Abdallah ibn Amir

Abdallah ibn Amir
Born	622 Mecca
Died	678 (aged 55–56)
Allegiance	Rashidun Caliphate

Abdallah ibn Amir (Arabic: عبدالله بن عامر‎‎) was a governor of Busra (647–656) and an extremely successful military general during the reign of Rashidun Caliph Uthman ibn Affan. His father was a maternal uncle of Caliph Uthman. Abdallah was thus a cousin of Uthman. He is well known for his administrative and military prowess. his campaign of Reconquest and pacifying the large soils of Persian Empire former territories has left great legacy of Islamization in both Iran and Afghan land

Abdallah ibn Amir was born in Mecca, in present-day Saudi Arabia. He belonged to the Umayyad clan of Quraish. He is likely descendent from Amir ibn Rabi'ah, a male Companion of Prophet and seemingly relative of Utbah ibn Rabi'ah, father to Hind bint Utbah. so technically he is distant cousin of Caliph Uthman who descended from the same progenitor of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, husband to Hind and descendant from Banu Abd-Shams, parent clan of Umayyad clan.

In the year 647, when Abu Musa al-Asha'ari was deposed from the governorship of Basra, Caliph Uthman appointed Ibn Amir as the Governor of Basra. Ibn Amir was only twenty-five years old that time.Muʿāwiyah ibn ʾAbī Sufyān.

Caliph Uthman was aiming in solving the tensions in newly conquered Iraq which caused by sudden influx of Arab tribesmen to the garrison towns in frontlines such as Kufa and Basra. he solved this by opening new fronts in new territories to conquer which aimed to consume the energy of those tribesmen and channeling them towards new military expeditions. When Ibn Amir arrived at Basra he immediately readied the fronts to new conquests into the land of Persia. Ibn Amir made several reforms such as constructing new irrigation canal in Basra and fixing the water supply system for the use of Hajj pilgrims which passing through Basra

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