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al-Hajjaj ibn Utayk al-Thaqafi

الحجاج بن عتيك الثقفي

Al-Hajjaj ibn Utayk of Thaqif; husband of Umm Jamil bint Yahjan, on whom the watchers saw al-Mughira call; he held the Euphrates charge — the Hajjaj of Abu al-Mukhtar's satire on the Ahwaz officials.

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The Rashidun Caliphate
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Al-Hajjaj ibn Utayk, a man of the Thaqif. He was the husband of Umm Jamil daughter of Yahjan, whom the witnesses saw al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba going in to. 1

He was over the Euphrates, and is the al-Hajjaj whom Abu al-Mukhtar mentions in his ode on the governors of al-Ahwaz. 1

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Umm Jamil bint Yahjan

People and things also explored

The Mughira-Umm Jamil Affair· Umm Jamil bint Yahjan

Sources

  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.