Ibrahim 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VIII |
| Dates | 743 (taq) / 749 (ob.) |
| PmbZ No. | 2653 |
| Variant Names | Abraim |
| Religion | Muslim |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Locations | Carrhae (deathplace); Little Arabia (officeplace); Carrhae; Little Arabia; Humayma (Palaestina); Carrhae (residence); Humayma (Palaestina) (residence) |
| Textual Sources | Chronicon 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) |
Ibrahim 2 was leader of the Arabs in "Little Arabia" who opposed the Umayyads of Damascus (πρωτεύοντος ἐν αὐτοῖς Ἀβραΐμ): Theoph. AM 6240. He was the Imam Ibrahim ibn Muhammad, who became Imam in succession to his father in 743 and was murdered in prison by the caliph Marwan II (Marwan 2) in 749 as a leader of the revolt against the Umayyads; see Encyclopaedia of Islam III, pp. 988-989. In the Chronicon Anonymi ad annum 1234 this man has apparently been confused with Ibrahim 1 (briefly caliph in 744 and then overthrown by Marwan 2). Ibrahim 2 was imprisoned in Harran (Carrhae) by the caliph Marwan II (Marwan 2) and spent the remainder of his life there: Chron. 1234, §§174-177 (pp. 320-324). Before he died he named his brother `Abd Allah Abu -'l-`Abbas (later to be the first caliph of the Abbasid dynasty, as-Saffah 1) to rule over the family: Chron. 1234, §177 (pp. 324-325).
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