مرة مولى أبي بكر

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.