Uqba ibn Nafi' al-Fihri

Uqba ibn Nafi al-Fihri, of Quraysh, whom Amr ibn al-As appointed over the Maghrib. al-Baladhuri says that he founded Qayrawan ¹.

He reached Zuwayla, and the people between it and Barqa were well-disposed in their obedience. Their Muslims paid the alms, and their covenanters affirmed the poll tax ¹.

He raided Ifriqiya with ten thousand men and conquered it, and laid out its Qayrawan. al-Baladhuri reports that its site had been a thicket, unsafe for crossing, full of beasts of prey and snakes. He built its congregational mosque on the spot where the muezzin had been shown to him in a dream ¹.

Yazid ibn Mu'awiya returned him to his office, and he raided the Lower Sus ¹. See his appointment to the Maghrib and the founding of Qayrawan.

Nafi was the maternal brother of Amr ibn al-As. After the conquest of Egypt, Amr sent him to the villages around it, and their horses entered the land of Nubia. The Muslims met fierce fighting until their eyes were put out, and so they were called "the eye-bleeders" ¹.

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