Al-Baladhury also wrote about the Arab conquest using different narratives but in a different style of narration by listing the events that happened (p.11 ). They also describe the conquest of Samarkand, when the king of Sogdiana appealed to King Shash for support and even this attempt failed (p. 12, 17). However, al-Tabari is more specific in describing the battle. There is also disagreement over the amount of payments for the capitulation, for example al-Baladhury gives two versions 1.2 million and 700,000 dirhams (p.13) while al-Tabari writes around 2.2 million dirhams per year and 30,000 slaves (p.18). . At the same time, they both emphasize that Qutayba ordered the burning of temples and houses for idols and that he 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 sites and the jizya tax for non-Muslims (p. 13, 15), while al-Tabari explains it solely by 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 the course of the battle in detail (p. 21). Therefore, these two historians gave an equal description of the general events that occurred during this period.