Dawud ibn Ali

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Dawud ibn Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Abbas, of the Abbasid family, mentioned by al-Baladhuri and al-Mas'udi. ¹ ²

In al-Baladhuri

All of the Subayyin were granted as an iqta' when the Umayyad properties were seized in the early Abbasid state. They were later bought back from his heirs with their rights and boundaries, and became part of the caliphate's estates. ¹

In al-Mas'udi

Al-Mas'udi reports that on the day allegiance was given to Abu al-Abbas, he said from the pulpit of Kufa that the imam who had stood among them after the Messenger of God ﷺ was Ali ibn Abi Talib (may God be pleased with him), and that this was the one who stood now. ²

He also reports that he met them at Dumat al-Jandal on his return from al-Shurat, and feared to make a move in Kufa. Abu al-Abbas appointed him governor of Kufa and its territory. ³

Iqta' (land grant)

Iqta' in al-Baladhuri is the ruler's grant of lands to those deserving or requesting them; its limits in his reports include that a request need not be granted: Abyad ibn Hammal asked the Prophet for the salt flat at Ma'rib and, being told it was like freely flowing water ('id water), he refused to allot it to him, whereas Alqama ibn Wa'il al-Hadrami — as reported from his father — was granted land in Hadramawt; broader still were the Prophet's Khaybar grants, as he allotted al-Zubayr land with palms and trees, and among Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz's arrangements his confirming the heirs in land the Prophet had provisioned after they were registered — so the iqta' runs between designation of public amenities that cannot be granted and the sovereign gift of dead or reclaimed land.

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Iqta' (land grant)