Ubaydallah ibn Jarir al-'Utaki

عبيد الله بن جرير العتكي

Rajab 262 AH

Al-'Utaki of Basra, transmitting from Musaddad, heard by Ibn Abi'l-Dunya; his own verses on fate survive. He died at Wasit in Rajab 262 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Levant & Iraq
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'Ubayd Allah ibn Jarir ibn Jubayla ibn Abi Dawud al-'Utaki al-Basri transmitted from Musaddad and others; Ibn Abi'l-Dunya and Ibn Sa'id transmitted from him. He recited of himself: "What is not to be will never be, by any device — ever; and what is to be shall be — what is to be shall come in its time; and worry is brother to weariness." He died at Wasit in Rajab 162. 1

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 129
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