Al-Bidāya wa’l-Nihāya
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“He sleeps with one of his eyes, while with the other he watches for impending calamities. Even in sleep, he remains alert.”
Hārūn al-Rashīd: – You have recited this poem to us in order to take this ring from our hand, he said. Then he gave the ring to Mufaḍḍal. However, Hār…
“I was the one sitting beside Kaʿkaʿ b. ʿAmr. Whoever sits beside him is never left without a share.”
Hārūn al-Rashīd, by ordering another servant, commanded that the gold coins in his possession be given to the companion of the Bedouin who had recited…
“Indeed, Allah the Exalted sends to this community at the head of every hundred years someone who will renew its religious affairs.”
Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal, in his commentary on this hadith, said: “ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz was sent at the beginning of the first hundred years. Al-Shāfiʿī…
"What treasures my lady possesses! Her coyness, her affectation, has made her all the more beautiful."
Bashshār said to his companion: "I have never seen anyone braver than this." Eventually, Abū l-ʿAtāhiya reached the following part of his qasīda (ode)…
"Your health has departed, and illness has come to you."
Hārūn al-Rashīd asked one of the attendants present with him: – How much money do you have with you? – I have 400 dinars. – Give that money to this Be…
2ekeriya b. Muḥammad b. Ḥayde
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A Battle Between the Turks and the Muslims
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A Beautiful Benefit Worth Noting
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A Few Words on the Virtue of This Noble Mosque
Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal narrates from Abu Saʿid al-Khudrī as follows: A man from the tribe of Khudra and a man from the tribe of ʿAmr b. ʿAwf disagreed a…
A Group of Kharijites Rebel Against Muʿāwiya
When Muʿāwiya entered Kufa and then departed from there with the family of Ḥasan, heading toward the Hijaz, about 500 Kharijites said: "A situation ha…
A Person in a State of Major Ritual Impurity (Junub) May Not Touch the Torah
According to the Ḥanafī jurists, a person who is junub (in a state of major ritual impurity) may not touch the Torah until they have performed ghusl (…
A Report Concerning ʿAbdullāh b. Salām
Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal, through the transmission of Ishaq b. Yusuf, narrated that Bishr b. ʿAbbād said: "While I was in the Prophet's Mosque (Masjid al-…
A Strange and Astonishing Thing
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A Strange Creature Emerging from the Sea
Shaykh ʿAlamüddīn al-Berzalī wrote in his history: "In one of the letters coming from Cairo, I saw mention of the following event: On Thursday, the fo…
A Strange Event and a Curious Coincidence
The deputy of the sultanate, Emir Sayf al-Din Baydamir, began to secretly consider the governor of the land, Haseki, and the atabeg of Egypt, Emir Say…
A Strange Hadith Concerning the Story of the Camel
Shaykh Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥāmid al-Faqīh, in his book "Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwa," narrates from Ghunaym b. Aws al-Razf that he said: "We were sittin…
A Strange Incident and a Curious Coincidence
The deputy of the sultanate, Emir Seyfeddin Baydemir, began to inwardly regard the governor of the country, Haseki, and the atabeg of the land of Egyp…
A Strange Story
According to what Ibn Jawzī relates in his work "al-Muntaẓam," Ma'mun heard that a man would go every day to the cemetery of the Barmakids and there w…
A Strange Subtlety
In the work titled ar-Rawḍatayn , Abū Shāma said: Our master Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad as-Sahāwī, while discussing this subject in his first tafsir…
A Strange Tale
Ibn al-Jawzī recounts this tale with its chain of transmission in his book "al-Muntaẓam." The story is as follows: An incident occurred between a youn…
A Truly Strange Dream
On the night of Monday, the twenty-second of Muharram in the year 763 AH, I saw the late Shaykh Muḥyiddīn al-Nawawī in a dream. I asked him, "O my mas…
A Truly Strange Dream
On the night of Monday, the twenty-second of Muharram in the year 763 AH, I saw the late Shaykh Muḥyiddīn al-Nawawī in a dream. I asked him, "O my mas…
A Truly Strange Event
On Wednesday, the thirtieth of the month of Safar, a decree arrived from the land of Egypt to Dimashq. It brought an order to pledge allegiance (bayʿa…
A Truly Strange Incident
On the night connecting Saturday to Sunday, the sixth of Jumādā al-Ākhirah, Emir Sayf al-Dīn Kutlubāghā al-Fāri, together with his soldiers, establish…
A Very Strange Incident
