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Sa'id ibn Yazid ibn al Qama al Azdi

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Sa'id ibn Yazid ibn al-Qama al-Azdi was the governor of Egypt for the Umayyad Caliphate in 682–684.

An Arab from Palestine, Sa'id ibn Yazid was appointed by Caliph Yazid I to succeed Maslama ibn Mukhallad al-Ansari as governor of Egypt after the latter's death in early 682. Although he tried to present an image of continuity by keeping Maslama's sahib al-shurta (head of security and de facto deputy), 'Abis ibn Sa'id al-Muradi, the local Arab settler community (wujuh) were opposed to him as an outsider.

In 683, the Second Islamic Civil War broke out, and soon after Yazid I's death in November, Ibn al-Zubayr was acknowledged as Caliph at Mecca. Ibn al-Zubayr gained the support of the Kharijites in Egypt and sent a governor of his own, Abd al-Rahman ibn Utba al-Fihri, to the province. Sa'id ibn Yazid chose not to offer resistance and simply retired. The Kharijite-supported Zubayrid regime was even more unpopular with the wujuh, and lasted for less than a year before the wujuh leaders called upon the Umayyad Caliph Marwan I for aid, who reconquered the province in December 684.

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