 Neither the Sultan nor the Caliph sent an army west.Al-Mustarshid achieved more independence while the sultan Mahmud II of Great Seljuq was engaged in war in the East.The Banu Mazyad (Mazyadid State) general, Dubays ibn Sadaqa (emir of Al-Hilla), plundered Bosra and attacked Baghdad together with a young brother of the sultan, Ghiyath ad-Din Mas'ud.