1886.] Ghaznavis in Mdward-un-Nahr and part of Khurasan. 115 
seem to have readily agreed to by the Khalifah’s court and the usual 
dresses of honour and counter-marks of favour and distinction ” 
sent him. At the same time, it will be remembered the Ba gh dad court 
had just conferred similar favours on Isnia’il Samani. No sooner had 
Amrii proceeded to take possession of Mawara-un-Nahr, than Isma’il 
advanced from Bukhara and crossed the Oxus to prevent him. How 
’Amru was defeated under the walls of Balkh in 287 and sent a pri¬ 
soner to the Klialifah, and the fate he met with in Baghdad has already 
been noticed. Arrajan is his only mint represented in the British 
Museum. 
The Illrd Tahir the grandson of ’Amrii was then set up, and 
after a somewhat chequered career, in which he was once or twice in 
possession of Bars, was defeated by a rebel slave, a Sigizi, and together 
with a brother of Ya’kub’s, deported to Ba gh dad and there made a 
public show of like his grandfather, dying in 296 H. Two of his 
known mints are Bars and Zaranj. 
The lYth Lais bin ’All another son of the Brazier, who entered 
Bars from Sijistan, attacked and drove out the Sigizi slave but was 
again driven out by the Sigizi reinforced by troops of the Khalifah. 
Soon after, however, this Sigizi withheld the Khalifah’s share of the 
revenue and was in his turn driven out to the wilds of Khurasan. In 
the same year, 296, Abu Nasr-i-Ahmad Samani obtained possession 
of Sijistan, taken prisoners several of the Saffaris, and leaving his 
cousin Abii Salih Mansiir as governor. Lais bin ’All is said to have 
died in Bars in 298 H. Bust is his only mint in the British Museum. 
The Vth Mu’addil the brother of Lais (No. lY) assumed the 
sovereignty in 299 driving out the Samani governor, upon which Ahmad 
Samani despatched a large army under some of his principal nobles, 
Hasain ’Ali, Marw-ar-Rudi, Ahmad bin Sahl, &c., to whom Mu’addil 
surrendered at discretion and was taken to Bukhara and thence sent to 
Baghdad, which city would seem to have served as the Jericho of the 
time. 
