Ibn Kathīr's history from creation to his own age, by topic.

• Introduction
  Since our establishment, we have presented our readers with foundational and source works. Among these are the
• Ibn Kathir and History
  One of the great scholars produced by the Islamic world, ʿImād al-Dīn Abū al-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl b. ʿUmar b. Kathīr,
• The Life of Ibn Kathir
  Abū al-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl ʿImād al-Dīn ibn ʿUmar ibn Kathīr ibn Dāwūd ibn Kathīr al-Dimashqī al-Qurashī was born ar
• The Works of Ibn Kathir
  Ibn Kathir was not only a historian, but also a great scholar of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and hadith. In t
• Author's Preface
  Praise be to Allah, who knows the first and the last, the inward and the outward, who is the First before whom
• Section
  The Exalted Allah has said in His sacred book: "Allah is the Creator of all things, and He is, over all things
• Section
  These are transmitted reports concerning the creation of the Throne (ʿArsh) and the Footstool (Kursī). The Exa
• Lawḥ al-Maḥfūẓ (The Preserved Tablet)
  Ḥāfiẓ Abū'l-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī narrated from Ibn ʿAbbās that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said
• Verses and Hadiths Concerning the Creation of the Heavens, the Earth, and What Is Between Them
  The Exalted Allah said: "[All] praise is [due] to Allah, who created the heavens and the earth and made the da
• Verses and Hadiths Concerning the Creation of the Seven Layers of the Earth
  The Exalted Allah said: "It is Allah who has created seven heavens and of the earth, the like of them. His com
• Seas and Rivers
  The Exalted Allah said: "It is He who subjected the sea for you so that you may eat from it tender meat and ex
• Section
  The Exalted Allah said: "It is Allah who raised the heavens without pillars that you see, then established Him
• Explanation of the Creation of the Heavens and Their Inhabitants Through Qur'anic Verses
  As we have explained on previous pages, the creation of the earth occurred before the creation of the heavens.
• Rainbow
  Abū'l-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī narrated from Ibn ʿAbbās as follows: Heraclius sent a letter to Muʿāwiya, and when sen
• The Creation and Characteristics of Angels
  The Exalted Allah said: "They say, 'The Most Merciful has taken a son.' Exalted is He! Rather, [they are] hono
• Section
  Angels are divided into categories according to the duties for which Allah, the Exalted, has created them. Som
• Section
  People have disagreed as to whether the angels are superior to humankind or not. This issue is mostly found in
• The Creation of the Jinn and the Story of Satan
  The Exalted Allah said: "He created man from dry clay like pottery, and He created the jinn from a smokeless f
• The Creation of Adam (A.S.)
  Allah the Exalted says: "And [mention, O Muhammad], when your Lord said to the angels, 'Indeed, I will make up
• The Disputation Between Prophet Adam and Prophet Musa
  Al-Bukhārī narrated from Abū Hurayra (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be
• Hadiths Concerning the Creation of Adam (peace be upon him)
  Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal said: Yahya and Muhammad ibn Jaʿfar, narrating from Abu Musa, reported that the Prophet
• The Sons of Adam: Qābil and Hābīl
  The Exalted Allah said: "And recite to them, [O Muhammad], the story of Adam's two sons, in truth, when they b
• The Death of Adam and His Bequest to His Son Seth
  Seth (Şit) means 'the gift of Allah.' Adam gave his son this name because Seth was granted to Adam and Eve by
• Idris (peace be upon him)
  The Exalted Allah has said: "And mention in the Book, Idris. Indeed, he was a man of truth and a prophet. And
• Noah, Peace Be Upon Him
  Prophet Noah is the son of Lamech, son of Methuselah. Methuselah is the son of Enoch, that is, Prophet Idris.
• Some Reports Concerning the Person of Noah (A.S.)
  Allah, the Exalted, said: "Indeed, he was a grateful servant." (al-Isrāʾ 17:3) It is said: His eating, drinkin
• The Fasting of Nūḥ (peace be upon him)
  Sehl b. Abī Sehl narrated that ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar said: I heard the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be u
• The Hajj of Nūḥ (peace be upon him)
  Ḥāfiẓ Abū Yaʿlā said: Sufyān b. Wakīʿ narrated that Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The Mess
• Noah’s (peace be upon him) Bequest to His Son
  Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrated that Abdullah ibn ‘Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We were with the
• The Story of Prophet Hūd
  Hūd (peace be upon him) was the son of Ṣāliḥ, son of Erfahshiz. Erfahshiz was the son of Sām, son of Nūḥ (Noah
• Prophet Ṣāliḥ, Messenger to the People of Thamūd
  These were a famous tribe known as Thamūd. They were named after their ancestor Thamūd, who was the brother of
• The Messenger of God’s Passing Through the Valley of Ḥijr, Land of the Thamūd People, During the Tabūk Expedition
  His Passing Through. Imam Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal narrated that Ibn ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: When t
• Prophet Abraham al-Khalil
  Abraham (peace be upon him) was the son of Terah, son of Nahor. Nahor was the son of Serug, son of Reu. Reu wa
• The Debate Between Nimrod, Who Claimed Lordship and Sought to Rival the Exalted Allah Despite Being a Weak Servant, and Abraham (peace be upon him)
  The Exalted Allah said: "Have you not considered the one who argued with Abraham about his Lord [merely] becau
• The Migration of Abraham the Friend (A.S.) to Syria, His Entry into Egypt, and Settlement in Jerusalem
  The Exalted Allah said: "So Lot believed in him, and [Abraham] said: 'Indeed, I will emigrate to [the land] my
• Hajar's Giving Birth to Isma'il (peace be upon him)
  The People of the Book said: The Prophet Abraham asked Allah for a righteous child. Allah gave him the glad ti
• The Migration of Abraham (peace be upon him) with His Son Ishmael and Ishmael’s Mother Hagar to the Faran Mountains in Mecca and the Construction of the Noble House of God There
  Bukhari relates from Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with him) as follows: In earlier times, the first woman
• The Sacrifice of Ismāʿīl
  The Exalted Allah said: "Ibrāhīm said, 'Indeed, I will leave you for the sake of my Lord; He will guide me to
• The Birth of Ishaq (A.S.)
  The Exalted Allah said: "And We gave him good tidings of Ishaq, a prophet from among the righteous. And We ble
• The Construction of the Noble Kaʿba
  The Exalted Allah said: “And [mention] when We designated for Abraham the site of the House, [saying], ‘Do not
• The Praise of Allah and His Messenger for Allah's Servant and Friend Abraham
  The Exalted Allah said: “And [mention, O Muhammad], when his Lord tried Abraham with commands and he fulfilled
• The Mansion of Abraham (A.S.) in Paradise
  Ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr al-Bezzār narrated from Abū Hurayra that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
• The Attributes of Abraham (A.S.)
  Yunus and Hacin narrated from Jābir that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The pro
• What Has Been Said Regarding the Death and Lifespan of Abraham (peace be upon him)
  Abraham (peace be upon him) was born during the time of Nimrod, son of Canaan. According to what is narrated,
• The Children of Ibrahim Khalil (peace be upon him)
  The first child of Ibrahim Khalil (peace be upon him) was Ismaʿil, born to Hajar, the Coptic woman from Egypt.
• Prophet Lot
  One of the major events in the life of Abraham the Friend (Ibrāhīm Khalīl, peace be upon him) is the story of
• The People of Midian, the Nation of Prophet Shuʿayb
  In the Sūrat al-Aʿrāf, after narrating the story of the people of Lot, Allah the Exalted says the following re
• The Children of Prophet Abraham
  In the previous pages, we recounted the events that transpired between Abraham (peace be upon him) and his peo
• Prophet Ismāʿīl
  As we have previously explained, Abraham the Friend (Ibrāhīm Khalīl, peace be upon him) had several sons, but
• Ishaq, Son of Ibrahim the Honorable (peace be upon him)
  As we have explained on previous pages, Ishaq (peace be upon him) was born fourteen years after the birth of h
• The Astonishing Events in Israel (Jacob)'s Lifetime and the Prophet Joseph, Son of Lady Rachel
  The Exalted Allah revealed a surah of the Qur'an that discusses Prophet Joseph (Yūsuf) and the circumstances h
• The Story of Prophet Ayyub
  According to what Ibn Ishaq relates, Prophet Ayyub was from among the Byzantines. His father was Mush, son of
• The Story of Dhū al-Kifl
  The Exalted Allah, after recounting the story of Ayyūb (peace be upon him) in the surah al-Anbiyāʾ, says as fo
• Nations Completely Destroyed (Annihilated)
  The destruction of these nations occurred before the revelation of the Torah. The proof of this is the followi
• Ashab al-Rass (The People of the Rass)
  Ashab al-Rass (The People of the Rass) Concerning them, in the surah al-Furqān, Allah the Exalted says: "And W
• People of Yasin
  These are the inhabitants of the city mentioned in the Yā Sīn surah. Concerning them, Allah the Exalted has sa
• Prophet Yunus
  Allah, the Exalted, says in the surah of Yunus: "Should there not have been a (single) city that believed so i
• The Virtue and Superiority of Prophet Yunus
  "Indeed, Yunus is among the messengers." Allah, in the surahs al-Nisāʾ and al-Anʿām, has mentioned him among t
• Prophet Musa (Moses)
  Musa is the son of ʿImrān, son of Qāhis. Qāhis is the son of ʿAzīr, son of Lāwī. Lāwī is the son of Yaʿqūb, so
• Section
  In that dreadful situation, when the Copts gathered and the sorcerers who had supported them became Muslims, t
• The Destruction of Pharaoh and His Army
  The Coptic Egyptians, following their king Pharaoh and opposing Allah's prophet Mūsā, son of ʿImrān—who was ho
• The Israelites After the Drowning of Pharaoh
  Allah the Exalted said: "And We took retribution from them and drowned them in the sea because they denied Our
• The Entry of the Children of Israel into the Wilderness of Tih and the Strange Events That Befell Them
  We have previously explained that the Children of Israel refrained from fighting the tyrannical nation, and fo
• The Desire to See Allah
  The Exalted Allah said: “And We made an appointment with Moses for thirty nights and perfected them by the add
• The Worship of the Calf by the People of Moses in His Absence
  The Exalted Allah said: "The people of Moses, after he had left them (to meet with his Lord), adopted a calf (
• The Cow of the Children of Israel
  The Exalted Allah says: "And [recall] when Moses said to his people, 'Indeed, Allah commands you to slaughter
• The Story of Moses and Khidr
  The Exalted Allah said: "Moses said to his servant, 'I will not give up until I reach the junction of the two
• The Hadith of the Trials Encompassing the Entire Story of Moses
  Imam Abdurrahman al-Nasāʾī, in the Kitāb al-Tafsīr section of his work "Sunan," while discussing the verse, "Y
• The Construction of the Dome of Time (Kubbat al-Zamān)
  It is narrated in the sources of the People of the Book (Ahl al-Kitāb) that Allah, the Exalted, commanded Mose
• What Transpired Between Qārūn and the Prophet Mūsā
  Allah, the Exalted, said: "Qārūn was from the people of Mūsā (his paternal cousin), but he behaved arrogantly
• The Virtues, Qualities, Physical Form, and Death of the Prophet Musa
  Allah, the Exalted, said: "And mention in the Book, Musa. Indeed, he was chosen and he was a messenger and a p
• The Prophet Moses Going to the Kaʿba and Performing the Hajj
  Imam Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, narrating from Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with him), said: "The Messenger of God (
• The Death of Prophet Musa
  Al-Bukhārī states in his "Ṣaḥīḥ": Yahya b. Musa relates that Abū Hurayra said: "The Angel of Death was sent to
• The Prophethood of Yūshaʿ (A.S.)
