Murra, Abu Bakr's Mawla
مرة مولى أبي بكر
Murra, mawla of Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr — a freedman of standing; he asked Aisha to write Ziyad and open her address with 'Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan' — she did, and Ziyad, delighted at the kinship-title, honoured Murra, displayed the letter's superscription to the people, granted him a hundred jarib on the Ubulla canal and bade him dig its canal, which bears his name. His son Uthman was among Basra's notables; the qati'a left his descendants for the Al al-Saffaq ibn Hujr ibn Yujayr al-Iqawi of Azd.
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- The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period
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Murra, client of Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr al-Siddiq, who was a secretary. Al-Baladhuri relates that he asked Aisha to write for him to Ziyad and to begin with his name in the heading of her letter, and she wrote to him and addressed the letter to Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan. 1
Al-Baladhuri says that Ziyad was pleased by this, honoured Murra, and displayed the letter to the people so they could read its heading. He then granted him a hundred jaribs on the River al-Ubulla and ordered him to dig a canal for it, and it came to be named after him. 1
His son Uthman ibn Murra was among the nobles of Basra. The estate passed from his descendants to the family of al-Saffaq ibn Hujr ibn Yujayr al-Uqawi of the Azd. 1
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Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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