Wahb ibn Munabbih (Arabic: وهب بن منبه) was a Yemenite Muslim traditionist of Dhimar (two days' journey from Sana'a) in Yemen; died at the age of ninety, in a year variously given by Arabic authorities as 725, 728, 732, and 737 C.E.[1] He was a member of Banu Alahrar (Sons of the free people), a Yemeni of Persian origin.[2][3][4]
He is counted among the Tabi‘in and a narrator of Isra'iliyat.[5] He was also known as the author of The Book of Crowns on the Kings of Himyar.[6]
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WahbibnMunabbih (Arabic: وهب بن منبه) was a Yemenite Muslim traditionist of Dhimar (two days' journey from Sana'a) in Yemen; died at the age of ninety...
and was married to a Himyarite. He had two children, WahbibnMunabbih and Hammam ibnMunabbih. He came from Herat, Khorasan to Yemen.[citation needed]...
narrators of hadith. Hammam was the son of Munabbihibn Kamil (his father) and his brother was WahbibnMunabbih.[citation needed] According to the Siyar...
Himyar, is a historical and biographical work by the Yemeni historian WahbibnMunabbih, an 8th AD century Israʼiliyyat author. The book is also known as...
[Arabic source verification needed] Al-Damiri (d. 1405) on authority of WahbibnMunabbih was one of Lane's sources, possibly the source of his main summary...
ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās (Arabic: عَبْد ٱللَّٰه ٱبْن عَبَّاس; c. 619 – 687 CE), also known as Ibn ʿAbbās, was one of the cousins of the Islamic prophet Muhammad...
mentioned in narrations circulating around the time of his successors. WahbibnMunabbih stated that such a "beast" spoke to the people of Sodom from under...
the cross. Another report from Ibn Kathir quotes Ishaq Ibn Bishr, on authority of Idris, on authority of WahbibnMunabbih, that "God caused him to die...
explanation of the above-mentioned verse [2:248], that according to WahbibnMunabbih, sakinah is a spirit from God that speaks, and, in the case of the...
vocalised Irmiyā, Armiyā or Ūrmiyā. Classical historians such as WahbibnMunabbih gave accounts of Jeremiah which turned "upon the main points of the...
Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-02578-2. Munabbih, Wahbibn; Khoury, Raif Georges (1972). Wahb b. Munabbih (in German). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-01469-4...
rather infernal demons (ʻIfrīt) than explicitly jinn. A hadith from WahbibnMunabbih reports that the archetypes of the jinn are like air, differing from...
They are often portrayed in zoomorphic forms. Al-Suyuti who quoted WahbibnMunabbih, and Al-Bayhaqi in book of al Asma' wa al Sifat, that each of those...
king Shammar Yahri'sh) . The same story is mentioned in detail in WahbibnMunabbih in his book of Pre-Islamic saga and lore "The Book of The Crowns of...
derived from the Faran mountains near Mecca in Hijaz According to WahbibnMunabbih, there was a Tal Faran ("Hill of Faran") on the outskirts of Mecca...
Alexander legend is attributed to the Yemenite traditionist WahbibnMunabbih (?–732 AD) in a book by Ibn Hisham (?–833 AD) regarding the history of the Himyarite...
but al-Khiḍr finds it and gains eternal life. According to WahbibnMunabbih, quoted by Ibn Hisham, King Ṣaʿb was given the epithet Dhu al-Qarnayn by al-Khidr...
that in 120 H. WahbibnMunabbih Maliki Madhhab Khallikan 1843, p. 521. Al-Indunisi 2008, p. 388. Sallabi 2017, p. 411. ""Imaam Maalik ibn Anas" by Hassan...
al-Qazwini, which vary widely. Al-Damiri (d. 1405) on authority of WahbibnMunabbih, is one source he specifically named as being used by Lane, in his...
Aban bin Uthman bin Affan (d. 723) WahbibnMunabbih (d. 735) Second era: 750–800 Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri (d.741) Ibn Ishaq (d. 761) Sirah Rasul Allah (The...