Abu Ubayd and Salit, al-Muthanna stationed near Ulays calling the Arabs to jihad; then Umar summoned the people to Iraq and they kept dodging and declining until he meant to raid himself — when a party of Azd came wanting to raid Syria, he called them to Iraq and made Khosrow's house's spoils desirable, so they left the choice to him and he ordered their departure. Jarir ibn Abdallah came from al-Sarat among Bajila asking to go to Iraq on condition he and his people be given a quarter of what they conquered — Umar agreed, and he marched toward Iraq; some allege he passed by Basra's road and fought the Madhar marzban, defeating him, others that he fought the marzban while with Khalid ibn al-Walid, and some say he took the road over Fayd and al-Ta'labiyya to al-Mudhayyib.

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Abu Ubayd's Dispatch to Iraq

In al-Baladhuri: when Umar succeeded he sent Abu Ubayd ibn Mas'ud ibn Amr ibn Umayr ibn Awf ibn Uqda ibn Ghiyara ibn Awf ibn Thaqif — being Abu al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd — to Iraq in a thousand, writing al-Muthanna to receive, hear and obey him, and sent with him Salit ibn Qays ibn Amr al-Ansari, telling him 'but for the haste in you I'd have appointed you — war is cunning, only the patient man suits it.' Abu Ubayd came on urging every Arab tribe to jihad and booty till a host joined him; at al-Mudhayyib he heard Jaban the Persian was at Tustar in a great host — met him, routed his host and took captives; then to Durna whose Persian host he routed to Kaskar; then to the Jalinus at Barusma where Ibn al-Andarzghar made peace at four dirhams a head on withdrawing; he sent al-Muthanna to Zandaward — found repudiated, fought, prevailed and captured — and Urwa ibn Zayd al-Khayl al-Ta'i to al-Zawabi whose dihqan he pacified on Barusma's terms.

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