Musa ibn 'Uqba al-Asadī ( ar, موسى بن عقبة; 675–758), known with his honorific as Mūsā ibn ʿUqba, was an early

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and

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, and was also an expert on maghāzī, the

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in which the

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personally participated. He composed a ''Kitāb al-maghāzī'' (Book on maghāzī) which is however cited by other historians after him, such as al-Wāqidī, Ṭabarī and

Ibn Kathīr Abū al-Fiḍā’ ‘Imād ad-Dīn Ismā‘īl ibn ‘Umar ibn Kathīr al-Qurashī al-Damishqī (Arabic: إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير القرشي الدمشقي أبو الفداء عماد; – 1373), known as Ibn Kathīr (, was ...

. The manuscript of Kitab al-maghazi was recently rediscovered and is due to be published (per July 2022).

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675 births 758 deaths Arab historians of Islam 8th-century historians of the medieval Islamic world 8th-century Arabic writers 7th-century Arabs 8th-century Arabs Tabi‘un {{Islam-bio-stub