Hanzala ibn Zayd

حنظلة بن زيد

brother of Urwa ibn Zayd; in al-Baladhuri, left in command at Rayy while Urwa bore the victory news to Umar.

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The Rashidun Caliphate · The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Persia & Central Asia
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Hanzala ibn Zayd, brother of Urwa ibn Zayd al-Khayl (may God be pleased with him) al-Ta'i. Al-Baladhuri mentions him in "The Conquests of the Lands" in the account of al-Rayy, saying that Urwa left him in al-Rayy when he came to Ammar and then to Umar with the good news. 1.

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Participated in
Conquest of Qazwin· The Conquest of Rayy and Qumis

People and things also explored

al-Bara' ibn Azib· al-Rabi' ibn Khuthaym al-Thawri· Ammar ibn Yasir· Amr ibn Ma'dikarib· Murrah al-Hamadhani· Qaraza ibn Ka'b al-Ansari· Salama ibn Amr al-Dabbi· Tulayha ibn Khuwaylid

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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al-Bara' ibn Azib

A Companion of the Aws, as was his father; he was judged too young at Badr along with Ibn Umar and sent back, then took part at Uhud; he joined fourteen or fifteen expeditions with the Prophet, took al-Rayy, was with Ali at the Camel and Siffin, settled in Kufa and died in the governorship of Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr.