Abdallah ibn Khalid ibn Asid

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Abdallah ibn Khalid ibn Asid
Umayyad governor of Kufa
In office
673–675
MonarchMu'awiya I
Preceded byZiyad ibn Abihi
Succeeded byAl-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri
Personal details
Spouse(s)
  • Umm Khalid bint Uthman ibn Affan
  • Umm Sa'id (Umm Uthman) bint Uthman ibn Affan
RelationsAttab ibn Asid (uncle)
ChildrenKhalid
Abd al-Rahman
Abd al-Aziz
Umayya
Umm al-Julas (daughter)
Parent(s) (father)

Abdallah ibn Khalid ibn Asid (Arabic: عبد الله بن خالد بن 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 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 (Umm Uthman), 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[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Ahmed 2010, p. 123.
  2. ^ Madelung 1997, p. 365.
  3. ^ a b c d Fariq 1966, p. 123.
  4. ^ 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.
  • Madelung, Wilferd (1997). The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56181-7.
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