جعفر بن ورقاء الشيباني
جعفر بن ورقاء الشيباني
Governor of Kufa and the pilgrim road; marching ahead of the hajj caravan with a thousand Shaybanis he fought Abu Tahir and broke, opening Kufa to the Qarmatians in 312 1.
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- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Ja'far ibn Warqa al-Shaybani, who was in charge of the affairs of Kufa and the road to Mecca. Ibn al-Athir says that he marched ahead of the pilgrims with a thousand men of the Banu Shayban for fear of Abu Tahir al-Qarmati. He met him and fought him, and when a group of Qarmatis came up on his right, he was defeated. Abu Tahir entered Kufa in 312 AH. 1
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- دخول أبي طاهر القرمطي الكوفة
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Sources
- al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p. 115-116
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islam.museum contributors. “جعفر بن ورقاء الشيباني”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/jafar-ibn-warqa-al-shaybani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.