On the twenty-eighth day of the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, a dispute arose between the Damascus soldiers and Emir Seyfeddin Olcayboğa, the deputy of Tri…
A Very Strange Incident
On the fifteenth of the month of Jamāzī al-Awwal, on a Sunday, the Hanbalī qāḍī invited a group of Jews to Islam. This was because they had somewhat m…
A Very Strange Incident
When I went to congratulate the deputy of Baalbek, Emir Nāṣir al-Dīn Ibn Akwās, I saw a young man in his assembly. One of those present explained that…
A Very Strange Incident
On Wednesday, the twenty-fourth of the month of Rajab of this year, some people living in the Mashhad-i ʿAlī adjacent to the Damascus Mosque and in ot…
A Very Strange Incident Concerning Muallim Sencer, the Slave of Ibn Hilal
On the twenty-fourth of the month of Rabiʿ al-Ākhir, Muallim Sencer al-Hilālī was released after paying a fine amounting to 600,000 dirhams. Rejoicing…
A Very Strange Incident Concerning Muallim Sencer, the Slave of Ibn Hilal
On the twenty-fourth of the month of Rabiʿ al-Ākhir, Muallim Sencer al-Hilālī was released after paying a fine amounting to 600,000 dirhams. Rejoicing…
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Abbas b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
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Abd al-Muttalib Arranges the Marriage of His Son ʿAbdullah to Āmina, Daughter of Wahb al-Zuhrī
Ibn Ishaq said: It is related that afterwards, ʿAbd al-Muttalib took his son ʿAbdullah by the hand and departed from there. He first visited a woman k…
Abd al-Muṭṭalib’s Vow to Sacrifice One of His Sons
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Abdullah b. Abbas's Seeing Gabriel (peace be upon him) in Another Form
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Abdullah b. Abī'l-Qāsim b. Yūsuf b. Abī'l-Qāsim al-Ḥawrānī. He was the shaykh of the Ḥawrānī tribes. He was a person to whom people turned in the tekk…
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Abdullah b. Ahmed
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Abdullah b. Ahmed b. Ahmed b. Ahmed Abū Muḥammad b. Ḥaššāb. He recited the Qur'an, listened to hadith, and engaged in the science of nahw (Arabic gram…
Abdullah b. Ahmed b. Musa
Abdullah b. Ahmed b. Musa b. Ziyad. His honorific (kunya) was Abū Muḥammad al-Jawālikī. He served as a judge (qāḍī). He was known by the epithet Abdan…
Abdullah b. Amīr
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Abdullah b. Habbab b. Eret
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Abdullah b. Hammam
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Abdullah b. Hasan
Abdullah b. Hasan b. Ahmed b. Ebi Şuayb (the original name of Ebu Şuayb is Abdullah) b. Muslim al-Umavi al-Harrani. Abdullah b. Hasan was a well-manne…
Abdullah b. Hasan
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Abdullah b. Hasan b. Ali
His kunyah is Abū'l-Qāsim. His lineage is as follows: ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī Muḥammad al-Hillālī. He is the last person to narrate ḥadīth f…
Abdullah b. Huzafa b. Qays al-Qurashī al-Sahmī
He emigrated to Abyssinia together with his brother Qays. He was among the prominent figures of the Companions (ṣaḥāba). When he argued with others, i…
Abdullah b. Ibrāhīm
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Abdullah b. Idris
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Abdullah b. Jaʿfar b. Abī Ṭālib
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Abdullah b. Jud'an
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Abdullah b. Malik b. Kaşeb
The actual name of this individual is Jundub b. Nadla b. Abdullah b. Rafi al-Azdī. His kunya (honorific) is Abu Muhammad. He was an ally of the sons o…
Abdullah b. Masʿūd
One of the servants of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) was ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd b. Ghāfil b. Ḥabīb b. Shamkh Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Hudhalī. He…
Abdullah b. Masʿūd
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Abdullah b. Mubarak
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Abdullah b. Mubarak
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Abdullah b. Muğaffal al-Muzanī
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Abdullah b. Muḥammad
Abdullah b. Muḥammad b. Nafī b. Mukarram Abū'l-ʿAbbās al-Basṭī. He was an ascetic person, having inherited a great fortune from his ancestors. But he …
Abdullah b. Muḥammad
Abdullah b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Abū Ismāʿīl al-Ansārī al-Harawī. He transmitted ḥadīth. He authored works. He often stayed awake at night. In…
Abdullah b. Muḥammad
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Abdullah b. Muḥammad b. Abdullah
