At a glance
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Overview
Yazid ibn Umar ibn Hubayra al-Fazari, the last of the Umayyad agents over Iraq. al-Baladhuri reports that he built a city in Kufa on the Euphrates and settled in it, and a small part of it remained unfinished. Then a letter from Marwan came to him ordering him to avoid living beside the people of Kufa, and he left it 1.
He built the palace of Ibn Hubayra near the bridge of Sura. After him Abu al-Abbas settled in it and named it "al-Hashimiyya", and he repaired the bridge of Kufa 1.
Connections
- Participated in
- The Building of the Hashimite City at Kufa
People and things also explored
Abdallah ibn al-Hasan· Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah· Abu Ja'far al-Mansur· Kufa· The Building of the Hashimite City at Kufa
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “Yazid ibn Umar ibn Hubayra”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/yazid-ibn-umar-ibn-hubayra/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.