Ibn al-Dahhak (d. 927, fortress of al-Ja'fari) was a Kurdish chieftain, who abandoned Islam, converted to Christianity and entered the service of the...

Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri (Arabic: عبد الرحمن بن الضحاك بن قيس الفهري) was an eighth-century governor of Medina (720–723) and Mecca...

Al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri (Arabic: الضَّحَّاك بْنِ قَيْس الْفِهْرِيّ, romanized: Al-Ḍaḥḥak ibn Qays al-Fihrī; died August 684) was an Umayyad general...

Al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Qays al-Shaybānī (Arabic: الضحاك بن قيس الشيباني) was the leader of a widespread but unsuccessful Kharijite rebellion in Iraq against the...

Syria and the governors of Damascus and Palestine, al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri and Natil ibn Qays al-Judhami. The two sides met at the Battle of Marj Rahit...

including Uthman ibn Hayyan al-Murri in 715, Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Amr ibn Hazm in 720–721, Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri in 723, and...

supervision of the government to his most loyal associates, Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri and Muslim ibn Uqba al-Murri, until Yazid's return. He left a will for Yazid...

debates with Abu Hanifa, Ibn Abi Khidra, Dahhak Shadi from Khawarij, Ibn Abi l-'Awja', and others are cited. It is said that al-Dahhak, from the Kharijites...

tribes of Mudar and Qays who supported him, the Kharijites elected al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Shaybani as their caliph, and in early 745 they invaded Iraq and...

caliphate. Al-Walid had led the funeral prayers for Mu'awiya II. The Umayyads' governor in Damascus, al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri, secretly supported Ibn al-Zubayr's...

governor of Kūfa in place of al-Ḍaḥḥak ibn Qays. According to Ibn Khayyāt, however, this took place a year earlier. According to al-Ṭabarī, he governed for...

variously been given as: Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sawrah (محمد بن عيسى بن سورة)‎ Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sawrah ibn Mūsá ibn aḍ-Ḍaḥḥāk (محمد بن عيسى بن سورة بن موسى...

just south of Wadi al-Taym. Dahhak had killed Assassin leader Bahram al-Da'i in retaliation for the murder of his brother Baraq ibn Jandal. In 1133, he...

Friday prayer he (Muhammad) would recite Surah Al-Jumua and Surah Al-Munafiqun (63). Al-Dahhak b. Qais asked al-Nu'man b. Bashir: What did the Messenger of...

Medina, Abd al-Washid carried out the caliph's instructions to fine and torture the previous governor Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri for...

tribes led by al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri, the governor of Damascus, at the Battle of Marj Rahit in August 684. The Qays were routed and al-Dahhak killed. Ubayd...

Damascus, al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri, leaned toward Ibn al-Zubayr, while the governors of Jund Hims (military district of Homs) and Qinnasrin, Nu'man ibn Bashir...

unbelievers Al-Dahhak b. Qais asked al-Nu'man b. Bashir: What did the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) recite on Friday after reciting the Surah Al-Jumua (62)....

Marwan ibn al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As ibn Umayya (Arabic: مروان بن الحكم بن أبي العاص بن أمية, romanized: Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ ibn Umayya; 623...

Zāyd bin Thābit bin al-Ḍaḥḥāk (Arabic: زيد بن ثابت, romanized: Zayd ibn Thābit) was the personal scribe of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, serving as the...

Abu Musa al-Ash`ari, al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri, Anas, `Amr ibn Maymun, Abu `Abdulrahman al-Sulami and lady `A'isha..... Ibn Abi Mughira said that when...

health and so had to stay in the Umayyad palace (al-Khaḍrā’) in Damascus. His adviser Al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri took care of practical affairs. It is unclear...

ten-month siege. Al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Shaybani led a Kharijite rebellion. He defeated the Syrian forces and took Kufa. Sulayman ibn Hisham turned against...

governor of Medina Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Dahhak. The feud between Uthman and Abu Bakr continued at least until 721/2, when Abd al-Rahman was ordered to...

Ghassanid capital of Jabiyah. Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri, the governor of Damascus, meanwhile, threw his backing behind Ibn al-Zubayr. During the Battle of...

his province. In 746 he defeated the Kharijites under al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Shaybani at Ayn al-Tamr, thereby subduing the Sawad, and managed to extend...

defection of the ashraf, like Dahhak and Ibn Khazim and various Iraqi nobles, to Ibn al-Zubayr during the civil war convinced Abd al-Malik that Mu'awiya's decentralized...

Ibn Sa'd in his Tabaqat al Kabir, his full Nisba was Muhammad ibn Maslamah ibn Khalid ibn Adiy ibn Majda'a ibn Harith al-Khazraj ibn Amr ibn Malik Al-Awsi...

valley of Wadi al-Taym, Bahram captured and tortured to death a local chieftain named Baraq ibn Jandal. In retaliation, his brother Dahhak ibn Jandal killed...

a Byzantine army, and during his return defeated the Kurdish leader Ibn al-Dahhak, who had renounced Islam and entered Byzantine service. Thamal returned...