Sa'id ibn Qays al-Hamdani
Sa'id ibn Qays al-Hamdani was a governor and commander during the reigns of caliphs
Umayyad
caliphs.
Life
Sa'id ibn Qays belonged to the Sabi' branchHimyarite king.[2] This ancestor, Zayd ibn Marib ibn Ma'dikarib, was noted by the South Arabian tradition for having killed and replaced the king of the Bawn region of northern Yemen during the pre-Islamic period (pre-7th century).[3]
Sa'id fought in the
Descendants
Sa'id was the maternal grandfather of the Kufan tribal noble, prominent commander and rebel leader
Zubayrid ruler of Basra, Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr. He was killed during the latter's attempt to wrest control of Kufa from al-Mukhtar. Abd al-Rahman's son, Muhammad, lacked his father's and grandfather's authority over the Hamdan, who mostly sided with al-Mukhtar, and he and Ibn al-Ash'ath harshly punished al-Mukhtar's Kufan supporters when they conquered Kufa in 686. Muhammad later defected to the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik (r. 685–705), while another grandson of Sa'id, Jarir ibn Hashim, joined Ibn al-Ash'ath's rebellion against Abd al-Malik in 700–701.[5]
References
- ^ Muhammad ibn Habib 2021, p. 83, note 201.
- ^ a b Crone 1980, p. 119.
- ^ Muhammad ibn Habib 2021, p. 83, note 199.
- ^ Hinds 1990, pp. 62–63, note 237.
- ^ Crone 1980, p. 120.
Bibliography
- ISBN 0-521-52940-9.
- Muhammad ibn Habib (2021). Gelder, G. J. H. (ed.). Prominent Murder Victims of the Pre- and Early Islamic Periods Including the Names of Murdered Poets: Introduced, Edited, Translated from the Arabic, and Annotated. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-44634-2.
- ISBN 978-0-88706-721-1.