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Shabib ibn Shayba

شبيب بن شيبة

Abu Ma'mar Shabib b. Shayba of Basra — celebrated preacher and orator with famous eloquence; attached to al-Mansur and al-Mahdi at Baghdad; rival of the orator Khalid b. Safwan 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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