Abbad ibn Ziyad

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ʿAbbād ibn Ziyād ibn Abīhi
Arabic: عبّاد بن زياد بن أبيه
Governor of Sijistan
In office
673–681
Succeeded bySalm ibn Ziyad
Personal details
Died718 or 719
Parent
Battles/warsBattle of Marj Rahit

ʿAbbād ibn Ziyād ibn Abīhi (

al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi during the reign of Caliph Abd al-Malik (r. 685–705). He later served at the court of the latter's son and successor, Caliph al-Walid I (r. 705–715), and played a role in the succession intrigues between al-Walid's son Abd al-Aziz and the caliph's brother, Sulayman
.

Governor of Sijistan

Abbad was the son of

Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680) appointed Abbad governor of the eastern province of Sijistan (Sistan) in 673, and he was reconfirmed in the post by Mu'awiya's son and successor Yazid I (r. 680–683).[1][3] While the historian Muhammad Abdulhayy Shaban notes that Sijistan remained stable under Abbad's rule with no record of rebellions in the province or military expeditions originating from there,[3] the historian K. V. Zetterstéen asserts that Abbad was an active participant in the eastward expansion of the Caliphate and credited him with leading the conquest of Kandahar.[4]

Starting in 674 Abbad patronized a well-known poet in his entourage,

panegyrist.[5] As Abbad became occupied with his post, he stopped tending to Ibn Muffarigh and his poems, causing the poet to compose satirical verses against Abbad and his father.[5] Abbad detained him for a short period, but Ibn Muffarigh continued to insult his erstwhile patron's family in verse after he was released. He was captured and humiliated in public by Ubayd Allah in Basra and sent back to Abbad who kept jailed him until he was released by the caliph's intervention in 680.[6]

During Abbad's governorship of Sijistan, Ubayd Allah served as governor in Iraq and his brother Abd al-Rahman served as governor of Khurasan.[1] Abbad was replaced in 681 when Yazid put Khurasan and Sijistan under the authority of Abbad's brother, Salm,[3][4] who in turn appointed another brother, Yazid, as his deputy in the province.[3] This chronology, according to the 8th-century historian Umar ibn Shabba is disputed by the information in Tarikh-i Sistan and 9th-century historian al-Yaqubi, which holds that Ubayd Allah appointed Yazid before 681.[2] In any case, Ubayd Allah informed Abbad of the developments, and in reaction to his dismissal, Abbad divvied up the funds of Sijistan's treasuries among his slaves and Arab troops before departing the province.[7] On his way back to report to Caliph Yazid in Damascus, Abbad avoided encountering Salm when passing through the vicinity of Jiroft in Kirman.[8] In response to Yazid's inquiry regarding the treasury sums Abbad was expected to bring the caliph, he stated that he was obliged to pay the large number of troops under his authority as would be expected of him, in such a critical frontier region as Sijistan.[8]

Later career and death

Following the collapse of Umayyad authority in the caliphate's eastern provinces in the aftermath of Caliph Yazid's death, Abbad relocated with 2,000 of his

al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi at some point prior to 687.[4] Abbad later advised Caliph al-Walid I (r. 705–715) when the latter unsuccessfully attempted to replace the caliph's brother Sulayman in the line of succession with al-Walid's son Abd al-Aziz.[10] Though Zetterstéen claims Abbad's date of death is not known,[4] the historians I. K. A. Howard and Khurshid Ahmad Fariq state Abbad died in 718/19.[1][5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Howard 1990, p. 185, notes 596–597.
  2. ^ a b Bosworth 1968, p. 44.
  3. ^ a b c d Shaban 1979, pp. 40–41.
  4. ^ a b c d e Zetterstéen 1960, p. 5.
  5. ^ a b c Fariq 1966, p. 125.
  6. ^ Pellat 1971, p. 882.
  7. ^ Bosworth 1968, pp. 44–45.
  8. ^ a b Bosworth 1968, p. 45.
  9. ^ Kennedy 2001, p. 32.
  10. ^ Hinds 1990, pp. 222–223.

Bibliography

  • Bosworth, C. E. (1968). Sīstān under the Arabs: From the Islamic Conquest to the Rise of the Ṣaffārids (30–250, 651–864). Rome: Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente.
  • Fariq, K. A. (1966). Ziyād b. Abīh. London: Asia Publishing House.
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  • Howard, I. K. A., ed. (1990). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XIX: The Caliphate of Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiyah, A.D. 680–683/A.H. 60–64. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
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  • Shaban, M. A. (1979). The Abbasid Revolution. Cambridge University Press. pp. 160–161.
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