CHAPTER IV
The Conquest of Hamadhân
Jarîr reduces Hamadhân. In the year 23 A. H., al-Mughîrah ibn-Shuʿbah who, after the dismissal of ʿAmmâr ibn-Yâsir, was the ʿâmil of ʿUmar ibn-al-Khaṭṭâb over al-Kûfah, dispatched Jarîr ibn-ʿAbdallâh al-Bajali to Hamadhân.[1] The inhabitants of Hamadhân offered resistance and repelled his attacks, in the course of which Jarîr received an arrow in his eye; and he remarked, "I give up my eye, seeking recompense from Allah who decorated with it my face and provided me by means of it with light, so long as he willed, and then deprived me of it as I was in his cause!" After that he reduced Hamadhân, which made terms similar to those of Nihâwand. This took place toward the close of the year 23. Its inhabitants, having later rebelled, drove Jarîr back; but he finally took their land by force.[2]
Other versions. According to al-Wâḳidi, Jarîr reduced Nihâwand in the year 24, six months after the death of ʿUmar ibn-al-Khaṭṭâb.
It is reported by others that al-Mughîrah ibn-Shuʿbah, with Jarîr leading the vanguard, marched against Hamadhân and, after reducing it, put it in charge of Kathîr ibn-Shihâb al-Ḥârithi.
The terms with al-ʿAlâʾ. ʿAbbâs ibn-Hishâm from his grandfather and ʿAwânah ibn-al-Ḥakam:—When Saʿd ibn-
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