Abū l-Sarāyā al-Shaybānī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Turner, John P.
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Abū l-Sarāyā al-Sarī b. Manṣūr al-Shaybānī (d. 200/815) fought as part of Harthama b. Aʿyan's (d. 200/816) army for al-Maʾmūn (r. 198-218/813-33) against al-Amīn (r. 193-8/809-13) in the civil war (195-8/811-3). At the end of the war Abū l-Sarāyā, now unemployed, embarked upon a career of highway robbery as the leader of a small gang. In Jumādā II 199/January 815 he crossed paths with the ʿAlid Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm, commonly known