Bukayr b. Wishāḥ - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Daniel, Elton L.
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Bukayr b. Wishāḥ (d. 77/696-7) was recognised briefly as governor of Khurāsān (c. 72-4/692-4), during the caliphate of ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān (r. 65-86/685-705). There is much disagreement in the sources about the identity of Bukayr. Al-Ṭabarī and sources that follow him generally give his patronymic as Wishāḥ, but a number of other important sources, such as al-Yaʿqūbī (d. early fourth/tenth century), Ibn Ḥazm (d. 456/1064), and Gardīzī (fl. fifth/eleventh century), have Wassāj; orthographically, the two