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The descendants of Asīd ibn Abīʿl-ʿĪs ibn Umayya ibn ʿAbd Shams, also known as the Banū Asīd, were a powerful princely family of the Umayyad dynasty. They held an equal place in the social hierarchy with the descendants of the third caliph, Uthman ibn Affan, who were also Umayyads and intermarried with the descendants of Asid. Several members of the family served military and gubernatorial posts under various Rashidun and Umayyad caliphs.


 * ʿAttāb ibn Asīd ibn Abīʿl-ʿĪs ibn Umayya was appointed governor of Mecca in the wake of its conquest by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 629 and he continued in the post through the caliiphate of Abu Bakr (632–634) until at least 642 during the rule of Caliph Umar. He had converted to Islam when Mecca was conquered by the Muslims. He married Juwayriyya, the daughter of the pagan Qurayshi leader Abu Jahl. He died in 644.
 * ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAttāb ibn Asīd was a prominent solider in Aisha’s army who was slain by Malik al-Ashtar in the Battle of the Camel in 656.
 * ʿAbdallāh ibn Khālid ibn Asīd was governor of Kufa under Caliph Muawiya I in 673. He married two daughters of Uthman, Umm Khalid and Umm Sa’id, though not concurrently. A grandson of Uthman, Abdallah ibn Amr, married a daughter of his who bore him four sons and two daughters, one of whom, Umm Abdallah, married al-Walid I and begat him Abd al-Rahman.
 * ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn Khālid ibn Asīd governor of Mecca under Caliph Abd al-Malik. His daughter Ramla married a grandson of Uthman, Khalid ibn Abdallah ibn Amr, who was flogged to death on the orders of Caliph Yazid II for refusing to marry his sister off to the caliph.
 * Khālid ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn Khālid ibn Asīd was an Umayyad prince based in Basra. During the Second Fitna, during which Umayyad authority had collapsed in Iraq, Khalid threw in his lot with Musab ibn al-Zubayr, who had been appointed governor of Basra by his brother Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, the rival caliph to the Umayyads. He later defected to his kinsman, Caliph Abd al-Malik, who appointed him governor of Basra despite it being under Musab’s control. Khalid helped instigate a revolt in the city by members of the Bakr faction, known as the Jufriyya. He participated in the battle of Maskin in which Musab was killed in 692. Afterward, he was again appointed governor of Basra. He took charge of the campaign to subdue the Azariqa, a Kharijite faction, taking the command from al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra. However, he proved incapable of the task and was dismissed from the governorship in favor of Bishr ibn Marwan, who was also unsuccessful and died in 694. Later, he was appointed governor of Mecca by Caliph al-Walid I in 711/12.
 * ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn Khālid ibn Asīd was an Umayyad commander defeated by the Kharijite leader Qatari ibn al-Fuja'a at a site called al-Jazur in Khuzistan in 693. He was governor of Mecca in 715/16 under Caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, continued through the reign of Umar II (r. 717–720) and was dismissed in 721 by Caliph Yazid II.
 * Umayya ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn Khālid ibn Asīd was the governor of Khurasan and Sijistan under Abd al-Malik between 693 and 697. He was tasked with reasserting Umayyad authority over the Arab tribesmen who formed the provinces garrisons, particularly the factions from the Banu Tamim. In 696, Umayya launched an expedition against Bukhara and dispatched Bukayr ibn Wishah al-Sa’di, his deputy in Tukharistan, at the head of an army into Transoxiana. However, Bukayr rebelled soon after with his Tamimi troops. Umayya abandoned his own expedition to confront Bukayr, whom he defeated with generous terms for Bukayr. The latter continued his intrigues against Umayya, nonetheless, and was consequently executed by the governor. Unable to extract revenues from the the turbulent province, Umayya was dismissed in 697 and Khurasan and Sijistan were transferred to the jurisdiction of al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, the governor of Iraq.