Kaʿb al-Aḥbār (Arabic: كعب الأحبار, full name Abū Isḥāq Kaʿb ibn Maniʿ al-Ḥimyarī (Arabic: ابو اسحاق كعب بن مانع الحميري) was a 7th-century Yemenite Jew...

but the sacred Rock was found with the help of a converted Jew, Ka'b al-Ahbar. Al-Ahbar advised Umar to build a mosque to the north of the rock, so that...

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by the Arab armies of Umar ibn al-Khattab, second Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate. Umar was advised by Ka'b al-Ahbar, a Jewish rabbi who converted to...

rely on transmitters including Ka'b al-Ahbar, Ibn Abbas, Hasan al-Basri, Ibn Ishaq and others. In the Qissat al-Iskandar, Alexander the Great is depicted...

reached its brain; it also claims to be an anecdote on authority of Kaʿb al-Aḥbār (d. 650s A.D.), a convert considered the earliest informant of Jewish-Muslim...

religious knowledge from early Jewish converts to Islam, particularly Kaʿb al-Aḥbār and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām.: 539  Wahb served as a qāḍī (judge) in Sanaa...

Ubayy ibn Ka'b, and Ka'b al-Ahbar. It is said by Abu Hurairah himself the only one who surpassed him regarding hadith were Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-As, another...

Ka'b al-Ahbar also came from Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani. This narration also transmitted from Hasan al-Basri, to his son, Yazid, until ended on Diya al-Din...

Ka'b, Kaab or Kab (Arabic: كعب ka‘b) is an Arabic male given name. People named Ka'b include: Ka'ab al-Ahbar Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf Ka'b ibn Asad Ka'b ibn...

scientist who wrote a critique of Aristotelianism and Aristotelian physics. Ka'b al-Ahbar (Aqiva the Haber "Scholar"): 7th-century Yemenite Jew, considered to...

such as Wahb ibn Munabbih and Ka'b al-Ahbar, whose authority was still retained by earlier Sunni scholars, such as Al-Tabari. Nevertheless, it was Ibn...

only when Umar marched into Jerusalem with an army that he asked Ka'ab al-Ahbar, who was Jewish before he converted to Islam, "Where do you advise me to...

Harut and Marut are fabricated (mawḍūʿ) and traces many details to Ka'b al-Ahbar. Although angels are not infallible in Orthodox Islam, Muslim philosophers...

introduced by Jewish converts like Kaʿb al-Aḥbār. A well-known anecdote recorded by Ṭabarī depicts Caliph ʿUmar rebuking Kaʿb for suggesting the Rock as the...

primary transmitters are given as Ka'b al-Ahbar, Ibn 'Abbas, Muqatil ibn Sulayman, 'Abd al-Malik al-Mashuni, and 'Abd al-Malik b. Zayd. An English translation...

transmitted by later Muslim scholars, were ʿAbdullāh ibn Salām (d. 663), Kaʿb al-Aḥbār (d. c. 652), and Wahb ibn Munabbih (d. c. 730); their information underpinned...

the uneducated masses. A lot of apocalyptic material is attributed to Ka'b al-Ahbar and former Jewish converts to Islam, while other transmitters indicate...

Kaʾb al-Aḥbār was asked about dhū l-qarnayn, and he said: 'We hold it to be correct from the knowledge of our [Jewish] religious authorities (aḥbār)...

but the sacred Rock was found with the help of a converted Jew, Ka'b al-Ahbar. Al-Ahbar advised Umar to build a mosque to the north of the rock, so that...

Dhu’ayb, Ka'b Al-Ahbar Review Mahmoud Abbasi Al-Sharq Cooperative Press, Jerusalem, p. 25 Al-Tirmidhi, Jami` at-Tirmidhi Vol. 1, Book 46, Hadith 3935 Al-Mufassal...

literature as prophets. The work often cites ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām (d. 663), Kaʿb al-Aḥbār (d. c. 652), and Wahb ibn Munabbih (d. c. 730), who were understood...

was a very early convert. During the expedition led by Ka'b ibn 'Umair al-Ghifari, his son Umair al-Ghifari was killed. In this expedition Muhammad ordered...

but the sacred Rock was found with the help of a converted Jew, Ka'b al-Ahbar. Al-Ahbar advised Umar to build a mosque to the north of the rock, so that...

the Muslim and Jewish accounts, a prominent Jewish convert to Islam, Ka'b al-Ahbar, recommended that Umar pray behind the Holy Rock so that both qiblas...

ʾl-Qarnayn tradition. Al-Ṣūrī cites Kaʿb al-Aḥbār and Wahb ibn Munabbih as his major sources. He also sometimes cites Abu ʾl-Ḥasan al-Bakrī [it]. In general...

writer al-Tabari has Kaʿb al-Aḥbār, a Jewish convert to Islam, asking the caliph Umar to build a mosque over the rock, to which Umar responds, "O Ka'b, you...

Another transmitter who Alexander traditions are attributed to was Ka'b al-Ahbar. The Sīrat al-Iskandar (Life of Alexander) is a 13th-century popular Arabic-language...

nouvelle source arabe sur l’océan Indien au Xe siècle : le Ṣaḥīḥ min aḫbār al-biḥār wa-‘aǧā‘ibihā d’Abū ‘Imrān Mūsā ibn Rabāḥ al-Awsī al-Sīrāfī” by Ducene....

one to do so was Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamdani, who only said: “Tyre: its input is to Damascus, and its output is to Jordan.” Ka’b al-Ahbar said: “Whoever among...