Mousabos 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L VII |
| Dates | 687 (c) / 687 (c) |
| PmbZ No. | 5194 |
| Variant Names | Mu'sab |
| Religion | Muslim |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Textual Sources | Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle) |
Mousabos 1 was the son of al-Zubayr 1, brother of Abdullah 3, sent by his brother in c. 687 to fight against al-Mukhtar 1; he defeated and killed him; shortly afterwards he was himself attacked by Abdulmalik 1 and killed (his name is given here as Mousaros, but it seems to be the same man): Theoph. AM 6180 (τῷ δ'αὐτῷ ἔτει καὶ Ἀβδελᾶς ὁ Ζουβὴρ Μούσαβον τὸν ἴδιον ἀδελφὸν πέμπει κατὰ Μουκτάρου). See Mango and Scott, Theophanes, p. 508, n. 3 for the identification as Mus'ab b. al-Zubair, and see further Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., VII, pp. 649-650.
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