Rebi’i bin Aamer Al-Tamimi (Arabic: رِبْعيُّ بِنُ عَامِرٍ التَّميمي) was one of the Sahabah (companions) of Muhammad. Rebi’i belongs to the Arabian tribe of Banu Tamim.[1] He participated in the Siege of Damascus in 643AD,[2] and he witnessed the conquest of Iraq and the fall of the Sasanian Empire (636AD), both of which took place under the rulership of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, the second Rashidun Caliph.
In his encyclopedic history The Beginning and the End (al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya) (البداية والنهاية), Ibn Kathīr narrates a story that took place before the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah, one of Islam's greatest battles, which ended with the killing of the dynast of the Sasanian empire, Rostam.[3] [4]
Rebi’i was sent as a messenger by Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, the leader of the Muslim army in the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah, upon Rostam's request. A long conversation took place between Rebi'i and Rostam in which Rebi'i articulated his beliefs as a muslim and why him and the Muslims were engaged in warfare with Rostam.
One important passage from the diologe was Rebi'i's answer to Rostam question.