ʿAffân ibn-Muslim from ash-Shaʿbi:—After the death of abu-ʿUbaid, who was the first to be directed by ʿUmar to al-Kûfah, ʿUmar directed Jarîr ibn-ʿAbdallâh there, saying, "Wouldst thou go to al-ʿIrâḳ if I allow thee one-third of the spoils after the [usual] fifth has been taken?" and Jarîr said, "I will."
Dair Hind. The Moslems assembled in Dair Hind[1] in the year 14 immediately after the death of Shîrawaih, and the succession of Bûrân, daughter of Kisra, who was to rule until Yazdajird ibn-Shahriyâr came of age. Yazdajird[2] sent against them Mihrân ibn-Mihribundâdh al-Hamadhâni at the head of 12,000 men. The Moslems offered no resistance until he crossed the bridge on the Euphrates and arrived next to Dair al-Aʿwar.[3]
The battle of al-Buwaib. It is reported by Saif that Mihrân, after crossing al-Jisr [the bridge], came to a place called al-Buwaib.[4] It was in this place that he was killed.
Someone has said that the irregularities in the land of al-Buwaib were filled up with bones in the time of the civil war,[5] made level with the surface and covered with powdered soil [and that whenever the soil was removed the bones were seen].[6] The spot lay between as-Sakûn [canal] and the banu-Sulaim [canal].[7] This was the place in which the water of the Euphrates sank in the time of the Kisras and from which it poured into al-Jauf.[8]
- ↑ A convent near al-Ḥîrah. Hamadhâni, Buldân, p. 183; Bakri, pp. 362–364; Yâḳût, vol. ii, pp. 707–709.
- ↑ Cf. Dînawari, p. 125; Ṭabari, vol. i, p. 2163.
- ↑ Yâḳût, vol. ii, p. 644.
- ↑ Ibid., vol. i, p. 764.
- ↑ The reference is, perhaps, to the insurrection of Muṣʿab ibn-az-Zubair.
- ↑ The text is corrupt.
- ↑ Ṭabari, vol. i, p. 2191.
- ↑ Ibid., vol. i, p. 2187, lines 12–13; cf. Caetani, vol. iii, pp. 256–257.
