محمد بن يوسف الثقفي

محمد بن يوسف الثقفي

Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf's brother; appointed over Yemen by him he governed badly, wronged the subjects and seized people's lands unlawfully — among them al-Hurja — and imposed on the people of Yemen a kharaj made into a fixed wazifa; when Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz took office he ordered his agent to abolish the levy and content himself with the tithe, saying 'by God, that not a handful of katam should reach me from Yemen is dearer to me than confirming this wazifa'; when Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik took office he ordered it restored.