Salm ibn Ziyad's Khurasan

ولاية سلم بن زياد خراسان

Yazid ibn Mu'awiya gave Salm ibn Ziyad Khurasan; the Khwarizmians truced at four hundred thousand borne to him. He crossed the river with his wife Umm Muhammad bint Abdallah ibn Uthman ibn Abi al-As al-Thaqafi — the first Arab woman across — came to Samarqand whose folk gave him a thousand-fold bloodwit; a son born to him was named al-Sughdi; his wife borrowed the Sughd lord's wife's jewels, wore and returned them. From Sughd he sent an army to Khujanda — with A'sha Hamdan among them — defeated; then back at Marw he campaigned again across the river and killed Bandun the Sughdi, whose people had mustered for him.

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Era: The Umayyad Period
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Had participant: Sallam ibn Ziyad· Umm Muhammad bint Abdallah al-Thaqafiyya· A'sha Hamdan· Bandun the Sughdi

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Salm ibn Ziyad's Ordeal under Ibn al-Zubayr· Harb ibn Salm ibn Ziyad· زياد بن أبي سفيان· A'sha Hamdan· Bandun the Sughdi· Sallam ibn Ziyad· Umm Muhammad bint Abdallah al-Thaqafiyya

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Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)

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Salm ibn Ziyad's Ordeal under Ibn al-Zubayr

At Yazid's death the people turned on Salm — 'ill did Ibn Sumayya think to command us in community and strife', as had been said to his brother Ubaydallah at Basra — and he left Khurasan to Ibn al-Zubayr, who fined him four million dirhams and imprisoned him. Salm would say 'would I had gone to Syria and stayed in my brother Ubaydallah's service — washing his foot — rather than come to Ibn al-Zubayr'. At Mecca until al-Hajjaj's siege, he tunneled from prison to al-Hajjaj, then Abd al-Malik — 'by God, had you stayed at Mecca she would have no governor but you' — who gave him Khurasan; reaching Basra, he died there.