Abu Muhammad Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib ibn Hazn al-Makhzumi (Arabic: سعید بن المسیب, romanized: Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib; 637–715) was one of the foremost authorities...

showed favor toward the Islamic legal scholars of Medina, notably Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab. Umar tolerated many of these scholars' open criticism of the Umayyad...

included Sahl ibn Sa'd al-Sā'idi, Abi 'Umāma ibn Sahl, Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab, Ibn 'Amrū, and others. He was also the father of Hammad ibn Salamah. Many...

but Hisham was spared from further harm after both Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab and the Alid Ali ibn al-Husayn ordered their followers to refrain from acts...

troops under Zuhayr ibn al-Musayyab, that al-Ma'mun's governor of Iraq, al-Hasan ibn Sahl, had sent against them. On the next day, Ibn Tabataba died—poisoned...

loyalist, al-Musayyab ibn Najaba. When the latter encountered Abd Allah, their forces battled for several hours, and Abd Allah was hit three times by al-Musayyab...

Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Harashi (Arabic: يحيى بن سعيد الحرشي) was an eighth-century military commander and official for the Abbasid Caliphate. He served as...

Mosul. Muhammad ibn Marwan (ca. 685–705) Yusuf ibn Yahya ibn al-Hakam (ca. 685–705) Sa'id ibn Abd al-Malik (ca. 685–705) Yahya ibn Yahya al-Ghassani (719–720)...

Umayyad Caliphate's governor of Khurasan, an Arab relief force under al-Musayyab ibn Bishr al-Riyahi managed to break the siege and escort the garrison to safety...

Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās (Arabic: صالح بن علي بن عبد الله بن العباس) (711–769) was a member of the Banu Abbas who served as general...

Ibrahim ibn Nasir al-Dawla (989–990) Abu Abdallah al-Husayn ibn Nasir al-Dawla (989–990) Deposed by the Uqaylid chieftain Muhammad ibn al-Musayyab Hamdanids...

Abbasid government appointed as governor Harun ibn al-Musayyab, who was dispatched by the general Ali ibn Abi Sa'id. The rebels succeed in taking the city because...

Janab included al-Fahl ibn Ayyash, who reportedly slew Yazid ibn al-Muhallab in 720, and the poet al-Musayyab ibn Rifall. Ibn Abd Rabbih, ed. Boullata...

Yazid ibn Abdallah ibn Dinar al-Hulwani (also called al-Turki) (Arabic: يزيد بن عبد الله التركي) was the military governor (wālī al-jaysh) of Egypt for...

Al-Faḍl ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās (Arabic: الفضل بن صالح بن علي بن عبد الله العباسي) (740–789) was the Abbasid governor of a number...

Anbasah ibn Isḥāq al-Ḍabbi (Arabic: عنبسة بن إسحاق الضبي; died c. 860) was a provincial governor for the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth century, serving...

Musa ibn Ka'b al-Tamimi (Arabic: موسى بن كعب التميمي) was an 8th-century Arab commander during the Abbasid Revolution and then provincial governor for...

'Alī ibn Yaḥyā al-Armanī (Arabic: علي بن يحيى الأرمني) was a famed Muslim military commander of the mid-9th century, involved in the border warfare with...

Mansur ibn Yazid ibn Mansur al-Himyari al-Ru'ayni (Arabic: منصور بن يزيد بن منصور الحميري الرعيني) was an eighth century official for the Abbasid Caliphate...

Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi (Arabic: يزيد بن حاتم المهلبي) (died March 13, 787) was a member of the Muhallabid family who served as the governor of Adharbayjan...

Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Sulaymān ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī (Arabic: إسحاق بن سليمان الهاشمي) was an 8th–9th-century AD Abbasid prince and historian. He held several...

Isa ibn Mansur al-Rafiqi, (Arabic: عيسى بن منصور الرافقي; died 847) alternatively known as al-Rafi'i, was a governor of Egypt for the Abbasid Caliphate...

Ubaydallah ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi (Arabic: عبيد الله بن محمد المهدي, romanized: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī) (771–810/11) was an Abbasid prince....

Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath al-Khuza'i (Arabic: محمد بن الاشعث الخزاعي) was an early Abbasid follower and later became Abbasid governor in Iran, Egypt and...

Abdallah ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiyah ibn Hudayj al-Tujibi (Arabic: عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن بن معاوية بن حديج التجيبي) (died January 772) was a governor...

164-65, 171-75; McMillan 2011, pp. 46–47, 56–60; EI2, s.v. "Sa'id b. al-As"). Khalifah ibn Khayyat 1985, p. 204 says that he was appointed in 668. Yarshater...

Ibrāhīm ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī (Arabic: إبراهيم بن صالح بن علي الهاشمي; died 792) was a member of the Banu al-Abbas who served as a governor of...

ibn Harthamah ibn al-Nadr (Arabic: حاتم بن هرثمة بن النضر) was a provincial governor for the Abbasid Caliphate. Hatim was the son of Harthamah ibn al-Nadr...

ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī (Arabic: عبد الملك بن صالح بن علي) (Ἀβιμελέχ, Abimelech, in Greek sources; 750–812 CE) was a member of the Banu Abbas...

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiyah ibn Hudayj al-Tujibi (Arabic: محمد بن عبد الرحمن بن معاوية بن حديج التجيبي) (died September 772) was a governor...