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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| Children | Khalid Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Aziz Umayya Umm al-Julas unnamed daughter |
| Parent(s) | Khalid ibn Asid Rayta bint Abd Allah |
| Relatives | Attab ibn Asid (uncle) |
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
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 al-Yamama in 632, during the Ridda wars.[2] Abdallah's mother was Rayta bint Abd Allah of the Banu Thaqif tribe.[3] Following the assassination of Caliph Uthman (r. 644–656), Abdallah refused to join the Umayyad faction marching to Basra to challenge Caliph Ali (r. 656–661). Along with Sa'id ibn al-As, he broke away and turned back, seeing no benefit in a conflict against Ali in favor of Talha or Zubayr.[4] While his cousin Abd al-Rahman ibn Attab continued on to Basra and was killed at the Battle of the Camel, Abdallah avoided the civil conflict entirely.[5] Abdallah was appointed the lieutenant governor of Fars or its Ardashir-Khwarrah district by Ziyad ibn Abihi, Caliph Mu'awiya's practical viceroy of Iraq and the eastern Caliphate.[6] He gained Ziyad's confidence and before Ziyad's death in 673, Abdallah was appointed his lieutenant governor in Kufa.[6] He led the funeral prayers for Ziyad and continued as Mu'awiya's governor of Kufa until 675.[6] One of Abdallah's sons, Umayya, was married to Ziyad's daughter Ramla.[6]
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.[7] 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.
References
- 1 2 3 Ahmed 2010, p. 123.
- ↑ Madelung 1997, p. 365.
- ↑ Ibn Sa'd 2012, p. 22.
- ↑ Madelung 1997, p. 159.
- ↑ Madelung 1997, pp. 159, 172.
- 1 2 3 4 Fariq 1966, p. 123.
- ↑ Chowdhry 1972, pp. 34, 151–152.
Bibliography
- 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.
- Ibn Sa'd, Muḥammad (2012). Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr. Vol. 6: Scholars of Kufa. Translated by Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley. Ta-Ha Publishers. ISBN 978-1-84200-124-0.
- Madelung, W. (1997). The Succession to Muḥammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-64696-3.