The Martyrdom of Umar ibn Hafs and the Ruin of al-Abbasiyya
استشهاد عمر بن حفص وخراب العباسية
between 759 and 767 CE
In al-Baladhuri: al-Mansur appointed Umar ibn Hafs ibn Uthman ibn Qubaysa ibn Abi Sufra al-Ataki — 'he who captured Hazarmard', whom al-Mansur admired, while elsewhere the text reads 'he appointed Umar ibn Hafs Hazarmard in his place' — he entered Ifriqiya, raided to the farthest Berber lands and built there a city he named al-Abbasiyya; then Abu Khatim al-Saddrati al-Ibadi of Sadrata's people, a mawla of Kinda, fought him and he was martyred with a group of his household, the frontier rebelled, and the city he built was demolished.
At a glance
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
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In time
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Connections
- Had participant
- أبو خاتم السدراتي· عمر بن حفص هزارمرد
- Occurred at
- Ifriqiya
People and things also explored
Yazid ibn Hatim's March to Ifriqiya and His Killing of Abu Khatim· Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib's Independent Rule of the Maghreb Frontier· The First Raid on Ifriqiya and the Killing of Its Patrikios· The Founding of Qayrawan· Hassan ibn al-Nu'man's Campaigns against al-Kahina· Hisham ibn Amr al-Taghlibi's Sind· Harun's Appointment of Ibrahim ibn al-Aghlab over the Maghreb· Isma'il ibn Abdallah and Umar II's Mission to the Berbers
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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