Ubayd Allah (), also spelled or transliterated Obaidullah, Obaydullah, Obeidallah, or Ubaydullah, is a male Arabic given name that means "little servant of God".

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Obaidullah

Obaidullah (detainee) Obaidullah (born 1980) is a citizen of Afghanistan who was one of the last remaining Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Afghan detainees held in Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States, extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantana ...

, an Afghan detainee held in Guantanamo *

Obaidullah (Bangladeshi cricketer) Obaidullah is a cricketer from Bangladesh. He played two first-class and two List A games for Sylhet Division Sylhet Division () is a northeastern Divisions of Bangladesh, division of Bangladesh, renowned for its lush tea gardens, rolling hi ...

, Bangladeshi cricketer * Obaidullah (Pakistani cricketer), Pakistani cricketer *

Obaidullah (Kandahar politician) Obaidullah was elected to represent Kandahar Province in Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of its National Legislature, in 2005. A report on Kandahar prepared at the Navy Postgraduate School Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is a ...

, elected to Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga in 2005 * Obaidullah Akhund, Afghan defence minister *

Obaidullah Aleem Obaidullah Aleem (, 12 June 1939 – 18 May 1998) was a Pakistani poet of Urdu language. Life Aleem was born in 1939 in Bhopal, British India. He received an MA in Urdu from the University of Karachi and began working as a radio and televisio ...

, Pakistani poet * Obaidullah Baig, Pakistani writer *

Obaidullah Hamzah Obaidullah Hamzah (; born 1972) is a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, educator and economist. He is the sixth Director-General of Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya and the head of its Arabic department. He is also the secretary-general of Anjuman-e-Ittihadu ...

(born 1972), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar * Obaidullah Karimi, Afghan footballer * Azmi Maulana Obaidullah Khan, Indian National Congress politician *

Obaidullah Rameen Obaidullah Ramin (born 27 September 1952, in Baghlan Province) is a politician in Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It i ...

, Afghan politician

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Ubayd-Allah ibn Abd-Allah Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah ibn Zuhayr ibn Abd Allah ibn Jud'an al-Taymi () was a Medinian hadith narrator. He was possibly the ''Judge (Islamic law), qadi'' of Ta'if for caliph Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr (). He retold the event of the pen and paper as ...

, hadith narrator *

Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (; 31 July 874 – 4 March 934), better known by his regnal name al-Mahdī biʾllāh (, "The Rightly Guided by God"), was the founder of the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate, the only major Shi'a caliphate i ...

, founder of the Fatimid dynasty *

Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh Ubayd Allah ibn Jahsh ibn Ri'ab (; ) was a contemporary and first cousin of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who apostatized from Islam by converting to Christianity following his migration to Abyssinia in around 615 CE. He is one of the four hanifs ...

, brother of Zaynab bint Jahsh * Ubayd Allah Abu Marwan, Spanish military personnel *

Ubayd Allah ibn Umar Ubayd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab (; died summer 657) was a son of Caliph Umar (). His killing of Hormuzan, whom he suspected of involvement in his father's assassination in 644, and his pardon by Caliph Uthman () was opposed by Ali, the cou ...

, son of Caliph Umar *

Ubayd-Allah ibn Ziyad Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad () was the Umayyad governor of Basra, Kufa and Khurasan during the reigns of caliphs Mu'awiya I () and Yazid I (), and the leading general of the Umayyad army under caliphs Marwan I () and Abd al-Malik (). He virtually inh ...

, a son of Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan *

Ubaydullah Khan Ubaidullah Khan ( Chagatai/; 1487–1539), also Ubaid Khan, was the 4th Shaybanid Khan of Bukhara, who ruled between 1534 and 1539. He was the son of Mahmud and nephew of Muhammad Shaybani, founder of the Shaybanid dynasty. Biography After ...

, Khan of Bukhara (1534-1539)

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* Obeid Allah ibn al-Habhab, important Umayyad official in Egypt from 724 to 734 *

Ubaydah ibn al-Harith ʿUbayda ibn al-Ḥārith () () was a relative and Companions of the Prophet, companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He is known for commanding the expedition in which Islam’s first arrow was shot and for being the first Muslim to be shahid, ...

, son of Harith ibn Abd al-Muttalib *

Abū 'Ubayd 'Abd Allāh al-Bakrī Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn ʿAmr al-Bakrī (), or simply al-Bakrī (c. 1040–1094) was an Arabs, Arab Al-Andalus, Andalusian historian and a geographer of the Muslims in Western Europe, Muslim W ...

, Andalusian-Arab geographer and historian *

Gibadulla Murtasin Gibadulla Murtasin (Гибадулла Муртазин, , ''Ğobəydulla'' ''Mortaza;'' October 25, 1895 – July 28, 1968) was a teacher among the Tatar community of Tampere and Helsinki, Finland. He also contributed to their cultural life by ...

(Ğobäydulla Mortaza), Turkestan-born teacher among the Finnish Tatar community

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Talha ibn Ubayd-Allah Ṭalḥa ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Taymī (, ) was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. In Sunni Islam, he is mostly known for being among ('the ten to whom Paradise was promised'). He played an important role in the Battle of Uhud and ...

, a companion of Muhammad *

Abu Zafar Obaidullah Abu Zafar Obaidullah (8 February 1934 – 19 March 2001) was a Bangladeshi poet and civil servant. Two of his long poems, ''Aami-Kingbodontir-Kathaa Bolchi'' and ''Bristi O Shahosi Purush-er Jonyo Prarthona'', have become famous since their f ...

, Bangladeshi writer *

Dean Obeidallah Dean Obeidallah is an American lawyer, comedian, and journalist. He is the host of SiriusXM Progress' ''The Dean Obeidallah Show'' and a frequent contributor to CNN, The Daily Beast, and MSNBC. Obeidallah was born in New Jersey and is of Palesti ...

, American comedian *

Habibah binte Ubayd-Allah Habiba bint Ubayd Allah () was the daughter of Ubayd Allah ibn Jahsh and Umm Habiba Ramla bint Abi Sufyan. Family background Habibah's father was the brother of Zaynab bint Jahsh, whom Muhammad married at some point, thus is Muhammad Habibah ...

, daughter of Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh

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