• Thumbnail for Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari
    Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari (Arabic: أَبُو ٱلْحَسَن ٱلْأَشْعَرِيّ, romanized: Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī; 874–936 CE) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist of the Shafi'i...
    21 KB (2,134 words) - 14:40, 4 October 2024
  • Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī al-Makkī al-Anṣārī known as Ibn Hajar al-Haytami al-Makki (Arabic: ابن حجر...
    12 KB (1,297 words) - 08:01, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ibn Taymiyya
    principles. Ibn Taymiyya studied the works of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Abu Bakr al-Khallal, and Ibn Qudama, as well as the works of his own grandfather, Majd al-Din...
    138 KB (16,853 words) - 00:01, 6 October 2024
  • Mu’ayyad al-Dīn Abu al-Qāsim ibn Ḥasan ibnAjlān al-Ḥasanī (Arabic: مؤيد الدين أبو القاسم بن حسن بن عجلان الحسني) was Emir of Mecca twice between 1443...
    1 KB (193 words) - 12:17, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr
    Al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr (Arabic: قاسم إبن محمد) (born 36 or 38 AH and died 106 AH or 108 AH; corresponding to c. 660/662 and 728/730) was a...
    6 KB (527 words) - 03:04, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ali al-Sajjad
    Islam, succeeding his father, Husayn ibn Ali, his uncle, Hasan ibn Ali, and his grandfather, Ali ibn Abi Talib. Ali al-Sajjad was born around 658 CE. He...
    50 KB (5,275 words) - 15:14, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya
    of Muhammad. The kunya of Ibn Hanafiyya was Abu al-Qasim. Soon after the assassination of the third Rashidun caliph Uthman ibn Affan (r. 644–656), Ali was...
    28 KB (2,868 words) - 12:36, 6 October 2024
  • Sirat al-Imam Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani - a short biography of Imam Abu Hanifa's student who would compile the Zahir al-Riwaya. Al-Fara'id al-Wafiya...
    8 KB (773 words) - 12:56, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al-Ghazali
    Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsiyy al-Ghazali (Arabic: أَبُو حَامِد مُحَمَّد بْن مُحَمَّد ٱلطُّوسِيّ ٱلْغَزَّالِيّ), known commonly as Al-Ghazali...
    73 KB (7,814 words) - 11:12, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Malik ibn Anas
    follows: Mālik ibn Anas ibn Mālik ibn Abī ʿĀmir ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Ghaymān ibn Khuthayn ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith al-Aṣbaḥī al-Ḥumyarī al-Madanī. Malik...
    32 KB (4,140 words) - 18:12, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Muhammad al-Baqir
    Muhammad ibn Ali al-Baqir (Arabic: محمد بن علي الباقر, romanized: Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Bāqir; c. 676–732) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad...
    63 KB (7,691 words) - 16:39, 20 October 2024
  • Abū Shuʿayb Muḥammad ibn Nuṣayr al-Numayri (Arabic: أبو شعيب محمد بن نصير النميري), died after 868, was considered by his followers as the representative...
    12 KB (1,157 words) - 09:28, 31 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ibn Hazm
    ISBN 90-04-12844-1 Ibn Hazam Khilal Alf Aam, by Abu Abd al-Rahman Ibn Aqil al-Zahiri. Lebanon: Dar al-Gharab al-Islami, 1982. 303 pages. Kitab al-'axlaq wa-s-siyar...
    33 KB (3,760 words) - 20:13, 26 September 2024
  • persecution). Al-Sadiq is also revered by Sunni Muslims as a reliable transmitter of hadith, and a teacher to the Sunni scholars Abu Hanifa and Malik ibn Anas...
    77 KB (8,693 words) - 16:25, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ibn Qudamah
    Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī Muwaffaq ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (Arabic: ٱبْن قُدَامَة ٱلْمَقْدِسِي مُوَفَّق ٱلدِّين أَبُو مُحَمَّد...
    22 KB (2,519 words) - 17:02, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al-Shafi'i
    al-sunna, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz; the mujaddid of the 2nd century was Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i; the mujaddid of the 3rd century was Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari;...
    34 KB (3,661 words) - 20:52, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abu Hanifa
    [citation needed] First, Muhammad ibn Makhlad al-Attar considered the narration of Abu Hanifa's son, Hammad, from Malik ibn Anas to be an example of an older...
    35 KB (3,819 words) - 01:19, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al-Jahiz
    Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al-Kinani al-Basri (Arabic: أبو عثمان عمرو بن بحر الكناني البصري, romanized: Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī; c. 776–868/869)...
    38 KB (4,533 words) - 18:32, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zayd ibn Ali
    Zayd ibn ʿAlī (Arabic: زيد بن علي; 695–740), also spelled Zaid, was the son of Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-Abidin, and great-grandson of Ali ibn Abi Talib...
    19 KB (2,168 words) - 07:29, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ibn Kullab
    other works such as Maqalat al-Islamiyyin of Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari. He was also quoted by the early Ash'ari scholars such as Ibn Furak (d. 406H). He died...
    15 KB (1,441 words) - 21:18, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al-Kindi
    Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (/ælˈkɪndi/; Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي; Latin: Alkindus; c. 801–873 AD) was an Arab...
    48 KB (6,022 words) - 02:54, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ahmad ibn Hanbal
    2006. Ibn 'Abd al-Barr. Al-Intiqa. p. 107. Ibn Abī Yaʻlá, Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad. Tabaqat al-Hanabilah. Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Ma'rifah...
    65 KB (8,496 words) - 23:41, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
    creed of Islam, the other two being Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari in Iraq, and Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tahawi in Egypt. While Al-Ash'ari were Sunni together with...
    27 KB (3,100 words) - 11:01, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
    philosophical works. Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, whose full name was Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥusayn (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن عمر بن الحسين), was...
    25 KB (2,676 words) - 18:00, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ali al-Qari
    Nur ad-Din Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sultan Muhammad al-Hirawi al-Qari (Arabic: نور الدين أبو الحسن علي بن سلطان محمد الهروي القاري; d. 1605/1606), known as...
    5 KB (389 words) - 16:37, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abu Yusuf
    Ya'qub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari (Arabic: يعقوب بن إبراهيم الأنصاري, romanized: Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Anṣārī), better known as Abu Yusuf (Arabic: أبو يوسف...
    10 KB (1,222 words) - 12:27, 2 September 2024
  • Abu Al-Hasan Taqī al-Dīn Ali ibn Abd al-Kafi ibn Ali al-Khazraji al-Ansari al-Subkī (Arabic: أبو الحسن تقي الدين علي بن عبد الكافي بن علي الخزرجي الأنصاري...
    20 KB (2,366 words) - 02:50, 17 August 2024
  • studied under Abd-Allah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, the grandson of Ali. Later he would travel to Basra in Iraq to study under Hasan of Basra (one of the...
    3 KB (235 words) - 22:05, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ibn Furak
    Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Fūrāk, Abū Bakr al-Asbahānī al-Shāfi`ī, commonly known as Ibn Fūrāk (Arabic: ابن فورك); c. 941–c. 1015 CE / 330–406 AH). The...
    10 KB (1,031 words) - 04:18, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
    models of a Muslim, such as Umar II, Hasan al-Basri, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Al-Ghazali, Abdul Qadir Gilani, Rumi, Ibn Taymiyyah, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Ahmad...
    54 KB (6,348 words) - 18:44, 10 October 2024