Ma'n ibn Za'ida's Campaign on Rutbil
حملة معن بن زائدة على رتبيل
Al-Mansur gave Sijistan to Ma'n ibn Za'ida al-Shaybani, who demanded of Rutbil the atawa al-Hajjaj had settled; Rutbil sent camels, Turkish tents and slaves, doubled in value — which enraged Ma'n. With Yazid ibn Mazyad on the van he marched on Rukhkhaj; Rutbil had left to summer in Zabulistan, which Ma'n took with mass captives, among them the boy Faraj al-Rukhkhaji — who told how a cloud of dust raised by wild asses' hooves looked to Ma'n like an army coming to wrest the captives, so he put them to the sword until he saw the donkeys and stopped; 'I saw my father bent over me saying: kill me, not my son'. The captives ran near thirty thousand. Mawand, Rutbil's deputy, sought aman to be borne to the Commander of the Faithful — sent to Baghdad with five thousand of their fighters, honored by al-Mansur, granted stipend and command.
At a glance
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Review
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Connections
- Had participant
- Ma'n ibn Za'ida al-Shaybani· Yazid ibn Mazyad· Rutbil (the Zunbil)· Mawand, Rutbil's Deputy
- Occurred at
- Zabulistan
People and things also explored
The Killing of Ma'n ibn Za'ida· Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdallah ibn Amir's Sijistan· Abdullah ibn Umayya's Truce with the Second Rutbil· Ibn al-Ash'ath's End at Sijistan· Ma'n ibn Za'ida's Engraving on the Caliphal Seal· Qutayba's Coming to Sijistan· Rutbil's War and al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad· Rutbil's Refusal of the Governors' Tribute
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “Ma'n ibn Za'ida's Campaign on Rutbil”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/man-ibn-zaida-sijistan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.