Sa'id ibn Amr ibn Aswad al-Harashi

سعيد بن عمرو بن أسود الحرشي

Sa'id ibn Amr ibn Aswad al-Harashi, an amir of the marches; Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik sent him at the head of Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik's vanguard to Armenia, where he met the Khazars besieging Wartan, drove them off and routed them — whereupon Maslama's letter came blaming him for fighting before his arrival, so he was seized, bound and jailed at Bardha'a until Hisham wrote for his release; after Maslama, Hisham gave him the march for two years.

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The Umayyad Period
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Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik's Khazar Campaign and the Taking of al-Bab· Marwan ibn Muhammad's Expedition through Khazar and Mountain Lands

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The Khazars· هشام بن عبد الملك· مروان بن محمد بن مروان· Armenia· Asid ibn Zafir al-Sulami· Ishaq ibn Muslim al-Uqayli· Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik· Al-Sarir

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

The Khazars in al-Baladhuri are the people beyond the Caucasus whose great king bears the title Khaqan; Salman ibn Rabi'a warred on them until slain at Balanjar, and they surged across the Rass in al-Jarrah's day until he met and fell fighting them near Ardabil; when their great king learned the numbers Marwan ibn Muhammad trod into his lands it filled him with dread, and he sent summoning him to Islam or war — Marwan answering 'I accept Islam', whereupon the Khaqan showed forth Islam, Marwan compounding with him confirming his kingdom, and settled a body of them between al-Samur and al-Shabiran in the Lakz plain; and Yazid ibn Asid married into their king's house at al-Mansur's command, the Khaqan's daughter bearing him a son who died while she died in her lying-in.