Rebi'i bin Aamer Al-Tamimi



Rebi’i bin Aamer Al-Tamimi (Arabic: رِبْعيُّ بِنُ عَامِرٍ التَّميمي) was one of the Sahabah (companions) of Muhammad. Rebi’i belongs to the Arabian tribe of Banu Tamim. He participated in the Siege of Damascus in 643AD, and he witnessed the conquest of Iraq and the fall of the Sasanian Empire (636AD), both of which took place under the rulership of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, the second Rashidun Caliph.

Rebi’i and Rostam
In his encyclopedic history The Beginning and the End (al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya) (البداية والنهاية), Ibn Kathīr narrates a story that took place before the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah, one of Islam's greatest battles, which ended with the killing of the dynast of the Sasanian empire, Rostam.

Rebi’i was sent as a messenger by Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, the leader of the Muslim army in the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah, upon Rostam's request. A long conversation took place between Rebi'i and Rostam in which Rebi'i articulated his beliefs as a muslim and why him and the Muslims were engaged in warfare with Rostam.

One important passage from the diologe was Rebi'i's answer to Rostam question.