Musa ibn Ulayy ibn Rabah al-Lakhmi


Abu Abd al-Rahman Musa ibn Ulayy ibn Rabah al-Lakhmi was an Islamic scholar.

Career

Musa was born in North Africa to Ulayy ibn Rabah al-Lakhmi, an early hadith narrator and Umayyad confidant. His father's name had originally been Ali, but was changed to Ulayy in order to escape anti-Alid sentiment in the Umayyad era.
During his lifetime Musa narrated hadith on the authority of his father, as well as from Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, Muhammad ibn Munkadir, Yazid ibn Abi Habib, Yazid ibn Abi Mansur, and Hibban ibn Abi Jabalah. He was considered a highly reliable hadith transmitter by the traditionalist Ahmad ibn Hanbal and "reliable, God willing" by Ibn Sa'd.
In 772 Musa was selected by the terminally ill governor of Egypt, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Tujibi, to succeed him upon his death, and he was subsequently confirmed in that position by the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur. He remained as governor over the next six years, during which he put down a Coptic revolt near Rashid in 773, before being dismissed by the caliph al-Mahdi in 778.
He died in 779/780 in Alexandria.