  The name of Yūshaʿ was Khalīl, and he was the son of Nūn. Nūn was the son of Ephraim, son of Yūsuf, who was th
• The Story of the Prophets Khidr and Ilyas
  As we have explained on previous pages, the Prophet Musa (Moses) went to the Prophet Khidr to benefit from his
• The Story of the Prophet Ilyas
  After recounting the story of Musa and Harun in Sūrat al-Ṣāffāt, Allah the Exalted says: "And indeed, Ilyas wa
• The Prophets of the Children of Israel After Moses (peace be upon him)
  Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī states in his history as follows: According to the consensus among those who possess knowl
• The Story of Hazkīl
  Allah, the Exalted, said: "Have you not considered those who left their homes in many thousands, fearing death
• The Story of the Prophet Elyasa
  Allah, the Exalted, also mentions Elyasa (peace be upon him) together with certain other prophets in the surah
• Section
  Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī and others said: After al-Yasaʿ, the condition of the Children of Israel became dire and c
• The Story of the Prophet Samoyel
  Samoyel is the son of Bali, son of Alkame. Alkame is the son of Yerham, son of Yehvab. Yehvab is the son of Te
• The Story of Prophet David
  David is the son of Jesse, who is the son of Obed. Obed is the son of Salmon, who is the son of Nahshon b. Amm
• The Lifespan and Manner of Death of the Prophet David
  While narrating the hadiths concerning the creation of the Prophet Adam, we mentioned that when Adam's progeny
• The Story of Prophet Solomon, Son of David
  Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir said: The Prophet Solomon is the son of David, son of Isha. Isha is the son of ʿUwayd, son o
• The Death and Reign of Prophet Solomon
  Allah the Exalted said: "And when We decreed Solomon's death, nothing indicated to them his death except a cre
• The Prophets of the Children of Israel Who Came After David and Solomon
  One of these was Shaʿyā b. Amsiyā. According to what Muḥammad b. Isḥāq narrated, Shaʿyā preceded the prophets
• Another Prophet of the Children of Israel: Ermiya b. Halkiya, Descendant of Levi Son of Jacob (peace be upon him)
  Halkiya (peace be upon him) According to tradition, this is al-Khiḍr. This was narrated by al-Ḍaḥḥāk from Ibn
• The Destruction of Bayt al-Maqdis
  Allah the Exalted said: "We gave Moses the Book and made it a guide for the Children of Israel: 'Do not take a
• Reports about the Prophet Danyal
  Ibn Abī al-Dunyā said: Buhtunnasr (Nebuchadnezzar) trained two lions for hunting. Then he left them in a pit.
• The Reconstruction of Bayt al-Maqdis and the Gathering of the Israelites
  Allah, in His Book which makes everything clear, says: "Or [consider] such as passed by a township which had f
• The Story of ʿUzayr
  Ḥāfiẓ Abū'l-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir says: ʿUzayr is the son of Jarwa. It is also said that he is the son of Sūrik b.
• Fasl
  According to the well-known opinion, ʿUzayr is one of the prophets of the Children of Israel. He came between
• The Stories of Zakariyya and Yahya (Peace Be Upon Them)
  Allah, the Exalted, has said in His holy book: "In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Ka
• The Reason for the Killing of Yahya (John the Baptist, peace be upon him)
  It is narrated that there are many reasons for the killing of Yahya (a.s.) (John the Baptist, peace be upon hi
• The Story of Jesus, Son of Mary
  Allah Most High, in al-ʿImrān 3:83, rebuts the accursed Christians. They claim that Allah Most High has a son.
• The Birth of Jesus, Son of the Chaste and Virgin Mary, Servant and Messenger of God
  Allah, the Exalted, said: "And mention, [O Muhammad], in the Book [the story of] Mary, when she withdrew from
• The Transcendence of Allah from Having Offspring
  Allah, the Exalted, said: “They say, ‘The Most Merciful has taken a son.’ You have certainly made an outrageou
• The Growth of Jesus, Son of Mary, and the Sending of Revelation to Him
  As described on previous pages, the Prophet Jesus was born in a place called Bayt al-Lahm, near al-Masjid al-A
• When and How Were the Four Great Books Revealed?
  Abū Zurʿa al-Dimashqī narrates from Muʿāwiya b. Ṣāliḥ as follows: "The Torah was revealed to Mūsā in the first
• The Incident of the Table
  Allah, the Exalted, said: "[And] when the disciples said, 'O Jesus, son of Mary, can your Lord send down to us
• Section
  Abū Bakr b. Abī al-Dunyā narrates from Bakr, the son of ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī, who said: The disciples (ḥawāriy
• The Ascension of Prophet Jesus to Heaven
  The Exalted Allah said: "And they planned, but Allah planned. And Allah is the best of planners. [Mention] whe
• How Was the Prophet Jesus Raised to Heaven?
  Ibn Abī Ḥātim narrated from Ibn ʿAbbās that he said: "When Allah, the Exalted, wished to raise Jesus to heaven
• The Physical Description and Virtues of Prophet Jesus
  Allah, the Exalted, said: “The Messiah, son of Mary, was not but a messenger; [other] messengers have passed o
• Section
  After the ascension of the Prophet ʿĪsā (Jesus) to the heavens, disagreements arose among his companions, as s
• The Construction of Bethlehem and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
  King Constantine built Bethlehem at the place where the Prophet Jesus was born. His mother, Umm Haylana, built
• Reports Concerning the Past
  This section will discuss the reports concerning the Children of Israel and other nations up to the period of
• The Account of Dhu’l-Qarnayn
  The Exalted Allah said: “O Muhammad! They ask you about Dhu’l-Qarnayn. Say, ‘I will recite to you about him.’”
• Dhu al-Qarnayn's Search for the Fountain of Life
  According to the account of Ibn ʿAsākir, Dhu al-Qarnayn had an angelic companion named Renākil. Dhu al-Qarnayn
• Yajuj and Majuj
  These are from the progeny of the Prophet Adam. There is no disagreement on this matter. As evidence, we can c
• The Companions of the Cave (Ashab al-Kahf)
  Exalted Allah said in the Noble Qur'an: "Or have you thought that the companions of the cave and the inscripti
• The Story of Two Men, One Believer and the Other Disbeliever
  After narrating the story of the Companions of the Cave (Aṣḥāb al-Kahf), the Exalted Allah says in Sūrat al-Ka
• The Parable of the Owners of the Garden
  The Exalted Allah said: "Indeed, We have tried them as We tried the owners of the garden, when they swore to p
• The Story of the People of Ayl Who Transgressed on the Sabbath
  The Exalted Allah said: "O Muhammad! Ask them about the town that was by the sea—when they transgressed in the
• The Story of Luqmān
  The Exalted Allah said: "And We had certainly given Luqmān wisdom [and said], 'Be grateful to Allah.' And whoe
• The Story of the People of the Ditch
  The Exalted Allah said: "By the sky containing great stars, and [by] the promised Day, and [by] the witness an
• Permission to Transmit Reports from the Children of Israel
  Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, through the chain of transmission of ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, narrated from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī t
• The Story of Jurayj Among the Devout of the Children of Israel
  Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, through Wahb ibn Jarir, narrated from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of God (peace and
• The Story of Barsīsā
  This is the exact opposite of the story of Jurayj. For Jurayj was innocent, whereas Barsīsā went astray. He fe
• The Story of the Three Companions Who Entered the Cave
  The Story of the Blind, the Leper, and the Bald Man ..........................................................
• The Story of the Blind, the Leper, and the Bald Man
  Al-Bukhari and Muslim narrated from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) sa
• Hadith Concerning the Man Who Borrowed and Repaid a Thousand Dinars from His Friend
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal narrated, through the chain of Yunus b. Muhammad from Abū Hurayra, that the Messenger of
• Another Similar Story Regarding Truthfulness and Trustworthiness
  Al-Bukhari narrated, through Isḥāq b. Naṣr, from Abū Hurayra, that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings b
• Another Story
  Al-Bukhari, through the transmission of Muḥammad b. Bashshār, narrated from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī that the Proph
• Another Hadith
  Al-Bukhārī, through the transmission of ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh, narrated from Abū Hurayra as follows: The Messenge
• The Story of the Two Repentant Kings
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal, through Yazid b. Harun, narrates from ʿAbdullah b. Masʿud as follows: "A man from the pr
• Section
  Indeed, there are many reports concerning the Children of Israel in the Book and the Sunnah. If we were to att
• The Alteration and Distortion of Their Own Religions by the People of the Book
  Regarding the Jews, what we will say is this: Allah, the Exalted, sent the Torah to them through Musa, son of
• 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
• Accounts of Previous Prophets
  The Exalted Allah said: "Those messengers—some of them We caused to exceed others. Among them were those to wh
• Information About the Arabs
  It is stated that the lineage of all Arabs traces back to the Prophet Ismāʿīl, son of Abraham. Peace and honor
• The Story of Sabaʾ (The Event)
  The Exalted Allah said: "There was certainly a sign for the people of Sabaʾ in their dwelling place: two garde
• Section
  Not all the people of Sabaʾ who were exposed to the flood of the dam of Arim left Yemen. On the contrary, most
• The Incident of Rabīʿa b. Naṣr b. Abī Ḥāritha b. ʿĀmir
  As previously mentioned, Arar b. ʿĀmir is from the Lahm tribe. Ibn Isḥāq also states that he belonged to the a
• The Story of Rabīʿa and the Soothsayers Shiqq and Satīḥ
  These two soothsayers foretold the coming of Muḥammad as a prophet. Satīḥ’s name was Rabīʿ b. Rabīʿa b. Masʿūd
• Events Between the Yemeni Ruler (Tubbāʿ) Abū Karīb Tubbān Asʿad and the People of Medina, and His Covering of the Kaʿba
  According to Ibn Isḥāq, after the death of Rabīʿa b. Naṣr, the administration of Yemen completely passed into
• The Rule of Lahnia Zi Shenatir over Yemen
  Lahnia ruled in Yemen for twenty-seven years. On this matter, Ibn Ishaq says: A man from the Himyarites, who w
• The Transfer of Sovereignty in Yemen from the Himyarites to the Abyssinians
  The famous soothsayers Shiqq and Satih had previously foretold that sovereignty would depart from Yemen and fr
• Ebrehe's Disagreement with Eryat, Their Battle, and His Killing and Succeeding Him
  According to what Ibn Ishaq relates, after Eryat ruled Yemen for several years, he fell into disagreement with
• 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], h
• The Transfer of Power in Yemen from the Abyssinians to Seyf b. Dhī Yazan
  Long before the transfer of power in Yemen from the Abyssinians to Seyf b. Dhī Yazan, two soothsayers named Sh
• The Fate of the Dispatches in Yemen
  Ibn Hisham said: After a while, when Wahriz died, the kisrā (Persian emperor) appointed his son Marzuban as go
• Governor of Hadr, Satiron
  And it will be brought to an end by a prophet who will implement truth and justice among the virtuous. The nat
• Accounts of the Dynasts (Tavāʾif-i Mulūk)
  The governor of the city of Hadr was Satīron. As previously mentioned, he was the foremost among the Tavāʾif-i
• The Isma'ilites of the Hijaz Arabs and Events of the Jahiliyyah Period up to the Advent of Prophethood
  We have previously recounted that Ismāʿīl (peace be upon him) was one of the prophets, that his father was Ibr
• The Story of the Khuzāʿa, the Account of ʿAmr b. Luhayy, and the Idolaters in the Land of the Arabs
  According to what Ibn Isḥāq relates, later on, a branch of the Khuzāʿa, the Ghubshān, took over the administra
• The Ignorance of the Arabs (Jāhiliyya)
  Eksem said: "O Messenger of God, I fear that the resemblance between us may harm me." The Prophet (peace and b
• Adnan, Ancestor of the Hijaz Arabs and the Noble Prophet
  There is no disagreement or difference of opinion regarding Adnan's descent from Ismāʿīl (Ishmael), the son of
• The Lineage of Arab Tribes in the Hijaz Tracing Back to Adnan
  Adnan had two sons named Maʿadd and Akk. According to Suhaylī, Adnan also had two other sons named Ḥāris and M
• The Lineage and Distinctions of the Quraysh
  The Quraysh are descended from Naḍr b. Kināna. According to Ibn Isḥāq, Naḍr's mother was Barra bint Murr b. Ud
• The Word Quraysh
  The word Quraysh is derived from the verbal noun "taqarrush." Taqarrush means to gather after having been disp
• Kusayy b. Kilab's Restoration of the Ka'ba's Administration from the Khuzāʿa to the Quraysh
  After Kusayy's father Kilab died, Rebia b. Haram from the Uzra tribe married his mother. His stepfather took h
• Section
  When Kusayy grew old, he transferred the Quraysh leadership, along with the honorable offices of Rifāda (provi
• Some Events Occurring During the Age of Ignorance
  As previously mentioned, we have discussed how the Jurhum tribe transferred the administration of the Ka'ba fr
• Some Notable Figures Who Became Famous in the Age of Ignorance: Khālid b. Sinān al-ʿAbsī
  This person lived during the period of fatra (the interval between prophets). Some have claimed that he was a
• Hatem al-Taʾī: One of the Famous Generous Figures of the Age of Ignorance
  Hatem's genealogy is as follows: Hatem b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Saʿd b. Hashraj b. Imruʾ al-Qays b. ʿAdiyy b. Ahzam b.
