Al-Baladhury also wrote about the Arab conquest using different accounts but with different narrative styles listing the events that occurred (p.11). They also describe the conquest of Samarkand, when the king of Sogdiana appealed for the support of king Shash and this attempt was also unsuccessful (p. 12, 17). However, al-Tabari is more precise in his description of the battle. Furthermore there is disagreement on the size of the capitulation payments, for example al-Baladhury gives two versions 1.2 million and 700,000 dirhams (p.13) while al-Tabari writes about 2.2 million dirhams per year and 30,000 slaves (p.18) . At the same time both emphasize that Qutayba ordered to burn temples and houses for idols and himself participated in this process (p. 13, 18-19). There are different points of view on the Islamization of the Sogdian population. Baladhury explains it as the consequence of the burning of sacred places and the jizya tax for non-Muslims (p. 13, 15) while al-Tabari explains it only with taxes (p. 19-20). In the description of the Battle of Paykend both state that it was forced by Qutayba (p.12) but Tabari describes in detail the progress of the battle (p.21). So, both of these historians gave the same description of the general events that happened during