Yazid ibn Abi Kabsha al-Saksaki (Arabic: يزيد بن أبي كبشة السكسكي) was an Arab military commander and provincial governor for the Umayyad Caliphate.
Yazid ibn Abi Kabsha al-Saksaki | |
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| Umayyad Sahib al-Shurta | |
| Monarch | Abd al-Malik |
| Umayyad Governor of Iraq | |
| In office 714–715 | |
| Monarch | Al-Walid I |
| Preceded by | Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi |
| Succeeded by | Yazid ibn al-Muhallab |
| Umayyad Governor of Sind | |
| In office 18 July 715 – 715 | |
| Monarch | Sulayman |
| Preceded by | Muhammad ibn Qasim al-Thaqafi |
| Succeeded by | Habib ibn al-Muhallab al-Azdi |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 715 Sind |
| Parent | Haywil ibn Yasar |
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| Military service | |
| Rank | Commander |
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He was the son of Haywil ibn Yasar, surnamed Abu Kabsha, a member of the Syrian tribal nobility and an adherent of the Umayyads during the Second Fitna.[1] Yazid served as sahib al-shurta for Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (r. 685–705), campaigned against the Kharijites in Iraq in 698, and was appointed by the governor of Iraq, al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, as head of his shurta in Wasit.[2] In 712/3 he led a campaign against the Byzantine Empire, and after the death of Hajjaj in 714, he succeeded him briefly as governor of Iraq.[2] Caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 715–717) then sent him to Sind, where he dismissed and imprisoned the incumbent governor, Muhammad ibn Qasim. Yazid died in Sind shortly after his arrival there.[2]
He had a brother Ziyad, of whom nothing is known, but his nephew Sari ibn Ziyad was among the pro-Yemeni leaders during the Third Fitna.[2]
References
edit- ^ Crone 1980, pp. 95–96.
- ^ a b c d Crone 1980, p. 96.
Sources
edit- Crone, Patricia (1980). Slaves on horses: the evolution of the Islamic polity. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52940-9.