The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c11.35

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the year 44 A.H. (A.D. 664) al-Muhallab is reported to have passed through al-Kīkān and reached the towns of Bannah and al-Ahwār (Lahore) between Multan and Kabul.¹ In the reign of Mu'āwiyah 'Abdullah was killed in a raid on this frontier. In the reign of this very Caliph Sinan ibn Salāmah is reported to have "conquered Mukrān by force." But soon after Rashid ibn 'Amr was killed while raiding the Mīd in this region.² Al-Mundhir also died on this frontier, and it was only when Zīyād, the governor of 'Irāq appointed Ibn-al-Ḥarrī al-Bāhillī that he succeeded in conquering Mukrān 'after a fierce and successful campaign.' The episode of the robbery of the Mīds on a ship sent to Ḥajjāj by 'the king of the Island of Rubies' (Ceylon), if true, was probably only a pretext used by Ḥajjāj for securing support from the Caliph for his vigorous forward policy on this frontier, which finally resulted in the conquest of the powerful kingdom of Sind in A. H. 92-94 (A. D. 710-13), but not before Budail ibn Ṭahfah had been killed before the walls of Daibul in an earlier attempt.³