Ata ibn Abi Rabah (Arabic: عطاء بن أبي رباح, romanized: ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ; c. 646 – c. 733) was a prominent early Muslim jurist and hadith transmitter of Nubian origin who served as the mufti of Mecca in the late seventh and early eighth centuries.

Although early biographical sources differ on the exact year of his birth, it is generally accepted he was born towards the beginning of Uthman ibn Affan's reign, c. 25 AH/646 CE.

[1] Ata was raised in Mecca as a mawla (client) of the Qurayshi Abu Khuthaym al-Fihri, where he worked as a Quran teacher, before being recognised for his expertise in fiqh.

[2] An early Quranic exegete, the commentaries of Ata are preserved in the tafsir works of Ibn Mujahid, Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani and al-Tabari.

He reportedly only wore simple clothing, performed the Hajj over seventy times, and, despite reaching an advanced age, was able to recite 200 verses of Al-Baqarah in salah without moving.

According to Motzki, Ibn Jurayj attempted to reproduce Ata's narrations faithfully and the corpus lacked signs of fabrication.