Samura ibn Jundab

Samura ibn Jundab al-Fazari
Silver dirham of the Arab–Sasanian type minted in the name of Samura ibn Jundab (inscribed in Persian on obverse) in Darabjird, 672–673.
Umayyad governor of Basra
In office 670–674
Monarch	Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680)
Preceded by	Ziyad ibn Abihi
Succeeded by	Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn Ghaylan
Personal details
Died	677–679 Basra
Relations	Fazara (paternal tribe) Ansar (affiliate tribe)
Children	Sa'd or Sa'id Sulayman Umm Thabit
Parents	Jundab ibn Hilal al-Fazari (father) Murayy ibn Sinan ibn Tha'laba (stepfather)

Samura ibn Jundab al-Fazārī (Arabic: سمرة بن جندب, his father Jundab's name is also commonly transliterated as Jundub; died 677–679) was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who fought at the Battle of Uhud in 627 and later participated in the Muslim conquest of Iran in the 630s–640s. In 670–673 he served as the lieutenant governor of Basra under Ziyad ibn Abihi, the supreme governor of Iraq and the eastern Umayyad Caliphate. During his deputy rule over Basra, he is held by the Islamic traditional sources to have ordered wide-scale executions of Kharijites in his jurisdiction. He remained governor of Basra under the Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680) for six to eighteen months after Ziyad's death in August/September 673 until the Caliph replaced him.