نصير أبو موسى بن نصير

نصير أبو موسى بن نصير

In al-Baladhuri: Nusayr, father of Musa ibn Nusayr the Maghreb's conqueror, mawla of the Umayyads, of Ayn al-Tamr's captives on one account — his own freedmen's sons being clients in the Maghreb; al-Kalbi said he was an Arab of Arasha of Bali captured in Abu Bakr's days from Syria's Jabal al-Jalil, his name Nasr diminutivized, freed by an Umayyad, returned to Syria, Musa born to him at Kafr Mari village — he was lame; it is also said he and Abu Farwa were brothers of Ayn al-Tamr's captives with wala' to Banu Dubba.

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موسى بن نصير
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The Siege of Ayn al-Tamr and Its Church Captives

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  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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الموالي

In al-Baladhuri's Ayn al-Tamr captives, the model of the mawali: captives freed by their patrons whose clientage then attached to them — as Humran ibn Aban, al-Musayyib ibn Najaba's man whom Uthman bought and freed to become Uthman's mawla; Sirin and his brothers, mawali of Anas ibn Malik; Yasar, grandfather of Muhammad ibn Ishaq, mawla of Qays ibn Makhrama ibn al-Muttalib; Nusayr, Musa ibn Nusayr's father, mawla of the Umayyads; and Abu Farwa, grandfather of al-Rabi' ibn Yunus al-Mansur's minister — bought by Na'im al-Asadi then by Uthman for grave-digging.