Khalid ibn Zayd al-Muzani

خالد بن زيد المزني

Khalid ibn Zayd al-Muzani; he lost an eye at al-Sus and narrates its siege — the hundred-man aman and the dahqan who exempted himself and was killed.

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The Rashidun Caliphate
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Khalid ibn Zayd al-Muzani, whose eye was afflicted by weevils. Al-Baladhuri relates his siege and conquest of a town on terms of safe conduct for a hundred, and that its landlord removed himself and was killed. 1

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Conquest of al-Sus

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Abu Musa al-Ashari· al-Sus (Shush)· Conquest of al-Sus

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  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Abu Musa al-Ashari

Companion from the Ashari tribe, a client of the family of Utba ibn Rabi'a; came to the Prophet on the two ships from Abyssinia. Known as a jurist, expert Qur'an reciter and governor of Basra and Kufa under Umar.