Ka'b, Kaab or Kab ( ''ka‘b'') is an Arabic male given name. People named Ka'b include:
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Ka'ab al-Ahbar
Kaʿb al-Aḥbār (, full name Abū Isḥāq Kaʿb ibn Maniʿ al-Ḥimyarī () was a 7th-century Yemenite Jew from the Arab tribe of "Dhī Raʿīn" () who converted to Islam. He was considered to be the earliest authority on Israiliyyat and ...
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Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf
Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf (; died ) was, according to Islamic texts, a pre-Islamic Arabic poet and contemporary of Muhammad in Medina. Scholars identify him as a Jewish leader.
Biography
Ka'b was born to a father from the Arab Tayy tribe and a mother ...
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Ka'b ibn Asad
Ka'b ibn Asad () was the chief of the Qurayza, a Jewish tribe that lived in Medina until 627. A tribesman, Al-Zabir ibn Bata, claimed that his face "was like a Chinese mirror, in which the girls of the tribe could see themselves", presumably m ...
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Ka'b ibn Lu'ayy
Ka'b ibn Lu'ayy () was an ancestor of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in Arabic tradition.
Ancestry
Ka'b Lu'ayy was born in c. 305, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia to Lu'ayy ibn Ghalib and Ma'wiya bint Ka`b ibn al-Qayn ibn Jasr ibn Shay' Allah ibn Asad ...
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Ka'b Ibn Mama
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Ka‘b bin Zaid bin An-Najjar
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Ka'b bin Zuhayr
Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr () was an Arabian poet of the 7th century, and a contemporary of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Ka'b ibn Zuhayr was the writer of ''Bānat Suʿād (Su'ād Has Departed)'', a qasida in praise of Muhammad. This was the first na'at ...
People using it in their patronymic include:
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Murrah ibn Ka'b
Murrah ibn Ka'b () ibn Luay ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr ibn Malik was a man from Quraysh tribe, supposed to have lived in the 4th century. He was the sixth-in-line of Muhammad's grandfathers. He is the common ancestor of all four of Muhammad's grandpare ...
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Musa ibn Ka'b al-Tamimi
Musa ibn Ka'b al-Tamimi () was an 8th-century Arab commander during the Abbasid Revolution and then provincial governor for the Abbasid Caliphate.
Biography
Musa first appears as one of the "twelve '' naqibs''" who prepared the Abbasid Revoluti ...
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Nusaybah bint Ka'ab
Nusaybah bint Ka'ab (; also ''ʾUmm ʿAmmarah'', ''Umm Umara''Ghadanfar, Mahmood Ahmad. "Great Women of Islam", Riyadh. 2001.pp. 207-215), was one of the early women to convert to Islam. S (known in Arabic as Sahaba or Sahaba, companions) of Prop ...
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Rābi'a bint Ka'b al-Quzdārī
Rabia Balkhi (, ) also known as Rabia al-Quzdari (or Khuzdari), was a 10th-century writer who composed poetry in Persian and Arabic. She is the first known female poet to write in Persian.
A non- mystic poet, her imagery was later transformed ...
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Ubay ibn Ka'b
Ubayy ibn Ka'b (, ') (died 649), also known as Abu Mundhir, was a Sahabah, companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a person of high esteem in the early Muslim community. He was short, skinny, and gray haired.
He is notable for the Codex of ...
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