Maysara, known as al-Hakir or “the Despised One,” came from a humble background as a Berber water-carrier. He converted to Sufrite Kharidjism, a movement that challenged Umayyad authority and asserted the equality of Muslims. His political importance arose from the connection between religious dissent and the grievances of Berber communities in the Maghrib.

Maysara led a delegation of roughly ten people to the East to seek an audience with Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik. The delegation protested exclusion from booty, the use of Berber troops in the most dangerous parts of campaigns, the seizure of livestock, and the abduction of Berber women. It insisted that such treatment contradicted the obligations owed to Muslims.

The delegation's attempt to obtain justice proved fruitless. Maysara then launched the revolt that the extract identifies as the beginning of Maghribian independence. His role illustrates how fiscal discrimination, military inequality, and religiously framed claims for Muslim equality converged in opposition to Umayyad administration.