ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Madāʾinī said:

Abū Bakr al-Hudhalī related: Shahr ibn Ḥawshab was supervisor of the treasuries of Yazīd ibn al-Muhallab. Word reached Yazīd that he had taken a pouch containing one hundred dinars. Yazīd questioned him about it; Shahr admitted the charge and produced the purse. Yazīd said to him, “It is yours,” then summoned the man who had carried the tale and reviled him. On this al-Quṭamī al-Kalbī composed—though some attribute the lines to Sinān ibn Mukammil al-Namirī—the following:

Shahr has bartered his faith for a single pouch—
Who now will the Qurʾān-reciters trust after you, O Shahr?
For a paltry sum you pawned it to Ibn Junbuth;
Indeed, that is the very essence of betrayal.

Murrah ibn al-Nakhaʿī (1) likewise said:

O son of al-Muhallab, what have you done to a man
who, but for you, would have stood with the worthiest of the qurraʾ? (2)

Ibn Jarīr (3) reports that during the campaign of Jurjān Yazīd ibn al-Muhallab commanded one hundred and twenty thousand men, sixty thousand of them from the Syrian army—may Allah reward them. With the fall of Jurjān the surrounding lands were pacified and the roads became passable; previously they had been extremely perilous. Yazīd then resolved to march on Ṭabaristān (4). He sent ahead a vanguard of four thousand of the leading warriors; when the two forces met they fought fiercely, and four thousand Muslims were killed. Undeterred, Yazīd was determined to conquer the province, and he pressed on until its ruler—the Ispahbadh—sought terms, agreeing to pay a huge tribute of seven hundred thousand annually, along with other goods and slaves.

Among the notable deaths in that year were:

Ubayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah (5), an authoritative imam who had tutored ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and transmitted many reports from numerous Companions;

and Abū Ḥafṣ al-Nakhaʿī (6).