Musa ibn Ulayy ibn Rabah al-Lakhmi

Abu Abd al-Rahman Musa ibn Ulayy ibn Rabah al-Lakhmi (Arabic: أبو عبد الرحمن موسى بن علي بن رباح اللخمي‎) (c. 707-779/80)[1] was an Islamic scholar.

Musa ibn Ulayy ibn Rabah al-Lakhmi موسى بن علي بن رباح اللخمي
Abbasid Governor of Egypt
In office 772–778
Monarch	al-Mansur, al-Mahdi
Preceded by	Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiyah ibn Hudayj al-Tujibi
Succeeded by	Isa ibn Luqman al-Jumahi
Personal details
Born	c. 707 Ifriqiya, Umayyad Caliphate
Died	c. 779 or 780 Alexandria, Abbasid Caliphate
Father	Ulayy (Ali) ibn Rabah al-Lakhmi
Known for	Early hadith narrator and Islamic Scholar

Career

Musa was born in North Africa[1] to Ulayy ibn Rabah al-Lakhmi, an early hadith narrator and Umayyad confidant. His father's name had originally been Ali, but was changed to Ulayy in order to escape anti-Alid sentiment in the Umayyad era.[2]

During his lifetime Musa narrated hadith on the authority of his father, as well as from Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, Muhammad ibn Munkadir, Yazid ibn Abi Habib, Yazid ibn Abi Mansur, and Hibban ibn Abi Jabalah.[3] He was considered a highly reliable (thiqa thiqa) hadith transmitter by the traditionalist Ahmad ibn Hanbal and "reliable, God willing" (thiqa-in-sha'a llah) by Ibn Sa'd.[4]

In 772 Musa was selected by the terminally ill governor of Egypt, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Tujibi, to succeed him upon his death, and he was subsequently confirmed in that position by the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur. He remained as governor over the next six years, during which he put down a Coptic revolt near Rashid in 773, before being dismissed by the caliph al-Mahdi in 778.[5]

He died in 779/780 in Alexandria.[6]

Notes

1. Gordon et al. 2018, p. 1149; Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani 1968, p. 363; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 26
2. On Ulayy see Raisuddin 1993, pp. 29 ff.; Clarke 2012, pp. 36 ff.; Ibn Sa'id 1997, p. 317.
3. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani 1968, p. 363; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 26.
4. Lucas 2004, pp. 307, 318.
5. Al-Kindi 1912, pp. 118, 119-20; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, pp. 23, 25 ff.; Morimoto 1981, p. 150. See also Kennedy 1981, pp. 33-34 n. 46, for a reconciliation of Musa's governorship with conflicting information provided by al-Tabari.
6. Gordon et al. 2018, p. 1149; Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani 1968, p. 363; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 26; Khalifah ibn Khayyat 1985, p. 437.

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• Ibn Sa'id, Muhammad (1997). The Men of Madina. I. Translated by Bewley, Aisha. London: Ta-Ha. ISBN 1-897940-68-8.
• Ibn Taghribirdi, Jamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf (1930). Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira, Volume II (in Arabic). Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya.
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