al-Ahnaf ibn Qays · Islam Museum

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Era: The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period · The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region: Persia & Central Asia
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Participated in: Balkh's Sulh and al-Ahnaf's Khwarizm March· al-Ahnaf's Petition to Umar for Basra· al-Ahnaf's Sulh at Qasr al-Ahnaf and Marw al-Rudh· al-Ahnaf's Battle in Tukharistan· al-Aqra' ibn Habis Takes Juzjan· The Conquest of Isbahan· The Conquest of Qumm and Qashan· Ibn Amir's Opening of Khurasan

People and things also explored

Umar ibn al-Khattab· Marw al-Rudh· Jizya (capitation on treaty peoples)· Kharaj (land tax)· عبد الله بن عامر· Abdallah ibn Budayl· Abu Musa al-Ashari· al-Aqra' ibn Habis al-Tamimi

Sources

Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)

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Umar ibn al-Khattab

Second caliph (634–644); under his rule the early community conquered Syria, Egypt and much of the Sasanian Empire. Remembered in Sunni tradition as al-Faruq, the model of just rule.