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Nasibin (Nisibis)

نصيبين

Nasibin (Nisibis) of the Jazira cities; Iyad ibn Ghanm took it after fighting on the like of al-Ruha's treaty, and after it Tur Abdin and the fortress of Mardin with Dara, Qarda and Bazabda on the like of its terms; its administrator complained to Mu'awiya in Uthman's days that a company of Muslims had been stung by scorpions, and he ordered him to charge each quarter of the city with a named quota of scorpions every night to be brought and killed.

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Era
The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Overview

Nasibin is one of the cities of al-Jazira. The book Futuh al-Buldan mentions that Iyad ibn Ghanm conquered it after fighting, on terms like the peace of al-Ruha. Then after it he conquered Tur Abdin, the fortress of Mardin, Dara, Qurra and Badhbadhi on similar terms. 1

Scorpions

In the same book, its governor complained to Mu'awiya, in the days of Uthman, that a group of Muslims had been stung by scorpions. Mu'awiya ordered him to assign to the people of each quarter of the city a set number of scorpions each night, which they would bring to him, and he would order them killed. 1

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Site of
al-Adil takes the Khabur and Nisibis and besieges Sinjar· the Jazīra raid — Kumayl's counterattack and Shabīb's pursuit to Baʿlabakk (39 AH)
Part of
The Jazira

People and things also explored

Shabib ibn Amir· War between al-Ashraf's and Jalal al-Din's armies· Battle of al-Firad (12 AH)· The Conquest of the Jazira· The Mongols enter Diyar Bakr and the Jazira· the Turkmen-Kurd war across the Jazira and Mosul· al-Malik al-Adil Sayf al-Din Abu Bakr ibn Ayyub· Ali ibn Abi Talib

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
  • al-Farghani, Elementa astronomica (Golius, Amsterdam 1669)
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Shabib ibn Amir

The book lists him as Ali's governor of al-Jazira; the passage gives neither the dates of his office nor further reports.