Ammar ibn Abi al-Khasib

عمار بن أبي الخصيب

Ammar ibn Abi al-Khasib; the builder who executed the congregational mosque of al-Mahdi's al-Muhammadiyya at Rayy — his name inscribed on its wall — in the building dated 158 AH.

Depth

At a glance

Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

The long-form text for this entry has not been written yet. The facts and connections below come from the museum's data.

Connections

Explore the connections

Participated in
Founding of al-Muhammadiyya at Rayy

People and things also explored

Muhammad al-Mahdi· Rayy· Founding of al-Muhammadiyya at Rayy

Sources

  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “Ammar ibn Abi al-Khasib”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ammar-ibn-abi-al-khasib/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story.
Related

Muhammad al-Mahdi

Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Mansur, al-Mahdi, third Abbasid caliph; in al-Baladhuri: he sent his son Harun raiding Byzantine lands in year 163, besieging Damalu — its people by some reports settled at Baghdad on his ruling, spared and named for their town — and he completed what remained of the march-cities' and fortresses' works after his father al-Mansur, adding to their garrisons, ordered al-Hadath built and bequeathed the building of Tarsus on al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba's description; in his caliphate a body of Qinnasrin's hadir converted and he had the khadra written at their hands.