and a vast host; they wrested from him the provinces and towns under his control as far as Tustar (1). He shut himself up there, and they wrote to ʿUmar about what had happened.

Al-Aswad ibn Sariʿ—who was a Companion, may Allah be pleased with him—composed the following lines on the event (2):

By your life, our kinsmen lost nothing at all, (3)
They merely safeguarded what the obedient safeguard. (4)
They obeyed their Lord, while others disobeyed Him;
Whoever flouts His command is himself forsaken.
Magians, unrestrained by any revealed Book,
Met a catastrophe that left them crouching low.
Al-Hurmuzān fled upon a racing mount,
Its flanks chafed by the urging of the whole host. (5)
He abandoned the very navel of Ahwāz in spite of himself
On the morning of the Bridge, when spring first dawned. (6)

Ḥurqos ibn Zuhayr al-Saʿdī—also a Companion—recited:

We mastered al-Hurmuzān in lands
Whose every quarter hoards its treasures.
On them the land and sea are equal
Whenever dawn breaks over their borders. (7)
A river roars between its banks,
Its surging floods are ever-renewed. (8)

The First Conquest of Tustar, by Treaty

Ibn Jarīr (9) said: According to Sayf and his narration, this occurred in this very year; others placed it in the year sixteen, while others said it was in the year nineteen.

Ibn Jarīr then added: Here is the report of its conquest. He related through Sayf, from Muḥammad, Ṭalḥah, al-Muhallab and ʿAmr (10): When Ḥurqos ibn Zuhayr captured the marketplace of al-Ahwāz and al-Hurmuzān fled before him, he sent Jazʾ ibn Muʿāwiyah in pursuit—this on the basis of a letter from ʿUmar. Jazʾ kept after him until he reached Rām-Hurmuza (11); there al-Hurmuzān fortified himself, evading Jazʾ’s search, while Jazʾ took possession of that region.