Zayd ibn Mūsā ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (

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: زيد بن موسى بن جعفر بن محمد بن علي بن الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب) was a younger son of the seventh

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in Twelver Shia Islam,

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. He took part in the unsuccessful Alid uprising in 815 against the

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, led by Abu'l-Saraya, during which he captured and governed the city of

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. According to

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, his reign was characterized by a pogrom against the supporters of the Abbasids, which earned him the nickname Zayd al-Nar ('Zayd of the Fire') due to the large numbers of houses belonging to Abbasid family members or their followers that he ordered torched. After the defeat of Abu'l-Saraya at

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, Basra held out for a while, until captured by the Abbasid general Ali ibn Abi Sa'id. Zayd received a letter of safe passage from Ali, and surrendered to him. His brother, Ibrahim, also took part in the uprising and ruled

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for a while. Before long, Zayd escaped his imprisonment, and rose again in revolt at Anbar in June 816, along with Abu'l-Saraya's brother. They were soon defeated by ''Abbasid troops'' and again captured.

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* {{The History of al-Tabari, volume=32 8th-century births 9th-century deaths 9th-century Arab people 9th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate Prisoners and detainees of the Abbasid Caliphate 9th-century Shia Muslims Rebels from the Abbasid Caliphate People of the Fourth Fitna Husaynids History of Basra Iraq under the Abbasid Caliphate 9th-century Zaydis