Abū l-ʿĀliya al-Riyāḥī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Juynboll, G. H. A.
Leiden
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Abū l-ʿĀliya Rufayʿ b. Mihrān al-Riyāḥī (d. c. 93/712), a Basran Successor, faqīh and Qurʾān expert, was a mawlā of the Banū Riyāḥ, a branch of Tamīm (cf., al-Dhahabī, Tadhkirat al-ḥuffāẓ , Hyderabad 1955, 1:61). He was manumitted sāʾiba tan (for this term, generally applied to camels that are "retired," cf. Lane, s.v., and al-Ṭabarī, Tafsīr , ed. Aḥmad Muḥammad Shākir, 3:386). He is said to have been born in the Jāhiliyya, but that is probably apocryphal; it is in any case difficult