The Zutt Brigandage and Ujayf's War
قطع الزط ومحاربة عجيف لهم
Al-Hajjaj settled a mass of Sind's Zutt — families, children and buffaloes — in Kaskar's lowlands; they overran the batiha and bred, joined by runaway slaves and the Bahila and Khawla mawlas of Muhammad ibn Sulayman ibn Ali, who egged them to highway robbery and open defiance. In al-Ma'mun's days travellers avoided them and Baghdad lost all Basra shipping; al-Mu'tasim devoted himself to them, charging the Khurasani Ujayf ibn Anbasa with open funds — he staged lean tailed horses between the bata'ih and Baghdad so word reached him within hours — and Ujayf dammed the water against them with great works till not one escaped, barged them to Baghdad and scattered them: some at Khaniqin, the rest to Ayn Zarba and the frontier.
At a glance
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- 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
- Ujayf ibn Anbasa· the Zutt· al-Mu'tasim Abu Ishaq ibn al-Rashid
- Occurred at
- Basra
People and things also explored
Great Mosque of Basra· The Asawira's Settlement at Basra· The Basra Bathhouse Permissions· The Basrans' Cry to Abdallah ibn Ali· Building of al-Mughitha· The Bukharans' Settlement at Basra· فتح عمورية· The Basra Dar al-Imara Saga
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “The Zutt Brigandage and Ujayf's War”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/zutt-brigandage/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.