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Abu al-Mughira Ziyad ibn Abihi ( Arabic: أبو المغيرة زياد بن أبيه, romanized : Abū al-Mughīra Ziyād ibn Abīhi; c. 622–673 ), also known as Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan ( Arabic: زياد بن أبي سفيان, romanized : Ziyād ibn Abī Sufyān ), was an administrator and statesman of the successive Rashidun and Umayyad ...
Ziyad was the famous son of Ziyad, who became the governor of Basra after the demise of his father. After the death of Mu'awiya, Yazid came to power and appointed Ubayd Allah as Emir of Kufa. Salam [8] and 'Ibad [9] are the other children of Ziyad b. Abih. Ibn Athir, mentioned Sulayman instead of Salam as the child of Ziyad.
Ubayd Allah was the son of Ziyad ibn Abihi whose tribal origins were obscure; while his mother was a Persian concubine named Murjanah. 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. 661–680). Governor of Iraq and Khurasan
In al-Farazdaq. …Banū Fuqaim tribes, and when Ziyād ibn Abīhi, a member of the latter tribe, became governor of Iraq in 669, he was forced to flee to Medina, where he remained for several years. On the death of Ziyād, he returned to Basra and gained the support of Ziyād’s son, ʿUbayd…. Read More. Other articles where Ziyād ibn ...
Ziyād b. Abīhi. (986 words) , viceroy of the ʿIrāḳ. The sources call him sometimes son of Sumaiya or son of ʿUbaid, sometimes son of Abū Sufyān, most frequently however Ibn Abīhi: a solution which can only be described as one of despair but it is the most non-committal of all as regards historical truth. Partisans and enemies of the ...
Zīyād b. Abīh (Arabic: عبيد الله بن زياد, b. 33 /653-4, d. 67 /686) was the famous Umayyad commander, the governor of Kufa at the time of the Tragedy of 'Ashura and one of the key persons in the martyrdom of Imam al-Husayn (a) and his companions. 'Ubayd Allah was the governor of Basra, but after the chaotic situation in Kufa in ...
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Ziyad b. abihi is credited with rebuilding the mosque and the Dār al-imāra at both basra (665) 25 and Kufa (670).26 He replaced the earlier mosque at basra and constructed his new mosque of plaster and baked brick (al-jiṣṣ wal-ājurr).27 the ninth-century historian-geogra-pher ibn al-faqih al-Hamadani captures the mixture of
