{"book":"adl0957","page":291,"text":"236\n\nSeistan. From Seistan Abdur Rahman advances\ninto Zamindawar, where in a temple devoted\nto the Sun-god (at Zur or Zuz) he comes across\nan idol of pure gold with eyes of ruby.\n\n698 A.D. Abdulla bin Abu Bakr comes with a large force\ntowards Kabul, but soon finds himself encircled\nby his enemies and ultimately is allowed to\nreturn on payment of 700,000 dinars.\n\n700 A.D. Hajjaj bin Yusif sends a contingent of 10,000\nmen under Abdur Rahman bin Ashas to reduce\nKabul. A severe winter with heavy snow-fall\ncauses Abdur Rahman to sue for peace and\nreturn with all haste. This is perhaps the last\nattempt of the Arabs in this direction.\n\n820-872 A.D. The Tahirids.\nAbdulla bin Tahir Zulyamin dying in 844 dur-\ning the reign of Mustasim, the Abbasid Cailph\nleaves his province (Herat) in the hands of his\nson, Tahir II, who receives the investiture as of\nright.\nThe last king of this line is Mohammed (862—\n872).\n\n867-903 A.D. The Saffarids.\nIn 867 the famous Yakub, son of Laith, the\nCoppersmith, conquers Seistan from the Tahirids\nand lays the foundation of the Saffarid dynasty.\n\n872 A.D. Yakub drives Mohammed, the grandson of\nTahir, out of Khurasan and extends his power\nover the whole of Persia and Afghanistan. He\ninvades Iraq, but is defeated with heavy losses.","chars":1267,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00291.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/291","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/291","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}