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People of the Fourth Fitna

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Ali al-Rida
eighth of the Twelve Shia Imams (766–818)
Al-Amin
Abū Mūsā Muḥammad bin Hārūn al-Amīn (; April 787 – 24/25 September 813), better known by just his laqab of al-Amīn (), was the sixth Abbasid caliph from 809 to 813.
Tahir ibn Husayn
Abbasid caliphate general and the founder of Taheri Emirate (821–822)
Al-Fadl ibn Sahl
Persian Abbasid vizier and official (died 818)
Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi
Abbasid prince, singer, composer and poet (779–839)
Al-Hasan ibn Sahl
Iranian poet and politician
Al-Fadl ibn al-Rabi'
Abbasid vizier
Harthama ibn A'yan
Abbasid provincial governor and general (died 816)
Ali ibn Isa ibn Mahan
abbasid official and Governor of Khorasan
Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq
9th-century self-declared Caliph of the Muslims
Zayd ibn Musa al-Kadhim
son of Musa al-Kazim
Muttalib ibn Abdallah ibn Malik
Provincial Abbasid governor
Ibrahim ibn Musa al-Kazim
son of Musa al-Kazim
Sulayman ibn Abi Ja'far
Abbasid prince and political leader (766/7 – 813/5)
Ibn Tabataba
arabian political figure
Abu'l-Saraya
'''Abu'l-Sarāyā al-Sarī ibn Manṣūr al-Shaybānī''' (d. 18 October 815) was leader of a Zaydi revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate in Kufa and Iraq in 815. The revolt spread quickly across southern Iraq, and his agents even took over Mecca and Medina. At one point, the rebels threatened even Baghdad, but the Abbasid general Harthama ibn A'yan drove them back to Kufa in a series of victories. Forced to abandon Kufa in late August, Abu'l-Saraya and his followers tried to flee, but were pursued, defeated, and captured. Abu'l-Saraya himself was executed at Baghdad on 18 October. The uprising continu
Yazid ibn Jarir al-Qasri
abbasid governor of Yemen (812–813)
Nasr ibn Shabath al-Uqayli
rebel leader of caliph Al-Ma'mun's era
Muhammad ibn Yazid al-Muhallabi
Abbasid governor
Abu al-Umaytir al-Sufyani
9th-century rebel during Abbasid era (811–813)
Al-Faddayni
thumb|Arabia during al-Faddayni's lifetime '''Sa'id ibn Khalid ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn Uthman ibn Affan al-Uthmani (, ), commonly known as al-Faddayni''' (), was a member of the Umayyad family who led a failed revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate in the Hauran and Balqa (Transjordan) in 813, during the Fourth Muslim Civil War, in a bid to claim the caliphate. His revolt followed two other abortive revolts by Umayyad claimants to the caliphate in Damascus, those of Abu al-Umaytir al-Sufyani and Maslama ibn Ya'qub. In effect, al-Faddayni's rebellion was the last major attempt to r