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 used to get their subsistence allowances from it. Seeing what had befallen them, the inhabitants of al-Anbâr made terms which satisfied Khâlid, and so he left them in their homes.

Others assert that Khâlid sent al-Muthanna before him to Baghdâdh and then followed him and directed the raid against it, after which he returned to al-Anbâr. This, however, is not authentic.

Al-Ḥusain ibn-al-Aswad from ash-Shaʿbi:—The people of al-Anbâr have a covenant [with the Moslems].

A tradition communicated to me by certain sheikhs from al-Anbâr states that terms were concluded with the people of al-Anbâr in the caliphate of ʿUmar in which it was stipulated that they pay for their canton [ṭassûj] 400,000 dirhams and 1,000 cloaks fabricated in Ḳaṭawân, per year. The terms were made by Jarîr ibn-ʿAbdallâh al-Bajali. Others say that the sum was 80,000; but Allah knows best.

Jarîr reduced Bawâzâj al-Anbâr in which are to-day many of his freedmen.

According to a report there came to Khâlid ibn-al-Walîd someone who pointed out to him a market above al-Anbâr in which the Kalb, Bakr ibn-Wâʾil and others from the tribe of Ḳuḍâʿah used to meet. Khâlid despatched against this place al-Muthanna ibn-Ḥârithah who made a raid against it, carried as booty what there was in it, slaughtered and took captives.

. Thence Khalid advanced to ʿAin at-Tamr and invested its fort in which a great frontier guard of Persians was stationed. The holders of the fort made a sally and fought, but after that, they confined themselves to their fort, where Khâlid and the Moslems besieged them until they sued for peace. Khâlid refused to give them