CHAPTER VI
The Death of Yazdajird ibn-Shahriyâr ibn-Kisra
Abarwîz ibn-Hurmuz ibn-Anûshirwân
The flight of Yazdajird. Yazdajird fled from al-Madâʾin to Ḥulwân and thence to Iṣbahân. When the Moslems were done with Nihâwand, he fled from Iṣbahân to Iṣṭakhr, where he was pursued, after the conquest of Iṣbahân, by ʿAbdallâh ibn-Budail ibn-Warḳâʾ, but to no avail. Abu-Mûsa-l-Ashʿari came to Iṣṭakhr and attempted its conquest, but did not succeed, and likewise did ʿUthmân ibn-abi-l-ʿÂṣi ath-Thaḳafi try it and fail.
In the year 29 when all Persia with the exception of Iṣṭakhr and Jûr[1] was already reduced, ʿAbdallâh ibn-ʿÂmir ibn-Kuraiz proceeded to al-Baṣrah. Yazdajird was on the point of leaving for Ṭabaristân, whose satrap had invited him, when Yazdajird was still in Iṣbahân, to come to Ṭabaristân which he told him was well fortified. It then occurred to Yazdajird to flee to Karmân, to which ibn-ʿÂmir sent after him Mujâshiʿ ibn-Masʿûd as-Sulami and Harim ibn-Ḥaiyân al-ʿAbdi. Mujâshiʿ came and stopped at Biyamand in Karmân, where his army was caught by a snow storm and nearly annihilated, few only surviving. The castle in which he resided was called after him Ḳaṣr Mujâshiʿ. Mujâshiʿ then took his way back to ibn-ʿÂmir.
As Yazdajird was one day sitting in Karmân, its marzubân came in; but Yazdajird felt too haughty to speak to
- ↑ Ṭabari, vol. i, p. 2863: "which is Ardashîr Khurrah". Cf. Meynard, p. 23.
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