Abà « RifÃÂÿa ÿUmÃÂra ibn Wathëma ibn Mà «sàibn al-FurÃÂt al-FÃÂrisë (died 4 June 902) was a Muslim historian from Egypt. Born in Fusá¹ÂÃÂá¹Â, he was a son of the historian and silk trader Wathëma ibn Mà «sÃÂ, a native of Fasàin Persia. The year of his birth is unknown, but his father died in 851.
ÿUmÃÂra wrote at least two works in Arabic. His only surviving work is what was, before the discovery of Abà « Ḥudhayfa IsḥÃÂq ibn Bishr Qurashë's Mubtadaþ al-dunyàwa-qiá¹£aá¹£ al-anbiyÃÂþ, thought to be the oldest surviving book of the qiá¹£aá¹£ al-anbiyÃÂþ genre. Entitled KitÃÂb badþ al-khalq wa-qiá¹£aá¹£ al-anbiyÃÂþ ('Book of the Beginnings of Creation and the Stories of the Prophets'), it is a collection of didactic stories of those considered prophets in Islam. It is the earliest source to cite the enigmatic Abà « al-Ḥasan al-Bakrë. It was itself never widely cited. Of its original two volumes, only the second survives, covering prophets from Moses to Jesus, in two manuscripts. There is a modern French translation by . It has been argued that the real author of the Badþ al-khalq is Wathëma, who was much more prominent than his son.
According to Ibn al-Jawzë, ÿUmÃÂra also wrote an Annalistic History.