al-Mughira ibn al-Muhallab

المغيرة بن المهلب

Abu Firas al-Mughira b. al-Muhallab — of the Muhallabid house; the satirist Ziyad al-A'jam mocked his Persian satins ('it was not the dibaj that tore but its wearer's show'), and al-Muhallab placated him 1.

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The Umayyad Period
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Al-Mughira ibn al-Muhallab ibn Abi Safra, who died before his father. 2

His death

Al-Baladhuri says that the beginning of al-Muhallab's illness was grief over him. Al-Mughira died at Zaghul in Merv al-Rudh, at al-Shusha. 2

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  • One report, with no page and no date; it needs an additional source.

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al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra's Khurasan

People and things also explored

al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra· Zaghul· al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra's Khurasan

Sources

  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
  2. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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