Nafi' ibn al-Harith al-Thaqafi

نافع بن الحارث الثقفي

Nafi' ibn al-Harith al-Thaqafi; he carried Utba's letter telling Umar al-Ubulla was the port of Bahrain, Uman, India and China — he had come with Utba, he and Abu Bakra, when Umar appointed him. He is Nafi' ibn al-Harith ibn Kallada, the Arabs' physician Abu Abdallah, first to breed horses at Basra — Umar's Safar-17 letter, written by Mu'ayqib ibn Abi Fatima, granted him Tigris-bank land that was neither kharaj-land nor fed by jizya-land's water; his was Basra's first built house, on the mosque's northern side, whose sons' refusal to sell led Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad to demolish the part the mosque's squaring needed.