al-Ashʿarī, Abū Mūsā - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Lecker, Michael
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Abū Mūsā ʿAbdallāh b. Qays al-Ashʿarī (d. c.48/668; the dates given in the sources range from 42/662 to 53/673) was a Companion of the prophet Muḥammad and a leading statesman and general who played a major role in the Islamic conquests and served, at various periods, as governor of Basra and Kufa, the two garrison cities of Iraq. His affiliation to the Ashʿar tribe is uncertain: according to some, he belonged to a group from the Juʿfī tribe that separated from the Juʿfī following a