Zaydism (Arabic: الزَّيْدِيَّة, romanized: az-Zaydiyya) is one of the three main branches of Shia Islam that emerged in the eighth century following Zayd...

Zayd Abu Zayd (1195–1270), Almohad political leader Zayd al-Khayr (died 631), companion of Muhammad Zayd ibn al-Dathinnah, companion of Muhammad Zayd...

Zayd Abu Zayd (Arabic: ابو زيد, c. 1195 – 1265/1270) was the last Almohad governor of Valencia. He succeeded as governor of Valencia to his uncle Abū...

Zayn al-Abidin. Zayd ibn Ali is also seen as a major religious figure by many Sunnis and was supported by the prominent Sunni jurist, Abu Hanifa, who issued...

Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (Arabic: أبو أيوب الأنصاري, romanized: Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī, Turkish: Ebu Eyyûb el-Ensarî, died c. 674) — born Khalid ibn Zayd ibn...

Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (Arabic: نصر حامد أبو زيد, IPA: [ˈnɑsˤɾe ˈħæːmed ˈæbuˈzeːd]; also Abu Zaid or Abu Zeid; July 10, 1943 – July 5, 2010) was an Egyptian...

Muhammad's close companion Abu Bakr. Zayd was a slave that Hakim ibn Hizam, Khadija's nephew, bought for her at a market in Ukaz. Zayd then became her and Muhammad’s...

Usaamah ibn Zayd ibn Haritha al-Kalbi (Arabic: أسامة بن زيد بن حارثة الكلبي, romanized: ʾUsāma ibn Zayd ibn Ḥāritha al-Kalbī) was an early Muslim and...

Atika bint Zayd al-Adawiyya (Arabic: عاتكة بنت زيد, romanized: ʿĀtika bint Zayd) was a woman in 7th century Arabia who was an Islamic scholar and poet...

Zāyd bin Thābit bin al-Ḍaḥḥāk (Arabic: زيد بن ثابت, romanized: Zayd ibn Thābit) was the personal scribe of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, serving as the...

Zayd ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (Arabic: زيد بن الخطاب; c. 584 – 632) was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muḥammad and a brother of Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second...

The Expedition of Usama bin Zayd was a military expedition of the early Muslim Caliphate led by Usama ibn Zayd that took place in June 632, in which Muslim...

Saʿīd ibn Zayd (Arabic: سعيد ابن زيد; c. 593-671), also known by his kunya Abūʾl-Aʿwar, was a companion (Arabic: الصحابة) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad...

Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi (Persian: ابو زید احمد بن سهل بلخی) was a Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist...

In 740, Zayd ibn Ali led an unsuccessful rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate, that had taken over the Rashidun Caliphate since the death of his great-grandfather...

mercy on you! What do you have to say on the matter of Abu Bakr and Umar ibn al-Khattab?" Zayd ibn Ali said, "I have not heard anyone in my family renouncing...

Abu Zayd Ibn Rizq Al-Hilali listen (Arabic: أبو زيد ابن رزق الهلالي, Ābu Zayd al-Hilalī) was an 11th-century Arab leader and hero of the 'Amirid tribe...

Rayhana bint Zayd (Arabic: ريحانة بنت زيد, romanized: Rayḥāna bint Zayd; died c. 631 CE) was a Jewish convert to Islam from the Banu Nadir. Through marriage...

Al-Shuraim, One of the imams and preachers of the al-Masjid al-Haram Bakr Abu Zayd, Saudi Muslim scholar Abdullah ibn Jibreen, Saudi Islamic jurist Tribes...

Yahya ibn Zayd (Arabic: يحيى بن زيد, romanized: Yaḥyā ibn Zayd; 725/6–743) was the eldest son of Zayd ibn Ali, the founder of the Zaydi movement. He participated...

Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Zayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismaʿīl ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayd (Arabic: الحسن بن زيد بن محمد; died 6 January 884[citation needed]), also...

Abū Zayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd (Persian: سید شمس‌الدین بن محمد بن أبی زید حسنی کاشانی; fl. 1186–1219 in Kashan), commonly referred to as Abu Zayd...

Bakr Abu Zayd (Arabic: بكر بن عبد الله أبو زيد [ar]) (born~ 1944 – 5 February 2008) from the tribe of Banu Zayd of Quda'a, was a Saudi Arabian Islamic...

Hikmat Abu Zayd (Arabic: حكمت أبو زيد; pronounced Hekmat Abu Zeid in Egyptian Arabic; 1922 or 1923 – 30 July 2011)[N] was an Egyptian politician and academic...

Abu al-Sha'tha Jabir ibn Zayd al-Yahmadi al-Azdi (Arabic: أبو الشعثاء جابر بن زيد اليحمدي الأزدي, romanized: ʾAbū al-Shaʿthaʾ Jābir ibn Zayd al-Yaḥmadī...

Ibn Abī Zayd (Arabic: ابن أبي زيد القيرواني) (922–996), fully Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nafzawī ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawanī...

Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī (full name Abū Zayd Ḥasan ibn Zayd al-Sīrāfī, أبو زيد حسن بن زيد السيرافي) was a 10th-century geographer and traveller from the Persian...

Abu Zayd or Arabic: أبو زيد, alternatively transliterated as Abizaid, Abu Zayd may refer to: Abū Zayd ‘Abdu r-Raḥman bin Muḥammad bin Khaldūn Al-Hadrami...

Zayyan ibn Mardanish, after dethroning Zayd Abu Zayd, the last Almohad governor of the province. Zayd Abu Zayd fled to Aragon, where he became a vassal...

Around 625, Muhammad proposed Zaynab to marry his adopted son, Zayd ibn Harithah. Zayd had been born into the Kalb tribe but as a child he had been kidnapped...