Mūsá ibn ʻUqbah

Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah ibn Abī ʿAyyāsh al-Asadi al-Miṭraqī, commonly known with his honorific as Mūsā ibn ʿUqba, was an early Medinan historian, jurist and traditionalist, a freedman of the family of al-Zubayr, as well as a pupil of Urwa ibn al-Zubayr and al-Zuhri. Imam Malik studied under him and held him in high esteem. Musa was also an expert on maghāzī, the accounts of the Prophet’s military expeditions within on the Sīrah. He composed a maghāzī work long thought became extinct sometime around the 15th to 17th century, but a manuscript containing two-thirds of the book was rediscovered in 2021.