Al-Walid_ibn_Uqba
al-Walid ibn Uqba
Governor of Kufa (died 680)
al-Walid ibn Uqba ibn Abi Mu'ayt (Arabic: الْوَلِيْد ابْنِ عُقبَة ابْنِ أَبِيّ مُعَيْط, romanized: al-Walīd ibn ʿUqba ibn Abī Muʿayṭ, died 680) was the governor of Kufa in 645/46–649/50 during the reign of his half-brother, Caliph Uthman (r. 644–656).
During the reign of Uthman, he was being accused of drinking, the legal punishment of whipping was carried out on him, and according to some accounts, with Ali's hand.[1]