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Ammar ibn Abi al-Khasib

عمار بن أبي الخصيب

Ammar ibn Abi al-Khasib; the builder who executed the congregational mosque of al-Mahdi's al-Muhammadiyya at Rayy — his name inscribed on its wall — in the building dated 158 AH.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Ammar ibn Abi al-Khasib, through whose hands the building of the congregational mosque of the city of al-Mahdi, Muhammadiyya, at al-Rayy, was done. 1

The mosque

His name was written on the mosque's wall, and the building was dated 158 AH. The mosque is connected with the founding of al-Muhammadiyya at al-Rayy. 1

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Founding of al-Muhammadiyya at Rayy

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Muhammad al-Mahdi· Rayy· Founding of al-Muhammadiyya at Rayy

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Muhammad al-Mahdi

Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Mansur, al-Mahdi, third Abbasid caliph; in al-Baladhuri: he sent his son Harun raiding Byzantine lands in year 163, besieging Damalu — its people by some reports settled at Baghdad on his ruling, spared and named for their town — and he completed what remained of the march-cities' and fortresses' works after his father al-Mansur, adding to their garrisons, ordered al-Hadath built and bequeathed the building of Tarsus on al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba's description; in his caliphate a body of Qinnasrin's hadir converted and he had the khadra written at their hands.