Derbend-nâmeh or the History of Derbend. , 525 
been converted to the religion of Islam, fell on the heaps of slaughtered infidels: Out of 
25 thousand Musulmans, there only escaped one hundred, who brought the information to 
the Khalif, » 
« After a council held in the court of the Khalif, Sail was chosen to undertake an expe- 
dition, and to avenge the blood of Djerräh. This leader, having received the mandate of Hi- 
sham, departed with thirty thousand warriors and soon arrived in Aderbidjan, in some parts of 
which he encountered the enemy, whom he slaughtered and enslaved their wives and chil- 
dren. Saïd proceeded with his army; every where he met with the desired success, till at last 
he rescued the family of Djerräh which was in captivity in the hands of the enemy, and buried 
with pomp the head of Djerräh which had been cut off and fastened to a wall on the field 
of battle. Twenty thousand men more were now united to Sa’ïd’s army: These brave warriors 
soon spread terror amongsl the enemy; and though the Khaghan, at the head of an army of 
one hundred thousand men, fiercely attacked the Musulmans, it only served to his sbame and 
disgrace; for scarcely could he escape from falling personally into the hands of the Musulman 
partisans, (Mir-khond says, that the leader was the Khaghan’s son whose name was Fat’h.) 
After the complete defeat of the enemy, the Musulmans reposed in Bakhü and divided amongst 
themselves the spoil and plunder which they had taken during the expedition, These were so 
immensely great, that every one of the fifty thousand men received a thousand and seven pieces 
of money (Mir-khond says, that Sa’ïd's army consisted of forty thousand men, and that each 
received 100 drachms of gold, besides horses, asses, camels &c.). 
« Said, having conquered the Khazars, reposed himself in the Port of Shirwän, where he 
waited the new orders of his sovereign. At this time he received an order that the govern- 
ment of Aderbidjan was delivered to the care of Muslimeh, the brother of the Khalif, who 
soon arrived at Shirwan and ffom thence proceeded to Derbend» (With this expedition of Mus- 
limeh begins the fifth part of our work). . 
By this sketch from Teberi we may distinctly perceive, that the autkor of the Derbend- 
nâmeh (if the year 114 referred to in the MSS. of St. Petersburg, Berlin and Paris and which 
is indeed justly calculated ©, really belong to him) meant by the expedition of Djerräh, descri- 
d Though I cannot find in other historical works which I possess, any definite epoch for the end of the 
expedition of Said , yet, to judge by the following circumstances, we see that the calculation is just, or at 
least nearly so: 1) Katih-tchelebi in his chronology ef) nr places Djerrâh’s death in the year 112 
of the Hijret, although he speaks of a battle named Tin ob between the Khazars and Muslimeh in the 
year 110 at Derbend , of which we do not find anything in Teberi or other authors in my possession ; and 
though he does not speak of any expedition of Muslimeh against the Khazars after the death of Djerräb. 
9) The same author speaks o1 Mervân as being the viceroy of Aderbidjan in 114. 3) Teberi says, that Mer- 
vän, the son of Muhammed, was the lieutenant of Muslimeh when he returned to Syria after his expedition 
and 4) Mir-khond, who for the most part arranges his narrations in chronological order, having finished 
his short hints on Djerrah’s death, Said’s expedition, and Muslimeh’s arrival at Derbend, begins another 
chapter on the governors of Khurâsän and says, that in 416 the Khalif delivered the dominion of Khurâsan 
to Djendib: consequently the expedition of Muslimeh must have preceded this event, about six months or 
one year. Besides, all the copies of the Derbend-nâmeh, that I possess, agree in attributing Muslimeh’s expe- 
dition to Derbend to the year 415 of the AHÿret. 
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