Nasaf (Nakhshab)
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Nasaf — that is Nakhshab — beyond the river; its folk marched with Sughd, Turks and Kish on Sa'id ibn Uthman's host and were broken at Bukhara.
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Nasaf, which is Nakhshab, is a town beyond the river (Transoxiana). The book Futuh al-Buldan mentions that its people came with the Sughd, the Turks and Kush to Sa'id ibn Uthman, with a hundred and twenty thousand men, and that they met at Bukhara and were defeated. 1
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “Nasaf (Nakhshab)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/nasaf/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.