Ubayd Allah ( Arabic: عبيد الله), also spelled or transliterated Obaidullah, Obaydullah, Obeidallah, or Ubaydullah, is a male Arabic given name that means "little servant of God".

Given name

Obaidullah

• Obaidullah (detainee), an Afghan detainee held in Guantanamo
• Obaidullah (Bangladeshi cricketer), Bangladeshi cricketer
• Obaidullah (Pakistani cricketer), Pakistani cricketer
• Obaidullah (Kandahar politician), elected to Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga in 2005
• Obaidullah Akhund, Afghan defence minister
• Obaidullah Aleem, Pakistani poet
• Obaidullah Baig, Pakistani writer
• Obaidullah Hamzah (born 1972), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar
• Obaidullah Karimi, Afghan footballer
• Azmi Maulana Obaidullah Khan, Indian National Congress politician
• Obaidullah Rameen, Afghan politician

Ubaydallah

• Ubayd-Allah ibn Abd-Allah, hadith narrator
• Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah, founder of the Fatimid dynasty
• Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh, brother of Zaynab bint Jahsh
• Ubayd Allah Abu Marwan, Spanish military personnel
• Ubayd Allah ibn Umar, son of Caliph Umar
• Ubayd-Allah ibn Ziyad, a son of Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan

Others

• Obeid Allah ibn al-Habhab, important Umayyad official in Egypt from 724 to 734
• Ubaydah ibn al-Harith, son of Harith ibn Abd al-Muttalib
• Abū 'Ubayd 'Abd Allāh al-Bakrī, Andalusian-Arab geographer and historian

Surname

• Talha ibn Ubayd-Allah, a companion of Muhammad
• Abu Zafar Obaidullah, Bangladeshi writer
• Dean Obeidallah, American comedian

• Habibah binte Ubayd-Allah, daughter of Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh

See also

• Al-Ubaid (disambiguation), for the various uses and romanizations of the root name Ubayd
• Ubaydul Haq (disambiguation) and variants

Name list

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