إسماعيل بن أحمد الساماني

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Isma'il ibn Ahmad al-Samani. Al-Tabari relates that he captured Amr ibn al-Layth in 287 AH, and that al-Mu'tadid praised him for it. ¹ ²

After his brother

Al-Mas'udi says that the rule passed to him after the death of his brother Nasr ibn Ahmad in 289 AH. Al-Mu'tadid sent him rich gifts and three hundred thousand dinars, to distribute among his followers and send them to Sistan to fight Tahir ibn Muhammad ibn Amr ibn al-Layth. ³

The Turkish campaign

Ibn al-Jawzi says that he raided the lands of the Turks in 280 AH, conquered the city of their king, and captured the king and Khatun. ⁴

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غزو إسماعيل بن أحمد بلاد الترك

Sources

Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari (ed. Abu al-Fadl Ibrahim), j.10 p.76
Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari (ed. Abu al-Fadl Ibrahim), j.10 p.77
Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p.628-632
al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi, p.146

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islam.museum contributors. “إسماعيل بن أحمد الساماني”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ismail-ibn-ahmad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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غزو إسماعيل بن أحمد بلاد الترك

In 280 Ismail ibn Ahmad raided the lands of the Turks, killed many, captured their king's city with the king, the Khatun and some ten thousand, and each Muslim horseman's share was a thousand dirhams.