[1] Abdallah's father, Khalid ibn Asid, embraced Islam during the conquest of Mecca in 629 and was killed fighting rebel Arab tribes at the Battle of Yamama in 633, during the Ridda wars.
[2] Abdallah was appointed the lieutenant governor of Fars or its Ardashir-Khwarrah district by Ziyad ibn Abih, Caliph Mu'awiya's practical viceroy of Iraq and the eastern Caliphate.
[3] He led the funeral prayers for Ziyad and continued as Mu'awiya's governor of Kufa until 675.
[3] One of Abdallah's sons, Umayya, was married to Ziyad's daughter Ramla.
[1] He married off one of his daughters to a grandson of Uthman, Abdallah ibn Amr, who became the parents of four sons and two daughters, one of whom, Umm Abdallah, married Caliph al-Walid I (r. 705–715) and bore him his son Abd al-Rahman.