Following the receipt of his appointment, Muzahim continued with the effort to pacify the province. After putting down an uprising in the Hawf of Lower Egypt, Muzahim and his chief of security (shurtah) Azjur al-Turki shifted their focus to defeating Jabir. The next several months were spent on campaign against the rebel, and the latter finally sued for peace in August 867; Muzahim, however, imprisoned him in al-Fustat, and in the following year Jabir was sent to Iraq.[9]