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At a glance
- Era
- The Rashidun Caliphate
- Review
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Overview
Umayr ibn al-Ahmar al-Yashkuri, whom Abd al-Rahman ibn Samura appointed over Zaranj when he left Sistan because of the unrest in the affair of Uthman 1.
Zaranj
The people of Zaranj expelled him and shut the town against him. The poet Ziyad al-A'jam has a verse about him, to which the line of gratitude for his remaining is attributed 1.
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Connections
- Participated in
- Ziyad's Partition of Khurasan, 45h
People and things also explored
Khulayd ibn Abdallah al-Hanafi· Qays ibn al-Haytham al-Sulami· Ziyad's Partition of Khurasan, 45h
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “Umair ibn al-Ahmar al-Yashkuri”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/umair-ibn-al-ahmar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.