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Abū Umayya ibn Al-Mughīra (ابو ٱمية بن المغيرة), whose original name was Suhayl and whose by-name was Zād ar-Rākib ("the Travellers' Provider"): 80 was the chief of Mecca in the early seventh century.
Al-Mughīra ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar (Arabic: المغيرة بن عبد الله بن عمر) was a preeminent leader of the Quraysh tribe's Banu Makhzum clan in Mecca in the 6th century. His descendants, the Banu al-Mughira, became the principle house of the Makhzum for the remainder of the pre-Islamic period and in the ...
Abu Umayya ibn Mughīrah ibn ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar ibn Makhzūm ibn Yaqaẓah was, through this line, a member of the Banu Makhzum clan of the Quraysh tribe. Abu Umayya ibn Al-Mughira was an eminent man with significant leverage in the city of Mecca.
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Early life
Al-Mughira was the son of Shu'ba ibn Abi Amir and belonged to the Banu Mu'attib clan of the Banu Thaqif tribe of Ta'if. His clan were the traditional protectors of the shrine of al-Lat, one of many Arabian polytheistic deities worshiped in the pre-Islamic period. His uncle was Urwah ibn Mas'ud, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Al-Mughira offered his services to the latter in Medina after being exiled from Ta'if for assaulting and robbing his associates in their sleep while they we...
Service under the Rashidun caliphs
Muhammad died in 632 and leadership of the emergent Muslim state passed to Abu Bakr (r. 632–634), who kept al-Mughira in some administrative capacity. Most high-ranking government posts went to members of the Quraysh, the tribe to which Muhammad and Abu Bakr belonged. At the Battle of Yarmouk in August 636, al-Mughira lost sight in one of his eyes. Caliph Umar (r. 634–644) appointed him governor of Basra, a garrison town founded by the Arabs which was used as the springboard for the Muslim co...
Umayyad governor of Kufa
During the chaos that ensued in the aftermath of Ali's assassination in 661, al-Mughira apparently forged a letter by Mu'awiya, who had since claimed the caliphate, giving al-Mughira responsibility of leading the annual Hajj pilgrimage to the Ka'aba in Mecca. According to the orientalist Henri Lammens, al-Mughira's "shocking morals", lack of attachment to the Alids (kinsmen and partisans of Ali), non-involvement in the "jealousies of the Quraysh [sic], as well as the narrow-mindedness of the...
Al-Mughira died of the plague sometime between 668 and 671 at the age of 70. According to the historians al-Waqidi (d. 823) and al-Mada'ini (d. 843), al-Mughira died in August or September 670. He was succeeded by Ziyad ibn Abih, whom he had groomed as his successor. Upon becoming the governor of Iraq in 694, al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf appointed al-Mughir...
Humphreys, R. Stephen, ed. (1990). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XV: The Crisis of the Early Caliphate: The Reign of ʿUthmān, A.D. 644–656/A.H. 24–35. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany...Lammens, H. (1993). "al-Mughīra b. Shuʿba". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W. P. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume VII: Mif–Naz. Leiden: E. J....Landau-Tasseron, Ella, ed. (1998). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXXIX: Biographies of the Prophet's Companions and their Successors: al-Ṭabarī's Supplement to his History. SUNY Series in Near E...Morony, Michael G., ed. (1987). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XVIII: Between Civil Wars: The Caliphate of Muʿāwiyah, 661–680 A.D./A.H. 40–60. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New Yor...29 nov 2019 · Full Name: Hind bint Abi Umayya. Appellation: Umm-e-Salamah (Mother of Salamah) Father’s Name: Abu Umayya ibn al-Mughira. Mother’s name: Atka bint Amir. First marriage: Hazrat Abdullahra bin Abdil Asad (also known as Abu Salamah) Marriage to the Prophetsa: Shawwal 4 AH. Early days.
Pyxis of al-Mughira. The Pyxis of al-Mughira, now in the Louvre, is among the best surviving examples of the royal ivory carving tradition in Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain).
Abu Umayya ibn Al-Mughira (ابو ٱمية بن المغيرة), whose original name was Suhayl and whose by-name was Zad ar-Rakib ("the Travellers' Provider"): 80 was the chief of Mecca in the early seventh century.
