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Sijistan

سجستان

a province; in al-Baladhuri, whose king honored the fugitive Yazdgard until asked for kharaj he feigned deafness and moved on to Khurasan.

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Era
The Rashidun Caliphate · The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Site of
Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdallah ibn Amir's Sijistan· Ibn al-Ash'ath's End at Sijistan· Qutayba's Coming to Sijistan· al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad's Sijistan Campaign· The Habata Unrest in Sijistan· Ubaydallah ibn Abi Bakra's Second Disaster

People and things also explored

Rutbil (the Zunbil)· Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdallah ibn Amir· Abd al-Rahman ibn Jaza' al-Ta'i· عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن الأشعث· Abdallah ibn Nashira al-Tamimi· Abu Afra'a Umayr al-Mazini· Abu al-Hasan al-Basri· al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad al-Harithi

Sources

  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Rutbil (the Zunbil)

Rutbil, king of the Zabils; after the Kabul Shah expelled the Muslims he took Zabulistan and Rukhkhaj to Bust, where al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad routed him and pursued to Rukhkhaj; later he sued Ubaydallah ibn Abi Bakra at Barzan for peace over his land and Kabul's — settled at a million dirhams, ratified by Ziyad.