Maʿbad b. Wahb (d. c.126/743) was a singer in the Umayyad court. Raised in Medina, he was a mawlā (client) of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Qaṭar (or Qaṭan) who was, in turn, a mawlā of either al-ʿĀṣ b. Wābiṣa al-Makhzūmī or the caliph Muʿāwiya b. Abī Sufyān (r. 41-60/661-80). He was of mixed Arab and African descent, his father being black, and was tall and cross-eyed. He sang in Damascus at the courts of Yazīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik (r. 101-5/
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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