ʿUmar ibn Saʿd () (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

620–686) was a son of Muhammad's companion, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas. He was born in Medina and later moved to Kufa, which was founded by his father and stayed there until his death. He took orders from

Ubaydullah ibn Ziyad ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Ziyād ( ar, عبيد الله بن زياد, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Ziyād) was the Umayyad governor of Basra, Kufa and Khurasan during the reigns of caliphs Mu'awiya I and Yazid I, and the leading general of the Umayyad army unde ...

. He was one of the leaders of the troops who killed

Husayn ibn Ali Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, أبو عبد الله الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب; 10 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a son of Ali ibn Abi ...

in the Battle of Karbala in 680, the first major battle of the Second Islamic Civil War (Second Fitna). His wife was the sister to Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, who ruled Iraq from 685 to 687, during the

Second Fitna The Second Fitna was a period of general political and military disorder and civil war in the Islamic community during the early Umayyad Caliphate., meaning trial or temptation) occurs in the Qur'an in the sense of test of faith of the believer ...

. He had five sons, Hafs ibn Umar ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas camed in battle of Karbala. Umar ibn Sa'd was killed by

Abu Amra Kaysan Abū ʿAmra Kaysān was a prominent Persian '' mawlā'' (pl. ''mawālī''; non-Arab convert to Islam in early caliphate history) during the Second Muslim Civil War. Kaysan converted to Islam after the Muslim conquest of Persia and became a ''mawl ...

, on the orders of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, for his involvement in the Battle of Karbala.https://qurango.com/images/b/8/231.jpg

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7th-century Arabs 620 births 727 deaths People of the Second Fitna Banu Zuhrah {{Islam-bio-stub