They encamped at Marw, whereupon al-Aḥnaf marched out against them, engaged them in battle, and routed them; the encounter became famous in the annals.

Ibn ʿĀmir then returned from Medina to Basra and remained its governor until ʿUthmān was killed; likewise, Muʿāwiyah continued as governor over Syria.

Once Ibn ʿĀmir had opened up those vast regions, the land tax due to ʿUthmān multiplied and money poured in from every direction. He therefore set up state treasuries and began distributing stipends. He would order that a single man be granted one hundred thousand in biḍrahs, each biḍrah containing four thousand full-weight silver pieces.

Judge Abū Yūsuf said: “They withdrew from Chosroes’ treasuries two hundred thousand biḍrahs, each biḍrah containing four thousand.”

Those who died in the year 30 AH:

• Jabbār ibn Ṣakhr ibn Umayyah ibn Khansāʾ, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Anṣārī al-Sulamī. He was present at Badr and at the Pledge of ʿAqabah, and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, dispatched him to Khaybar as a khāriṣ (crop assessor). He died in Medina at the age of sixty.

• Al-Ṭufayl ibn al-Ḥārith ibn al-Muṭṭalib al-Muṭṭalibī—according to Saʿīd ibn ʿAfīr—the brother of ʿUbaydah ibn al-Ḥārith and al-Ḥuṣayn ibn al-Ḥārith. He was among the earliest converts and was present at Badr.