Al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri

Al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri
الضَّحَّاك بْنِ قَيْس الْفِهْرِيّ
Umayyad governor of Damascus
In office
680–684
MonarchsMu'awiya II (r. 683–684)
Yazid I (r. 680–683)
Umayyad governor of Kufa
In office
675–678
MonarchMu'awiya I (r. 661–680)
Preceded byAbdallah ibn Khalid ibn Asid
Succeeded byAbd al-Rahman ibn Umm al-Hakam al-Thaqafi
Personal details
Died18 August 684
Marj Rahit (northern outskirts of Damascus)
RelationsFatima bint Qays (sister)
ChildrenAbd al-Rahman
ParentQays al-Fihri

Al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri (Arabic: الضَّحَّاك بْنِ قَيْس الْفِهْرِيّ, romanizedAl-Ḍaḥḥak ibn Qays al-Fihrī; died August 684) was an Umayyad general, head of security forces and governor of Damascus during the reigns of caliphs Mu'awiya I, Yazid I and Mu'awiya II. Though long an Umayyad loyalist, after the latter's death, al-Dahhak defected to the anti-Umayyad claimant to the caliphate, Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr.