He made some prisoners and laid waste to the fields, but captured no forts.[9] Soon he had made himself so unpopular with the Sicilians, apparently due to heavy taxation, that they rose in revolt, imprisoned him, and asked for his replacement.[5][8] This was granted, and the sahib al-khums ruled over the Sicily until the arrival of the new governor, the elderly Ali ibn Umar al-Balawi, in August 912.