Muhammad ibn Abdawayh ibn Jabalah al-Anbari ( ar, محمد بن عبدويه بن جبلة) was a ninth-century official for the

Abbasid Caliphate The Abbasid Caliphate ( or ; ar, الْخِلَافَةُ الْعَبَّاسِيَّة, ') was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abdul-Muttalib ...

. During his lifetime he served as the governor of Barqah and

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Career

Muhammad was the son of Abdawayh ibn Jabalah, a military officer and governor of

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during the caliphate of al-Ma'mun (r. 813–833). He himself embarked on a similar career, and early in the reign of

al-Wathiq Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ( ar, أبو جعفر هارون بن محمد المعتصم; 17 April 812 – 10 August 847), better known by his regnal name al-Wāthiq bi’llāh (, ), was an Abbasid caliph who reigned from 842 until 84 ...

(r. 842–847) he is mentioned as serving as governor of Barqah in

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. During his administration of that province he was faced with an uprising by a group of Berbers and tribal

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, which remained unsubdued until al-Wathiq dispatched the army commander Raja ibn Ayyub al-Hidari to pacify the region. In 854 Muhammad was appointed as governor of Hims after the previous head official Abu al-Mughith Musa ibn Ibrahim was forced out by the inhabitants. In the following year he was faced with a large uprising by the city's inhabitants, which he however defeated with the help of reinforcements from Damascus and

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. As a consequence of the revolt he was ordered by the caliph al-Mutawakkil to undertake a number of punitive measures against the city residents, including the execution of a number of local leaders and the expulsion of the entire Christian population from Hims. Al-Mutawakkil subsequently awarded him with 50,000 dirhams, as well as gifts and robes of honor, for his conduct during the event.; ; ; .

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