Muhammad ibn Qasim (Arabic: محمد ابن القاسم, romanized: Muḥammad ibn Qāsim; c. 695 – 715), was an Arab military commander in the service of the Umayyad Caliphate who led the Muslim conquest of Sindh from the last Hindu king, Raja Dahir in the battle of Aror. He was the first Muslim to have successfully captured Hindu territories and initiate the early Islamic India in 712 CE. Qasim was born in 695 and belonged to the Banu Thaqif tribe. He was assigned as the Governor of Fars in Iran, likely suc