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Abdullah b. Muḥammad b. Abī Allan
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Abdullah b. Muḥammad b. Isḥāq
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Abdullah b. Muhayriz
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Abdullah b. Mukaffaʿ
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Abdullah b. Muti
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Abdullah b. Zubayr b. Sulaym
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Abdullah b. ʿAlī
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Abdullah b. ʿUmar
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Abdulvehhab B. Muhammed
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Abdurrahman b. Abdullah
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Abdurrahman b. Abdürrahim b. Hasan
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Abdurrahman b. Ahmed
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Abdurrahman b. Ahmed
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Abdurrahman b. Ahmed b. Abdullah
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Abdurrahman B. Ali
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Abdurrahman b. Awf
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Abdurrahman b. Esh'as al-Kindī
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Abdurrahman b. Hasan b. Hibetullah b. Asakir
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Abdurrahman b. Muḥammad
Abdurrahman b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdillāh b. Idrīs b. Saʿīd. He was a ḥāfiẓ (memorizer) of ḥadīth. He was from Esterabad. He became famous unde…
Abdurrahman b. Sehl b. Zayd al-Ansārī al-Ḥārithī
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Abdurrahman b. ʿĪsā
Abdurrahman b. ʿĪsā b. Abī'l-Ḥasan al-Marwazī. He was a preacher. He was from Baghdad. He heard ḥadīth from Ibn Abī'l-Waqt and others. He took lessons…
Abdurrahman, son of Khālid ibn al-Walīd
He belonged to the Manzum branch of the Quraysh tribe. He was among the renowned warriors, famous for his bravery like his father. He gained great fam…
Abdurrahman, the Son of Abu Bakr
According to the statement of Zubayr b. Bakkār, Abdurrahman was the eldest son of Abu Bakr. He was jocular, loved humor, and his mother’s name was Umm…
Abdürrezzāq, Son of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī
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Abraha's Attack on Mecca with Elephants to Destroy the Ka'ba
In the noble surah that mentions this event, the Exalted Allah says: "Have you not considered, [O Muhammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions o…
Abū Aḥmad al-Farāzī
ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Mihrān. His kunyah was Abū Muslim al-Farāzī. He was a qurrāʾ (Qurʾān reciter). He heard ḥadīth from al-Ma…
Abu Ahmad al-Muwaffaq's Invasion of the City of the Black Leader
Abu Ahmad al-Muwaffaq wrote a letter to the black leader, inviting him to the truth, but the latter belittled Abu Ahmad and did not respond to his inv…
Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAskarī
Ḥasan b. ʿAbdallāh b. Saʿīd. Abū Aḥmad is his kunyah (teknonym). He was a leading figure in the Arabic language and literature, grammar (naḥw), and ra…
Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAṣṣāl
Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm b. Sulaymān b. Muḥammad. Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAṣṣāl al-Isfahānī. One of the great ḥadīth ḥuffāẓ (memorizers), imams, and l…
Abū Aḥmad b. ʿAdī al-Ḥāfiẓ
Abū ʿAbdillāh b. Muḥammad b. Abī Aḥmad al-Jurjānī, known as Abū Aḥmad b. ʿAdī, was a ḥāfiẓ (memorizer) of ḥadīth who produced great and beneficial wor…
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥasan
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥasan b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Baṭrīk b. Naṣr b. Ḥamdūn b. Sābit al-Asadī al-Ḥillī, al-Wāsiṭī, al-Baghdādī. He w…
Abū al-Naṣr al-Juhayni al-Musʿab
He resided in al-Madīna al-Nabawiyya, in the suffa (the shaded platform for the poor and seekers of knowledge) adjacent to the north wall of the Proph…
Abu al-Tayyib al-Tabari
He was a jurist (faqīh). He was a Shāfiʿī scholar. His real name was Ṭāhir b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ṭāhir b. ʿUmar. He was born in the year 348 AH in the town …
Abū al-Ṭayyib Rizqullāh b. Yaḥyā
Abū al-Ṭayyib Rizqullāh b. Yatīyāb. Rizqullāh b. Yaḥyā b. Khalīfa b. Sulaymān b. Rizqullāh b. Ghanim b. Janām al-Ṭahdarī. A muḥaddith (scholar of ḥadī…
Abū al-Zāhiriyya Ḥāḍir b. Kurayb al-Ḥumṣī
He was a follower (tābiʿī) of high standing. He heard hadith from Abū Umāma, Suday b. ʿAjlān, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Busr. It is reported that he also met …
Abū Alī al-Kālī
He is the author of the work titled "al-ʿAmālī." His lineage is as follows: Ismāʿīl ibn Qāsim ibn ʿAbdūn ibn Hārūn ibn ʿĪsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān.…
Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Ḥajjāj
He was from the city of Marw. He was a companion of Imām Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal. He was among the intelligent individuals. Imām Aḥmad considered him superior…
Abū Bakr al-Ḥarbī
His real name was Muḥammad b. Saʿīd. He was an ascetic person. He was also known by the name Ibn Dārīr. He was a trustworthy, pious, and worshipful in…
Abū Bakr al-Najjād
Ahmad b. Sulaymān b. Ḥasan b. Isrāʾīl b. Yūnus Abū Bakr al-Najjād. A faqīh. He was among the Hanbalī imāms. He was born in the year 253 AH. He studied…
Abū Bakr al-Shāshī
He was a companion of Caliph al-Mustazhir. His real name was Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥusayn al-Shāshī. He was one of the Shāfiʿī imams of his time. He wa…
Abū Bakr al-Shiblī
He is among the shaykhs of the Sufi tradition. There is disagreement regarding his actual name. Some have said it was Dulaf b. Jaʿfar, others Dulaf b.…
Abū Bakr al-ʿAsram
Ahmad b. Muḥammad b. Hānī al-Ṭāʾī al-ʿAsram. He was a student of Imām Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal. He studied and listened to ḥadīth from ʿAffān, Abū Walīd, al-Kā…
Abū Bakr ar-Rāzī
His real name was Aḥmad b. ʿAlī. Abū Bakr is his kunyah. He was a Ḥanafī faqīh (jurist). Rāzī is his nisbah. He was among the aṣḥāb (Companions) of Im…
Abū Bakr b. Ayyāsh
He was one of the imams. He studied under Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī, Aʿnīʾash, Hishām, Hammām b. ʿUrwa, and a group of others. A number of notable figures, …
Abū Bakr b. Ḥaddād
He is a Shāfiʿī jurist. His full name is Muḥammad b. Aḥīnad b. Muḥammad Abū Bakr b. Ḥaddād. He is among the Shāfiʿī imams. He transmitted narrations f…
Abū Bakr b. Ḥalba al-Mawāzinī al-Baghdādī
He was an unparalleled scholar in the art of hendese (geometry) and mīzān (the art of the balance/scale). He invented wondrous things. For example, he…
Abu Bakr b. Jiabī
Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. Salama b. Barāʾ b. Sabura b. Sayyār, Abū Bakr al-Jiabī. He was the qāḍī (judge) of Mosul. He was born in the month of Ṣafar in th…
Abū Bakr b. Ziyād al-Nīsāburī
ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. Ziyād b. Wāṣil b. Maymūn. Abū Bakr is his kunyah (teknonym). He was a Shāfiʿī jurist, from Nīsābūr. He was a freedman of ʿIbā…
Abu Bakr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥārith
The genealogy of this figure is as follows: Abu Bakr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥārith b. Hishām b. Mugīra b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUmar b. Makhzūm al-Qurashī al-M…
Abū Bakr b. ʿUmar
He was the commander of the Mulessimīn. He was in the region of Fergana. He was extraordinarily honorable to a degree unseen in other rulers. When goi…
Abū Bakr Ibn Anbārī
The genealogy of this person is as follows: Muḥammad b. Qāsim b. Muḥammad b. Bishār b. Ḥasan b. Bayān b. Sammāʿ b. Farwa b. Qatān b. Duʿāmah Abū Bakr …
Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā
Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Muzaffar b. ʿĀlam b. Naʿīm. He was known as the son of Ḥaṣr al-Sulamī. He was a virtuous and learned person. He belonged…
Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Yūsuf b. Ṭabbāḥ
Originally from Wāsiṭ. Later he settled in Baghdad. He was a Sufi. He was appointed as the administrator of certain departments in Baghdad and fulfill…
Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb
Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī Fahreddīn b. al-Shayrājī. He was from Dimašq (Damascus). He was among those engaged in the…
Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Jābir
He is a famous Hanbalī faqīh (jurist) known by the nickname Gulām. He was one of the leading figures of the Hanbalī madhhab (legal school). He has var…
Abu Bakr ʿAbdullah b. Abī al-Dunyā al-Qurashī
He was a freedman of the Banū Umayya. His full name is ʿAbdullah b. Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd b. Sufyān b. Qays Abū Bakr b. Abī al-Dunyā. He was a ḥadīth ḥāf…
Abu Bakr’s Desire to Migrate to Abyssinia
Ibn Isḥāq, through the channels of al-Zuhrī and ʿUrwa, relates from ʿĀʾisha that she said: When Abu Bakr was subjected to the torment of the polytheis…
Abu Bakr’s Preparation for Battle Against Apostates and Those Who Refused to Pay Zakat
As previously mentioned, when the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away, many Arab tribes committed irtidād (apostasy). Nifāq…
Abū Bakra Nāqī b. Ḥāris
The genealogy of this person is as follows: Abū Bakra Nāqī b. Ḥāris b. Kelde b. ʿAmr b. Ilāch b. Abī Salama al-Thaqafī. He was a Companion (ṣaḥāba) of…
