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Siege of Tustar

حصار تستر

تستر

Abu Musa marched on Tustar, the enemy's strength and edge — and wrote Umar for aid; Umar ordered Ammar ibn Yasir out of Kufa, putting Jarir ibn Abdallah al-Bajali first. The wings: Abu Musa's right al-Bara' ibn Malik, Anas's brother; left Majza'a ibn Thawr al-Sadusi; horse Anas ibn Malik — Ammar's right al-Bara' ibn Azib, left Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman, horse Qaraza ibn Ka'b, foot al-Nu'man ibn Muqarrin al-Muzani. The fighting ran to Tustar's gate where al-Bara' ibn Malik fought till martyred, and Hurmuzan went in.

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The Rashidun Caliphate
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Abu Musa al-Ashari· Ammar ibn Yasir· al-Bara' ibn Malik· جرير بن عبد الله البجلي· الهرمزان
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Tustar's Fall and Hurmuzan's Capture· The Expedition of Dhat al-Riqa'· Uthman's Land-Grants in Iraq· The March of al-Falalij and the Pursuit of Jaban at Tustar· The Asawira's Conversion Compact· Bajila's Quarter of the Sawad and Its Return· The Peace of Baniqya and the Taylasan· The Day of Mihran, Being the Day of al-Buwayb

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  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Tustar's Fall and Hurmuzan's Capture

Nine hundred fell in the battle and six hundred captives were beheaded after; then a Persian sought aman to show the Muslims the breach — converted, stipended for himself and his son — and led Ashras ibn Awf of Shayban across Dujayl on a stone weir, up the city, and pointed out Hurmuzan. Forty volunteers under Majza'a ibn Thawr with two hundred behind entered by night, killed the guard and cried takbir on the wall; Hurmuzan fled to his treasury-citadel, Abu Musa crossed at dawn and possessed the city — 'none taught the Arabs our weakness but one who saw their rising fortune and our waning' — while the defector killed his own family and cast them into Dujayl. Hurmuzan asked aman; Abu Musa gave it only on Umar's judgment, and he came down on that.