-
Ziyad ibn
Abihi (665–673), and al-Hajjaj ibn
Yusuf (694–714),
while major Thaqafite commanders included Uthman ibn Abi al-As, who led the
first Muslim naval...
- Arab
military operations against the
Indian subcontinent: in c. 636 the
Thaqafite governor of
Bahrayn (eastern Arabia),
Uthman ibn Abi al-As, dispatched...
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severe defeats at the
hands of the Azariqa. In 694
Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, a
Thaqafite, was made
governor of Iraq and he
reinstated Muhallab to lead the fight...
- Aisha.: 8 : 172 In 630
Abdullah fought at the
Siege of Ta'if,
where the
Thaqafite poet, Abū Miḥjan al-Thaḳafī, shot him with an arrow. This
wound ultimately...