Abū Bishr al-Dūlabī
Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥammād Abū Saʿīd Abū Bishr al-Dūlabī. He was a freedman of the Anṣār. He was known by the nickname Warrāq. He was among the forem…
Abū Burda b. Abī Mūsā al-Ashʿarī
He was appointed as judge (qāḍī) of Kufa before al-Shaʿbī. Al-Shaʿbī served as judge of Kufa during the caliphate of ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and remain…
Abū Dabbūs ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd al-Maghribī
He once ruled over the town of Qadis. He governed there. Then a group revolted against him and took the rule from his hand. He then went to Egypt. He …
Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī
He is the author of the hadith collection entitled "Sunan." His full name is Sulaymān b. al-Ashʿath b. Isḥāq b. Bashīr b. Shaddād b. Yaḥyā b. ʿImrān A…
Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī
According to the most well-known opinion, his real name was Jundub b. Junāda. He became Muslim in Mecca during the earliest days of Islam. He was eith…
Abū Dharr al-Ḥarawī
ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mālikī. He studied ḥadith from many masters. He traveled extensively to collect ḥadith. He resided in Mecca…
Abū Dujāna Simāk b. Ḥarasha
The genealogy of this figure is as follows: Simāk b. Aws b. Ḥarasha b. Lawzān b. ʿAbdud b. Zayd b. Thalaba b. Khazraj b. Saʿida b. Kaʿb b. Khazraj al-…
Abū Dulaf al-ʿIjlī
ʿĪsā b. Idrīs b. Maqīl b. Umayr b. Shaykh b. Muʿāwiya b. Khuzāʿī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Dulaf b. Jusham b. Qays b. Saʿd b. ʿIjl b. Luhaym. Emir Abū Dulaf…
Abū Dulāma
Zayd b. al-Jawn. He was a poet who mixed seriousness and jest. He was among the refined ones. His origin is from Kufa. He resided in Baghdad and was e…
Abū Ḥasan al-Ziyādī
He was the qāḍī (judge) of the eastern side of Baghdad. His full name was Ḥasan b. ʿUthmān b. Ḥammād b. Ḥasan b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Yazīd al-Baghdādī. …
Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī
Muḥammad b. Idrīs b. Munḏir b. Dāwūd b. Mihrān Abū Ḥātim al-Ḥanzalī al-Rāzī. He was among the steadfast imams and memorizers of ḥadīth who knew the hi…
Abū Haytham b. al-Tayyihān
His lineage is as follows: Abū Haytham b. al-Tayyihān Mālik b. Mālik b. Isl Jusham b. Ḥāris b. Khazraj b. ʿAmr b. Mālik b. Aws al-Anṣārī al-Awsī. He w…
Abū Hirāsh al-Hudhalī al-Shāʿir
His real name was Huwaylid b. Murra. He used to race horses on foot. During the Jāhiliyya (pre-Islamic period of ignorance), he was an immoral and ind…
Abū Hirāsha Huwaylid
Among those who passed away in the twentieth year of the Hijra was Abū Hirāsha Huwaylid ibn Murra al-Hudhali. He was a renowned poet and counted among…
Abū Hurayra
There has been disagreement regarding the name of Abū Hurayra in both the pre-Islamic and Islamic periods. There is also disagreement concerning the n…
Abū Ḥusayn Aḥmad b. Fāris
Abū Ḥusayn Aḥmad b. Fāris b. Zakariyyā b. Muḥammad b. Ḥabīb. He was a lexicographer. He was from the city of Rāz. He is the author of the work al-Mujm…
Abū Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī al-Muʿtazilī
Muḥammad b. Aḥ b. Ḥātib Abū Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī. He was a theologian (kalām scholar). He belonged to the Muʿtazila scholars and was their defender. He opp…
Abū Huzayfa b. ʿUtba b. Rabīʿa
The lineage of this person is as follows: Abū Huzayfa b. ʿUtba b. Rabīʿa b. ʿAbd Shams al-Qurashī al-Abshamī. He became Muslim before Dār al-Arqam, an…
Abū Idrīs al-Ḥawlānī
His real name is ʿAyz b. ʿAbd Allāh. He was known for many karāma (saintly wonders) and exemplary accounts. He used to say: "A pure qalb (the heart) w…
Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī
Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Ḥāris b. Ismāʿīl b. Khārija. He was the leading authority (imam) of the people of Syria in the science of …
Abū Isḥāq al-Jahmī
He was born in the 250th year of the Hijra. He listened to and transmitted ḥadīth. When offered to recite ḥadīth, he swore that he would not recite ḥa…
Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Muzaffar
Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Muzaffar Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī. He is known by the name Ibn al-Bazzī. He is from Baghdad. He was a preacher. He acquired his knowledge …
Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Karīm
Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Abī's-Saʿdāt b. Karīm. He was from Mosul. He was among the Ḥanafī fuqahāʾ (jurists). He wrote a commentary on mo…
Abū Jandal b. Suhayl
His lineage is as follows: Abū Jandal b. Suhayl b. ʿAmr. It is said that his original name was As. He became Muslim in the earliest period of Islam an…