• Abdullah b. Jud'an
  His genealogy is as follows: ʿAbdullah b. Judʿān b. ʿAmr b. Kaʿb b. Saʿd b. Taym b. Murra. ʿAbdullah b. Judʿān
• The Famous Poet Imru' al-Qays
  He is the son of Ḥujr al-Kindī. He is the author of one of the seven famous poems hung on the Kaʿba. His poem
• Umayya b. Abī al-Ṣalt al-Thaqafī, One of the Poets of the Jāhiliyya Period
  This poet lived during the Jāhiliyya (pre-Islamic) period and also reached the Islamic era. Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir
• The Monk Bahīrā
  Bahīrā is a monk who discovered the signs of prophethood in the Prophet Muḥammad (peace and blessings be upon
• Kuss b. Saʿīda al-Iyādī
  In his work Hevatifü'l-Cann , Ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. Sahl al-Ḥarāʾiṭī relates from ʿUbāda b. Ṣām
• Zayd b. ʿAmr b. Nufayl (may Allah be pleased with him)
  His lineage is as follows: Zayd b. ʿAmr b. Nufayl b. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā b. Ribāḥ (Riyāḥ?) b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Kurz b.
• The Construction of the Kaʿba
  It is said that the first to build and establish the Kaʿba was Prophet Adam. On this matter, there is a marfūʿ
• Kaʿb b. Luʾayy
  According to the narration of Abū Nuʿaym from Abū Salama, Kaʿb b. Luʾayy, on the day the Quraysh called Arūba
• The Reopening of the Zamzam Well
  The Jurhum tribe had sealed the Zamzam well, rendering its location unknown. This situation persisted until th
• Abd al-Muṭṭalib’s Vow to Sacrifice One of His Sons
  Ibn Isḥāq said: It is related that when ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib was digging the Zamzam well and suffered hardship fro
• 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 departe
• The Sīra of the Prophet
  Allah, the Exalted, said: "Allah knows best where to place His message." (al-Anʿām 6:124) When the Byzantine E
• The Birth of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  May Allah's blessings and peace be upon him. The Prophet was born on a Monday. According to the narration of A
• How Was the Prophet Born?
  As previously mentioned, ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib fulfilled his vow by sacrificing one hundred camels as the ransom fo
• Events Occurring on the Night of the Prophet’s Birth
  As we have explained in the chapter on "Hevātif al-Jinn" (the voices of the jinn), on the night of the Prophet
• The Shaking of the Palace of Kisra
  On the night of the birth of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), several signs occurred in Iran: th
• The Wet Nurses and Nannies of the Prophet
  Umm Ayman, whose real name was Baraka, served as a nanny to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). She
• The Giving of the Prophet to a Wet Nurse
  The blessings and prophetic signs that began in the house of Ḥalīma are as follows: Ḥalīma is the daughter of
• Section
  Ibn Ishaq describes the period after the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) left his wet nurse
• Section
  Ibn Isḥāq said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him), after the death of his mother Āmina bi
• The Prophet’s Journey to Syria with His Uncle Abu Talib and His Encounter with the Monk Bahira
  Ibn Ishaq, continuing from the statements we have cited above, says: Afterwards, Abu Talib set out for Syria w
• The Story of the Monk Bahira
  Suhaylī, who transmits from Zuhri’s sīra, states that Bahira was one of the Jewish scholars. However, as will
• The Upbringing of the Prophet, Allah’s Protection of Him, His Shelter as an Orphan, and Enrichment from Poverty
  Muḥammad b. Isḥāq says: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) grew and developed under the pr
• The Participation of the Prophet in the Fijār War
  Ibn Isḥāq said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) was ten years old when the Fijār war br
• The Prophet’s Participation in the Hilf al-Fudul Society
  Al-Bayhaqī narrates from Jubayr b. Muṭʿim that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I
• The Marriage of the Prophet with Khadīja
  Ibn Isḥāq states: "Khadīja, daughter of Khuwaylid, was a noble and wealthy woman who engaged in trade. She wou
• Section
  Ibn Isḥāq said: Khadīja, daughter of Khuwaylid, related to Waraka b. Nawfal b. Asad b. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā b. Quṣayy
• The Quraysh Rebuild the Kaʿba
  Five years before the prophethood of Muhammad, the Quraysh rebuilt the Kaʿba. According to Bayhaqī, the Kaʿba
• Section on Hums
  Ibn Ishaq also mentions a term (istilāḥ) introduced by the Quraysh, known as Hums. Hums signifies uncompromisi
• The Appointment of the Prophet with Messengership and Glad Tidings Thereof
  According to the late Muḥammad b. Isḥāq, as the time of the biʿtha (commissioning as a prophet) approached, Je
• Section
  According to Ibn Isḥāq, ʿĀṣim b. ʿAmr b. Qatāda reports that some men from his own tribe said: One of the reas
• Strange Reports Transmitted on This Subject
  Abū Nuʿaym, in his work "Dalāʾil," relates from Sāʾir b. Sawāda al-ʿĀmirī as follows: "I was in love with one
• The Story of ʿAmr b. Murra al-Juhani
  Al-Ṭabarānī, when mentioning Yāsir b. Suyayd's narration from ʿAmr b. Murra al-Juhanī, relates that he said: D
• The Story of Sayf b. Dhī Yazan al-Ḥimyarī and His Annunciation of Our Prophet
  Ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. Sahl al-Ḥarāʾiṭī, in his work "Hawātif al-Jann," relates that ʿAbd Allāh
• Hevatifü'l-Cann
  Chapter 11 Hevatifü'l-Cann The following words of Shiqq and Satih to the Yemeni king Rabīʿa b. Naṣr, which her
• The Commencement of Revelation to the Prophet
  When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was forty years old, the first revelation came to him. Acco
• The Date and Age at Which Prophet Muhammad Was Commissioned with Prophethood
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal narrates from ʿĀmir al-Shaʿbī that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
• Section
  Al-Bukhārī, in his earlier narration, states: Revelation ceased. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
• Section
  This section concerns the prevention, upon the revelation of the Qur'an, of the jinn and the most rebellious d
• The Manner in Which Revelation Came to the Prophet
  The manner in which Jibrīl (Gabriel) came to the Prophet for the first and second times has already been descr
• Section
  The Exalted Allah said: "O Muhammad! Do not hasten with your tongue to recite the Qur'an before its revelation
• Section
  Ibn Ishaq states that after this, revelation began to come to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in
• The First People to Enter Islam
  Ibn Ishaq said: When Ali, the son of Abu Talib, came to them the next day, he saw the Messenger of God (peace
• The Conversion of the Prophet’s Uncle Hamza to Islam
  Yūnus b. Bukayr narrates that Muḥammad b. Isḥāq said: A man of sound memory from the Ashlam tribe told me: Abū
• The Conversion of Abu Dharr to Islam
  Al-Bayhaqī, through Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥāfiẓ, narrates that Abū Dharr said: "I was one fourth of Islam. Three p
• The Conversion of Dimad to Islam
  Muslim and Bayhaqī, through Dāwūd b. Abī Hind, transmit from Ibn ʿAbbās the following narration: A man named D
• The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) Being Commanded to Convey the Message of Prophethood
  The Exalted Allah commanded His Messenger to convey the message of prophethood (risāla) to everyone, to endure
• The Story of the Man from Irash
  Yūnus b. Bukayr, through Ibn Isḥāq, narrates from ʿAbd al-Malik b. Abī Sufyān al-Thaqafī, who said: A man from
• Section
  Al-Bukhārī, through the transmission of ʿAyyāsh b. Walīd, relates that ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr said: I asked ʿAmr b
• Section
  This section discusses how the Quraysh plotted against the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
• Persecutions Inflicted upon Weak Muslims
  Ibn Isḥāq relates that the Quraysh later began to incite one another against the Messenger of God’s (peace be
• Section
  This section discusses how the polytheists (mushrikūn) objected to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings b
• Section
  Ibn Isḥāq said: After this, the polytheists attacked the Companions (ṣaḥāba) who had become Muslim and followe
• The Debates of the Polytheists with the Messenger of God and His Presentation of Strong Proofs Against Them
  ʿĪshāq b. Rāhawayh narrates from Ibn ʿAbbās via ʿAbd al-Razzāq: al-Walīd b. al-Mughīra came to the Messenger o
• The Hijra of the Companions to Abyssinia
  The explanations regarding the persecutions, severe beatings, and harsh humiliations inflicted by the polythei
• The Conversion of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb to Islam
  Ibn Isḥāq said: When ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ and ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Rabīʿa failed to obtain what they sought from the Neg
• Section
  Bayhaqī, in his work "Dalāʾil," says the following regarding the letter the Prophet (peace and blessings be up
• Section
  This section discusses how the Quraysh tribe opposed the Hashimites and the sons of Abd al-Muttalib for assist
• The Mockers
  The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) would call his people, day and night, both secretly and
• 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 s
• Section
  All of the information provided by Ibn Ishaq is consistent with the events that took place during the period b
• Section
  Muḥammad b. Isḥāq, after the annulment of the boycott document, recounts many stories. These relate how the Qu
• The Conversion of Tufayl b. ʿAmr al-Dawsī to Islam
  Tufayl was a noble person whose command was obeyed. The Daws tribe followed him. He had come to Mecca. The not
• The Story of Aʿshā b. Qays
  Ibn Hisham, through Hallad b. Kurra b. Khalid and others, relates the following narration from the people of k
• The Prophet’s Wrestling with Rukāna
  Ibn Isḥāq narrates from his father as follows: Rukāna b. ʿAbd Yazīd b. Hāshim b. Muṭṭalib b. ʿAbd Manāf was am
• Section
  Al-Bayhaqī relates here that when the Quraysh opposed the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he invoke
• Section
  Bayhaqī then recounts the incident concerning the Persians and the Byzantines, and the verses that Allah the E
• Isra and Mi'raj
  Ibn ʿAsākir recounts the hadiths concerning the Isrāʾ at the beginning of the prophetic mission, while Ibn Isḥ
• Section
  On the day following the occurrence of the isrāʾ (the Night Journey), at the time of midday (zawāl), Jibrīl (G
• The Splitting of the Moon During the Time of the Prophet
  Allah, in order to demonstrate the truthfulness of His Messenger regarding the true religion and hudā (guidanc
• The Death of the Messenger of God’s Uncle, Abu Talib
  After his passing, the wife of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), Khadīja bint Khuwaylid, also pas
• The Death of Khadīja bint Khuwaylid
  This section will discuss the virtues and exemplary stories of Lady Khadīja, as well as her entry and settleme
• The Prophet’s Marriage to ʿĀʾisha and Sawda bint Zamʿa
  According to authentic reports, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) married ʿĀʾisha before Sawda. Al
