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Abu Rifa'a Umara ibn Wathima

أبو رفاعة عمارة بن وثيمة

c. 902 CE · c. 289 AH

Abu Rifa'a Umara b. Wathima b. al-Furat — Egyptian chronicler; transmitted from Ibn Lahi'a's katib and from his father, and composed an annalistic history; the continuation that survives under his name makes him one of the earliest Muslim annalists 1.

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Abbasid Fragmentation
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani · Abd Allah ibn Muhammad (Umayyad amir of Cordova) · Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad · Abu'l-Sa'ib 'Utba al-Hamadhani · Abu Awana, Ya'qub ibn Ishaq

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Abu Rifa'a 'Umara b. Wathima b. al-Furat, the Egyptian chronicler; he transmitted from Abu Salih the katib of al-Layth b. Sa'd and from his father Wathima and others, and composed a year-by-year history which he transmitted; born in Egypt 1.

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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