Shimshat (Arsamosata)

شمشاط

Shimshat (Arsamosata) — the fourth Armenia — of the Jaziran frontier; Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri and Safwan ibn al-Mu'attal al-Sulami took it under Mu'awiya in Uthman's days on the like of al-Ruha's treaty, Safwan settling and dying there; Constantine camped on it in year 133 gaining nothing; it stayed kharaj-land until al-Mutawakkil made it tithe-land like the rest of the thughur; from it Malik al-Sawa'if rode raiding in year 46, and around it turn the fortunes of Kamkh, Yaghra and Khilat.

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The Conquest of the Jazira

In al-Baladhuri through the Raqqa judge Dawud ibn Abd al-Hamid's family from Maymun ibn Mihran: 'the whole Jazira is Iyad ibn Ghanm's conquest, after Abu Ubayda's death — Umar appointed him to it, Abu Ubayda having left him over Syria; Umar gave Syria to Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan then Mu'awiya after him and ordered Iyad to raid the Jazira'; Sulayman ibn Ata says Abu Ubayda dispatched him to the Jazira and died while he was there, Umar then confirming him; al-Waqidi's report — the soundest they had on him — is that Abu Ubayda died in the Amwas plague of year 18 having appointed Iyad, and Umar's letter reached him giving him Hims, Qinnasrin and the Jazira, so he marched for the Jazira on Thursday the middle of Sha'ban year 18 in five thousand, Maysara ibn Masruq al-Absi on the vanguard, Sa'id ibn Amir ibn Hudhaym al-Jumahi on the right wing and Safwan ibn al-Mu'attal al-Sulami on the left — some say Khalid ibn al-Walid held his left wing, some that Khalid marched under no banner after Abu Ubayda, staying at Hims till his death in year 21, or dying at Medina.

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The Conquest of the Jazira