ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khāzim al-Sulamī (Arabic: عبد الله بن خازم السلمي) (fl.

[1] Indeed, when Uthman was assassinated in January 656, Qays departed Khurasan to investigate the situation in Iraq with Ibn Khazim being given authority over the province until being dismissed by Caliph Ali (r. 656–661) later that year.

[2] When Qays proved incapable of controlling the province, he was replaced by Ibn Khazim, who put down a rebellion in Qarin in 662.

[2][3] Salm left Ibn Khazim in charge of the province after fleeing in the wake of the successive deaths of caliphs Yazid and his son Mu'awiya II in 683 and 684, which caused the collapse of Umayyad rule.

[7] Afterwards, the Tamim revolted, captured Herat and killed Muhammad before turning their attention toward Ibn Khazim.

[13] Before he died, Ibn Khazim reportedly spat at his killer, a tribesman whose brother Ibn Khazim had previously executed, exclaiming defiantly that he was chief of the Mudar tribal confederation, while his killer's brother was a mere peasant.

[14] Indeed, Ibn Khazim's career was posthumously chronicled in epics that extolled his military prowess, which historian H. A. R. Gibb asserts "makes it difficult to establish many details with precision".