Al-Mufaddal ibn al-Muhallab
Al-Mufaddal ibn al-Muhallab al-Azdi (died 720) was an Umayyad commander and governor of
Life
Al-Mufaddal was a son of al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra of the Azd tribe, who was the leading general in the Iraqi wars against the Azariqa Kharijites in 683–698 and governor of Khurasan in 698–704. Al-Mufaddal's mother was an Indian woman named Bahla or Bahalla. His half-brother, Yazid ibn al-Muhallab, succeeded their father as governor of Khurasan after his death in 702. Al-Mufaddal was Yazid's field commander when they engaged and defeated the rebels of Ibn al-Ash'ath's abortive revolt against the Umayyads in Iraq when they fled and set up base in Khurasan.[1]
When the latter was dismissed by the Umayyad viceroy of Iraq and the eastern Caliphate,
Al-Hajjaj dismissed and imprisoned al-Mufaddal with Yazid and their brothers
Yazid took the city and freed his brothers and afterward rallied an Iraqi revolt against the Umayyads. Al-Mufaddal was Yazid's main lieutenant as the Muhallabids advanced on
References
- ^ Hinds 1990, pp. 54–56.
- ^ a b Ulrich 2019, p. 137.
- ^ Ulrich 2019, p. 138.
- ^ Ulrich 2019, p. 146.
- ^ Ulrich 2019, pp. 147–148.
- ^ Ulrich 2019, pp. 149–150.
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-0-88706-721-1.
- Ulrich, Brian (2019). Arabs in the Early Islamic Empire: Exploring al-Azd Tribal Identity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-3682-3.