Junayd returns to Merv, leaving a token…

Junayd returns to Merv, leaving a token garrison of eight hundred men behind in Samarkand, and, once the Turgesh had withdrawn north for the winter, he evacuates the city of its Muslim inhabitants.

The Battle of the Defile had shattered the tenuous Arab control over what remains of their possessions in Transoxiana.

The Arabs will not able to recover their position until the governorship of Nasr ibn Sayyar, who in 739–741 will manage to re-establish the Caliphate's authority up to Samarkand.