This move caused the outbreak of a widespread revolt in Lower Egypt in 725–726, with the residents of Natu, Tumayy, Qurbayt, Turabiyya, and the eastern Hawf rising in up an event later described by the historian Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Kindi as the first Coptic rebellion against the Arabs.
[5] While in Egypt al-Hurr also worked with Hisham to resettle a group of Syrian Arabs to the eastern Delta[6] and built a covered market street on new land created from a recession of the Nile.
He remained as governor until 727, when a dispute between him and Ibn al-Habhab caused the latter to write a letter of complaint to the caliph; in response al-Hurr agreed to step down from office and was replaced by Hafs.
[9] While in Mosul al-Hurr initiated a building program for several major private and public developments, putting him in line with a long Marwanid tradition of investing in improvement projects for the city.
[11] The largest single development begun by al-Hurr was for the cutting of a canal that ran from the Tigris to the center of Mosul, an undertaking characterized by Chase F. Robinson as "the most impressive building project" completed in the city in the early Marwanid period.
[14] Upon his death his son Yahya inherited his palace as well as numerous houses, inns, and estates, and his family retained ownership of extensive properties in the Mosul area for the duration of the Umayyad era.