Abū Jaʿfar al-Bāqir
Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib al-Qurashī al-Hāshimī, known as Abū Jaʿfar al-Bāqir. His mother was Umm ʿAbd Allāh bint Ḥasan b. ʿAlī.…
Abū Jaʿfar al-Tirmidhī
His real name was Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Naṣr Abū Jaʿfar al-Tirmidhī. He was a Shāfiʿī jurist. He belonged to the people of knowledge and asceticism.…
Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī
He was a jurist (faqīh). He was buried in Mashhad-i ʿAlī. When his house in the Kerh quarter was burned, his books were also destroyed. From the year …
Abū Juḥayfa
His real name was Wahb b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Sawāʾī. He was one of the Companions (ṣaḥāba). He saw the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him). …
Abū Kalijār Seizes Baghdad After His Brother Jalāl al-Dawla
In this year, Jalāl al-Dawla Abū Ṭāhir ibn Bahāʾ al-Dawla passed away. After him, his brother Sulṭān al-Dawla Abū Kalijār ibn Bahāʾ al-Dawla took cont…
Abū Laylā ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Kaʿb
His full lineage is as follows: Abū Laylā ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Kaʿb b. ʿAmr al-Anṣārī. He participated in the Battle of Uhud and the subsequent expeditio…
Abū Maksūr b. Abī Bakr b. Shujāʿ
He is from the village of Merkels in Baghdad. He is known as Ibn Nuqṭa (the Point). During the day, he would wander the markets of Baghdad and recite …
Abū Maʿbad al-Asadī
His real name was Mughīra b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Kūfī. He was born during the lifetime of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). He visited ʿAbd al-…
Abū Mersad al-Ghanawī
The genealogy of this person is as follows: Muʿādh b. Ḥusayn b. Yarbuʿ b. ʿAmr b. Yarbuʿ b. Ḥarasha b. Saʿd b. Ṭarīf b. Ḥaylān b. Ghanam b. Ghanī b. A…
Abū Muḥammad al-Bāqī
His given name is ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad al-Bāqī. He is from Bukhara and Khwarazm. He is among the Shāfiʿī imams. He learned fiqh (Islamic jurisprudenc…
Abū Muḥammad al-Barbahārī
He was a scholar, ascetic, jurist, and preacher affiliated with the Ḥanbalī school. He was a companion of Marwazī and Sahl al-Tustarī. For a reason he…
Abū Muḥammad al-Jarīrī
He is one of the Sufi imams. His real name is Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn Abū Muḥammad al-Jarīrī. He is among the great ṣūfīs. He was a companion of S…
Abū Muḥammad al-Shaʿrānī
He was a man of letters, a jurist (faqīh), a devout worshipper (ʿābid), and a memorizer of the Qur'an (ḥāfiẓ). He traveled to various places in order …
Abū Muḥammad b. Saʿd
He was the vizier of Kālicar. Muʿizz al-Dawla, Falak al-Dawla, Rashīd al-Umma, Wazīr al-Wuzarāʾ, and ʿImād al-Mulk were titles bestowed upon him. Howe…
Abū Muḥammad Jāʿfar al-Murtaīsh
He is among the masters of the Sufis. Ḥātib al-Baghdādī said thus. Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suwayʿmī said: “The real name of Abū Muḥammad Jāʿfar al-Murta…
Abū Muḥammad Jāʿfar b. Muḥammad
Abū Muḥammad Jāʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd b. Ḥibatullāh b. Aḥmad b. Yūsuf. He is from Erbil. He was a virtuous person and well-versed in many sciences…
Abū Muḥammad Maḥmūd b. Maqdūd b. Maḥmūd
Abū Muḥammad Maḥmūd b. Maqdūd b. Maḥmūd al-Baldajī. He belonged to the Ḥanafī madhhab. He was from Mosul. In Mosul, there is a madrasa known by his na…
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Jabbār
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Abī Bakr b. Ḥamdīs al-Azdī al-Siqillī. He is a famous poet. Ibn Ḥallīkān has transmitted the following from his brillia…
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Malik b. Hishām
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Malik b. Hishām b. Ayyūb al-Maʿāfirī. He transmitted the sīra (biographical account of the Prophet) from Ibn Isḥāq through the ch…
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Muʾmin b. ʿAlī
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Muʾmin b. ʿAlī al-Qaysī. He was from Kūfah and a student of Ibn Tumart. His father worked in construction, laboring in the mud. W…
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī'l-Maʿālī ibn Ghanīmah. He became famous under the name Ibn Menīnah. He was born in the year 515 AH. He heard and tr…
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Maḥmūd b. Mubārak
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Maḥmūd b. Mubārak al-Bezzār. He is known as Ibn Ahdar al-Baghdādī. He was a ḥadīth scholar. He was a ḥāfiẓ (memorizer) w…
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. al-Rasawī
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. al-Rasawī al-Bawāriǧī. Later he came to Baghdad and settled there. He was a virtuous ʿālim (scholar) and a transmi…
