adh-Dhahabī (شمس الدين الذهبي), also known as Shams ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qāymāẓ ibn ʿAbdillāh at-Turkumānī al-Fāriqī...

Siyar A‘lām al-Nubalā’ (Arabic: سير أعلام النبلاء, lit. 'Biographies of Eminent Nobles') is a biographical dictionary written by al-Dhahabi containing...

things like "It is authenticated by al-Hâkim and al-Dhahabî concurs". In doing so, they are referring to al-Dhahabi's Talkhîs, his abridgement of the Mustadrak...

bil-Qur'āni Makhlūq). Al-Dhahabi and al-Subki asserted that Al-Bukhari was expelled due to the jealousy of certain scholars of Nishapur. Al-Bukhari spent the...

of the Ash'ari school. Al-Dhahabi said: "Unequalled in his age, unrivalled amongst his peers, and the Ḥāfiẓ of his time." Al-Bayhaqi was born c. 994...

Ahmad al-Mansur (Arabic: أبو العباس أحمد المنصور, Ahmad Abu al-Abbas al-Mansur, also al-Mansur al-Dahabbi (the Golden), Arabic: أحمد المنصور الذهبي; and...

Abu Bakr ibn Ayoub, Ibn 'Abd ad-Da'im, Shams ad-Dīn adh-Dhahabī, and Safi Al-Din Al-Hindi. Ibn al-Qayyim began studying under Ibn Taymiyyah at the age of...

Muhammad Husayn al-Dhahabi (October 19, 1915 — July 7, 1977) was an Al-Azhar scholar and the former Egyptian Minister of Religious Endowments. He was a...

Kathir's teachers include al-Dhahabi and Ibn Taymiyya. He wrote several books, including a fourteen-volume universal history titled al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya (Arabic:...

studied in the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. He was named by al-Dhahabi as "one of the geniuses of the sons of Adam" who "combined jurisprudence...

Awliya, Sufi hagiographer, and a prolific writer. Al-Dhahabi said of him: "He was of very high status." Al-Sulami was born in the city of Nishapur in the...

Banu Khazraj tribe. Al-Dhahabi recorded that his full Nisba (onomastics) lineage is al-Bara’ son of Malik from the subclan of Al-Nadir ibn Damdam ibn...

usually given as 202 AH (817/818), 204 AH (819/820), or 206 AH (821/822). Al-Dhahabi said, "It is said that he was born in the year 204 AH," though he also...

by al-Dhahabi, which in turn is a reworking of an earlier work. Talkhis al-Habir fi Takhrij al-Rafiʿi al-Kabir al-Diraya fi Takhrij Ahadith al-Hidaya...

al-Itidal by al-Dhahabi Lisan al-Mizan by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, a reworking of Mizan al-'Itidal by al-Dhahabi. Tahdhib al-Tahdhib by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani...

bizarre view of Ibn Hazm regarding Al-Tirmidhi's status in Hadith was also recorded by Al-Dhahabi in his book, Tarikh Al-Islam, and he said the following:...

any other Imam for that matter, not even such dignitaries as ibn al-Qayyim, al-Dhahabi, or ibn Kathir, I summon you only to God, and Only Him as well as...

having seen him. While ad-Dhahabi praised Uwais as “The ascetic role model, the leader of the Tabi'un in his time". Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri gave a short commentary...

He was further praised by the 14th-century historian and traditionist al-Dhahabi, who referred to Ibn Hanbal as "the true shaykh of Islam and imam of the...

scholars) consensus is that al-Waqidi is weak" Al-Dhahabi (675-748 A.H.) said "Consensus has taken place on the weakness of al-Waqidi"[additional citation(s)...

Siyar a`lam al-nubala, Athari theologian Al-Dhahabi described his teacher Ibn Taymiyya as a person who "supported the pure Sunna and al-Tariqa al-Salafiyah...

of Imam al-Shāfi‘ī's school were: Bayhaqi Al-Suyuti Al-Dhahabi Al-Ghazali Ibn Hajar Asqalani Ibn Kathir Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi Al-Mawardi Al Muzani...

heresiographer is extensive. He was said to have written over 400 books. Al-Dhahabi gives the following list of ibn Hazm's work: ^a quotation marks are used...

August 2024. Al-Dhahabi (1996, p. 303) Al-Dhahabi (1996, p. 311) Ibn Qutaybah (1999). Muḥyī d-Dīn al-Aṣfar, Muḥammad (ed.). Taʾwīl muḫtalif al-ḥadīṯ (in...

pupil of al-Bukhari, who was based in Khurasan. Adh-Dhahabi wrote, "His knowledge of hadith came from al-Bukhari." At-Tirmidhi mentioned al-Bukhari's...

Quotes: Mizan al-Itidal, al-Dhahabi 3/144 Jami’ Bayan al-‘Ilm wa Fadlihi, Ibn Abd al-Barr 2/195 Manaqib al-Shafi'i, Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn al-Husayn al-Bayhaqi...

al-Ṣafari al-Damascī Shafi'i. (1296 – 1363) was a Turkic Mamluk author and historian. He studied under the historian and Shafi'i scholar, al-Dhahabi. He was...

he has also been referred to as "Dāwūd al-Aṣbahānī". The Muslim historians and scholars Ibn Ḥazm and al-Dhahabī, alongside the American scholar of Islamic...

Bishr al-Hafi. ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Ahmad al-Kattani claimed Al-Khatib belonged to the school of Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari. The historian Al-Dhahabi agreed...

pp. 131–168, doi:10.1017/9781009170031.006, ISBN 978-1-009-17003-1 " al-Ḏh̲ahabī." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online , 2012. Reference...