• Section
  Previously, we spoke about the death of the Prophet’s uncle, Abū Ṭālib. We also recounted how he assisted the
• Section
  The journey of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to Ṭāʾif for the purpose of inviting people to Al
• Section
  Muḥammad b. Isḥāq relates that, on the return of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) from Ṭ
• The Noble Prophet's Presentation of His Honored Person to the Arab Tribes
  The Noble Prophet would present his honored person to the Arab tribes during the pilgrimage seasons, asking th
• Section
  This section discusses how the Anṣār (the Helpers) came a year later and pledged allegiance (bayʿa) to the Mes
• The Incident of Suwayd b. Ṣāmit al-Anṣārī
  Suwayd was the son of Ṣāmit b. ʿAṭiyya, who was the son of Ḥut b. Ḥabīb. Ḥabīb was the son of ʿAmr b. ʿAwf. ʿA
• The Conversion of Iyās b. Muʿādh to Islam
  According to Ibn Isḥāq, Maḥmūd b. Labīd narrated the following: "When Abū'l-Ḥayṣar Anas b. Rāfiʿ came to Mecca
• The Beginning of the Ansar's Conversion to Islam
  Ibn Ishaq said: When Allah the Exalted willed to exalt His religion, honor His Prophet, and fulfill the promis
• The Second Pledge of al-ʿAqaba
  Ibn Isḥāq reports that Muṣʿab b. ʿUmayr later returned to Mecca. Some Muslims from the Anṣār, whose own people
• Section
  Ibn Ishaq said: When the Ansar who pledged allegiance to the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) on the night
• Names of Those Present at the Second Aqaba Pledge
  According to Ibn Isḥāq, seventy-three men and two women participated in the second Aqaba pledge. The names of
• The Hijra from Mecca to Medina
  Al-Zuhrī narrates from ʿUrwa, who narrates from ʿĀʾisha, that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upo
• The Reason for the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Emigration
  The Exalted Allah said: “Say, ‘My Lord, cause me to enter a sound entrance and to exit a sound exit and grant
• The Emigration of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) from Mecca to Medina with Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq
  As explained in the biography of ʿUmar, during his caliphate, the Companions (ṣaḥāba) unanimously agreed to co
• The Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Entry into Medina and His House
  As previously mentioned, according to the narration of al-Bukhārī through al-Zuhrī from ʿUrwa, the Prophet (pe
• Section
  Medina was ennobled due to the Hijra (emigration) of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). It became
• Events in the First Year of the Hijra
  The Companions (ṣaḥāba) reached a consensus during the caliphate of ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him), in
• Section
  When the caravan of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived in Medina, they first stayed as gues
• The Conversion of ʿAbdullāh b. Salām to Islam
  Imam Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal relates that ʿAbdullāh b. Salām said: When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be u
• Section
  The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) set out from Quba riding his camel named Qaswa. It was
• The Sermon Delivered by the Messenger of God on That Day
  Ibn Jarīr narrates from Saʿīd, son of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jumḥī, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon h
• The Construction of the Prophet’s Mosque During the Prophet’s Stay at Abu Ayyub’s House
  The length of time the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stayed in this house has been a matter of dif
• 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 fr
• Fasıl
  Some cells (ḥujra, private chambers) were built around the Prophet’s Mosque (Masjid al-Nabawi) to serve as dwe
• The Emigrants' Affliction with the Fever of Medina
  The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), by Allah's power and might, was saved from this illness. He sup
• The Prophet’s Establishment of Brotherhood and Friendship Between the Muhājirūn and the Anṣār, and the Non-Aggression Pact with the Jews in Medina
  In Medina, there were Jewish tribes such as the Banū Qaynuqāʿ, Banū Naḍīr, and Banū Qurayẓa. According to al-Ṭ
• The Prophet’s Establishment of Brotherhood Between the Muhājirūn and the Anṣār
  Exalted Allah said: "And [also for] those who were settled in al-Madīna and [adopted] the faith before them. T
• The Death of Abū Umāma Asʿad b. Zurāra
  The lineage (genealogy) of Asʿad b. Zurāra is as follows: Asʿad b. Zurāra b. Ades b. ʿUbayd b. Thāliba b. Ghan
• The Birth of ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr in the Month of Shawwāl of the First Hijri Year
  The first child born to the Muhājirūn (Emigrants) after the migration of the Prophet (peace and blessings be u
• In This Year, the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) Consummated His Marriage with ʿĀʾisha
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal relates that ʿĀʾisha said: "The Messenger of God (peace be upon him) married me in the mo
• Section
  Ibn Jarīr said: In this year, that is, in the first year of the Hijra, it is reported that the prayer performe
• Adhān
  The adhān (call to prayer) was legislated after the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived in Medin
• The Expedition (Sariyya) of Hamza
  Ibn Jarir said: According to the account of al-Waqidi, the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
• The Expedition (Sariyya) of ʿUbayda b. al-Ḥārith b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
  Ibn Jarīr said: Again, according to al-Wāqidī, at the beginning of the eighth month after the Hijra (in the mo
• Section
  Al-Wāqidī said: In the month of Dhū al-Qaʿda of the first year of the Hijra, the Messenger of God (peace and b
• Section
  One of the children born in the first year of the Hijra was ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr. He was the first child bor
• Events Occurring in the Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, many military expeditions (ghazā) were undertaken and detachments (sariyya) were organized. The
• Kitāb al-Maghāzī
  Imam Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Yasār, in his book "al-Sīra," discusses the Jewish scholars, their enmity towards th
• Section
  Ibn Ishaq also listed the names of those among the hypocrites of the Aws and Khazraj tribes who inclined towar
• Section
  According to Ibn Ishaq, he later enumerated those among the Jewish scholars who outwardly appeared to be Musli
• The Expedition of Ebwa
  This is also called the Expedition of Waddan. It constitutes the first of the sarīyya (military detachment). A
• Section
  Ibn Ishaq said: During this residence, the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him), together with H
• The Expedition of Buwāt
  Ibn Isḥāq said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him), set out on a military expedition targe
• The Expedition of Ushayra
  The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) set out on this expedition, known as Ushayr, Useyre, or
• The First Battle of Badr
  Ibn Isḥāq said: When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) returned from the expedition of Us
• The Expedition of ʿAbdullāh b. Jaḥsh
  This was the expedition that led to the great Battle of Badr. The great Battle of Badr was the day when the ar
• The Turning of the Qibla towards the Kaʿba
  This event took place in the second year of the Hijra, before the Battle of Badr. Some have said that it occur
• The Obligation of the Ramadan Fast
  The Ramadan fast was made obligatory in the second year after the Hijra, before the Battle of Badr. Ibn Jarīr
• The Great Battle of Badr
  In this battle, truth and falsehood were separated, and the polytheists and the Muslims confronted each other.
• The Killing of Abū'l-Bahterī b. Hishām
  Ibn Isḥāq said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) had forbidden the Muslims from killing
• The Killing of Umayya b. Khalaf
  Ibn Ishaq, through Yahya b. ʿAbbād b. ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Zubayr, relates that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAwf said: Umayy
• The Killing of the Accursed Abu Jahl
  Ibn Hisham said: At the Battle of Badr, Abu Jahl was fighting while reciting the following poem in the rajaz m
• The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) Healing Qatāda's Eye
  Al-Bayhaqī, in his work "Dalāʾil," narrates that Qatāda b. Nuʿmān said: "On the day of Badr, my eye slipped do
• Another Similar Story
  Al-Bayhaqī, through Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥāfiẓ, narrates from Rāfiʿ b. Mālik as follows: "On the day of Badr, peo
• The Casting of the Bodies of the Leaders of Disbelief into the Well on the Day of Badr
  Ibn Isḥāq narrates via Yazīd b. Rumān from Ḥazrat ʿĀʾisha, who said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings
• Section
  The Companions (ṣaḥāba) were divided in opinion regarding whether the captives should be killed or released in
• Section
  According to the well-known opinion, during the Battle of Badr, seventy of the polytheists were taken captive
• Section
  On the day of Badr, the Companions (ṣaḥāba) disputed over to whom the spoils taken from the polytheists should
• The Prophet’s Return from Badr to Medina
  As previously described, the Battle of Badr took place on the seventeenth day of the month of Ramadan in the s
• The Killing of Nadr b. al-Ḥārith and ʿUqba b. Abī Muʿayṭ
  Ibn Isḥāq said: When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) reached Ṣafraʾ, Nadr b. al-Ḥārith
• The Joy of the Negus (R.A.) at the Victory of Badr
  Ḥāfiẓ al-Bayhaqī, through Abū'l-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, narrated from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān that: "A man from Sanʿāʾ sa
• The News of the Calamity Befalling the Polytheists at Badr Reaching Mecca
  Ibn Isḥāq said: The first to bring the news of the calamity that befell Quraysh to Mecca was Ḥaysumān b. ʿAbd
• The Quraysh Send a Delegation to the Messenger of God Regarding the Ransom of Their Prisoners
  Ibn Ishaq said: Among the prisoners was Abu Wada'a b. Dubayra al-Sahmi. The Messenger of God (peace and blessi
• Section
  Imam Muḥammad b. Isḥāq then spoke about the passages revealed in the Noble Qur'an concerning the story of Badr
• Elif
  Ubayy b. Kaʿb al-Najjārī, Sayyid al-Qurrāʾ, Arqam b. Abī l-Arqam, Abū l-Arqam ʿAbd Manāf b. Asad b. ʿAbd Allāh
• Ba
  Büceyr b. Abī Büceyr (he was an ally of the sons of Najjār), Bahhās b. Thāliba b. Ḥazma b. Asram b. ʿAmr b. ʿA
• Ta
  Temīm b. Yaʿar b. Qays b. ʿAdī b. Umayya b. Jidāra b. ʿAwf b. Ḥāris b. Khazraj; Temīm (the freedman of Hirāsh
• Sa
  Sābit b. Akram b. Thāliba b. ʿAdī b. ʿAjlān, Sābit b. Thāliba (This Thāliba is also known as: al-Jazāʾ b. Zayd
• Cim
  Jābir b. Khālid b. Masʿūd b. ʿAbd al-Ashhal b. Ḥāritha b. Dīnār b. Najjār al-Najjārī, Jābir b. ʿAbd Allāh b. R
• Ha
  Hāris b. Anas b. Rāfiʿ al-Khazrajī, Hāris b. Aws b. Muʿādh (This is the brother of Saʿd b. Muʿādh al-Awsī.), H
• Hı
  Khalid b. Bukayr (he is the brother of Iyās), Khalid b. Zayd Abū Ayyūb al-Najjārī, Khalid b. Qays b. Mālik b.
