Abdullah ibn Abd al-Malik

عبد الله بن عبد الملك

Abdullah ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan the Umayyad; in al-Baladhuri: he led the summer raid of year 84, entering by the Antioch pass and coming to Masisa where he built the fortress on its ancient foundation, settling garrison troops among them three hundred picked men of known valour and building a mosque on the fortress hill, then marched on to take the fortress of Sinan and sent Yazid ibn Hunayn al-Ta'i al-Antaki raiding before returning.

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Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik

Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan the Umayyad; in al-Baladhuri: the Baghras lands were his and he endowed them in the way of good, as were Ayn al-Salur and its pond; he granted companies of Rabi'a estates that were later seized and passed to al-Ma'mun; marching against the Byzantines from the Jaziran marches he camped at Balis, whose people with those of Nuwaylis, Qasirin, Ayidin and Siffin asked him to dig them a channel from the Euphrates to water their land in return for a third of their yield after the sultan's tithe — he did, digging the river named Nahr Maslama, and they kept the bargain while he repaired and strengthened the city's wall; Balis and its villages passed to his heirs until the blessed dynasty came, when Abu al-Abbas granted them to Sulayman ibn Ali.

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