He is counted alongside Mu'awiya, al-Mughira and , the conqueror and governor of Egypt, as one of the four duhāt i.
These characteristics of 'Ubayd Allah made him also successful in wars with non-Muslims.
Ziyad moved to Kufa and maintained intimate ties with al-Mughira and his family.
Ziyad was also married for a time to a Sasanian Persian princess, Marjana or Manjana , who mothered his son Ubayd Allah; she later remarried a Persian commander of Ziyad called.
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The origins of Sumayya are also obscure.