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Ziyad died near Kufa in 673, but his sons Ubayd Allah, Abd al-Rahman, Salm, Abbad and Yazid went on to hold posts as governors or deputy governors of Iraq, Khurasan and Sijistan. Ziyad was the subject of early Arabic biographies and is remembered in Arab history as one of the four great wise men of his era and as a highly skilled administrator ...
Al-Saffah then appointed Ziyad ibn Ubayd Allah, his maternal uncle [3] as governor in 750. He remained in the office throughout the reign of his nephew al-Saffah. He was dismissed by al-Mansur (brother and successor of al-Saffah) in 758. Muhammad ibn Khalid ibn Abd Allah al-Qasri was appointed by the caliph al-Mansur. [4]
The religious beliefs of Al-Nabighah are unclear, but he appears to be represented as some sort of monotheist.Al-Nabighah regularly praises, in religious terms, the Christian Ghassanids, for example: "God has arranged for him [the king] the best creation; He [God] is his [king’s] helper over/against the humankind".
Ubayd Allah was the son of Ziyad ibn Abihi whose tribal origins were obscure; while his mother was a Persian concubine named Murjanah. [1] Ziyad served as the Umayyad governor of Iraq and the lands east of that province, collectively known as Khurasan, during the reign of Caliph Mu'awiya I (r.
Yazīd ibn Ziyād ibn Abīhi (Arabic: يزيد بن زياد بن أبيه) (died 683/84) was a general of the Umayyad Caliphate responsible for the province of Sijistan during the reign of Caliph Yazid I between 680/81 and his death.
When his horse was slaughtered, he squatted near Hussain and threw 100 arrows to the army of Umar ibn Sa'd. After throwing each of the arrows he sang paeans. When Abu l-Sha'tha' ran out of arrows, he stood up and said: “Only five arrows did not hit the targets”. He fought until he was martyred. [2]
ʿAbbād ibn Ziyād ibn Abīhi (Arabic: عبّاد بن زياد بن أبيه) (died 718/19) was an Arab commander and statesman of the Umayyad Caliphate.A son of the governor of Iraq, Ziyad ibn Abihi, Abbad served as a governor of Sijistan between 673 and 681 under caliphs Mu'awiya I (r.
Abd al-Rahman was an elder son of Ziyad ibn Abihi the Umayyad governor of Iraq and virtual viceroy of the eastern parts of the caliphate. Abd al-Rahman was appointed by Caliph Mu'awiya I as governor of Khurasan, at a time concurrent with his brother Ubayd Allah's governorship of Iraq and its eastern dependencies, which included Khurasan. [2]