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Abdallah ibn Nafi'

عبد الله بن نافع

Abdallah ibn Nafi' ibn al-Harith al-Thaqafi; he and his brothers refused the sale of their father's house beside the mosque, so Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad demolished what the mosque's squaring needed while he was at his white castle on the Batiha, then appeased him five cubits for each plus a khawkha-window into the mosque.

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The Umayyad Period
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Abd Allah ibn Nafi' ibn al-Harith ibn Kalda al-Thaqafi, the son of Nafi' ibn al-Harith. Al-Baladhuri relates that he and his brothers refused to sell their father's house, which adjoined the Great Mosque of Basra. Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad demolished from it what he needed to square the mosque, while he was in his white palace on al-Bitah. Then he satisfied them with five cubits for every cubit, and opened for them a small door in the wall to the mosque. 1

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Nafi' ibn al-Harith al-Thaqafi

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The Mughira-Umm Jamil Affair· Nafi' ibn al-Harith's Walking Grant· Nafi' ibn al-Harith al-Thaqafi

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  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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The Mughira-Umm Jamil Affair

Al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba kept visiting Umm Jamil bint Yahjan of Hilal — wife of the Thaqafi al-Hajjaj ibn Utayk — till Abu Bakra ibn Masruh, Shibl ibn Ma'bad al-Bajali, Nafi' ibn al-Harith and Ziyad ibn Ubayda watched him enter and burst in on them naked; they testified before Umar, who told Abu Musa al-Ash'ari 'I am sending you to a town where Satan has nested' and made him governor with al-Bara' ibn Malik, Imran ibn al-Husayn and Awf ibn Wahb, recalling al-Mughira. Nafi', Shibl and Abu Bakra swore explicitly; Ziyad, fourth, said 'I saw an ugly sight and heard a high breathing — I know not whether he entered her'. Umar: 'I see the face of a man on whose word I hope no Companion is stoned' — he had the three flogged; Shibl cried 'you flog truth's witnesses?', Abu Bakra swore anew and was warned of the hadd — 'then it is a claim, your man is stoned' — and swore never to speak to Ziyad, his half-brother by Sumayya.