Yazid ibn Abi Kabsha al-Saksaki explained

Yazid ibn Abi Kabsha al-Saksaki
Parents:Haywil ibn Yasar
Relatives:
  • Ziyad (brother)
  • Sari ibn Ziyad (nephew)
Office:Umayyad Sahib al-Shurta
Office2:Umayyad Governor of Iraq
Term Start2:714
Term End2:715
Monarch2:Al-Walid I
Predecessor2:Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi
Successor2:Yazid ibn al-Muhallab
Office3:Umayyad Governor of Sind
Term Start3:18 July 715
Term End3:715
Monarch3:Sulayman
Predecessor3:Muhammad ibn Qasim al-Thaqafi
Successor3:Habib ibn al-Muhallab al-Azdi
Death Date:715
Death Place:Sind
Battles:
Rank:Commander

Yazid ibn Abi Kabsha al-Saksaki (Arabic: يزيد بن أبي كبشة السكسكي) was an Arab military commander and provincial governor for the Umayyad Caliphate.

He was the son of Haywil ibn Yasar, surnamed Abu Kabsha, a member of the Syrian tribal nobility and an adherent of the Umayyads during the Second Fitna. Yazid served as sahib al-shurta for Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (r. 685–705), campaigned against the Kharijites in Iraq in 698, and was appointed by the governor of Iraq, al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, as head of his shurta in Wasit. In 712/3 he led a campaign against the Byzantine Empire, and after the death of Hajjaj in 714, he succeeded him briefly as governor of Iraq. Caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 715–717) then sent him to Sind, where he dismissed and imprisoned the incumbent governor, Muhammad ibn Qasim. Yazid died in Sind shortly after his arrival there.

He had a brother Ziyad, of whom nothing is known, but his nephew Sari ibn Ziyad was among the pro-Yemeni leaders during the Third Fitna.

Sources

. Slaves on horses: the evolution of the Islamic polity . Patricia Crone . Cambridge and New York . Cambridge University Press . 1980 . 0-521-52940-9 .