User:Al Ameer son/Umar Shabba

Abū Zayd ʿUmar ibn Shabba ibn ʿAbīda ibn Rayṭa al-Numayrī al-Basrī (789–878) was

Life
Umar was born in Basra as a mawla (non-Arab, Muslim client or freedman) associated with the Banu Numayr tribe. His father was a certain Zayd, nicknamed "Shabba" by his mother during his childhood. He was educated in Basra before moving to Baghdad where he became a lecturer of the Qur'an, the hadith and adab. He gained a reputation there as reliable and astute. He moved to the capital at Samarra likely in c. 853.