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Aʿyūn b. Lays b. Rāfiʿ al-Miṣrī. Imām
He is one of those who read the Muwaṭṭaʾ in the presence of jytalikin. He learned the jurisprudence of his school from him. He was a respected person …
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Abī al-Wahsh
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Abī al-Wahsh Būrī b. ʿAbduljabbar b. Būrī al-Maqdisī. Originally from Jerusalem. Later he came to Egypt and settled there. I…
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. Sayyid al-Batlīyawsī al-Tanīsī. He is the author of compendious works on linguistics and other sciences; his wor…
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. Ḥalef b. Aḥmad b. ʿUmar al-Laḥmī al-Andalusī ar-Ribāṭī. He was a ḥadīth compiler. He is the author of the book I…
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdillāh b. Aḥmad
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdillāh b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm b. Ṭabāṭabā b. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm b. Ḥasan b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib al-Ḥāshimī al-Miṣ…
Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī
In the fifty-second year of the Hijra, Abū Mūsā ʿAbd Allāh b. Qays b. Sulaym b. Ḥidar b. Ḥarb b. ʿĀmir b. Ghazz b. Bakr b. ʿĀmir b. ʿAzr b. Wāʾil b. N…
Abū Muslim al-Ḥolānī
His given name was ʿAbd b. Suwayd al-Ḥolānī. He was from the region of Ḥolān in Yemen. The false prophet named Aswad al-ʿAnsī called him to believe in…
Abū Muzaffar al-Samʿānī
Mansūr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Abū Muzaffar al-Samʿānī. He was a ḥadīth ḥāfiẓ (memorizer of ḥadīth). He was from the city o…
Abū Naṣr al-Muḥibb
He was called among the Sufi shaykhs. He was a person of karāma (a saintly wonder), generous and possessed of noble character. When he heard a beggar …
Abū Naṣr al-Sajzī al-Wābilī
He is from the village of Wābil, affiliated with Sijistān. He heard many ḥadīths. He compiled works. He transmitted ḥadīth. He resided in the Ḥaram. H…
Abū Naṣr b. Ḥibātullāh
He is known as Ibn Makūlā. He was born in the year 402 AH. He studied under many ḥadīth scholars. He was among the ḥadīth memorizers. He authored a bo…
Abū Naṣr Muḥammad b. Ṣadūllah
Abū Naṣr Muḥammad b. Ṣadūllah b. Naṣr b. Saʿīd al-Ertahī. He was a generous, beautiful, and praiseworthy person. He belonged to the Ḥanbalī madhhab, a…
Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn Nabāṭah. He is a famous poet. He praised Sayf al-Dawla ibn Ḥamdān. I believe he is the brother of Kātib…
Abū Nujayḥ
According to the accounts of Abū Mazhar and Abū ʿUbayd al-ʿIrbaḍ b. Sāriya, Abū Nujayḥ passed away in this year. He lived in Ḥimṣ. He was a Companion …
Abū Qilāba al-Jurmī
His real name was ʿAbd Allāh b. Yazīd al-Baṣrī. He transmitted many reports from the Companions (ṣaḥāba) and others. He was among the great imams and …
Abū Quḥāfa
Among the notable figures who passed away in the fourteenth year of the Hijra was Abū Quḥāfa, the father of Abū Bakr. The full name of Abū Bakr is ʿAb…
Abū Sabra b. Abī Ruhm al-ʿĀmirī
He was the brother of Abū Salama b. ʿAbd al-Asad. Their mother was Barra bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib. He emigrated to Abyssinia. He participated in the Batt…
Abū Sahl b. Ziyād al-Kattān
Ahmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh b. Ziyād Abū Sahl al-Kattān. He was a trustworthy and reliable ḥadīth ḥāfiẓ (memorizer). He recited the Qurʾān frequent…
Abū Salama Ḥafṣ b. Sulaymān
He was the first vizier of the Abbasids. After the fourth month of his accession to the caliphate, by the order of al-Saffāḥ, Abū Muslim killed him in…
Abū Sayf al-Kāzvīnī
ʿAbdussalām b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf b. Bandār. He was a shaykh of the Muʿtazila. He studied under ʿAbduljabbār b. ʿAmed al-Ḥemedānī. He migrated to Egypt…
Abū Saʿd al-Mālinī
Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ahmed b. Ismāʿīl b. Ḥafs Abū Saʿd al-Mālinī. Mālin is the name of a village affiliated with Herāt. Abū Saʿd was a hadith nāfiẓ (t…
Abū Saʿd al-Mutawallī
ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Maʾmūn b. ʿAlī Abū Saʿd al-Mutawallī. He is the author (muṣannif) of the work entitled at-Tatimma. After Abū Isḥāq ash-Shīrāzī, he tau…
Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī
He is the author of the work al-Ansāb and other works. His lineage is as follows: Tāj al-Islām ʿAbd al-Karīm Muḥammad b. Abū al-Muẓaffar al-Mansūr ʿAb…
Abū Saʿd al-Simānī
ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Muḥammad b. Manṣūr Abū Saʿd al-Simʿānī. He came to Baghdad. There he listened to ḥadith and wrote a supplement to al-Ḥāṭib al-Baghdād…
Abū Saʿīd al-Ismāʿīlī
