] 84 5.] a History of Sindh. 157 



Let it not be concealed, that when the deputies of Bini Oomai took 

 Sindh, some of the dependencies of the country were yet disobedient 

 to the great authority (of the Khalifs.) In short, Dilii Rahi, descended 

 from the Rahis, was in the city of Dihir a place of renown, and Bini- 

 hul Rahi was at Bhunbur, which city he had founded. 



Account of the Deputies of the Khalifs of Bini Abbas. 

 When Sqffah, who was the first Khalif of Bini Abbas, came to the 

 throne, in the year 133 H., he sent a force under Ddud Bin Alii, and 

 the government of Sindh was taken from the deputies of Bini Oomai. 

 After four years Abu Jaffir Mimsur Abbasi, ordered and prepared an 

 army for Sindh and Hindoostan : in the time of Harun Reshid, Moussa 

 the brother of Fazil came from Mecca to the governorship of Sindh, 

 but, giving away all he obtained, he was dismissed. Alii Bin Isa, Bin 

 Haman came in his place ; at this time the fort of Tibm, an impreg- 

 nable fortification near Sahurah and the city of Bakar, and other 

 places in that vicinity, westerly from Sindh, were in the hands of 

 Sheikh Abdul Tihrah, whose tomb with those of other holy men (mar- 

 tyrs) are still places of pilgrimage to true believers, and on the top of 

 the dome it is written, that he died in the year 171 H. The city of 

 Bhunbur having been destroyed, they proceeded elsewhere. At length 

 Abul Abbas arrived as governor of Sindh, and remained there a long 

 period. In the time of Marti on, some further portions of Hind were 

 added to the possessions of their deputies. After him, other individuals 

 were appointed from Bagdad to the governorship of Sindh, until during 

 the Khalifat of Abdul Kadir Billah al Abbas, when Abmed Assak, Bin 

 Ahmukhtidar Allah, was appointed. In the middle of the month 



Ramzan 416 EL, Sultan Mahmud Ghazi arrived at 

 416 H., 1025 A. D. _, _ 

 Mahmud of Ghuzni Multan from Ghuzni, and having captured Ooch, 



Sindh, and terminates drove out the deputies of Abdul Kadir from the coun- 

 htse^AbLs^aft tr y of Sindh - Th * P*™d of the government of the de- 

 283 years. p ut i e s of the Khalifs of Bini Abbas, from the com- 



mencement before mentioned is altogether 283 years. 



The tribe of Sumrah had 200 years previously taken possession of 

 certain portions of Sindh, but as they had paid tax and tribute, and had 

 TribeofSumrahtobe k een obedient to tne Moslem governors, no mention 

 described hereafter, has been made of them : but after having related the 



