فتوح البلدان 85.54

85.54

ثم ولى بعد الجنيد تميم بن زيد العتبي فضعف ووهن ومات قريبا من الديبل بماء يقال له ماء الجواميس، وإنما سمي ماء الجواميس لأنه يهرب بها إليه من دباب زرق تكون بشاطئ مهران، وكان تميم من أسخياء العرب وجد في بيت المال بالسند ثمانية عشر ألف ألف درهم طاطرية فأسرع فيها، وكان قد شخص معه في الجند فتى من بني يربوع يقال له خنيس وأمه من طيء إلى الهند فأتت الفرزدق فسألته أن يكتب إلى تميم في إقفاله وعاذت بقبر غالب أبيه، فكتب الفرزدق إلى تميم:

They made incursions against Uzain, and they attacked Baharimad and burnt its suburbs. Junaid conquered al Bailaman and Jurz, and he received at his abode, in addition to what his visitors presented to him, forty millions, and he himself carried off a similar sum. The successor of Junaid was Tamim, son of Zaid al 'Utbi. He was feeble and imbecile, and died near Debal in a water called the "Buffalo-water." This water was so called because buffalos took refuge there from the bears which infested the banks of the Mihran. Tamim was one of the most generous of Arabs, he found in the treasury of Sind eighteen million Tatariya dirhams, which he soon spent. * * * * * In the days of Tamim, the Musulmans retired from several parts of India and left some of their positions, nor have they up to the present time advanced so far as in days gone by.