The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 17.7

17.7

The people questioned the above narrator as to how he himself was fighting then, and he replied: “I was fighting with my arm but was hearing his (Mughairah’s) cries with the ear of my heart.” This same Usmán son of A’s was again appointed by Khalifah Umar son of Khattab, (may God be pleased with him) to lead an expedition to Irak, and Rabiah son of Ziyád Harisi was sent under him to take an army to Makrán and Kirmán. A letter was written to Abú Músá Ash-ari (the governor of Irak) from the capital of the Khalifahs requiring him to write a report about what passed in Irak and in the country of Hind. Accordingly when Abú Músá got the news of Mughairah’s defeat and murder, and learnt that in Hind and Sind there was a king who was very headstrong and stiff-necked, and was determined to behave offensively, he sent a communication to that effect to the Commander of the Faithful, Umar, (with whom may God be pleased) urging at the same time that he should think no more of Hind.