Isma'il ibn Abdallah and Umar II's Mission to the Berbers

دعوة إسماعيل بن عبد الله وعمر للبربر

between 717 and 720 CE

In al-Baladhuri: in Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz's caliphate he gave the Maghreb to Isma'il ibn Abdallah ibn Abi al-Muhajir, mawla of Banu Makhzum, who walked the best of paths and called the Berbers to Islam — and Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz wrote them letters summoning them to it besides, which Isma'il read out to them through the districts, until Islam mastered the Maghreb.

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The Killing of Yazid ibn Abi Muslim in His Prayer-Place

In al-Baladhuri: when Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik ruled he gave Yazid ibn Abi Muslim — al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf's mawla — Ifriqiya and the Maghreb; he came to Ifriqiya in year 102, his guard being Berbers, and he branded on each man's hand 'my guard' — so they blackened his path, whispered one to another, and conspired to kill him: he went out one evening for maghrib prayer and they killed him in his prayer-place. Yazid then gave it to Bishr ibn Safwan al-Kalbi, who struck off the neck of Abdallah ibn Musa ibn Nusayr — he being accused of the killing and of stirring the people against him.

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The Killing of Yazid ibn Abi Muslim in His Prayer-Place