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Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ibrahim al-Imam

عبد الوهاب بن إبراهيم الإمام

Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ibrahim al-Imam, son of the da'wa's imam Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ali; in al-Baladhuri: al-Mansur sent him in year 140 as governor of the Jazira and its frontier with al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba among the Khurasani armies, proclaiming a levy on Syria and the Jazira until seventy thousand converged, and he camped on Malatya building it with labourers gathered from every land — when al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba's feeding of the people from his own purse nettled him he wrote to Abu Ja'far accusing him, and the answer came: 'O boy! al-Hasan feeds from his own money, and you feed from mine — nothing comes of you but smallness of worth, littleness of ambition and foolishness of opinion.'

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ibrahim al-Imam, son of the imam of the call Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ali. Al-Baladhuri says that al-Mansur sent him in 140 AH as governor of the Jazira and its frontiers, with al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba and the troops of the people of Khurasan. 1

Building Malatya

He gathered the levies from the people of Syria and the Jazira until they reached seventy thousand, and camped at Malatya to build it with workers gathered from every land. See the rebuilding of Malatya. 1

When al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba fed the people from his own money, Abd al-Wahhab wrote to al-Mansur complaining of him, and al-Mansur replied with a harsh rebuke belittling his resolve, according to al-Baladhuri. 1

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Al-Mansur's Rebuilding of Malatya

People and things also explored

Abu Ja'far al-Mansur· al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba· Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ali· Salih ibn Ali· Malatya (Melitene)· Al-Mansur's Rebuilding of Malatya

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Abu Ja'far al-Mansur

Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdullah ibn al-Abbas, second Abbasid caliph; in al-Baladhuri: the thousand dinars Abd al-Malik had added to the Cypriots' tribute ran until his caliphate, when he said 'we are worthier of being just to them, and did not profit by wronging them', restoring them to Mu'awiya's ancient treaty; he it was who granted his brother Sulayman ibn Ali Balis and its villages after the confiscation of Umayyad wealth.