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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.
When Ziyad died, his policies were continued by his son, Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, appointed governor of Khorasan, who arrived in Marw in autumn 673. In the following spring, Ubayd Allah crossed the Oxus and invaded the principality of Bukhara, which at the time was led by the queen mother or khatun , a Turkic title meaning "lady", as regent for ...
Ziyad ibn Ubayd Allah al-Harithi (Arabic: زياد بن عبيد الله الحارثي) (full name Ziyad ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Madan al-Harithi) was an eighth century Abbasid governor of Medina and Mecca from 750 to 758 for the Abbasid Caliphate. He was the second Abbasid Caliphal governor of Medina and Mecca.
Meanwhile, Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad dispatches another force of 4,000 Umayyad soldiers with commander Umar ibn Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas. This commander was initially reluctant to launch violence upon al-Husayn, but when threatened with loss of position, Umar ibn Sa’d complied. [32] Al-Hurr is now under the leadership of Umar ibn Sa’d.
Al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd al-Thaqafi (Arabic: الْمُخْتَار ٱبْن أَبِي عُبَيْد الثَّقَفِيّ, romanized: al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd al-Thaqafī; c. 622 – 3 April 687) was a pro-Alid revolutionary based in Kufa, who led a rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate in 685 and ruled over most of Iraq for eighteen months during the Second Fitna.
Umayyad governor Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad suppressed the Kharijite disturbances and imprisoned many of them including Abu Bilal. According to the account of Umar ibn Shabba ( d. 877 ), the jailer was impressed by Abu Bilal's piety and permitted him to spend the nights at his home and return in the mornings.
Adopting the policy of bribing and terrifying the heads of important tribes, Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad dispersed people from around Muslim ibn Aqil and killed him. After Muslimibn Aqil, Ubayd Allahibn Ziyad pursued Abu Thumama. He hid in his tribe for some days, [3] then secretly left Kufa along with Nafi'ibn Hilal. He joined Hussain ibn Ali on his ...
There Ubayd Allah eventually converted to Christianity and testified his new faith to the other Muslim refugees. Ibn Ishaq relates: Ibn Ishaq relates: 'Ubaydullah went on searching until Islam came; then he migrated with the Muslims to Abyssinia taking with him his wife who was a Muslim, Umm Habiba bint Abu Sufyan.