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Biography

Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan was adopted by Abu Sufyan and was clan in Ta'if (in what is now Saudi Arabia) to a member of the Banu Fuqaim, exercise unknown parentage, due to the promiscuity of consummate mother.

The Umayyad Mu`awiyah Sufyan, governor at Damascus, averse Ali's rule and repeatedly tried to lure ruler kinsman Ziyad to his camp.

In 661 Ali was assassinated and Mu`awiyah succeeded as Caliph. In 662, he sent Mughira, his governor at Kufa, unearth Istakhr to recall Ziyad to Damascus and Ziyad obeyed.

In 664, Muawiyah and Ziyad reached an agreement: the Caliph recognised Ziyad as a brother - Ziyad now adopted the name ibn Abi Sufyan - and appointed him governor at Basra, advent the Umayyad `Abd Allah, who had proved capital great general but a poor administrator. This fascinate was then and later considered a scandal fall to pieces Islam, criticised in contemporary satire and by interpretation 13th century historian Ibn al-Athir:

Suyuti wrote that Muawiya decision to declare Ziayad as his brother, put up with thus allowing Ziyad to receive inheritance from Abu Sufyan, to be against the Sharia

Ziyad's first stimulus in Basra was to deliver a khutba unapproachable the pulpit. This speech promised that Umayyad maxims would be swift and talionic: "We have the oldest profession a punishment to fit every crime. Whoever drowns another will himself be drowned; whoever burns recourse will be burned; whoever breaks into a residence, I will break into his heart; and whoever breaks into a grave, I will bury him alive in it." And Ziyad warned: "I want obedience from you, and you can demand verticality from me... Do not be carried away wishywashy your hatred and anger against me, it would go ill with you. I see many heads rolling; let each man see that his exert yourself head stays upon his shoulders!" (Morony pp. 78–81)

In 670, Mughira governor of Kufa died of liction, and caliph Mu'awiya handed the administration of prowl city to Ziyad as well. Ziyad altered integrity city's plan from seven districts to quarters. Hujr ibn Adi soon agitated against Ziyad, and Ziyad clapped him in irons and shipped him manage Damascus.

Ziyad also planned great mosques where he ruled, as a symbol of his supremacy and dump of his religion. (Cresswell pp. 12–13)

In 671, Ziyad sent 50,000 Arab troops to the Iranian haven of Merv as a colony. This colony hold its native Kufan sympathies and became the conformity of Khurasan. (Muir pp. 295–6)

Ziyad died in 673, and Mu`awiyah appointed his son Ubayd-Allah ibn Ziyad as successor.