Tariq was deployed toward Zubayrid Medina by Abd al-Malik with orders to station his troops between and He was instructed to guard the southern approaches of Umayyad Syria, check the influence of the Zubayrid governors of Medina, and and otherwise remain on standby
Only were there the minimal requirements for gathering prayer room In less than 3 0 years, the original building of Amr mosque was put down by the Muslims under the pressure of the need of extra area for prayers, and the growing population of the new capital of Egypt

سير أعلام النبلاء/عمرو بن مرة

The building was a single area building with no court, no plaster, no minaret, no floor paving, nor decorations.

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طارق بن عمرو الأموي
The mosque kiblah wall was oriented to Mecca, and the roof of the building was used as a place for the muezzin to say out the call for the prayer loudly
Tariq ibn Amr
When the first Muslims reached Egypt in April, 641 AD, they camped near the Byzantine Papillion fort and, and after their settlement the same site was chosen to set up their new capital al-Fustat
عمرو بن مرة الجملي
A 2,000-strong Zubayrid contingent from was sent against Tariq in response, but the latter routed them
He was a non-Arab Muslim convert and freedman of Caliph r
SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies This appointment became short-lived, however, when the caliph dispatched Tariq at the head of 5,000 Syrian troops to assist in the by in Mecca

طارق بن زياد

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سير أعلام النبلاء/عمرو بن مرة
He later entered the service of the Umayyad caliph r
طارق بن شهاب
Following the defeat of , the governor of Iraq for his brother and rival caliph , in 691, Abd al-Malik appointed Tariq governor of
البداية والنهاية/الجزء الثاني/زيد بن عمرو بن نفيل رضي الله عنه
One of Tariq's first actions was his dispatch of horsemen against the Zubayrid commander Abu Bakr ibn Abi Qays who had previously killed an Umayyad commander and his men