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419:, after the death of her first husband, Khalid ibn Amr, a grandson of Caliph Uthman. With Umm Uthman, Abd Allah had his sons Abu Utba and Abu Sufyan (or Abu Aban according to al-Baladhuri). He later married Umm Uthman's niece, Umm Musa, who was the daughter of
347:, was a cousin of Yazid, and nominated Khalid and Abd Allah as his candidates for caliphal office. He was opposed by the other loyalist tribesmen due to Khalid and Abd Allah's young ages. Instead, a distant Umayyad relative,
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Sufyanid kinswoman, Umm Kulthum, the daughter of Mu'awiya I's brother
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word for "horseman". Al-Tabari quoted an unnamed poet as saying of Abd Allah:
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45:Umm Musa bint Amr al-Ashdaq ibn Sa'id ibn al-As
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389:Amr al-Ashdaq ibn Sa'id ibn al-As
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329:Damascus
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368:Persian
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281:caliph
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