Yazid ibn Abi Kabsha al-Saksaki

{{Short description|Umayyad Provincial governor and Commander}}

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| name = Yazid ibn Abi Kabsha al-Saksaki

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| parents = Haywil ibn Yasar

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• Ziyad (brother)
• Sari ibn Ziyad (nephew)

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| office = Umayyad Sahib al-Shurta

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| monarch = Abd al-Malik

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| office2 = Umayyad Governor of Iraq

| term_start2 = 714

| term_end2 = 715

| monarch2 = Al-Walid I

| predecessor2 = Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi

| successor2 = Yazid ibn al-Muhallab

| office3 = Umayyad Governor of Sind

| term_start3 = 18 July 715

| term_end3 = 715

| monarch3 = Sulayman

| predecessor3 = Muhammad ibn Qasim al-Thaqafi

| successor3 = Habib ibn al-Muhallab al-Azdi

| death_date = 715

| death_place = Sind

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| battles = *Campaign against the Kharijites (698)

• Campaign against the Byzantine Empire (712/3)

| rank = Commander

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Yazid ibn Abi Kabsha al-Saksaki ({{langx|ar|يزيد بن أبي كبشة السكسكي}}) was an Arab military commander and provincial governor for the Umayyad Caliphate.

He was the son of Haywil ibn Yasar, surnamed Abu Kabsha, a member of the Syrian tribal nobility and an adherent of the Umayyads during the Second Fitna.{{sfn|Crone|1980|pp=95–96}} Yazid served as sahib al-shurta for Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (r. 685–705), campaigned against the Kharijites in Iraq in 698, and was appointed by the governor of Iraq, al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, as head of his shurta in Wasit.{{sfn|Crone|1980|p=96}} In 712/3 he led a campaign against the Byzantine Empire, and after the death of Hajjaj in 714, he succeeded him briefly as governor of Iraq.{{sfn|Crone|1980|p=96}} Caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 715–717) then sent him to Sind, where he dismissed and imprisoned the incumbent governor, Muhammad ibn Qasim. Yazid died in Sind shortly after his arrival there.{{sfn|Crone|1980|p=96}}

He had a brother Ziyad, of whom nothing is known, but his nephew Sari ibn Ziyad was among the pro-Yemeni leaders during the Third Fitna.{{sfn|Crone|1980|p=96}}