Ikrima ibn Abd Allah al-Barbari

Ikrima ibn Abd Allah al-Barbari was a Muslim scholar of Berber descent, he was a mawla of Ibn Abbas.

Biography Ikrima was a mawla (client) of Ibn Abbas (d. c. 687), a cousin of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. According to Ibadi sources, Ikrima ibn Abd Allah and Salama ibn Sad traveled to the Maghreb to spread their respective Islamic schools of thought. Ikrima preached the Sufri teachings, while Salama promoted Ibadism.