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 it a cavalry guard with stipends. He also subdued aṣ-Ṣanârîyah, whose inhabitants paid kharâj. In compliance with al-Manṣûr's orders, he married the daughter of the king of al-Khazar. She gave birth to a child which did not live; she herself died in child-birth. Yazîd sent someone to the naphtha and salt mines of the land of Sharwân and levied tax on them. He put someone in charge of them. He also built the city of Arjîl aṣ-Ṣughra [the Less] and Arjîl al-Kubra [the Great], and settled people from Palestine in them.

. Muḥammad ibn-Ismâʿîl from certain sheikhs from Bardhaʿah:—Ash-Shamâkhîyah which lay in the province of Sharwân was thus called after ash-Shamâkh ibn-Shujâʿ, who was the king of Sharwân during the rule of Saʿîd ibn-Sâlim al-Bâhili over Armenia.

. Muḥammad ibn-Ismâʿîl from certain sheikhs:—After the dismissal of ibn-Usaid and Bakkâr ibn-Muslim al-ʿUḳaili, and during the governorship of al-Ḥasan ibn-Ḳaḥṭabah aṭ-Ṭâʾi, the Armenians broke off their allegiance under their chief Mûshâʾîl al-Armani. Al-Manṣûr sent reinforcements under ʿÂmir ibn-Ismâʾîl. Al-Ḥasan engaged himself in fight with Mûshâʿîl and killed him, dispersing his troops. Things went on well with al-Ḥasan. The Nahr al-Ḥasan in al-Bailaḳân is named after this al-Ḥasan; and so are the Bâgh at Bardhaʿah named Bâgh al-Hasan, and the crown-lands known as al-Ḥasanîyah.

. ʿUthmân ibn-ʿUmârah ibn-Khuraim succeeded al-Ḥasan ibn-Ḳaḥṭabah, and then