Musa ibn Ulayy ibn Rabah al-Lakhmi explained

Musa ibn Ulayy ibn Rabah al-Lakhmi
Term Start:772
Term End:778
Death Date:779/780
Father: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) (-779/80)[1] was an Islamic scholar.

Career

Musa was born in North Africa 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.

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.[4]

He died in 779/780 in Alexandria.[5]

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Notes and References

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