Humayd 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Dates | 807 (taq) / 807 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 2597 |
| Variant Names | Choumeïd; Humaid |
| Religion | Muslim |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Locations | Myra (Lycia); Crete; Rhodos |
| Textual Sources | Baladhuri, al-, Kitab futuh al-Buldan, tr. P. K. Hitti, The Origins of the Islamic State (London, 1916, reprint Beirut, 1966) (history); Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle) |
Humayd 1 was an Arab commander (implicit in the text) named in Theophanes as "Choumeid" (Χουμεΐδ); in September 807 he was sent by the caliph Harun al-Rashid (Harun 1) with a fleet against the island of Rhodes (μετὰ στόλου κατὰ τῆς Ῥόδου Χουμεῒδ ἐξέπεμψεν); he captured the island and caused much destruction but failed to capture the fortress itself; on his voyage home he put in at Myra (in Lycia) where storms destroyed a number of his ships (supposedly as punishment for trying to destroy the coffin of St Nicolas of Myra); Humayd 1 himself narrowly escaped, having acknowledged the saint's power (αὐτόν τε τὸν θεομάχον Χουμεῒδ ἐπιγνῶναι τὴν τοῦ ἁγίου δύναμιν καὶ παρ' ἐλπίδα τὸν κίνδυνον ἐκφυγεῖν): Theoph. AM 6300. Humaid ibn Ma'yuk al-Hamdani reduced part of Crete under al-Rashid: Baladhuri, tr. Hitti, p. 376.
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