يعقوب بن داود
يعقوب بن داود
Ya'qub b. Dawud, client of Ibn Khazim the Khurasan governor and secretary to Ibrahim b. 'Abd Allah who rose against al-Mahdi and died in 145; Abu Hanash al-Hilali, a hundred years old, mourned him in verses preserved in the Hamasa 1.
At a glance
- Roles
- secretary
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Overview
Abu Abd Allah Ya'qub ibn Dawud ibn Imran Tahman al-Sulami by clientage, client of Abu Salih Abd Allah ibn Khazim al-Sulami, governor of Khurasan. He was secretary to Ibrahim ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Hasan 1.
What Ibn Khallikan reports
Ibrahim and his brother Muhammad rose against al-Mahdi in Basra and its surroundings, and they were killed in the year 145 AH. When he died, Abu Hanash al-Hilali, who lived a hundred years, mourned him with verses in the Hamasa 1.
Sources
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan, p. 19-20
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islam.museum contributors. “يعقوب بن داود”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/yaqub-ibn-dawud-tahman/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.