Abu 'Abdallah Ahmad ibn Abi Du'ad al-Iyadi (Arabic: أبو عبد الله أحمد بن أبي دؤاد الإيادي, romanized: ʾAbū ʿAbd Allāh ʾAḥmad ibn ʾAbī Duʾād al-ʾIyādī)...

Ibn Abi Shaybah that is one of the earliest extant works in that genre. Alongside Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ali ibn al-Madini and Yahya ibn Ma'in, Ibn Abi Shaybah...

known as the 'Askariyyayn. They died and were buried in their house on Abī Ahmad Street near the mosque built by Mu'tasim. A later tradition attributes...

Abul Abbas Ahmad ibn Abi Ahmad al-Tabari known as Ibn al-Qass (894–946) was an Iranian mystic and Shafi'i scholar, judge and preacher of Tarsus. It is...

Sunan Abi Dawud (Arabic: سنن أبي داود, romanized: Sunan Abī Dāwūd) is the third hadith collection of the Six Books of Sunni Islam. It was compiled by...

More specifically, his residence was in the center of the city on the Abi Ahmad street. Having escorted al-Hadi to Samarra, Yahya conveyed to the caliph...

movement. He authored Badhl Al-Majhud Fi Hall Abi Dawud, an 18-volume commentary on the hadith collection Sunan Abi Dawud. He was also a Sufi shaykh of the...

Ahmad I ibn Abi Bakr was Emir of Harar from 1755 to 1782. He made several successful military expeditions against the Oromo around the city of Harar,...

Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah al-Maghrawi al-Wahrani (Arabic: أبو العباس احمد بن جمعة المغراوي الوهراني; died 3 June 1511) was an Algerian Maliki...

(Arabic: معاوية بن أبي سفيان, romanized: Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān Arabic pronunciation: [muʕaːwija ibn abiː sufjaːn]; c. 597, 603 or 605–April 680) was the founder...

Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abī ʿAwn ibn Hilāl Abi ʾl-Najm (died 933/4), usually known as Ibn Abī ʿAwn, was an Iraqi writer and poet from al-Anbār...

Ahmad ibn Abi Diyaf (Arabic: أحمد بن أبي الضياف) (1804, Tunis – 1874), known colloquially as Bin Diyaf, was the author of a chronicle of Tunisian history...

ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Du'ad (Arabic: محمد بن أحمد بن أبي دعد, death 854) was an acting chief judge (qadi) of the mid-ninth century. A proponent of Ahmad ibn...

name was Ahmad Bin Yahya Bin Jabir Al-Baladhuri (Arabic: أحمد بن يحيى بن جابر البلاذري), Balazry Ahmad Bin Yahya Bin Jabir Abul Hasan or Abi al-Hassan...

Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas ibn Wuhayb al-Zuhri (Arabic: سَعْد بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاص بْنِ وهَيْب الزُّهري, romanized: Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ ibn Wuhayb al-Zuhrī) was...

Chishti Order: Abu Ishaq Shami (died 329 AH) Abu Ahmad Abdal (died 355 AH) Abu Muhammad Bin Abi Ahmad (died 411 AH) Abu Yusuf Bin Saamaan (died 459 AH)...

The Al-Douri 'an Abi 'Amr recitation (Arabic: رواية الدوري عن أبي عمرو, lit. 'Transmission of al-Douri from Abi 'Amr') is a riwayah of the Quran, transmitted...

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...

Sadr ad-Dīn Abu'l Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn Abī al-ʻIzz (Arabic: صَدرُ الدين أبو الحسن عليُّ بن علاءِ الدين الدمشقي الصالحيَّ) was a 14th-century Arab Muslim scholar...

8th-century hadith scholar and jurist Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr al-Zuhri (767–856), 9th-century Maliki jurist Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Zuhri, 12th-century Andalusian...

Arba’ah b. Abi Yahya in Madinah, al-Waqidi in Baghdad, Muqatil b. Sulayman in Khurasan and Muhammad bin Sa’id al-Kalbi in Syria." Both Ahmad ibn Hanbal...

Abd Allah ibn Abi Quhafa (Arabic: عبد الله بن أبي قحافة, romanized: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʾAbī Quḥāfa; c. 573 – 23 August 634), commonly known by the kunya Abu...

al-Khuzâ`î [ar] Adhayna ibn al-Hârith [ar] Adî ibn Hâtim at-Tâî Aflah ibn Abî Qays [ar] Ahmad ibn Hafs [ar] Ahmar Abu `Usayb [ar] Ahmar ibn Jazi [ar] Ahmar ibn...

Ibn Abi Al-Dunya (208-281 AH) was a hadith scholar, literary historian, and educator. He was renowned for his books on hadith, history, asceticism, heart-softening...

Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr ibn Abi Quhafa al-Taymi (Arabic: مُحَمَّد بْن أَبِي بَكْر بْن أَبِي قُحَافَة, romanized: Muḥammad ibn ʾAbī Bakr ibn ʾAbī Quḥāfa; c...

Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr, commonly known by the nisba al-Maqdisi or al-Muqaddasī, was a medieval Arab geographer, author...

ʾAbū al-ʿAbbās ʾAḥmad bin ʾAbī Yaʿqūb bin Ǧaʿfar bin Wahb bin Waḍīḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (died 897/8), commonly referred to simply by his nisba al-Yaʿqūbī, was...

Salim Mawla Abi Ḥudhayfah (Arabic: سَالِم مَوْلَىٰ أَبِي حُذَيْفَة, Sālim Mawlā ʾAbī Ḥuḏayfah) was a Persian, an early companion of the Islamic prophet...

Aisha bint Abi Bakr (c. 614 CE – July 678) was a seventh century Arab commander, politician, muhadditha and the third and youngest wife of the Islamic...

nasab is sometimes given as ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi Zar and sometimes as ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Abi Zar. The uncertainty about his name and authorship...