Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri

حبيب بن مسلمة الفهري

A Fihri of Quraysh; Khalid ibn al-Walid sent him with Busr ibn Abi Artat al-Amiri to the Ghouta of Damascus on his march from Iraq to Syria, and they raided villages of its countryside.

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Roles
Companion · Commander
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Arabia · Levant & Iraq
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Participated in
Khalid ibn al-Walid's March to Syria· معركة اليرموك· The Conquest of Antioch· The Conquest of Harran· The Taking of Qaliqala and the Opening of Armenia· The Conquest of Shimshat· The Death of Habib ibn Maslama at Damascus· The Building of Madinat al-Hadath· Habib ibn Maslama's Circuit of Armenia· Salman al-Khayl's Reinforcement and the Spoils Dispute· The Treaty with the People of Tiflis· The Treaty with the Jarajima
Spouse of
Umm Abdallah bint Yazid al-Kalbiyya

People and things also explored

Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan· The Conquest of Syria· The Taking of Qaliqala and the Opening of Armenia· The Conquest of the Jazira· Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah· Iyad ibn Ghanm al-Fihri· Khalid ibn al-Walid· Safwan ibn al-Mu'attal

Sources

  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan

A Qurashi of the Umayyad clan, born five years before the mission on the best-known account; he accompanied the Prophet and wrote for him, Umar appointed him over Syria after his brother Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan and Uthman kept him there, then he did not pledge to Ali and fought him, took Syria for himself and added Egypt, took the title of caliph after the two arbitrators, and the people gathered on him in the year of the community when al-Hasan made peace with him; the time of his conversion is disputed.