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Overview
Muslim ibn Uqba al-Murri, the commander of Yazid's army against Medina. Yazid himself called him "the wasteful" according to al-Mas'udi. 2
In al-Mas'udi
Al-Mas'udi relates that he terrified Medina, plundered it and killed its people, and took their allegiance on the condition that they were slaves of Yazid. He called it "foul". People gave him allegiance except Ali ibn al-Husayn and Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas. 2
Then he marched to Mecca and died at Qudayd in 64 AH, and he appointed al-Husayn ibn Numayr as his successor. 2
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People and things also explored
Ali ibn Abi Talib· Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan· Dumat al-Jandal· Muslim ibn ʿUqba at Dūmat al-Jandal — the town that would give bayʿa to neither (39 AH)
Sources
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 67-69
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.67-69
- The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002)
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islam.museum contributors. “Muslim ibn 'Uqba al-Murri al-Musrif”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/muslim-ibn-uqba-al-murri/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.