Khalid ibn Abdallah al-Qasri

Overview

Khalid ibn Abdallah ibn Asad ibn Kurz al-Qasri, of the Yajila. He governed Mecca for al-Walid and then for Sulayman. Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz advised that he be removed, and he was removed in Sulayman's time. ¹

Then Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik appointed him over the two Iraqs after Ibn Hubayra was removed. Hisham dismissed him in 120 AH in favour of Yusuf ibn Umar, and imprisoned him for about fourteen months, after which he came to Syria in 122 AH. ²

In Iraq

Al-Baladhuri relates that he built a church for his mother in Kufa, and his mother was a Christian. He built shops, dug the canal known as al-Jami', repaired the bridge of Kufa, and renewed the enclosure of the mosque of Kufa. He was so strict in the matter of coinage that the dirhams of his time were called "Khalidi". ³

In Mecca

Al-Mas'udi says that he arranged the rows around the Ka'ba and ordered men and women to be separated during circumambulation. ⁴

Conflicting reports

Ibn al-Nadim says that he was accused of heresy (zandaqa), and that al-Ja'd ibn Dirham was killed on his orders by Hisham on the Feast of Sacrifice after a long imprisonment with him. ⁵

Sources

The Umayyad State: Factors of Prosperity and Consequences of Collapse — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi (Part Two, 2005) , p.180-181

The Umayyad State: Factors of Prosperity and Consequences of Collapse — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi (Part Two, 2005) , p.483-484

Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)

Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 165

al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim , p. 472-473

Lectures on the History of the Islamic Peoples: The Umayyad State — al-Khudari

Muhammad Qabbani, The Umayyad State from Birth to Fall (Damascus: Dar Wahy al-Qalam, 2006)

The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002)

Hujna (hybridness, in the fiqh sense: spoils shares and speech)

Hujna is defect and ugliness in the lexical sense; the hajin among horses is the foal of a non-Arab mare by a stallion, and among people the one born of an Arab father and a non-Arab mother. Good speech avoids naming disgusting defects directly and uses euphemism. On the share of a hybrid horse in the spoils, the Hanafis, Malikis and Shafi'is give it the same share as an Arab horse; the Hanbalis distinguish: an Arab horse (ateeq) earns its rider three shares, while a hajin, a muqraf and a birdhawn earn two shares, one for the rider and one for the horse. The Hanbali position relies on a report from Khalid ibn Ma'dan, transmitted as mursal in Abu Dawud's Marasil.

Khalid ibn Abdallah al-Qasri

At a glance

Overview

In Iraq

In Mecca

Conflicting reports

Connections

People and things also explored

Sources

People

Hujna (hybridness, in the fiqh sense: spoils shares and speech)