• Zal
  Zekvān b. ʿAbdī Qays al-Khazrajī, Zuʾsh-Shimālayn b. ʿAbd b. ʿAmr b. Nadla (Ghībshān b. Sulaym b. Malkān b. Af
• Ra
  Rāfiʿ b. Ḥāris al-Awsī, Rāfiʿ b. Unjada (Ibn Hishām said: Unja is also the name of his mother.), Rāfiʿ b. Muʿa
• Ze
  Zubayr b. ʿAwwām b. Huwaylid b. Asad b. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā b. Quṣayy (he was the son of the Messenger of God’s (pea
• Sin
  Salim b. Umayr al-Awsī, Salim b. Ghanm b. ʿAwf al-Khazrajī, Salim b. Maqil (he was the freedman of Abu Hudhayf
• Shin
  Shujaʿ b. Wahb b. Rabiʿa al-Asadī, Asad b. Huzayma (he was an ally of Banu ʿAbd al-Shams and among the first E
• Dad
  Dahḥāk b. Ḥāritha b. Zayd al-Sulamī; Dahḥāk b. ʿAbd ʿAmr al-Najjārī, Damra b. ʿAmr al-Juhanī (Mūsā b. ʿUqba sa
• Tı
  Ṭalḥa b. ʿUbayd Allāh al-Taymī (one of the ʿAshara al-mubashshara —the ten promised Paradise—who arrived from
• Ayn
  Asim b. Sabit b. Abi’l-Aqlah al-Ansari (In the incident of Rajiʿ, Asim b. Adiy b. Jad b. Aclan. When he was ki
• Kaf
  Katāda b. Nuʿmān al-Awsī, Qudāma b. Maẓʿūn al-Jumahī (one of the Muhājirūn, and the brother of ʿUthmān and ʿAb
• Mim
  Malik b. Duhshum (Some have also said he was Ibn Duhshun al-Khazrajī.), Malik b. Abī Hawla al-Juʿfī (He was an
• Nun
  Nadr b. Ḥāris b. ʿAbdī Rezaḥ b. Zufur b. Kaʿb, Nuʿmān b. ʿAbdī ʿAmr al-Najjārī (he is the brother of Dahḥāk),
• He
  Haniʾ b. Niyār Abū Burda al-Balawī (he is the maternal uncle of Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib), Hilāl b. Umayya al-Wāqifī (in
• Vav
  Wāqid b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī (He was one of the Muhājirūn [the Emigrants] and an ally of the Banū ʿAdiyy trib
• Ya
  Yazīd b. Aḥnas b. Janāb b. Ḥabīb b. Jarr es-Sulamī (al-Suhaylī said: He, his father, and his son all participa
• The Kunyas of the Companions Who Participated in the Battle of Badr
  Abū Usayd Mālik b. Rabīʿa, Abū al-Aʿwar b. Ḥāris b. Zālim al-Najjārī (Ibn Hishām said: His kunyā is as follows
• Section
  The total number of Muslims who participated in the Battle of Badr was 314. At their head was the Messenger of
• The Virtue of the Muslims Who Participated in the Battle of Badr
  Al-Bukhari, regarding this chapter, has stated the following: Abdullah b. Muhammad, through the channel of Muʿ
• The Migration of the Messenger of God's Daughter Zaynab from Mecca to Medina as an Emigrant
  Zaynab migrated to Medina as an emigrant (muhājir), arriving one month after the Battle of Badr, in accordance
• The Marriage and Waiting Periods of Polytheist Women Who Become Muslim
  Ibrāhīm b. Mūsā, through the channel of Hishām, reports that Ibn ʿAbbās said: "The polytheists (mushrikūn) wer
• Poems Composed for the Great Battle of Badr
  According to the account of Ibn Isḥāq, Ḥamza b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib recited the following poem on this matter; ho
• Section
  Ibn Ishaq reports that the polytheists recited highly artistic elegies over their dead who fell at the Battle
• The Expedition of Banu Sulaym
  This expedition took place in the second year after the Hijra. Ibn Ishaq said: The Messenger of God (peace and
• The Expedition of Sawiq
  This expedition took place in the month of Dhu al-Hijjah in the second year after the Hijra, and it is also ca
• The Consummation of the Marriage of ʿAlī and Fāṭima
  After the Battle of Badr, in the second year of the Hijra, ʿAlī and Fāṭima were married and their marriage was
• Some Events That Occurred in the Second Year of the Hijra
  As we have previously explained, the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) married ʿĀʾisha, the M
• The Third Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Najd expedition was undertaken. This is also called the Expedition of Dhi A
• The Expedition from Buhran to Furūʿ
  Ibn Isḥāq said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) spent the whole of the month of Rabīʿ a
• The Jews of the Banu Qaynuqaʿ of Medina
  According to al-Wāqidī, the incident of the Banu Qaynuqaʿ took place on a Saturday in the middle of the month
• The Expedition of Zayd b. Ḥāritha
  This expedition was dispatched to attack a trade caravan under the leadership of Abū Sufyān—or, according to a
• The Killing of the Jew Kaʿb b. al-Ashraf
  This man was from the Banu Tayy tribe, specifically from the Banu Nabhan clan of that tribe. However, his moth
• The Battle of Uhud
  The Battle of Uhud took place in the month of Shawwal in the third year after the Hijra. The mountain was name
• The Martyrdom of Hamza
  Ibn Ishaq said: Hamza b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib fought. He killed Erṭāt b. ʿAbd Shuraḥbīl b. Hāshim b. ʿAbd Manāf b.
• Section
  Ibn Isḥāq said: Allah sent down His help and victory to the Muslims. He fulfilled the promise He had given the
• The Sufferings Endured by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) from the Accursed Polytheists in the Battle of Uhud
  Al-Bukhārī, in his work on this subject, opens a chapter titled "The wounds the Messenger of Allah suffered on
• The Blinding of Qatāda's Eye
  Ibn Ishaq said: On the day of Uhud, Qatāda b. Nuʿmān's eye was struck and fell down onto his cheek. The Messen
• Section
  Ibn Ishaq said: After the defeat and after people began saying, "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be
• The Supplication Made by the Prophet on the Day of Uhud After the Battle
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal, through Marwān b. Muʿāwiya al-Fazzārī, narrated from Ibn Rufāʿa al-Zurqī, who said that
• Section
  While the people were occupied with the dead, according to what Muhammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ab
• The Funeral Prayer Performed Over Hamza and the Other Martyrs of Uhud
  Ibn Isḥāq, through the chain of Miksem, narrates from Ibn ʿAbbās as follows: "The Messenger of God (peace and
• The Number of Martyrs of Uhud
  Mūsā b. ʿUqba said: In the Battle of Uhud, a total of forty-nine people from the Muhājirūn (Emigrants) and the
• Section
  Ibn Isḥāq said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) departed from Uhud to head towards Medi
• The Pursuit by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), Despite His Wounds, Together with His Companions to Intimidate Abu Sufyan and His Followers
  The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) set out in pursuit of them, reaching as far as the area
• Poems Recited by Believers and Disbelievers Regarding the Battle of Uhud
  Here, we will first relate the poems of the disbelievers, and then those of the Muslim poets, so that they may
• Final Word Regarding the Battle of Uhud
  Previously, the events, expeditions (ghazwa), and military detachments (sariyya) that took place in the third
• The Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muḥarram of this year, the expedition (sariyya) of Abū Salama b. ʿAbd al-Asad was dispatched a
• The Expedition of Raʿjīʿ
  Al-Wāqidī said: This expedition took place in the month of Ṣafar in the fourth year of the Hijra. The Messenge
• The Expedition of ʿAmr b. Umayya al-Ḍamrī
  This expedition was launched after the killing of Ḥubayb. Al-Wāqidī, through the chain of Ibrāhīm b. Jaʿfar fr
• The Expedition of Biʾr Maʿūna
  This expedition set out in the month of Ṣafar in the fourth year of the Hijra. According to a peculiar stateme
• The Expedition of Banu Nadir
  Concerning this expedition, Allah the Exalted revealed Sūrat al-Ḥashr. According to a narration in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bu
• The Story of ʿAmr b. Suʿda al-Kurazī
  When ʿAmr b. Suʿda passed through the land of the Banū Naḍīr, he saw that it had become desolate and ruined, a
• The Expedition of Banu Lihyan
  According to what al-Bayhaqī relates in his work "al-Dalāʾil," the ṣalāt al-khawf (prayer of fear) was perform
• The Expedition of Dhāt al-Riqāʿ
  Ibn Isḥāq said: After the expedition against Banū Naḍīr, the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him
• The Story of Gavres b. Haris
  Ibn Isḥāq said the following about this expedition: ʿAmr b. ʿUbayd, through the transmission of Ḥasan, related
• The Story of the Man Whose Wife Was Killed in This Expedition
  Muḥammad b. Isḥāq, through his uncle Ṣadaqa b. Yasār, narrated from Jābir b. ʿAbd Allāh as follows: "We set ou
• The Story of Jābir’s Camel in This Expedition
  Muḥammad b. Isḥāq, through the transmission of Wahb b. Kaysān, narrated that Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh said: “I went
• The Last Battle of Badr
  As previously mentioned, this was a battle agreed upon by the Muslims and the polytheists to take place after
• Some Events That Occurred in the Fourth Year of the Hijra
  Ibn Jarīr said: In the month of Jumādā al-Awwal of the fourth year of the Hijra, ʿAbdullāh, the son of ʿUthmān
• Events of the Fifth Year of the Hijra: The Expedition of Dūmat al-Jandal
  "I learned it in fifteen days." Allah knows best. Events of the Fifth Year of the Hijra: The Expedition of Dūm
• The Battle of the Trench (Battle of al-Ahzab)
  The Exalted Allah revealed the opening verses of Sūrat al-Ahzāb concerning this battle: - "O you who have beli
• Section
  Ibn Ishaq said: When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) completed the work of the trench,
• The Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Supplication Against the Confederates (Ahzab)
  This section concerns how Allah, the Exalted, repelled the polytheists by His own power and might, cast fear i
• The Expedition against Banu Qurayza
  This section discusses the severe punishment sent by Allah Most High upon the Jews of Banu Qurayza, and the pa
• The Death of Sa'd b. Muʿādh
  As recounted in previous pages, Ḥibbān ibn al-ʿArīqa, who was accursed by Allah, shot an arrow at Sa'd, severi
• Poems Concerning the Battles of the Trench and Banū Qurayẓa
  Al-Bukhārī, through Ḥajjāj b. Minḥāl, narrates from al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib: "The Prophet (peace and blessings be up
• The Killing of the Jew Abu Rafiʿ Sallām b. Abī al-Ḥuqayq
  This accursed man was killed in his own fortress in Khaybar. He was a renowned merchant in the land of the Hij
• The Killing of Khālid b. Sufyān b. Nubayh al-Hudhali
  Hāfiẓ al-Bayhaqī recounts this event in his work "Dalāʾil" after narrating the killing of Abū Rāfiʿ. Imam Aḥma
• The Story Between ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ and the Negus After the Battle of the Trench and His Entry into Islam
  Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq said: Yazīd b. Abī Ḥabīb narrated that ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ himself said: "When we parted from th
• The Prophet’s Marriage to Umm Ḥabība, Daughter of Abū Sufyān
  After recounting the Battle of the Trench, al-Bayhaqī, through the transmission of al-Kalbī, relates from Ibn
• The Prophet’s Marriage to Zaynab bint Jahsh
  Zaynab’s lineage is as follows: Zaynab bint Jahsh b. Riab b. Yaʿmar b. Sabra b. Murra b. Kabir b. Ghanin b. Du
• The Revelation of the Veiling Verse on the Morning after the Bridal Night
  The marriage contract between the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and Zaynab was performed by Allah
• Events of the Sixth Year of the Hijra
  Al-Bayhaqī said: It is reported that in Muḥarram of the sixth year of the hijra, the expedition (sariyya) of M
• Expedition of Dhī Qarad
  The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) later arrived in Medina, where he stayed for a few nigh
• The Expedition of Banu Mustaliq
  Al-Bukhārī said: This is the Expedition of Muraysīʿ. Muḥammad b. Isḥāq stated that this expedition took place
• The Incident of Ifk
  Ibn Isḥāq, al-Zuhrī, ʿAlqama b. Waqqās, and Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab have transmitted, through their chains, that
• The Expedition of Hudaybiyya
  This expedition took place in the month of Dhū al-Qaʿda in the sixth year after the Hijra. There is no disagre
• The ʿUmra of al-Ḥudaybiyya According to al-Bukhārī
  In the section on the expeditions (maghāzī), al-Bukhārī, through the transmission of ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad, r
• Expeditions and Delegations Dispatched in the Sixth Year of the Hijra
  Hāfiẓ Bayhaqī transmitted the following summaries from Wāqidī on this subject: "In the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal
• Other Events Occurring in the Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the pilgrimage (ḥajj) was made obligatory. As al-Shāfiʿī also explicitly stated, the act of ḥajj
