Muttalib ibn Abdallah ibn Malik

Muttalib ibn Abdallah ibn Malik al-Khuza'i (Arabic: مطلب بن عبدالله بن مالك الخزاعي‎) was a son of the Abbasid general and administrator Abdallah ibn Malik al-Khuza'i. During the civil war between al-Amin and al-Ma'mun, he sided with the latter.

Muttalib ibn Abdallah ibn Malik al-Khuza'i مطلب بن عبدالله بن مالك الخزاعي
Abbasid Governor of Egypt (First term)
In office 813–814
Monarch	al-Ma'mun
Preceded by	Abbad ibn Muhammad
Succeeded by	al-Abbas ibn Musa
Abbasid Governor of Egypt (Second term)
In office 814–816
Monarch	al-Mamun
Preceded by	al-Abbas ibn Musa
Succeeded by	al-Sari ibn al-Hakam
Personal details
Born	Abbasid Caliphate
Died	unknown date
Father	Abdallah ibn Malik al-Khuza'i

In 811, he administered the oath of allegiance (bay'ah) to al-Ma'mun for Mosul, and was named governor of Egypt briefly in 813 and again from 814 to 816. In 817, however, after al-Ma'mun chose the Alid Ali al-Rida as his heir, Muttalib joined the uprising in Baghdad against al-Ma'mun, and even administered the oath to the city's rival Caliph, Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi.

Sources

• Crone, Patricia (1980). Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 181–182. ISBN 0-521-52940-9.