Zuhayr ibn Qays al-Balawi

Zuhayr ibn Qays al-Balawi, whom Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan appointed over Ifriqiya. He conquered Tutas and then withdrew to Barqa. When he learned that a group of the Byzantines had come out of their ships and were spreading corruption, he went against them with a light cavalry, and he and those with him were killed as martyrs. They were buried there, and their graves are called the graves of the martyrs ¹.

al-Salabi reports that his martyrdom was in a battle with the Byzantines at Darna in eastern Libya in the year 71 AH, and that Abd al-Malik then sent an army under Hassan ibn al-Nu'man ². See the martyrdom of Zuhayr at Barqa.