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[[File:Obayd 1.jpg|thumbnail|Ibn-Ziad's palace in Kufa which is just a ruin nowadays. It's known as Darul'Imara.]] | [[File:Obayd 1.jpg|thumbnail|Ibn-Ziad's palace in Kufa which is just a ruin nowadays. It's known as Darul'Imara.]] | ||
'''Obayd-Allah Ibn Ziad''' (d. 67/686), was [[Umayyad]] governor of Basra, Kufa and Khurasan during [[Mu’awiya]] I and [[Yazid]] I. He was the son of Ziad b. Abih, a favorite of [[Mu’awiya]], and a Persian slave called Marjana. During Ibn Ziad | '''Obayd-Allah Ibn Ziad''' (d. 67/686), was [[Umayyad]] governor of Basra, Kufa and Khurasan during [[Mu’awiya]] I and [[Yazid]] I era. He was the son of Ziad b. Abih, a favorite of [[Mu’awiya]], and a Persian slave called Marjana. During Ibn Ziad's governorship of Kufa, the revolt of [[Hussain ibn Ali|Hussain b. ʿAli]], a grandson of Prophet [[Muhammad]], was suppressed leading to [[martyrdom]] of Hussain and his followers at the [[Battle of Karbala]]. After death of Yazid, he supported Marwan’s claim to become Caliph. Finally, he was killed by Ibrahim ibn Malek Ashtar, chief commander of [[Mukhtar]] revolt. | ||
==Governor of Khurasan and Iraq== | ==Governor of Khurasan and Iraq== | ||
He was given the governorship of Khurasan in 54/673 at the age of twenty-five, and soon afterward, he was appointed governor of Basra, where he subdued [https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kharijite Kharijite] unrest (Tabari, II, pp. 168, 172, 185-87). At the accession of [[Yazid]] I (r. 60-64/680-83), he forestalled the planned Shiʿite rebellion in [[Kufa]] by intimidating the chiefs of the main tribes and publicly executing known agents of Imam Hussain. When Hussain and his family reached Iraq, Ibn Ziad sent the army of [[Omar Ibn Sa’d|Ibn Saʿd]] against him; Hussain was killed with his followers and most of the men of his family at Karbala on 10 [[Muharram]] 61/10 October 680. | He was given the governorship of Khurasan in 54/673 at the age of twenty-five, and soon afterward, he was appointed governor of Basra, where he subdued [https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kharijite Kharijite] unrest (Tabari, II, pp. 168, 172, 185-87). At the accession of [[Yazid]] I (r. 60-64/680-83), he forestalled the planned Shiʿite rebellion in [[Kufa]] by intimidating the chiefs of the main tribes and publicly executing known agents of Imam Hussain. When Hussain and his family reached Iraq, Ibn Ziad sent the army of [[Omar Ibn Sa’d|Ibn Saʿd]] against him; Hussain was killed with his followers and most of the men of his family at Karbala on 10 [[Muharram]] 61/10 October 680. | ||