• The Seventh Year of the Hijra: The Battle of Khaybar at the Beginning of This Year
  In the verse, "And He granted them a near victory," the word "victory" (fatḥ) refers to the conquest of Khayba
• Section
  Ibn Isḥāq said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) began to gradually seize the spoils of
• Safiya, Daughter of Ḥuyayy b. Akhṭab al-Naḍrī
  When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) expelled the Jews of Banū Naḍīr from Medina, all o
• Section
  Ibn Isḥāq said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) besieged the people of Khaybar at Wāṭiḥ
• The Conquest of the Fortresses of Khaybar and the Division of Its Lands
  Al-Wāqidī said: When the Jews descended from the fortresses of Naʿīm and Saʿb b. Muʿādh and moved to the fortr
• Section
  As for the slaves and women who were present at the Battle of Khaybar, the Messenger of God (peace and blessin
• The Arrival of Jaʿfar, Son of Abū Ṭālib, and the Other Muslim Emigrants Remaining in Abyssinia, Along with the Yemenis Who Joined Them, While the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) Had Established Camp at Khaybar
  Al-Bukhārī, through Muḥammad b. ʿAlāʾ and Abū Usāma, relates from Abū Mūsā, who said: "It was conveyed to us i
• The Story of the Poisoned Sheep
  Al-Bukhārī narrated from Abū Hurayra that he said: "When Khaybar was conquered, the Messenger of God (peace an
• Section
  Ibn Isḥāq said: When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) conquered Khaybar, he turned towar
• The Companions Martyred at Khaybar
  Among the distinguished Muhājirūn (emigrants) who were martyred were: Rabīʿa b. Aksanī b. Sahbara al-Asadī (a
• The Incident of Ḥajjāj b. Ilāṭ al-Bahzī
  Ibn Isḥāq said: "When Khaybar was conquered, Ḥajjāj b. Ilāṭ al-Sulamī al-Bahzī spoke with the Messenger of God
• The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) Passing through Wadi al-Qurā, Besieging a Jewish Tribe There, and Making a Treaty with Them
  Al-Wāqidī narrated through ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz from Abū Hurayra, who said: We departed from Khayba
• Section
  According to what is stated in the Ṣaḥīḥs of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, when the Messenger of God (peace and bless
• The Expedition of Banu Fazāra under Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq
  Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, through the transmission of Bahz and ʿIkrima ibn ʿAmmār, narrated that Salama said: "We
• The Expedition Led by ʿUmar to the Land of Hawāzin, Four Miles from Mecca
  Al-Bayhaqī, narrating through the channel of al-Wāqidī, has reported as follows: "The Messenger of God (peace
• The Expedition of Abdullah b. Rawāḥa Against Yasir b. Rizzām al-Yahudi
  Al-Bayhaqī reports from al-Zuhrī, who said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) sent Abdull
• The Expedition of Bashir b. Saʿd
  Al-Bayhaqī, through the channel of al-Wāqidī, narrated that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon
• The Raid of Abū Ḥadred on the Forest (Gāba)
  Yūnus, Muḥammad b. Isḥāq, narrated as follows: Regarding the story of Abū Ḥadred and his raid directed toward
• The Expedition in Which Muhallim b. Jassāma Killed ʿĀmir b. Azbat
  Ibn Isḥāq narrated through Yazīd b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Kusayt from Abū Ḥadhrad, who said: "The Messenger of God (pe
• The Expedition of ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥudhāfa al-Sahmī
  It is narrated in the Ṣaḥīḥ collections of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, through the chain of transmission of al-Aʿma
• ʿUmrat al-Qaḍāʾ
  According to Suhaylī’s preference, this ʿumra is called the “ʿUmrat al-Qiṣāṣ” (ʿumra of retaliation). It is al
• The Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Marriage to Maymūna
  According to a narration transmitted by Ibn Isḥāq, through Abban b. Ṣāliḥ and ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Najīḥ, Ibn ʿAbb
• The Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Departure from Mecca after the ‘Umrat al-Qadā
  According to the statements of Mūsā b. ʿUqba, which have also appeared on previous pages, the Quraysh, after f
• Section
  Al-Bayhaqī, in this section, recounts the expedition (sariyya) of Ibn Abī Awjāʾ al-Sulamī sent to the Banū Sul
• The Eighth Year of the Hijra
  This section discusses the conversion to Islam of ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ, Khālid b. al-Walīd, and ʿUthmān b. Ṭalḥa Abū
• The Conversion of Khālid b. al-Walīd to Islam
  Al-Wāqidī, through the chain of Yaḥyā b. Mughīra b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥārith b. Hishām, narrated that Khālid b
• The Expedition of Shujāʿ b. Wahb al-Asadī Sent to a Group in Hawāzin
  Al-Wāqidī, through the channel of Ibn Abī Sabra, narrated from ʿUmar b. Ḥakam that he said: "The Messenger of
• The Expedition of Kaʿb b. ʿUmayr Dispatched to the Banu Kudaʿa in the Land of Syria
  Al-Wāqidī narrated, through the authority of Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh, that al-Zuhrī said as follows: The Messen
• The Expedition of Mu'ta
  This was a military expedition (sariyya) of 3,000 men under the command of Zayd b. Ḥāritha, dispatched to the
• Section
  Ibn Ishaq, Abdullah b. Abu Bakr, and through him via Umm Isa al-Huzaʿī, narrate that Asma bint Umays said: "Wh
• Section
  According to a narration transmitted by Ibn Ishaq through Muhammad b. Jaʿfar b. Zubayr, ʿUrwa b. Zubayr said:
• The Three Commanders; The Virtues of Zayd, Jaʿfar, and ʿAbdullah b. Rawāḥa
  The lineage of Zayd b. Ḥāritha is as follows: Zayd b. Ḥāritha b. Shuraḥbīl b. Kaʿb b. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā b. Imruʾ a
• Muslims Martyred in the Battle of Mu'ta
  The following individuals from among the Muhājirūn (the Emigrants) were martyred: Jaʿfar b. Abī Ṭālib, their f
• Poems Recited About the Battle of Mu'ta
  Ibn Ishaq said: One of the elegies recited for those who participated in Mu'ta is this poem by Hassan: "A diff
• The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) Sending Delegations and Letters to the Rulers of Neighboring Countries, Inviting Them to Faith in Allah and to Islam
  According to al-Wāqidī, these activities were carried out in the month of Dhu al-Ḥijja at the end of the sixth
• The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) Sending an Envoy and Letter to the Christian Arab Rulers of Greater Syria
  His Sending Ibn Isḥāq said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) then sent Shujāʿ b. Wahb, t
• His Sending
  Ibn Ishaq said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) later sent Shujaʿ b. Wahb, the brother
• The Messenger of God (peace be upon him) Sending an Envoy to Muqawqis
  Muqawqis was the governor of the city of Alexandria, and his name was Jurayj b. Mina al-Qibṭī. Yūnus b. Bukayr
• The Expedition of Dhāt al-Salāsil
  Hāfiẓ al-Bayhaqī addressed this topic in this section before narrating the conquest of Mecca. He recounted thi
• The Sariyya of Abū ʿUbayda at Sif al-Baḥr
  Imam Mālik narrated through Wahb b. Kaysān from Jābir, who said: "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be
• The Great Conquest
  This event took place in the month of Ramadan in the eighth year of the Hijra, and Allah the Exalted has menti
• The Story of Ḥāṭib b. Abī Baltaʿa
  Muḥammad b. Isḥāq said: Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar related to me, on the authority of ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr and other sch
• Section
  Ibn Isḥāq, through Muḥammad b. Muslim b. Shihāb al-Zuhrī, narrated that Ibn ʿAbbās said: The Messenger of God
• The Conversion to Islam of the Prophet’s Uncle ʿAbbās
  This section discusses the emigration of Abū Sufyān b. Ḥārith b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, the cousin of the Messenger
• Section
  When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived at Marr al-Zahrān, he stopped and stayed t
• The Messenger of God’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Entry into Mecca
  According to what is clearly stated in the authentic collections of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, Anas (ra) said: “Th
• Section
  Ibn Ishaq said: Ten thousand Muslims participated in the conquest of Mecca. From the Banu Sulaym tribe, there
• The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) Sending Khālid b. al-Walīd to the Banū Jazīma of Kināna after the Conquest
  His Sending Ibn Isḥāq narrated from Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. ʿAlī as follows: The Messenger of God (peace and bl
• The Mission of Khālid b. al-Walīd to Destroy the Idol of al-ʿUzzā
  Ibn Jarīr said: The idol of al-ʿUzzā was destroyed in the remaining last days of the month of Ramadan in the y
• The Duration of the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Stay in Mecca
  There is no disagreement regarding the fact that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) stayed
• The Judgments Given by the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) in Mecca
  Al-Bukhārī, through the transmission of ʿAbdullāh b. Maslama, narrated from ʿĀʾisha (may Allah be pleased with
• Section
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal, through the transmission of ʿAbd al-Razzāq, relates from Muḥammad b. Aswad b. Khalaf as
• The Battle of Hawazin on the Day of Hunayn
  The Exalted Allah said: "Allah has already given you victory in many regions and [even] on the day of Hunayn,
• How the Incident of Hawazin Unfolded and How, After the Initial Flight, the Good Outcome Turned in Favor of the God-Conscious
  Yūnus b. Bukayr and others have transmitted, through the channel of Muḥammad b. Isḥāq, from ʿAbdullāh, the fat
• Section
  When the Hawāzin were defeated, their leader Mālik b. ʿAwf al-Naṣrī, together with a group of his companions,
• The Expedition of Awtas
  The reason for this expedition was as follows: When the Hawāzin were defeated, a group of them, together with
• Those Martyred in the Battle of Hunayn and the Expedition of Awtas
  Ayman b. ʿĀbid, the son of Umm Ayman—the freedwoman of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)—
• Poems Recited Concerning the Battle of Hawazin
  Bujayr b. Zuhayr b. Abi Sulma recited the following poem on this matter: "If there were no deity and His serva
• The Expedition of Ṭāʾif
  ʿUrwa and Mūsā b. ʿUqba relate that al-Zuhrī said: "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) fou
• The Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Return from Ta’if and His Distribution of the Spoils Taken from the Hawāzin at Ji’rāna before Entering Mecca for ʿUmra
  Ibn Ishaq said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) then departed from Ta’if, set out via D
• The Coming of Mālik b. ʿAwf al-Naṣrī to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Ibn Isḥāq said: "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) asked the delegation of Hawāzin what M
• Objections of Some Ignorant and Hypocrites Regarding the Just Distribution of Booty
  Al-Bukhārī, through the chain of transmission from Qabīsa, narrated from ʿAbdullāh as follows: "While the Prop
• The Arrival of the Messenger of God's (peace and blessings be upon him) Milk-Sister Shaymāʾ While He Was at Jiʿrāna
  Ibn Ishaq said: "A member of the Banu Saʿd b. Bakr tribe related to me that on the day of Hawazin, the Messeng
• The ʿUmra of Jiʿrāna
  This ʿumra (lesser pilgrimage) was performed in the month of Dhū al-Qaʿda. Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal, through the c
• The Conversion of Kaʿb b. Zuhayr b. Abī Sulmā to Islam
  Ibn Ishaq said: When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) returned from Ta'if, Bujayr b. Zuh
• Significant Events and Deaths in the Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Jumada al-Awwal of this year, the Battle of Mu'ta took place. In the month of Ramadan of this
• The Tabuk Expedition in the Ninth Year of the Hijra
  The Tabuk expedition took place in the month of Rajab in the ninth year of the Hijra. Allah the Exalted said:
• The Condition of the Weepers (al-Bakkāʾūn) and Others Who Remained Behind from Battle Due to Their Excuses
  Ibn Isḥāq said: These were from the tribes of al-Nār and Banū ʿAmr b. ʿAwf, and their total number was several
• Section
