Abbadan

Abbadan: the island of Basra and its seaward fortress, as the conquest accounts describe it. ¹

It was a fief of Humran ibn Aban, a freedman of Uthman, granted by Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. The source reports that al-Hajjaj threatened Humran through the words of Abbad ibn al-Husayn al-Habati, so Humran gave him the western bank of the river, and it came to be named after Abbad. ¹

Abbad ibn al-Husayn was the first to keep watch there. Later al-Rabi ibn Subayh, the jurist and freedman of Banu Sa'd, fortified it and kept watch there. He set out on a naval raid to India, died, and was buried on an island among the isles in the year 160 AH. ¹ The place is also connected with Basra.