Samura ibn Jundab
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Samura ibn Jundab al-Fazārī was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who fought at the Battle of Uhud in 627 and later participated in the Muslim conquest of Iran in the 630s–640s. In 670–673 h
Silver dirham of the Arab–Sasanian type minted in the name of Samura ibn Jundab (inscribed in Persian on obverse) in Darabjird, 672–673.
Mukhtar al-Thaqafi
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Al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd al-Thaqafi was an Alid revolutionary based in Kufa, who led a rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate in 685 and ruled over most of Iraq and parts of northwestern Iran for eig
Samura ibn Jundab
…Shabba. His kunya was Abu Sa'd or Abu Sulayman. Like his father, Samura's son Sa'd or Sa'id also transmitted hadith. His daughter Umm Thabit was wed to Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, who took over Kufa and ruled in the name of Caliph Ali's family during the Second Muslim Civil War (680–692). Samura's great-grandson Abu Ishaq Ibrahim…
Persian painting Al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi
A view of modern-day Kufa, the headquarters of Mukhtar, and its Great Mosque, where he is buried.