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 ʿAffân ibn-Muslim from ash-Shaʿbi:—After the death of abu-ʿUbaid, who was the first to be directed by ʿUmar to al-Kûfah, ʿUmar directed Jarîr ibn-ʿAbdallâh there, saying, "Wouldst thou go to al-ʿIrâḳ if I allow thee one-third of the spoils after the [usual] fifth has been taken?" and Jarîr said, "I will."

. The Moslems assembled in Dair Hind in the year 14 immediately after the death of Shîrawaih, and the succession of Bûrân, daughter of Kisra, who was to rule until Yazdajird ibn-Shahriyâr came of age. Yazdajird sent against them Mihrân ibn-Mihribundâdh al-Hamadhâni at the head of 12,000 men. The Moslems offered no resistance until he crossed the bridge on the Euphrates and arrived next to Dair al-Aʿwar.

. It is reported by Saif that Mihrân, after crossing al-Jisr [the bridge], came to a place called al-Buwaib. It was in this place that he was killed.

Someone has said that the irregularities in the land of al-Buwaib were filled up with bones in the time of the civil war, made level with the surface and covered with powdered soil [and that whenever the soil was removed the bones were seen]. The spot lay between as-Sakûn [canal] and the banu-Sulaim [canal]. This was the place in which the water of the Euphrates sank in the time of the Kisras and from which it poured into al-Jauf.