Uqba ibn Nafi's Charge over Zawila and the Marches to Barqa

ولاية عقبة بن نافع على زويلة وما بينها وبرقة

c. 22 AH

In al-Baladhuri on Mu'awiya ibn Salih's report: Amr ibn al-As wrote to Umar ibn al-Khattab that he had given Uqba ibn Nafi' al-Fihri the Maghreb — he had reached Zawila, and all between Zawila and Barqa had submitted in good obedience, their Muslims paying sadaqa and their covenant-holders confirmed in jizya — and that he had laid on Zawila's people and those between it and Barqa what he judged they could bear; and he charged all his agents to take sadaqa from the rich and return it to the poor, to take the jizya of the dhimma borne to him in Egypt, to take tithe and half-tithe from Muslim lands, and the treaty-terms from treaty folk.

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The Treaty of Barqa (Antabulus)

In al-Baladhuri: when Amr ibn al-As had taken Alexandria he marched with his army seeking the Maghreb until he came to Barqa — that is, the city of Antabulus — whose people compounded for a jizya of thirteen thousand dinars, in which they might sell whom of their children they wished; in Abdallah ibn Hubayra's account, after he had besieged and fought them, on the jizya and that they might sell whom they wished of their children toward their jizya — and he wrote them a book of it. Barqa's people would send their kharaj to Egypt's governor with none to press or hasten them — the most prosperous folk of the Maghreb, no fitna entering it — and Abdallah ibn Amr ibn al-As used to say 'but for my property in the Hijaz I would have settled in Barqa; I know no abode safer nor more wholesome'.

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The Treaty of Barqa (Antabulus)