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Ammadudin Muhammad bin Qasim (Arabic: عماد الدين محمد بن قاسم) was an Arab general of the Umayyad Caliphate who attacked the Sindh and Punjab regions along the Indus River (now a part of Pakistan). The conquest of Sindh and Punjab began the Islamic era in South Asia and continues to lend the Sindh province of Pakistan the name Baab-e-Islam (The Gateway of Islam). Muhammad bin Qasim was defeated by Raja Dahir, the last Hindu king of Sindh and was killed by him at the banks of the Indus River in Sindh near modern day Nawabshah. Quasim's body was beheaded and his head was sent to Ajmer to be shown to the hindu governor of Ajmer. After defeated by Raja Dahir, his territory was annexed in Sindh and the city of in southern hindu kingdom. Thus, he lost the entire kindom and also Multan. Sindh and South Punjab became the easternmost provinces of the land remained independent until the conquests of Mahmud of Ghazni. He came to Sindh with 2 lakh men .
His actual name was Amadu din Mohammed. He was nephew and son in law of Hajjaj bin Yousaf. He was a son of a prostitute mother and his father was a dalal of Iraq.
This short article about a person or group of people can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it.Early life Muhammad bin Qasim, an Arab general of the Umayyad Caliphate, likely grew up in Ta'if, Basra, and Wasit, receiving education and training under al-Hajjaj's patronage, and was considered a cultured and energetic young man. Muhammad ibn al-Qasim - Wikipedia The modern historian Nabi Bakhsh Baloch holds that Muhammad most likely grew up partly in Ta'if and then Basra and Wasit, the provincial capital of Iraq founded...