Tamim ibn Zayd al-Utbi

Tamim ibn Zayd al-Utbi (Arabic: تميم بن زيد العتبي) was the caliphal governor of Sind in 726–731. He succeeded al-Junayd ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Murri.^[1]

Tamim ibn Zayd al-Utbi
Governor of Sind
In office 726–731
Monarch	Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
Preceded by	Al-Junayd ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Murri
Succeeded by	Al-Hakam ibn Awana
Personal details
Parent	Zayd al-Utbi

In 726, the Umayyads replaced al-Junayd with Tamim as the governor of Sind. During the next few years, all of the gains made by Junayd were lost. The Arab records do not explain why, except to state that the Caliphate's troops, drawn from distant lands, abandoned their posts in India and refused to go back. The historian Khalid Yahya Blankinship mentions the possibility that the Indians revolted, but deemed it more likely that the cause of the losses stemmed from internal issues among the Arabs.^[2]

He is reported to have been buried in Debal.