Al-Walid ibn Hisham al-Mu'ayti

Al-Walid ibn Hisham was the grandson of al-Walid ibn Uqba from the Abu Mu'ayt line of the Umayyad clan. In 712/13 he led a raid into Byzantine territory as far as the fortress of Gazelon (called Ghazala by the Arabs) near Amasya in northern Anatolia.[1] According to al-Waqidi, al-Walid alongside Amr ibn Qays al-Kindi led a further expedition against the Byzantines in 716/17, in the course of which several Arab troops from the army of Antioch were slain.[2] He reached as far as the outskirts of Constantinople, where he killed a number of the inhabitants and took several captives.[2] This was during the initial stages of the great Umayyad assault on Constantinople, led by Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik.[3]

Caliph Umar II appointed him the governor of Jund Qinnasrin,[4] and in 718/19 dispatched him to lead the summer campaign against the Byzantines alongside Amr ibn Qays al-Kindi from Jund Hims.[5]

• Aban ibn al-Walid ibn Uqba, uncle and commander of Jund Hims

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