  Yūnus b. Bukayr relates from Ibn Isḥāq as follows: Then the expedition of the Messenger of God (peace and bles
• The Prophet’s Passing by the Dwellings and Palaces of the Thamud People at al-Ḥijr on the Way to Tabuk
  When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) set out for Tabuk, he passed by the dwellings of t
• The Prophet’s Delivering a Sermon Beside a Date Palm Tree at Tabuk
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• The Messenger of God Performing the Funeral Prayer for Muʿāwiya b. Abī Muʿāwiya
  Al-Bayhaqī, through Yazīd b. Hārūn, transmits that Anas b. Mālik said: "We were with the Messenger of God (pea
• The Arrival of the Caesar's Envoy to the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) at Tabuk
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal relates, through the chain of Isḥāq b. ʿĪsā, that Saʿīd b. Abī Rāshid said: "I saw the ma
• The Messenger of God's Treaty with the Ruler of Aylah and the Peoples of Jarba and Adhruh in His Tent at Tabuk Before Returning to Medina
  Ibn Ishaq said: When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived at Tabuk, Yuhanna b. Ruʾba
• The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) Sending Khālid b. al-Walīd to Ukaydir, Governor of Dūmah
  Ibn Isḥāq said: Then the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) summoned Khālid b. al-Walīd and se
• Section
  Ibn Isḥāq said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stayed at Tabūk for a little over ten nights. He
• The Story of Masjid al-Dirar
  The Exalted Allah said: “And [there are] those [hypocrites] who took for themselves a masjid to cause harm, ku
• The Staying Behind of Certain Other Sinners from Battle
  "And among those who stayed behind, there are some who confessed their sins. They had mixed a righteous deed w
• Events Occurring After the Prophet’s Return from Tabuk to Medina
  Hāfiẓ al-Bayhaqī, through Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ, transmits from Ḥumayd b. Munhab that he said: I heard my gra
• The Arrival of the Delegation of Thaqif to the Prophet in Ramadan of the Ninth Year AH
  As previously mentioned, when the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) was returning from Thaqif
• The Death of Abdullah b. Ubayy
  Muḥammad b. Isḥāq, al-Zuhrī, and ʿUrwa, through the transmission of Usāma b. Zayd, relate the following: "The
• Section
  Ibn Isḥāq said: The expedition of Tabūk was the last of the expeditions in which the Messenger of God (peace a
• The Prophet’s Sending of Abu Bakr as Commander of the Pilgrimage to Mecca
  The ninth year of the Hijra and the revelation of Sūrat al-Barāʾa. After narrating the arrival of the delegati
• Section
  The following events took place in the ninth year of the Hijra: As previously explained, the expedition of Tab
• The Delegations That Came to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Ibn Isḥāq said: "When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) conquered Mecca, completed his ca
• The Virtue of the Banu Tamim Tribe
  Bukhari, through Zuhayr b. Harb, narrates from Abu Hurayra as follows: "After hearing three things from the Me
• The Delegation of the Banu ʿAbd al-Qays Tribe
  After narrating the delegation of the Banu Tamim tribe, al-Bukhari, when recounting the delegation of the ʿAbd
• The Delegation of Banu Hanifa with Sumama and the Story of the Accursed Musaylima al-Kadhdhab
  Al-Bukhari, through the channel of ʿAbdullah b. Yusuf, narrates from Abu Hurayra as follows: "The Prophet (pea
• The Delegation of Najran
  Al-Bukhārī narrates through the channel of ʿAbbās b. Ḥusayn from Ḥudhayfa, who said: "The leaders of Najran, A
• The Delegation of the Banu Amir Tribe and the Stories of Amir b. Tufayl and Erbad b. Qays
  Ibn Ishaq said: A delegation from the Banu Amir tribe came to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upo
• His Arrival
  Ibn Isḥāq narrates through Muḥammad b. Walīd b. Nuwaiyfa that Ibn ʿAbbās said: "The tribe of Banū Saʿd b. Bakr
• The Arrival of Zayd al-Hayl with the Delegation of the Tay Tribe
  Zayd al-Hayl’s real name was Zayd b. Muhalhil b. Zayd b. Manhab Abu Muknif al-Ṭāʾī. He was the most handsome a
• The Story of ʿAdiyy b. Ḥātim al-Ṭāʾī
  In his Sahih, al-Bukhārī, when narrating the account of the delegation from the Ṭayy tribe and ʿAdiyy b. Ḥātim
• The Tribe of Daws and the Story of Tufayl b. ʿAmr
  Abū Nuʿaym, through Sufyān, relates that Abū Hurayra said: "Tufayl b. ʿAmr came to the Messenger of God (peace
• The Arrival of the Ashʿarīs and the People of Yemen
  Al-Bukhārī later narrated through the channel of Shuʿba from Abū Hurayra that the Prophet (peace and blessings
• The Incident of Oman and Bahrain
  Qutayba b. Saʿīd narrated through Sufyān from Jābir b. ʿAbd Allāh that the Messenger of God (peace and blessin
• The Coming of Ferve b. Müseyk al-Murādī to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Ibn Isḥāq said: Ferve b. Müseyk al-Murādī, having separated and distanced himself from the kings of Kindah, ca
• The Arrival of Amr b. Ma'di Karib with a Group from the Banu Zubayd Tribe
  Ibn Ishaq said: When the command of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) reached them, Amr b
• The Arrival of Ashʿas b. Qays Together with the Delegation of Kinda
  Ibn Ishaq said: "Ashʿas b. Qays came to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) together with t
• His Arrival
  Ibn Ishaq said: Surad b. ʿAbdullah al-Azdī came to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him). He
• The Arrival of the Envoys of the Himyarite Kings to the Messenger of God
  Al-Waqidi said: The arrival of this delegation took place in the month of Ramadan in the ninth year of the Hij
• The Coming of Jarīr b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Bajalī to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and His Embracing of Islam
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal, through the transmission of Abū Qaṭān, relates that Jarīr said: "When I approached Medin
• The Arrival of Wāʾil b. Ḥujr b. Rabīʿa b. Wāʾil b. Yāmir al-Ḥaḍramī b. Ḥunayda, One of the Kings of Yemen, to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  His Arrival to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) Abū ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-Barr said: Wāʾil b.
• The Arrival of Lakit b. Amir b. Muntefiq Abu Razin al-Aqili as an Envoy to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Abdullah, the son of Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal, narrates that Asim b. Lakit said: "Lakit set out as an envoy togeth
• The Arrival of Ziyād b. Ḥāris al-Sudāʾī as Envoy
  Ḥāfiẓ al-Bayhaqī, through Abū Aḥmad al-Asadābādī, narrates that Ziyād b. Ḥāris al-Sudāʾī said: "After I went t
• The Coming of Ḥāris b. Ḥassān al-Bakrī to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Imam Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal relates through the channel of Zayd b. Ḥabbāb that Ḥāris al-Bakrī said: "I set out in ord
• The Arrival of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Akīl and His Tribe as Envoys to the Messenger of God
  Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī, through Abū ʿAbdullāh Isḥāq b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Sūsī, narrates that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b.
• The Arrival of Ṭāriq b. ʿAbdullāh and His Companions
  Hanz al-Bayhaqī, through Abū Janāb al-Kalbī, relates that Ṭāriq b. ʿAbdullāh said: "I was standing in the mark
• The Arrival of the Envoy of Ferve b. ʿAmr al-Juzāmī to the Messenger of God
  Ibn Isḥāq said: Ferve b. ʿAmr b. Nafīra al-Juzāmī al-Nufāsī sent an envoy to the Messenger of God (peace and b
• The Arrival of Tamim al-Dari to the Messenger of God and His Report about the Situation of al-Jassāsa
  Abū ʿAbdillāh Sahl b. Muḥammad b. Naṣrawayh al-Marwazī, through Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad, transmits that Fāṭ
• The Delegation from the Banu Asad Tribe
  According to al-Wāqidī, at the beginning of the ninth year of the Hijra, a delegation of ten people from the B
• The Delegation of the Banu Abs Tribe
  According to Wakidi, they were a delegation composed of nine people. The Messenger of God (peace and blessings
• Delegation of the Banu Fazāra Tribe
  Al-Wāqidī, through the transmission of ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar al-Jumahī, relates that Abū Wajza al-Sa
• Delegation of the Banu Murra Tribe
  According to the account of al-Wāqidī, this delegation came to Medina in the ninth year of the Hijra, upon the
• Delegation of the Banu Sa'leba Tribe
  Al-Wāqidī relates, through the chain of transmission from Mūsā b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm, that a man from the Ban
• The Delegation of the Banu Muharib Tribe
  Al-Wāqidī reports, through the transmission of Muḥammad b. Ṣāliḥ, that Abū Wajza al-Saʿdī said as follows: "Th
• Delegation of the Banu Kilab Tribe
  Al-Wāqidī said: They came as a delegation consisting of thirteen people in the ninth year of the Hijra. Among
• The Delegation of the Banu Ruʾās b. Kilāb Tribe
  Al-Wāqidī said: A man named ʿAmr b. Mālik b. Qays b. Bujayda b. Ruʾās b. Kilāb b. Rabīʿa b. ʿĀmir b. Saʿsaʿa c
• The Delegation of the Banu ʿAqīl b. Kaʿb Tribe
  Al-Wāqidī said: These people came to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him). He allocated to t
• The Delegation of the Banu Kushayr b. Kaʿb Tribe
  This delegation came to the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) before the Farewell Pilgrimage and the Battle
• The Delegation of the Bani Bekka Tribe
  It is related that these people, numbering thirty, came to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon h
• Delegation of the Kināna Tribe
  Al-Wāqidī said: Vāsila b. Asqāʿ al-Laysī came to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) as he
• Delegation of the Eshca Tribe
  Al-Wāqidī said: They came as a delegation of 100 people under the leadership of Masʿūd b. Ruhayla in the year
• Delegation of the Bahila Tribe
  Their leader, Mutarrif b. Kahin, came to the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) after the conquest and becam
• The Delegation of the Banu Sulaym Tribe
  Al-Waqidi said: A man named Qays b. Nushba from the Banu Sulaym tribe came to the Messenger of God (peace and
• The Delegation of the Banu Hilal b. Amir Tribe
  It has been reported that among this delegation was a person named ʿAbdī ʿAwf b. Asram. This person became a M
• The Delegation of the Banu Bakr b. Wa'il Tribe
  Al-Wāqidī said: When these people arrived, they asked the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) a
• Delegation of the Taghlib Tribe
  According to al-Wāqidī, they were sixteen people, consisting of both Christians and Muslims. The Christians wo
• The Delegations Sent by the People of Yemen: The Delegation of Tujīb
  Al-Wāqidī said: These came in the ninth year of the Hijra. They were thirteen in number. The Messenger of God
• Havlan Delegation
  These were ten men who came to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) in the month of Shaʿbān
• The Delegation of Cu'fī
  These people considered eating heart to be forbidden. When they became Muslims, the Messenger of God (peace an
• The Arrival of the Ezd Delegation to the Messenger of God
  In the book "Maʿrifat al-Ṣaḥāba," Abū Nuʿaym and Ḥāfiẓ Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī relate, through the chain of Aḥmad b
• The Delegation of Kindah
  They came as a group composed of a little more than ten horsemen. At their head was Ashʿath ibn Qays. The Mess
• Sadif Delegation
  These were a group composed of a little more than ten horsemen who came to Medina. They found the Messenger of
• The Huşeyn Delegation
  When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) was preparing to set out for the Khaybar expeditio
• The Representative of Predatory Animals
  Wāqidī, through the chain of Shuʿayb b. ʿUbāda, relates that Muṭṭalib b. ʿAbdillāh b. Ḥantab said as follows:
• Section
  The arrival of the delegation of jinn envoys to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) in Mecc
• In the Tenth Year of the Hijra, the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) Sends Khālid b. al-Walīd to the Banū Ḥāris b. Kaʿb Tribe
  According to Ibn Ishaq, the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) sent Khālid b. al-Walīd to the Banū Ḥāris b.
