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. Muḥammad ibn-Saʿd from ʿAbdallâh ibn-Hubairah:—After reducing Alexandria, ʿAmr ibn-al-ʿÂṣi led his army intent upon the conquest of al-Maghrib [Mauritania] until he arrived in Barḳah, the chief city of Anṭâbulus, whose inhabitants made terms on a poll-tax of 13,000 dînârs to be raised as the price of those of their children whom they desired to sell.

Bakr ibn-al-Haitham from ʿAbdallâh ibn-Hubairah:—After investing and fighting the people of Anṭâbulus and its city, Barḳah, which lay between Egypt and Ifrîḳiyah [Africa == Tunis], ʿAmr ibn-al-ʿÂṣi made terms with them, stipulating that they pay a poll-tax which might include the price of those of their children whom they desired to sell. ʿAmr wrote a statement to that effect.

Muḥammad ibn-Saʿd from Isḥâḳ ibn-ʿAbdallâh ibn-abi-Farwah:—The inhabitants of Barḳah used to send their kharâj to the governor of Egypt without having anyone come to urge them for it. Their land was the most fertile land of al-Maghrib, and it never saw an insurrection.

Al-Wâḳidi states that ʿAbdallâh ibn-ʿAmr ibn-al-ʿÂṣi used to say, " Had it not been for my possessions in al

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