Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath al-Kindi

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Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn al-Ash'ath ibn Qays al-Kindī
Native name
أبو القاسم محمد بن الأشعث بن قيس الكندي
Died686
AllegianceKinda tribe
RankChieftain
Battles/wars
Second Fitna
Spouse(s)Umm Amr
RelationsUmm Farwa (mother), Sa'id ibn Qays al-Hamdani (father-in-law)
Other workGovernor of Tabaristan and Mosul

Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn al-Ash'ath ibn Qays al-Kindī (

Battle of Harura
in 686.

Life

Muhammad was the son of

caliph, Abu Bakr (r. 632–634.[3] Muhammad married Umm Amr, a daughter of the prominent South Arabian noble of Kufa, Sa'id ibn Qays al-Hamdani.[4]

His brother Qays also held a leadership position in the tribe.[1] According to an account cited by 9th-century historian al-Tabari, the newly installed Umayyad governor of Kufa, Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, charged Muhammad with summoning the man hiding the pro-Alid dissident Muslim ibn Aqil to the governor's palace.[2] Ibn Aqil had been rallying Kufan support for Husayn ibn Ali, a son of Caliph Ali (r. 656–661) and grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who refused to recognize Caliph Yazid I (r. 680–683). Muhammad later played a key role in defending Ibn Ziyad when supporters of Ibn Aqil besieged the governor.[5] Muhammad ultimately forced Ibn Aqil to surrender and agreed to send a letter on the latter's behalf notifying Husayn not to come to Kufa, where he was expecting significant support.[6]

Muhammad married off his daughter[

Battle of Harura he was installed as the leader of Kufan troops, who had earlier defected from the pro-Alid leader al-Mukhtar. He was ultimately slain during the battle under unclear circumstances, with up to four different narratives recorded in the Muslim tradition regarding the identity of his killer.[8] The Zubayrids won the battle, but the death of Muhammad was lamented by Mus'ab, who remarked to his lieutenant commander, al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra, "what a joy it would have been, had Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath not been killed!"[9]

His son,

Abd al-Rahman, would later lead a major rebellion against the Umayyads in 700–703.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ^ a b c Crone 1980, p. 110.
  2. ^ a b Howard 1990, p. 19.
  3. ^ Blankinship 2009.
  4. ^ Ahmed 2011, p. 142.
  5. ^ Howard 1990, pp. 49–50.
  6. ^ Howard 1990, pp. 55–56.
  7. ^ Fishbein 1990, pp. 85–86.
  8. ^ Fishbein 1990, p. 90.
  9. ^ Fishbein 1990, p. 100.

Bibliography

  • Ahmed, Asad Q. (2011). The Religious Elite of the Early Islamic Ḥijāz: Five Prosopographical Case Studies. Oxford: University of Oxford Linacre College Unit for Prosopographical Research.
    ISBN 978-1-900934-13-8
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  • Fishbein, Michael, ed. (1990). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXI: The Victory of the Marwānids, A.D. 685–693/A.H. 66–73. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
    ISBN 978-0-7914-0221-4
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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.
    ISBN 978-0-7914-0040-1
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