Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Abbasi

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Muhammad ibn Sulayman ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas. He governed Basra. In his days al-Mahdi added to the mosque the houses of Nafi' ibn al-Harith, Umm Jamil al-Hilaliyya and Amr ibn Wahb al-Thaqafi. ¹

Review note: this register used to attribute to him the conquest of Fustat in 292 AH. That report concerns Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib, a different person who came more than a century later.

Great Mosque of Basra

Basra's congregational mosque; Utba ibn Ghazwan built it of reeds in 14 AH — its layout claimed for himself, Nafi' ibn al-Adhra' al-Bahzi, Nafi' ibn al-Harith, and al-Aswad ibn Sari' who first judged in it — Abu Musa rebuilt it in mud-brick with mushab roofing, then Ziyad enlarged and rebuilt it in fired brick and gypsum with teak roofing, a stone minaret, the first maqsura, and columns hauled from Ahwaz's mountain by al-Hajjaj ibn Utayk and his son; he had pebbles strewn lest hand-dusting pass for sunnah, and the enforcers' harshness bred the saying 'lovely the governorship, even over stones'. Al-Mahdi bought the houses of Nafi' ibn al-Harith, Ubaydallah ibn Abi Bakra and Rabi'a ibn Kallada into it, and the governor's palace was taken in under al-Rashid.

Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Abbasi

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Great Mosque of Basra