Salih ibn Wasif

Salih ibn Wasif
صالح بن وصيف‎
BornAbbasid Caliphate
Diedc. 29 January 870
Samārra, Abbasid Caliphate
AllegianceAbbasid Caliphate
Service / branchAbbasid Turkic regiment
Years of servicec. 866 – 870
RankMilitary officer
Battles / warsAbbasid civil war (865–866)
RelationsWasif (father)

Salih ibn Wasif (Arabic: صالح بن وصيف; died c. 29 January 870[1]) was a Turkic officer in the service of the Abbasid Caliphate. The son of Wasif, a central figure during the Anarchy at Samarra, Salih briefly seized power in the capital Samarra and deposed the caliph al-Mu'tazz in 869, but he was later defeated by the general Musa ibn Bugha and killed in the following year.

  1. ^ Yarshater 1985–2007, v. 36: p. 90