Musa ibn ʿUqba
Musa ibn 'Uqba | |
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موسى بن عقبة | |
A Folio from the only known manuscript of Maghāzī Mūsā ibn ʿUqba, discovered in 2021 at the National Library of Tunisia (A-MSS-14033). | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | c. 55 AH / 674–675 CE Medina, Hejaz, Umayyad Caliphate |
| Died | 141 AH / 758–759 CE Medina, Hejaz, Abbasid Caliphate |
| Home town | Medina |
| Children | Muhammad |
| Parent | Uqba bin Abi 'Ayaash al-Asadi (Father) |
| Era | Umayyad Caliphate |
| Main interest(s) | Hadith, Sīrah |
| Notable work(s) | Kitab al-Maghazi |
| Occupation | Jurist |
| Relations | Ibrahim bin 'Uqba (Brother) Muhammad bin 'Uqba (Brother) |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Teachers | Umm Khalid bin Khalid, Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, Nafi Mawla Ibn Umar, Urwa ibn al-Zubayr, Salim ibn Abd Allah |
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| Arabic name | |
| Personal (Ism) | Mūsā موسى |
| Patronymic (Nasab) | Ibn ʿUqbah ibn Abī ʿAyyāsh عقبة ابن أبي عياش |
| Teknonymic (Kunya) | Abu Muhammad أبو محمد |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | Al-Asadī Al-Miṭraqī الأسدي المطرفي |
Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah ibn Abī ʿAyyāsh al-Asadi al-Miṭraqī (Arabic: موسى بن عقبة بن أبي عياش الأسدي المطرفي; d. 758/759 CE), commonly known with his honorific as Mūsā ibn ʿUqba ([/ˈmuː.saː ʔibn ʕuq.ba/]), was an early Medinan historian, jurist and traditionalist, a freedman of the family of al-Zubayr, as well as a pupil of Urwa ibn al-Zubayr and al-Zuhri. Imam Malik studied under him and held him in high esteem. Musa was also an expert on maghāzī, the accounts of the Prophet’s military expeditions within on the Sīrah. He composed a maghāzī work long thought became extinct sometime around the 15th to 17th century, but a manuscript containing two-thirds of the book was rediscovered in 2021.