Dahir, King of Sind

داهر ملك السند

Dahir, king of Sind; refusing to free the pirated women — 'pirates beyond my power' — he met Muhammad ibn al-Qasim elephant-backed amid elephants and the Kakira, dismounted, fought, and fell at evening; al-Mada'ini names a Kilabi his killer.

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The Umayyad Period
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The Battle and Death of Dahir· The Daybul Pirates and the Cry 'ya Hajjaj'· The Storming of Daybul

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Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi· al-Daybul· عنبسة بن إسحاق الضبي· Budayl ibn Tahfa al-Bajali· Ubaydallah ibn Nabhan· Mihran· The Battle and Death of Dahir· The Daybul Pirates and the Cry 'ya Hajjaj'

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  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi

Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi, conqueror of Sind in al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik's caliphate; in al-Baladhuri: al-Walid transferred to Antioch a company of the Sindhi Zutt whom Muhammad ibn al-Qasim had assigned to al-Hajjaj, who sent them on to Syria — as Mu'awiya had earlier, in year 49 or 50, moved companies of Basra's Zutt and Sayabija to the coasts, settling some at Antioch.