Ubayda 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E VIII |
| Dates | 716 (taq) / 717 (tpq) |
| Variant Names | Obaida |
| Religion | Muslim |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Locations | Bulgaria; Dabiq (Meadow of); Thrace |
| Textual Sources | Chronicon Anonymum ad annum 819 pertinens, ed. Aphram Barsaum (CSCO 81, 1920), trans. J.-B. Chabot, CSCO 109, Scriptores Syri 56 (Louvain, 1937) (chronicle); Chronicon ad annum Domini 846 pertinens, ed. E. W. Brooks, tr. J.-B. Chabot, CSCO 3-4 (Louvain, 1904); also tr. E. W. Brooks, "A Syriac Chronicle of the Year 846", Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländ (chronicle) |
In the year 1028 Sel. (716/717) `Obaida (Ubayda 1) commanded a large army assembled by Sulayman 4 on the Meadow of Dabiq and led it into the lands of the Romans; they made camp in Thrace and `Obaida led an invasion of the land of the Bulgars, but was heavily defeated and lost most of his men; the remainder were so pressed by the emperor Leo III (Leo 3) that they were forced to eat their own pack animals to survive: Chron. 819, p. 15, 17-24 = pp. 10-11, Chron. 846, p. 234, 6-13 = p. 177 (Chabot) = p. 583 (Brooks).
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