Sa'id ibn Malik ibn Bahdal was the governor of Jund Qinnasrin (military district of northern Syria) under the Umayyad caliphs Yazid I (r. 680–683)[1] and Mu'awiya II (r. 683–684).[2] During the Second Muslim Civil War, in 683 or 684, Sa'id was expelled from Qinnasrin by Zufar ibn al-Harith al-Kilabi, whose tribal faction, the Qays, rivals of Sa'id's tribe, the Banu Kalb, dominated the district. Zufar objected to a Kalbite controlling Qinnasrin and supported the claims of the anti-Umayyad claimant to the caliphate, Ibn al-Zubayr.