Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe · Maghreb
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Overview
'Ali ibn Rabah ibn Qusayr ibn Qushayb ibn Yashi' — the trustworthy scholar whose name 'Ali was diminutivised to 'Ulay; Abu 'Abd al-Rahman the reciter explained that when the Umayyads heard of a newborn named 'Ali they killed him, and when this reached Rabah he said the boy was 'Ulay. He was born at the start of 'Uthman's caliphate and died in 114 AH. 2
Sources
- Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p. 314-315
- Siyar a'lam al-nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Ideas House International edition, 2004) , p.2779
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islam.museum contributors. “علي بن رباح اللخمي”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ali-ibn-rabah-al-lakhmi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.