Sinan ibn Salama's Conquest of Makran

فتح مكران على يد سنان بن سلمة

Ziyad appointed the pious Sinan ibn Salama ibn al-Muhabbiq al-Hudhali — first to bind his troops with divorce-oaths — who took Makran by storm, garrisoned it, and held it firm; the poets mocked his swearing ('a divorce whose wife gets no dower'). Ibn al-Kalbi names Hakim ibn Jabala the conqueror. Ziyad's next man Rashid ibn Amr al-Judaydi won at Qiqan, fell at al-Mayd, and Sinan, left in command, held the thaghr two years.

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The Allafis' Coup on the Makran Frontier

Under al-Hajjaj, Sa'id ibn Aslam al-Kilabi held Makran's frontier till the Allafi brothers Mu'awiya and Muhammad, sons of al-Harith, rose and killed him — Allaf being Rabban ibn Hulwan of Quda'a, Abu Jurm. Al-Hajjaj then gave the thaghr to Mujja'a ibn Si'r al-Tamimi, who raided, took plunder, and opened parts of Qandabil — finished later by Muhammad ibn al-Qasim — dying in Makran within the year. His successor Muhammad ibn Harun al-Namari received, for al-Hajjaj, the king of Jazirat al-Yaqut's gift of Muslim-born women orphaned of merchant fathers.

Sinan ibn Salama's Conquest of Makran

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