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4 Moreover, the Azd in 'Urnan lived amidst a large non• Arab population and were also cut off from any deep and intimate contact 1, Ziyad al-A'jam says :- (View the image of this page) The third line is stated to refer particularly to Abu-Sufra who had remained uncircumcised till he was far advanced in age ('lbn-I:{ajar: Al-l~ba, IV, 109).
H. In the following year Abu• Sufra is noticed as commanding the left wing of al-Hakam's army in the battle of Rashahr which was fought against Shahrak, the Marzuban · of Fars.
. Al-Muhallab was recalled from the leadership of the campaign against the Azariqa in the beginning of the year 67 by the new governor of al• Basra, Mus'ab b.
Al-Muhallab's actual part in the expedition fully justified the fond hopes of Mus'ab who afterwards ap• ·pointed 'him governor of al-Mausil, the strategic importance of which region was quite supreme at that time in view of the threatened advance of 'Abdul-Malik from Syria.
years he had made it a cardinal point of his military policy to keep al• Muhallab in al-Mausil so as to have his invaluable 'help at the time of 'Abdul-Malik's threatened advance from Syria, 1 But nowthatthe threaten• ed danger did actually materialise, he could not but go without the help which he had so long valued.
· · ·· Thus al-Muhallab -assumed command of the campaign against the• Azariqa for the fourth and last time in 74 A.