The Siege of Multan and the House of Gold
فتح الملتان وبيت الذهب
Across the Bayas, Multan's folk fought — Za'ida ibn Umayr al-Ta'i excelled — then shut themselves in. The Muslims ate their donkeys till a protected man showed the water-intake — the spring al-Balah fed from Basmad's river — and cut it, they yielded on terms: the fighters slain, six thousand temple sadins and offspring enslaved, and gold heaped in a ten-by-eight cubit house filled through a roof hole — whence 'Multan, Faraj Bayt al-Dhahab', the frontier of the House of Gold. Its budd drew offerings and vows; Sind's pilgrims shaved heads and beards there and claimed its idol was the prophet Ayyub.
At a glance
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Review
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In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
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Connections
- Had participant
- Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi· Za'ida ibn Umayr al-Ta'i
- Occurred at
- Multan
People and things also explored
The Sulh of al-Rur· The Allafis' Coup on the Makran Frontier· The Sulh of al-Birun and Sadusan· The Battle and Death of Dahir· The Storming of Daybul· The Fitting-out of Muhammad ibn al-Qasim· Muhammad ibn al-Qasim Carried Bound to Death at Wasit· The Storming of Rawar and Brahmanabadh
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “The Siege of Multan and the House of Gold”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/multan-siege/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.