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Wahb ibn Munabbih

Type Figure Region Yemen Time c. 655–732 Also known as Wahb ibn Munabbih、Wahb b. Munabbih

Wahb ibn Munabbih was a 7th–8th-century Yemeni Muslim traditionist and historian, born in Sana'a, renowned for narrating stories of ancient Yemen, Pe…

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  1. c. 655–680Sana'a · YemenBorn into a Persian-descended family in Sana'a, Yemen, he studied ancient Yemeni legends and Jewish and Christian narrative traditions from childhood, later converting after the rise of Islam and becoming one of the early Muslim scholars.
  2. c. 680–710Yemen · YemenFamous for narrating stories of Qur'anic figures, ancient Yemeni kings, and Persian and Roman history; his accounts were later regarded as a major source of the Israelite legend (Isra'iliyyat) tradition, and he also held a certain standing in hadith scholarship.
  3. c. 710–732Sana'a · YemenSpent his later years in Sana'a continuing to transmit historical and religious stories; tradition records that he lived past one hundred, dying in the late Umayyad period, and his writings and oral traditions exerted an important influence on later historians such as al-Tabari.

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