ibn Ma‘rūf Al-‘Ajjāj al-Rājaz, Abū Shāthā’ ‘Abd Allāh ibn Ru’bah.. For his son, see Ru’bah. Ru’bah ibn al-‘Ajjāj, called Abū Muḥammad Ru’bah ibn ‘Abd Allāh , was a contemporary of al-Aṣma’ī whose poetry al-Aṣma’ī recited. Jarīr ibn ‘Aṭīyah al-Aṣma’ī was among group of editors who included Abū ‘Amr [al-Shaybānī], and Ibn al-Sikkīt. See also List of Arab scientists and scholars Encyclopædia Britannica Online Notes External links . . References Sources 740s births 828 deaths 8th-century Arabic writers 8th-century philologists 8th-century scientists 9th-century Arabic writers 9th-century biologists 9th-century botanists 9th-century lexicographers 9th-century linguists 9th-century philologists 9th-century scientists 9th-century zoologists 9th-century historians from the Abbasid Caliphate Arab lexicographers Arabists Arab linguists Bahila Botanists of the medieval Islamic world Grammarians of Arabic Grammarians of Basra Iraqi botanists Iraqi genealogists Iraqi lexicographers Iraqi philologists Iraqi zoologists Linguists from Iraq Medieval grammarians of Arabic One Thousand and One Nights characters Poets from the Abbasid Caliphate Zoologists of the medieval Islamic world