Ibrāhīm b. Ismāʿīl Abū Saʿīd al-Jurjānī. He became well-known by the epithet al-Ismāʿīlī. When he came to Baghdad, al-Dāraquṭnī was still alive. He tr…
Abū Saʿīd al-Iṣṭahrī
Abū Saʿīd al-Iṣṭahrī, Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Yazīd b. ʿĪsā b. Faḍl b. Yasār. Abū Saʿīd al-Iṣṭahrī is his kunyah (teknonym). He was among the Shāfiʿī imams.…
Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
His full name is Saʿd b. Mālik b. Sinān al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī. He was a Companion (ṣaḥābī) of great stature. He was among the jurists of the Companion…
Abū Saʿīd al-Madanī
There is disagreement regarding whether this individual was among the Companions (ṣaḥāba) or not. Some have said: This person rode a horse during the …
Abū Saʿīd al-Sayrafī
He was a grammarian. His real name was Ḥasan b. ʿAbdullāh b. Marzūbān. He served as a qāḍī (judge). He lived in Baghdad and acted as a deputy qāḍī. He…
Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus
He is the author of the book titled "Tārīkh Miṣr" (History of Egypt). His real name is ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Yūnus b. ʿAbdu ʾl-Aʿlā al-Ṣādefī. He was Egypti…
Abū Saʿīd Ḥasan b. Khālid
Ḥasan b. Khālid b. Mubārak al-Nasrānī al-Mardīnī. He bore the epithet Vāḥid. In his youth, he engaged with the history and sciences of previous genera…
Abū Semh
One of the Messenger of God’s (peace be upon him) servants was also Abū Semh. Abū’l-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Saqafī, through the transmission of Mu…
Abū Shaʿṣāʾ Jaʿfar b. Zayd
Abū Shaʿṣāʾ would not bargain over three things. He would not negotiate the price for bringing goods and passengers to Mecca. He would not bargain wit…
Abū Shis
He was a poet. His real name was Muḥammad b. Razzīn b. Sulaymān. He was the master of poets. For him, composing and reciting poetry was easier than dr…
Abū Shurayḥ al-Huzāʿī
In the sixty-eighth year of the Hijra, Abū Shurayḥ al-Huzāʿī al-ʿAdawī al-Kaṭaʿī passed away. There is disagreement regarding the actual name of this …
Abū Sufyān b. Ḥāris
The genealogy of this person is as follows: Abū Sufyān b. Ḥāris b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib. He was the cousin of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be…
Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī
There are various reports regarding the full name of Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī, stating it as either ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad b. ʿAṭiyya or ʿAbd al-Raḥmān…
Abū Sulaymān Dāwūd b. Ibrāhīm
Abū Sulaymān Dāwūd b. Ibrāhīm b. Mendar al-Jilī. He is one of the assistants (kalfas) at the Nizāmiyya madrasa. One of his poems is as follows: “O rid…
Abū Ṭāhir Barakāt b. Ibrāhīm
Abū Ṭāhir Barakāt b. Ibrāhīm b. Ṭāhir al-Ḥushūʿī. He was a colleague of Ibn ʿAsākir in the Mešīḥa (the office of the chief shaykh). After his death, h…
Abū Ṭalḥa al-Anṣārī’s Banquet for the Messenger of God
Al-Bukhārī, through the transmission of ʿAbd Allāh b. Yūsuf, narrated from Anas b. Mālik as follows: “Abū Ṭalḥa said to his wife Umm Sulaym: – I heard…
Abū Ṭālib al-Makkī
He is the author of the book "Kūtü'l-Kulūb". His real name was Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAtīya Abū Ṭālib al-Makkī. He was a preacher who reminded people of…
Abū Ṭālib Yaḥyā b. ʿAlī
Abū Ṭālib Yaḥyā b. ʿAlī al-Yākūbī. He was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). He served as an assistant teacher in Baghdad. He was a scholar with a pleasant cou…
Abū Thaʿlaba al-Khushani
He was a Companion (ṣaḥāba) of great stature. He participated in the pledge (bayʿa) made under the Tree of Riḍwān at Ḥudaybiyya and in the Battle of Ḥ…
Abū Tufayl ʿĀmir b. Wāthila
Abū Tufayl ʿĀmir b. Wāthila b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAmr al-Laysī al-Kinānī was one of the Companions (ṣaḥāba). He was among the last to see the Prophet (pea…
Abū Umāma al-Bāhilī
His real name is Suʿda b. Ajlān. He settled in Homs. He is the transmitter of the following hadith: "After burial, the deceased is given talqīn (promp…
Abū Umāma Sahl b. Ḥanīf
He was from the Aws tribe of the Anṣār and a native of Medina. He was born during the lifetime of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and sa…
Abū Usayd
The lineage of this individual is as follows: Abū Usayd Mālik b. Rabīʿa. According to the statement of Fellas, this person passed away in the thirtiet…
Abū Wakīd al-Laythī
In this same year, Abū Wakīd al-Laythī also passed away. He was a Companion (ṣaḥāba) of great stature. There is disagreement regarding his actual name…
Abū Yaʿqūb al-Azraʿī
Ishaq b. Ibrahim b. Hashim b. Yaʿqūb al-Nahdī. Ibn ʿAsākir said: "Abū Yaʿqūb al-Azraʿī, that is, Ishaq b. Ibrahim, is from the people of Azruʿāt. Azru…