Sabinos 2

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitL VII
Dates693 (c) / 693 (c)
Variant NamesSbyb;
Shabib
EthnicityArab
LocationsEuphrates (River) (deathplace);
Khorasan (topographical);
Persia;
Iraq
Textual SourcesChronicon Anonymi ad annum 1234 pertinens, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, I = CSCO 81-82 (Paris, 1916-20), II = CSCO 109 (Louvain, 1937) (chronicle);
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)

Sabinos 2 is described by Theophanes as an adventurer (παράβουλος) in Khorasan, who rebelled and killed large numbers of Arabs and who almost killed the khagan (τὸν Χαγάνον, the ruler of Persia for the Arabs): Theoph. AM 6185. The date was c. 693. The khagan was in fact the Arab governor-general of Persia (Iraq), al-Hajjaj 1. The correct name of Sabinos 2 was Shabîb (Shabib ibn Yazid ibn Nu`aym), on whom cf. Shaban, Islamic History, I, pp. 107-108. Sabinos 2 is also recorded in Chron. 1234, §150 (p. 296) ("at this time a man of the Haruriyans, that is, of the Rafete (R'pty; Arabic: "renegades"), an Ishmaelite by the name of Shabib, entered the territory of Hajjaj and was doing many evil things and killing many people, and he even dared to try to kill Hajjaj, but he saved himself from him by means of his cunning, for no-one was able to resist this Haruriyan. At last Hajjaj devised a plot and drowned him in the Euphrates.")

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