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 12 ARAB CONQUEST OF SIND months and compelled it to surrender, promising to spare the lives of the inhabitants and not to touch the temples. " The temples," he said, " shall be unto us like as the churches of the Christians, the synagogues of the Jews, and the fire-temples of the Magians." A TOMB AT MULTAN. He imposed tribute upon the inhabitants, however, and built a mosque in the city. Mohammad then advanced to Alsakah, a town on this side of the Biyah, which was captured by him, and is now in ruins. He then crossed the Biyah and went toward Multan, where, in the action which ensued, Zaid ibn Omar, of the tribe of Tai, covered himself