[Footnote 40: It was valued at 2000 pieces of gold, and was
the prize of Obeidollah, the son of Ziyad, a name afterwards
infamous by the murder of Hosein, (Ockley's History of the
Saracens, vol. ii. p. 142, 143,) His brother Salem was
accompanied by his wife, the first Arabian woman (A.D. 680)
who passed the Oxus: she borrowed, or rather stole, the
crown and jewels of the princess of the Sogdians, (p. 231,
232.)]