Abu al-Qasim Muhammad ibn Abbad

Abu al-Qasim Muhammad ibn Abbad or Abbad I, (died in 1042), was the founder and eponym of the Abbadid dynasty; first independent Muslim ruler of Seville in Spain (resigned 1023-1042).

He was an administrator notable for declaring Seville independent of the Spanish province of Córdoba in 1023. Arab conqueror of Sindh in India. An Arab military commander from the tribe of Thaqif, Muhammad ibn al-Qasim is famous in Islamic history as the conqueror of the western Indian province of Sindh under the Umayyad dynasty (661–750). He won favor with the Umayyad governor of Iraq, al-Hajjaj, who dispatched him to Sindh at the head of a military expedition between 708 and 711; Muhammad Ibn al-Qasim was probably about fifteen or seventeen years old at this time. He arrived by land in India to punish Dahir, the ruler of Sindh, who had failed to control pirates operating off the coast of his province and who were disrupting Muslim shipping. His forces conquered several Indian cities, among them the Hindu pilgrim city of Multan, and he killed Dahir. He is greatly admired for his youthful military ability. Muhammad Ibn al-Qasim's career came to an abrupt end, however, with the death of al-Hajjaj in 715. Under the new administration, he was dismissed from his post and brutally put to death.