Ubayd Allah ( ar, عبيد الله), also spelled or transliterated Obaidullah, Obaydullah, Obeidallah, or Ubaydullah, is a male Arabic given name that means "little servant of God".

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Obaidullah

Obaidullah (detainee) Obaidullah (born 1980) is a citizen of Afghanistan who was one of the last remaining Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Afghan detainees held in Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States, extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantana ...

, an Afghan detainee held in Guantanamo *

Obaidullah (Bangladeshi cricketer) Obaidullah is a cricketer from Bangladesh. He played two first-class and two List A games for Sylhet Division in 2000/01. His batting was not successful but he did take 2 for 39 against Barisal Division Barishal Division is one of the eight ...

, Bangladeshi cricketer *

Obaidullah (Pakistani cricketer) Obaidullah (born 4 June 1992) is a Pakistani cricketer. He made his first-class cricket, first-class debut for Pakistan International Airlines cricket team, Pakistan International Airlines in the 2016–17 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy on 7 October 2016. ...

, Pakistani cricketer *

Obaidullah (Kandahar politician) Obaidullah was elected to represent Kandahar Province in Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of its National Legislature, in 2005. A report on Kandahar prepared at the Navy Postgraduate School stated he was a high school graduate, that h ...

, elected to Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga in 2005 *

Obaidullah Akhund Mullah Obaidullah the Akhund ( ps, ملا عبيدالله آخوند; – March 5, 2010) was the Defence Minister in the Afghan Taliban government of 1996–2001 and then an insurgent commander during the Taliban insurgency against the Afg ...

, Afghan defence minister *

Obaidullah Aleem Obaidullah Aleem ( ur, , 12 June 1939 – 18 May 2003) was a Pakistani poet of Urdu language. Life Aleem was born in 1939 in Bhopal, India. His father moved to Sialkot following Partition. Aleem was from a Kashmiri Butt family and was an A ...

, Pakistani poet *

Obaidullah Baig Obaidullah Baig (1 October 1936 – 22 June 2012) ( ur, عبيدالله بيگ) was a scholar, Urdu writer/novelist, columnist, media expert and documentary filmmaker from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Personal life Born in Rampur, India in ...

, Pakistani writer *

Obaidullah Hamzah Obaidullah Hamzah (; born 1972) is a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, educator and economist. He is the sixth Director-General of Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya and the head of its Arabic department. He is also the secretary-general of the Bangladesh Ta ...

(born 1972), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar *

Obaidullah Karimi Obaidullah Karimi ( fa, عبیدالله کریمی; born on 21 December 1979) is an Afghan former footballer who played as a forward. He was the only Afghan player to score a goal in a FIFA World Cup qualification when he scored in the 2010 FIF ...

, Afghan footballer *

Azmi Maulana Obaidullah Khan Obaidullah Khan Azmi is an Indian Sunni Islamic politician from Indian National Congress.Obaidullah Rameen Obaidullah Ramin (born 27 September 1952, in Baghlan Province) is a politician in Afghanistan and was appointed the country's Minister of Agriculture An agriculture ministry (also called an) agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture ...

, Afghan politician

Ubaydallah

Ubayd-Allah ibn Abd-Allah Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah ibn Zuhayr ibn Abd Allah ibn Jud'an al-Taymi () was a Medinian hadith narrator. He was possibly the ''qadi'' of Ta'if for caliph Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr (). He retold the event of the pen and paper as he heard from Ibn ...

, hadith narrator *

Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh/ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (), 873 – 4 March 934, better known by his regnal name al-Mahdi Billah, was the founder of the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate, the only major Shi'a caliphate in Islamic history, and the e ...

, founder of the Fatimid dynasty * Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh, brother of Zaynab bint Jahsh * Ubayd Allah Abu Marwan, Spanish military personnel * Ubayd Allah ibn Umar, son of Caliph Umar *

Ubayd-Allah ibn Ziyad ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Ziyād ( ar, عبيد الله بن زياد, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Ziyād) was the Umayyad governor of Basra, Kufa and Khurasan during the reigns of caliphs Mu'awiya I and Yazid I, and the leading general of the Umayyad army unde ...

, a son of Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan

Others

Obeid Allah ibn al-Habhab Ubayd Allah ibn al-Habhab al-Saluli () was an important Umayyad official in Egypt from 724 to 734, and subsequently Umayyad governor of Kairouan, Ifriqiya from 734 to 741. It was under his rule that the Great Berber Revolt broke out in the Maghreb ...

, important Umayyad official in Egypt from 724 to 734 * Ubaydah ibn al-Harith, son of Harith ibn Abd al-Muttalib *

Abū 'Ubayd 'Abd Allāh al-Bakrī Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn ʿAmr al-Bakrī ( ar, أبو عبيد عبد الله بن عبد العزيز بن محمد بن أيوب بن عمرو البكري), or simply al-Bakrī (c. 1040–1 ...

, Andalusian-Arab geographer and historian

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Abu Zafar Obaidullah Abu Zafar Obaidullah (1934–2001) was a Bangladeshi poet. Two of his long poems, ''Aami-Kingbodontir-Kathaa Bolchi'' and ''Bristi O Shahosi Purush-er Jonyo Pranthona'', have become famous since their first publication in the late 1970s. Li ...

, Bangladeshi writer *

Dean Obeidallah Dean Obeidallah (born December 17, 1969) is an American lawyer, comedian, and journalist. He is the host of SiriusXM Progress' ''The Dean Obeidallah Show'' and a frequent contributor to CNN, The Daily Beast, and MSNBC. Obeidallah was born in N ...

, American comedian *

Habibah binte Ubayd-Allah Habibah bint Ubayd Allah ( ar, حبيبة بنت عبيد الله, Habîbe bint-i Ubeyd Allāh) is the daughter of Ubayd Allah ibn Jahsh and Ramla bint Abi Sufyan. Family background Habibah's father was the brother of Zaynab bint Jahsh, whom M ...

, daughter of Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh * Talha ibn Ubayd-Allah, a companion of Muhammad

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Ubaydallah

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