حنظلة بن صفوان الكلبي

حنظلة بن صفوان الكلبي

In al-Baladhuri: brother of Bishr ibn Safwan — one copy has 'father of Bishr' — appointed over Ifriqiya after Kulthum ibn Iyad; he fought the Khawarij and died there in office, Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri withdrawing from him when he opposed al-Walid ibn Yazid.

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بشر بن صفوان الكلبي
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib's Independent Rule of the Maghreb Frontier

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The Killing of Yazid ibn Abi Muslim in His Prayer-Place· عبد الرحمن بن حبيب الفهري· Ifriqiya· Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib's Independent Rule of the Maghreb Frontier· بشر بن صفوان الكلبي

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  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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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.