Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath al-Kindi

محمد بن الأشعث الكندي

Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath ibn Qays al-Kindi; Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad's governor of Tabaristan — he treated and covenanted, they let him in, seized the narrows, killed his son Abu Bakr and crushed his skull, and he escaped.

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Ibn al-Ash'ath's Tabaristan Campaign

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Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad· Tabaristan· Ibn al-Ash'ath's Tabaristan Campaign

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  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
  • Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi
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Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad

Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan; Mu'awiya and Yazid's governor of Basra, Kufa and Iraq — a strange dirham bore his name.