al-Mughira Ziyad ibn Abihi (Arabic: أبو المغيرة زياد بن أبيه, romanized: Abū al-Mughīra Ziyād ibn Abīhi; c. 622–673), also known as Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan...

 685–705). He virtually inherited the governorships from his father Ziyad ibn Abihi after the latter's death in 673. During Ubayd Allah's governorship...

and public speaker Ziyad Sabbagh (born 1960), Syrian politician Ziyad ibn Abihi (622–673), Muslim general and administrator Ziyad ibn Ubayd Allah al-Harthi...

Yazīd ibn Ziyād ibn Abīhi (Arabic: يزيد بن زياد بن أبيه) (died 683/84) was a general of the Umayyad Caliphate responsible for the province of Sijistan...

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād ibn Abīhi (Arabic: عبدالرحمن بن زياد) was the Umayyad governor of Khurasan in 678/79–681. He is credited for reasserting Umayyad...

630s–640s. In 670–673 he served as the lieutenant governor of Basra under Ziyad ibn Abihi, the supreme governor of Iraq and the eastern Umayyad Caliphate. During...

Abū Ḥarb Salm ibn Ziyād ibn Abīhi (Arabic: سالم بن زياد) (died late 692) was a general and statesman of the Umayyad Caliphate, who later defected to the...

ʿAbbād ibn Ziyād ibn Abīhi (Arabic: عبّاد بن زياد بن أبيه) (died 718/19) was an Arab commander and statesman of the Umayyad Caliphate. A son of the governor...

Abd-al-Rahman ibn Muljam. He was wounded by ibn Muljam's poison-coated sword while prostrating in the Fajr prayer. Muawiyah I appointed Ziyad ibn Abihi Al the...

head wound. He later defected to the Umayyads. When Ziyad ibn Abihi arrested the pro-Alid Hujr ibn Adi on the charge of treason in 671, Shimr was among...

al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba (638, 642–645), Ziyad ibn Abihi (665–673), and al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf (694–714), while major Thaqafite commanders included Uthman ibn Abi...

impelled Muʿāwiya to his adoption of his putative half-brother Ziyād b. Sumayya [Ziyad ibn Abihi] and to the unusual step of naming his own son Yazīd as heir...

of Basra. There he was instrumental in securing the submission of Ziyad ibn Abihi, a loyalist holdover of Ali's administration, by holding his sons as...

He was succeeded by Ziyad ibn Abih, whom he had groomed as his successor. Upon becoming the governor of Iraq in 694, al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf appointed al-Mughira's...

toward the distant campaigns. Consequently, Mu'awiya replaced Ibn Amir with Ziyad ibn Abihi in 664 or 665. The latter had been the longest of Ali's loyalists...

within the mosque, including Muslim ibn Aqil and Hani ibn Urwa. In 670, the governor of the city, Ziyad ibn Abihi, arranged for the mosque to be rebuilt...

general al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba during a military expedition. Other sources describe him as the uterine brother of Ziyad ibn Abihi. Al-Harith ibn Kalada List of...

tolerated by al-Mughira but not by his successor Ziyad ibn Abihi, who was appointed in 671 to govern Kufa. Ziyad arrested Hujr and sent him to Mu'awiya, who...

Sumayya, who was given to him. She is the mother of Ziyad ibn Abihi, who was adopted by Mu'awiya. Ziyad is the son of Sumayya, who gave birth to him in Taif...

Iraq Ziyad ibn Abihi (670–673), Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad (675–683) and Bishr ibn Marwan (692–694). Amr was the son of Hurayth ibn Amr ibn Uthman ibn Abd Allah...

favors from Ziyad ibn Abihi, the Governor of Mu'awiya I, and his son Ubaidullah. When a member of their tribe Abu Said Al- Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra became...

the governor of Basra, al-Harith ibn Amr al-Azdi, who served a four-month term before being replaced by Ziyad ibn Abihi. Abd Allah was appointed by Caliph...

total of 66.5 cm (26+3⁄16 in) on average. It was this measure used by Ziyad ibn Abihi for his survey of Iraq, and is hence also known as Ziyadi cubit (al-dhirāʿ...

of the Thaqif tribe, al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba and the latter's protege Ziyad ibn Abihi (whom Mu'awiya adopted as his half-brother), respectively. In return...

killed by the Turks. Ziyad ibn Abihi (also known as Ziyad ibn Abu-Sufian), during the reign of Mu'awiya I, appointed Rashid ibn Omar al-Judaidi, a member...

Basra became the center of Kharijite disturbances. Ziyad ibn Abihi and his son Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, who successively became governors of Iraq, dealt...

time in 670 AD, when the caliph Mu'awiyah ibn Abi Sufyan gave control of both to Ziyad ibn Abihi. After Ziyad's death the two towns were again separately...

hadith from Muhammad. According to al-Tabari and al-Baladhuri, in 665 Ziyad ibn Abihi, the practical viceroy of Iraq and the eastern Umayyad Caliphate, centralized...

district by Ziyad ibn Abih, Caliph Mu'awiya's practical viceroy of Iraq and the eastern Caliphate. He gained Ziyad's confidence and before Ziyad's death in...

who founded the Umayyad Caliphate in 661. Under the leadership of Ziyad ibn Abihi, the Umayyad viceroy of the eastern Caliphate, the Arab raids into...