 Complete the following phrase:  Abu Mikhnaf was born in . His given name was Lut and his father was Yahya ibn Said ibn Mikhnaf, who belonged to a noble clan of the powerful Azd tribe resident in Kufa. His great-grandfather was Mikhnaf ibn Sulaym, a chieftain of the Azd and the commander of his tribesmen in the army of Caliph Ali  at the Battle of Siffin in 657. Mikhnafs son Muhammad, Abu Mikhnafs paternal granduncle, was seventeen-years-old at Siffin and his reports of the battle were recorded by Abu Mikhnaf. He witnessed the mass Iraqi revolt led by Ibn al-Ashath against the Umayyad Caliphate in 700 and the 