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Abd Allah ibn Muti

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muṭīʿ al-ʿAdawī (Arabic: عبد الله بن مطيع العدوي; died 692) was a leading anti-Umayyad Qurayshi of Medina and governor of Kufa for the Zubayrid caliph Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr from April 685 until his ouster by the pro-Alid leader al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi in August 685. He was a military commander against the Umayyads at the battle of al-Harra and the siege of Mecca in 683. He fought alongside Ibn al-Zubayr in the second siege of Mecca in 692, where he was slain by Umayyad forces.