'Ubayd bin Shari'a al-Jurhami (Arabic: عبيد بن شرية الجرهمي, died 686) also known as 'Ubayd bin Suriyah[1] was an early Arab historian who lived during the rule of the Umayyad Caliphate in the 7th century CE.
[2] He died in 686 during the rule of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, the fourth Umayyad Caliph.
Qarunqu denied his existence, and instead concluded that he was a character invented by the historian Ibn al-Nadim, the author of the Fihrist.
[7] Jawad Ali, on the other hand, accused 'Ubayd of taking stories from Arabian Jewish tales and folklore.
[8] Abdul Aziz al-Douri regarded any narrations of 'Ubayd as mere folktales and poetic imaginary stories of Yemeni history.