Qarnin

Qarnin was a village of Sistan remembered as the birthplace of Yaqub ibn Layth, founder of the Saffarid dynasty. From humble origins, Yaqub went to Zarang and worked as a coppersmith, a trade that gave the dynasty its name. In the ninth century he built a military power based in Sistan and carried his campaigns across eastern Iran and into Afghanistan, challenging the authority of the Abbasid caliphs.