At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Umayyad Period · The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Arabia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In brief
Musa b. Uqba, the memoriser al-Asadi of Medina, client of the family of al-Zubayr b. al-Awwam; he heard Umm Khalid bint Khalid al-Muhabbiyya, Urwa, Salim, Abu Salama b. Abd al-Rahman, al-A'raj, and a group, and compiled the Maghazi. 2
Transmission and the Maghazi
Ibn Jurayj, Malik, Ibn Uyayna, Hammad b. Isma'il, Ibn al-Mubarak, Abu Damra, Muhammad b. Fudayl, and others narrated from him; al-Waqidi said "Musa was a mufti and jurist", Ahmad b. Hanbal said "you must have the maghazi of Musa b. Uqba, for they are reliable", and al-Dhahabi read Musa's Maghazi at Mezza under Abu Nahr al-Farisi. 3
His death
He died in 141 AH. 3
Connections
- Mentioned in
- Muwatta 62· Muwatta 1192· Muwatta 934· Muwatta 1383
People and things also explored
Muwatta, Book of Pilgrimage (hajj)· Wudu (ablution)· Expiation (kaffara)· Muwatta, Book of Prayer· Muwatta, Book of Vows and Oaths (nudhur wal-ayman)· Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab· Abu Talha al-Ansari· Anas ibn Malik
Sources
- Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012) , p. 639
- Tadhkirat al-huffaz — al-Dhahabi , j.1 p.143-144
- Tadhkirat al-huffaz — al-Dhahabi , j.1 p.144
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “موسى بن عقبة”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/musa-ibn-uqba/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.