Its numerical decline in Khurasan meant that the Khurasan-born Arabs could no longer be completely controlled by force; this opened the way for the appointment of a native Khurasani Arab governor, Nasr ibn Sayyar, to succeed Asad, and, eventually, for the outbreak of the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad regime.
Expecting Muslim's imminent recall by the new regime, the Yemeni troops in Balkh initially refused to join the campaign, but were forced to join the army when a force composed of Mudaris (northern Arabs) under Nasr ibn Sayyar marched against them and defeated them at Baruqan.
Nasr City | Ibn Khaldun | Ibn Battuta | Husayn ibn Ali | Hasan ibn Ali | Ibn Hisham | Jābir ibn Hayyān | Ibn Ezra | Hossein Nasr | Abraham ibn Ezra | Tariq ibn Ziyad | Ibn Battuta Mall | Ibn Arabi | Solomon ibn Gabirol | Ibn Saud | Ibn Hawqal | Ibn Ezra (disambiguation) | Abu Sufyan ibn Harb | Yusuf ibn Tashfin | Qazan Khan ibn Yasaur | Nasr | Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari | Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University | Ibn Khordadbeh | Ibn Abi Zar | Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik | Amrus ibn Yusuf | Akhnas ibn Shariq | Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak | Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa |