Abdallah ibn Khalid ibn Asid
Abdallah ibn Khalid ibn Asid | |
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| عبد الله إبن خالد إبن أسيد | |
| Umayyad governor of Kufa | |
| In office 673–675 | |
| Monarch | Mu'awiya I |
| Preceded by | Ziyad ibn Abihi |
| Succeeded by | Al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri |
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| Born | ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khālid ibn Asīd |
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| Relations | Attab ibn Asid (uncle) |
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Abdallah ibn Khalid ibn Asid (Arabic: عبد الله إبن خالد إبن أسيد, romanized: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khālid ibn Asīd) was a member of the Umayyad dynasty and governor of Kufa in 673–675 during the reign of Caliph Mu'awiya I.[1]
Life
[edit]Abdallah's father, Khalid ibn Asid, embraced Islam during the conquest of Mecca in 629 and was killed fighting rebel Arab tribes at the Battle of Yamama in 633, during the Ridda wars.[2] Abdallah was appointed the lieutenant governor of Fars or its Ardashir-Khwarrah district by Ziyad ibn Abih, Caliph Mu'awiya's practical viceroy of Iraq and the eastern Caliphate.[3] He gained Ziyad's confidence and before Ziyad's death in 673, Abdallah was appointed his lieutenant governor in Kufa.[3] He led the funeral prayers for Ziyad and continued as Mu'awiya's governor of Kufa until 675.[3] One of Abdallah's sons, Umayya, was married to Ziyad's daughter Ramla.[3]
Abdallah married two daughters of Caliph Uthman (r. 644–656), Umm Khalid and Umm Sa'id, though not concurrently.[1] He married off one of his daughters to a grandson of Uthman, Abdallah ibn Amr, who became the parents of four sons and two daughters, one of whom, Umm Abdallah, married Caliph al-Walid I (r. 705–715) and bore him his son Abd al-Rahman.[1] Another of his daughters, Umm al-Julas, was married to al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, the practical viceroy of Iraq and the eastern Caliphate for caliphs Abd al-Malik (r. 685–705) and al-Walid I.[4] Abdallah's sons Khalid, Abd al-Rahman and Abd al-Aziz served terms as governors of Mecca under later Umayyad caliphs. Khalid also served as governor of Basra and Umayya served as governor of Khurasan.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Ahmed 2010, p. 123.
- ^ Madelung 1997, p. 365.
- ^ a b c d Fariq 1966, p. 123.
- ^ Chowdhry 1972, pp. 34, 151–152.
Bibliography
[edit]- Ahmed, Asad Q. (2010). The Religious Elite of the Early Islamic Ḥijāz: Five Prosopographical Case Studies. University of Oxford Linacre College Unit for Prosopographical Research. ISBN 9781900934138.
- Chowdhry, Shiv Rai (1972). Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf (An Examination of His Works and Personality) (Thesis). University of Delhi.
- Fariq, K. A. (1966). Ziyād b. Abīh. London: Asia Publishing House. OCLC 581630755.
- Madelung, Wilferd (1997). The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56181-7.