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Biography of Warrior Abu Muslim

Dekhti Aankhooon aur sountay kaanoon ko Asslamoalaikum, sisters, brothers friends and elders, In this informative video, we present the biography of Abu Muslim, a legendary warrior whose contributions significantly shaped the course of Islamic history. From his humble beginnings to his strategic brilliance in battle, we highlight the milestones of his life and the enduring influence he left behind. we are describing the story of a man who became a symbol of resistance and change.

Abu Muslim Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Khurasani was a Persian general who led the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad dynasty, leading to the establishment of the Abbasid Caliphate.

Little is known about Abu Muslim's origins, but by the early 740s he had been in contact with Abbasid agents and around the year 745 he was sent to Khorasan. In 747, Abu Muslim ignited an open revolt against Umayyad rule and quickly took Merv. He gradually strengthened Abbasid control over Khorasan, and was appointed governor of the province following the establishment of the Abbasid caliphate in 750. Wary of Abu Muslim's rising influence and popularity, the second Abbasid caliph, al-Mansur, ordered his death. He was executed in front of the caliph in Al-Mada'in in 755 on charges of heresy.

According to Gholam-Hosayn Yusofi, "sources differ regarding his original name and his origin. Some make him a descendant of Godarz and of the vizier Bozorgmehr and call him Ebrahim; some name him Behzadan, son of Vendad Hormoz; and others relate him to the Abbasids or to the Alids. These suggestions are all doubtful". He was most likely of Persian origin,and was born in either Merv or near Isfahan. The exact date is unknown, either in 718/9 or sometime in 723/7.

Shia activist and missionary activity in Khurasan
He grew up in Kufa, where he served as a slave and saddler of the Banu Ijl clan.It was there that Abu Muslim came into contact with Shia Muslims.

Kufa at the time was a hotbed of social and political unrest against the ruling Umayyad dynasty, whose policies favoured Arabs over non-Arab converts to Islam (mawali) and were thus perceived to violate the Islamic promises of equality. The luxurious lifestyles of the Umayyad caliphs and their persecution of the Alids further alienated the pious. This rallied support for the Shi'a cause of rule by a member of the family of Muhammad, who would, as a God-guided im?m or mahd?, rule according to the Quran and the Sunnah and create a truly Islamic government that would bring justice and peace to the Muslim community.

By 737 he is recorded among the followers of the ghali ("extremist, heterodox") al-Mughira. These activities landed him in prison, from where he was liberated in 741/2 by the leading Abbasid missionaries (naq?b, sing. naq?b) on their way to Mecca.He was introduced to the head of the Abbasid clan, Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdallah, who in 745/6 sent him to direct the missionary effort in Khurasan.

Khurasan, and the Iranian eastern half of the Caliphate in general, offered fertile ground for the Abbasids' missionary activities. Far from the Umayyad metropolitan province of Syria, Khurasan had a distinct identity. It was home to a large Arab settler community, which in turn had resulted in a large number of native converts, as well as intermarriage between Arabs and Iranians. As a frontier province exposed to constant warfare, the local Muslims were militarily experienced, and the common struggle had helped further unify the Arab and native Muslims of Khurasan, with a common dislike towards the centralizing tendencies of Damascus and the exactions of the Syrian governors. According to later accounts, already in 718/9 the Abbasids had dispatched twelve naqab into the province, but modern scholars are sceptical of such claims, and it appears that only after the failure of the Revolt of Zayd ibn Ali in 740 did the Abbasid missionary movement begin to make headway in Khurasan. In 745, the Khurasani Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i travelled west to swear allegiance to Ibrahim ibn Muhammad, and it was with him that Abu Muslim was sent east to assume control.

When Abu Muslim arrived in Khurasan, the province was in turmoil due to the impact of the ongoing Umayyad civil war of the Third Fitna, which had re-ignited the feud between the Yaman and Qays tribal groups: the numerous Yamani element in the province opposed the longtime governor, Nasr ibn Sayyar, and sought to replace him with their champion, Juday al-Kirmani. Al-Kirmani led an uprising against Ibn Sayyar, and drove him from the provincial capital, Merv, in late 746, with the governor fleeing to the Qaysi stronghold of Nishapur.

He took Merv in December 747 (or January 748), defeating the Umayyad governor Nasr ibn Sayyar, as well as Shayban al-Khariji, a Kharijite aspirant to the caliphate. He became the de facto governor of Khurasan, and gained fame as a general in the late 740s in defeating the rebellion of Bihafarid, the leader of a syncretic Persian sect that was Mazdaist. Abu Muslim received support in suppressing the rebellion both from purist Muslims and Zoroastrians

So sisters brothers friends and elders, tomorow we are going to described Rule of Khurasan by Abu Muslim and his death.. Allah hafiz

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