Seerat Hazrat Rabia Basri REH. Hazrat Rabi'a al-Adawiyya al-Qaysiyya also known as Rabi'ah al-Basri was a Sufi saint from Iraq and is considered to be the first female Sufi Saint of Islam, the first in a long line of female Sufi mystics. She lived during the 8th Century and was born in Basra, a seaport in southern Iraq where she spent the vast majority of her life.