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'''Sa'id ibn Malik ibn Bahdal''' was the governor of [[Jund Qinnasrin]] (military district of northern [[Bilad al-Sham|Syria]]) under the [[Umayyad]] caliphs [[Yazid I]] ({{reign|680|683}}){{sfn|Crone|1980|p=94}} and [[Mu'awiya II]] ({{reign|683|684}}).{{sfn|Caskel|1966|p=500}} During the [[Second Muslim Civil War]], in 683 or 684, Sa'id was expelled from Qinnasrin by [[Zufar ibn al-Harith al-Kilabi]], whose tribal faction, the [[Qays]], rivals of Sa'id's tribe, the [[Banu Kalb]], dominated the district. Zufar objected to a Kalbite controlling Qinnasrin and supported the claims of the anti-Umayyad claimant to the caliphate, [[Ibn al-Zubayr]].
==Family==
Sa'id was a cousin of Caliph [[Yazid I]], the latter's mother [[Maysun bint Bahdal|Maysun]] being the sister of Sa'id's father Malik. They belonged to the influential house of [[Bahdal ibn Unayf]], the chief of the [[Banu Kalb]] tribe in Syria.{{sfn|Crone|1980|pp=93–94}} Sa'id's brother [[Ibn Bahdal|Hassan]] and cousin [[Humayd ibn Hurayth ibn Bahdal]] played leading roles in support of the Umayyads during the serious challenge to their rule in the [[Second Muslim Civil War]].
Sa'id's grandson, Khalid ibn Uthman ibn Sa'id was the head of the {{transl|ar|shurta}} (select troops) of the Umayyad caliph [[al-Walid II]] ({{reign|743|744}}) and in that capacity, fought against his fellow Kalbites who opposed the caliph. Another descendant, Asim ibn Muhammad, was a leader of the [[Yaman (tribal group)|Yaman]] tribal faction, to which the Kalb belonged, against its rival, the [[Qays]], in [[Damascus]] during the reign of the [[Abbasid]] caliph [[Harun al-Rashid]] ({{reign|786|809}}).{{sfn|Crone|1980|p=94}}
==References==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite book |last1=Caskel |first1=Werner |title=Ğamharat an-nasab: Das genealogische Werk des His̆ām ibn Muḥammad al-Kalbī, Volume II |date=1966 |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ybgUAAAAIAAJ |language=German}}
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[[Category:7th-century Arab people]]
[[Category:Banu Kalb]]
[[Category:Umayyad governors of Qinnasrin]]
[[Category:People of the Second Fitna]]