Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath al-Kindi
UMAYYAD GOVERNOR AND KINDA TRIBE CHIEFTAIN (DIED 686)
Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath
Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn al-Ash'ath ibn Qays al-Kindī () (died 686) was the chieftain of the Kinda tribe in Kufa, succeeding his father al-Ash'ath ibn Qays. He served as governor of Tabaristan under the Umayyad viceroy of Iraq, Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad and later as the governor of Mosul under the anti-Umayyad caliph Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr.