Al-Walīd ibn ʿUqba ibn Abī Muʿayṭ (, died 680) was the governor of

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in 645/46–649/50 during the reign of his half-brother, Caliph Uthman (). During the reign of Uthman, he lead Fajr prayers while intoxicated, and there were witness of him vomiting,as mentioned in the Hadith 4457 of Sahih Muslim. Therefore, the legal punishment of whipping was carried out on him, and according to some accounts, with Ali's hand.

Life

Al-Walid was born in

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to father Uqba ibn Abi Mu'ayt of the Banu Umayya clan and mother Arwa bint Kurayz of the Banu Rabi'ah. Both of his parents belonged to clans from the Banu Abd Shams branch of the

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tribe, which dominated Mecca. He was also a maternal half-brother of

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, a member of the Banu Umayya who went on to become caliph in 644. Like most Meccans at the time, his family were polytheists and opposed

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. His father died fighting against the latter at the Battle of Badr in 624. However, al-Walid converted to Islam after the Muslim

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in 630. He was charged by Muhammad with collecting the '' sadaqat'' (charitable tribute) from an Arab tribe known as the Banu Mustaliq. During the rule of Caliph

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(), al-Walid was charged with collecting the ''sadaqat'' from the Banu Taghlib tribe in

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. Later he involved during

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, when he was sent by Iyad ibn Ghanm to subdue the fortresses of the tribe of Rabi'a and Tanukhid in

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, in an attempt to relieve the Byzantine coalition pressures toward Emesa. His uterine brother, Uthman, appointed him governor of

in 645/46, but his behavior and wine consumption riled the pious Muslims of that city, compelling Uthman to recall him in 649/50. He fled to Upper Mesopotamia following Uthman's assassination in 656 and died in al-Raqqa in 680. His son Aban served as governor of

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under Caliph Abd al-Malik.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Walid ibn Uqba 680 deaths Banu Umayya Rashidun governors of Kufa Sahabah hadith narrators