 They barricaded themselves in Jiroft and split into two factions, one dominated by "mawali" which remained in Jiroft under the command of a certain Abd Rabbih al-Kabir, and the second, dominated by Arabs led by Qatari ibn al-Fuja'a, which headed north toward Tabaristan.Al-Muhallab defeated Abd Rabbih's faction in Jiroft by 696, killing them in their entirety.During this time, he is credited with introducing iron stirrups on the saddles of his army's war horses, in place of the wooden ones, which could barely withstand a rider's weight.