<Li> Al Muhallab ibn Abi Suffrah, an Azdi Arab and an eminent military commander born in Dibba, whose name appeared on the first - edition of the United Arab Emirates dirham coins shortly after the people of the country accepted Islam . </Li> <Li> Laqit bin Malik: A false prophet and an Azdi Arab in Dibba also known as the "Crowned One (Dhul' - Taj)" who rose against the local Muslim Julanda rulers . The army led by Hudayfa and supported by Ikrimah ibn Abi - Jahl and' Arfaja arrived at Al Ain / Buraimi where they wrote to local tribes to convince them to abandon the revolt . They then marched against and defeated Laqit in battle at Dibba, where reports of combined casualties of 10,000 are mentioned . Hudayfah then remained in Oman as governor restoring peace with the local tribes and bringing them back to the fold of Islam while the remaining troops to Mahra in southern Arabia to Ash Shihr in Yemen . </Li> <P> "We will go to Dibba, and we will see how summer feels like" is a saying popular in the UAE and Oman . It is used to express the ability of proving a point or test if a fact is true or not, since Dibba allegedly enjoys a cooler weather in the summer than the rest of the UAE . </P>

Three villages on the east coast of uae