Masmala ibn Hubayra

مصقلة بن هبيرة

Masmala ibn Hubayra ibn Shabal of Tha'laba ibn Shayban ibn Tha'laba ibn Ukaba; Mu'awiya made him governor of Tabaristan with ten or twenty thousand, the enemy lured him deep then rolled the narrows' rocks down — his army annihilated, his name a proverb for the never-returning.

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Masmala's Destruction in Tabaristan

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Tabaristan· Masmala's Destruction in Tabaristan

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

a province; in al-Baladhuri, whose marzban offered its fastness to Yazdgard at Isbahan before he turned aside to Kirman.