The Book (Al-Dibaj) that was attributed to Abi Ubaida A study in achieving the attribution

Abstract

Abi Ubaida Bin Al-Muthana Al-Timimi has a prominent place in our Islamic and Arabic heritage for several reasons, including the progress of his time and the large number of his works in various sciences, so it was said that the total number of his books more than two hundred books. most of his books were missing except few of them. Ancient resources reported that one of his works was a book entitled Al-Dibaj. The book was published based on a unique pictorial manuscript which had unknown title as well as author. In this research we dealt with the evidence that enable, Us to achieve the attribution of the unknown manuscript and we found out that it didn’t represent the original book Al-Dibaj, but it was another book written in a century after the death of the author of the book Al-Dibaj