Abba Bahrey (Ge'ez: ባሕርይ bāḥriy, "pearl") was a late 16th-century Ethiopian monk, historian, and ethnographer, from the southern region of Gamo.
"[4] Bahrey was born and lived in the southernly region of Gamo near the shores of Lake Abaya until he was victimized by an earlier Oromo raid, as he later wrote that they "devastated his country" and "looted all that he possessed".
[note 1] He then fled to the northwestern part of the empire and entered into the service of Emperor Sarsa Dengel.
Carlo Conti Rossini published an extract from a short manuscript where Bahrey is explicitly mentioned as being the author of Emperor Sarsa Dengel's chronicle.
From this, most contemporary historians regard Abba Bahrey as being the author of "The History of King Sarsa Dengel.