• The Messenger of God (peace be upon him) Sending Commanders to the People of Yemen to Invite Them to Iman in Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, Before the Farewell Pilgrimage
  Bukhari, in the chapter concerning the sending of Abu Musa and Muʿādh to Yemen before the Farewell Pilgrimage,
• The Messenger of God’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Sending of ʿAlī and Khālid b. al-Walīd to Yemen Before the Farewell Pilgrimage
  Ahmed b. ʿUthmān, through the chain of Shurayḥ b. Maslama, narrates from al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib as follows: “The Me
• The Farewell Pilgrimage
  The Farewell Pilgrimage, also called the Balāgh ḥajj (the Pilgrimage of Conveyance) and Ḥajjat al-Islām (the P
• The Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Performing Hajj Only Once During His Medinan Life and Performing Three Umrahs Before This Hajj
  His Performance Al-Bukhārī and Muslim, through the channel of Hudbah, narrate from Anas as follows: "The Messe
• The Date When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) Departed from Medina for the Farewell Pilgrimage
  After appointing, in his place, Abū Dujāna Simāk b. Ḥarasha al-Saʿīdī—or, according to another narration, Siba
• The Departure of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) from Medina to Mecca for the Farewell Pilgrimage
  Al-Bukhari, through the transmission of Ibrahim b. Munzir, narrates from Ibn ʿUmar as follows: "The Messenger
• Section
  As previously mentioned, the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) performed the noon prayer (ẓuh
• The Place Where the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) Entered Ihram on His Farewell Pilgrimage
  There is disagreement among the narrators regarding this matter. However, we will attempt to determine which o
• Which of Ifrad, Tamattu‘ or Qiran Did the Prophet (PBUH) Intend and Enter Ihram for During the Farewell Pilgrimage?
  The hadiths indicating that the Prophet (peace be upon him) intended ifrad during his Farewell Pilgrimage are
• Section
  If it is asked, "You have reported from a group of the Companions (ṣaḥāba) that the Prophet (peace and blessin
• The Basis for Those Who Say the Prophet Intentionally Entered Ihram Without Specifying Hajj or Umrah
  Some say that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when entering into ihram during the Farewell Pilg
• The Talbiya of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Al-Shāfiʿī, through the channel of Mālik, narrates from Ibn ʿUmar as follows: "The talbiya (ritual proclamatio
• The Hadith Narrated by Jābir b. ʿAbd Allāh Regarding the Hajj of the Messenger of God
  This is an independent act of worship in itself. We deemed it appropriate to transmit this hadith here, as thi
• The Places Where the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) Prayed While Traveling from Medina to Mecca for Hajj and Umrah
  Al-Bukhārī, in the chapter "The Mosques on the Road from Medina and the Places Where the Prophet (peace and bl
• The Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Entry into Mecca
  Al-Bukhārī, through the channel of Musaddad, narrates from Ibn ʿUmar as follows: "The Prophet (peace and bless
• How Did the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) Perform Tawaf?
  Al-Bukhari narrates that ʿĀʾisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "When the Prophet (peace and blessings
• The Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Practice of Raml and Iḍṭibāʿ during Tawaf
  Al-Bukhārī narrates from Sālim’s father as follows: “I saw that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon
• The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) Performing Sa'y Between Safa and Marwa
  As reported in the Sahih of Muslim, in the hadith narrated from Jabir and mentioned on previous pages, after s
• Section
  Jābir, in a hadith, says: "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when he completed the saʿy (ritual w
• Section
  A group among the Companions (ṣaḥāba) have transmitted the command of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon
• Section
  After the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) completed his sa'y (ritual walking) between Safa and Marwa
• Section
  As we have previously explained, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) spent the remainder of Sunday,
• Where the Dhuhr Prayer Is Performed on the Day of Tarwiya
  Al-Bukhārī reports, through ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad, that ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Rufayʿ said: "I said to Anas b. Mālik
• Recitation of Talbiya and Takbir on the Way from Mina to Arafat
  Bukhari relates that Muḥammad b. Abū Bakr al-Saqafī asked Anas b. Mālik as they were going from Mina to Arafat
• The Supplications Made by the Prophet During the Standing at ʿArafa
  As previously mentioned, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not fast on the day of ʿArafa. This
• The Sublime Revelation Sent Down to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) in This Honored Station
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal relates, through the chain of Jaʿfar b. ʿAwn, that Ṭāriq b. Shihāb said: "A man from amon
• The Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Journey from ʿArafāt to al-Mashʿar al-Ḥarām
  In the lengthy hadith narrated on this subject, Jābir said: "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon
• Section
  The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) sent ahead a group from his family during the night, be
• The Messenger of God (peace be upon him)'s Talbiya at Muzdalifah
  Muslim, through Abū Bakr b. Abī Shayba, narrates from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Yazīd, who said: "While we were at Muz
• The Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Standing at al-Mash‘ar al-Ḥarām, His Departure from Muzdalifah before Sunrise, and Hastening His Mount in the Valley of Muḥassir
  The Exalted Allah said: “And when you depart from ‘Arafat, remember Allah at al-Mash‘ar al-Ḥarām.” (al-Baqara
• The Stoning of the Aqaba Jamra by the Prophet on the First Day of Eid al-Adha
  How did he stone it, when did he stone it, from where did he stone it, and with how many stones did he stone i
• Section
  Jābir said: "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) then went to the place of sacrifice. There
• The Blessed Shaving of the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Head
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal, through the transmission of ʿAbd al-Razzāq, relates from Ibn ʿUmar as follows: “The Mess
• Section
  After stoning the Jamra of Aqaba, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) put on his garment and applied
• The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) Going from Mina to the House
  Jābir said: "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him), then mounted his riding animal and went t
• Section
  After this, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not perform another sa'y (ritual walking) betwee
• Section
  As indicated by the hadith of Jābir, after this the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performed the ẓu
• Section
  The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) then went to the place where today's Mina mosque is located, pla
• Section
  Abū Dāwūd narrates from two men of the Banū Bakr tribe who said: "We saw the Messenger of God (peace and bless
• The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) Visiting the House on Every Night of Mina
  Al-Bukhārī reports from Ibn ʿAbbās as follows. "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) used to
• Section
  Some people call the sixth day of Dhu al-Hijjah the "Day of Adornment" (zīnat day). This is because on that da
• Section
  As Ḥazrat ʿĀʾisha stated, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) later departed from the lower side of
• Hadiths Narrating That the Prophet Delivered a Sermon at the Place Known as Ghadir Khumm
  Ghadir Khumm is a place near Juhfa, situated between Mecca and Medina. On the return from the Farewell Pilgrim
• The Eleventh Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), upon returning from the Farewell
• The Illness of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  The Exalted Allah said: “Indeed, you [O Muhammad] will die, and indeed, they will die.” “Then indeed you, on t
• The Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Command for Abu Bakr to Lead the Prayer
  Upon the command of the Prophet, Abu Bakr led the prayer. The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon hi
• Faide
  A group of scholars, including Imām Mālik, Imām Shāfiʿī, and among them Imām Bukhārī, have considered the inci
• The Prophet’s (peace be upon him) Agony and Passing
  Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrates from ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd: "I entered upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be
• Significant Events Occurring Between the Prophet’s Passing and His Burial
  The most important of these events, and the one most auspicious and blessed for Islam and the Muslims, was the
• The Story of the Bani Sa'ida Portico
  Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, through Ishaq ibn Isa al-Tabba, transmits from Ibn Abbas, who said: "Abdurrahman ibn Aw
• Sa'd b. ʿUbāda’s Acceptance of the Truth of Abū Bakr’s Words Spoken under the Shade of Banū Sāʿida
  Imam Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal narrated from Ḥumayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān as follows: “The Messenger of God (peace and bless
• Section
  One who reflects upon what we have explained will understand the reason for the consensus (ijmāʿ) of the Muhāj
• When and at What Age Did the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) Pass Away?
  How was he washed, how was he shrouded, how was the funeral prayer performed, how was he buried, how was he pl
• Faide
  Abū Qāsim al-Suhaylī, in summary, says the following in his work "al-Rawḍ": "It is not conceivable that the Me
• The Washing of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
  As previously explained, the Muslims spent the remainder of Monday and Tuesday engaged in the matter of pledgi
• The Shrouding of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal, through the transmission of Walid b. Muslim, narrates from ʿĀʾisha (may Allah be pleased
• The Prayer over the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
  As previously mentioned, according to a hadith narrated by al-Bayhaqī from Ibn Masʿūd, when the Prophet (peace
• Where and How Was the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) Buried? Was He Buried at Night or During the Day?
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal, through the channel of ʿAbd al-Razzāq, narrates from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Jurayj who said: "
• The Last Person to See the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal relates through the channel of Yaʿqūb that ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥārith said: "During the calip
• When Was the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) Buried?
  Yūnus, through the transmission of Ibn Isḥāq, narrated that Ḥadrat ʿĀʾisha said: "We did not know when the Pro
• The Shape of the Messenger of God’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Grave
  As is known by tawātur (mass transmission), the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was buried in the ro
• The Great Calamity Befalling the Muslims with the Death of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Al-Bukhari, through the transmission of Sulaymān b. Ḥarb, narrated from Anas as follows: "When the illness of
• Narrations Regarding the Condolence (Taʿziya) of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Ibn Mājah, through the transmission of Walīd b. ʿAmr b. Sukayn, narrated that ʿĀʾisha said: "The Messenger of
• Narrations Transmitted Regarding What the People of the Book Knew About the Day of the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Death
  Abū Bakr b. Abī Shayba, through the chain of ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, narrated that Jarīr b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Bajalī
• Section
  Muḥammad b. Isḥāq said: Upon the death of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him), the Arabs ap
• The Estate of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) left behind neither dinar, dirham, slave, concubine, sh
• Tenbih
  After this section, we will present several hadiths. These hadiths concern matters specifically related to the
• Explanation of the Hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "No Inheritance Is Left from Our Property"
  Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrated, through the chain of Sufyan, from Abu Hurayra, that the Messenger of God (peac
• The Consensus of the Community on the Hadith Narrated by Abu Bakr al-Siddiq
  Al-Bukhari, through Yahya b. Bukayr, narrated from Malik b. Aws b. Hadathan as follows: "Muhammad b. Jubayr b.
• Section
  The Rāfiḍīs spoke ignorantly on this matter. They engaged in something about which they had no knowledge. They
• The Wives and Children of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Exalted Allah said: "O wives of the Prophet! You are not like any other women. If you are mindful of Allah, th
• Women Whom the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) Proposed to Marry but Did Not Marry
  Ismāʿīl b. Abī Khālid narrated that Fāhita bint Abī Ṭālib said: "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be
• The Concubines of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) had two concubines. One of them was Mariya bint Shamʿūn
• The Children of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  There is no disagreement that all of the Messenger of God’s (peace and blessings be upon him) children, except
• The Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Slaves, Concubines, Servants, Scribes, and Confidants
  We will list their names in alphabetical order and relate some of their accounts. Relying on Allah’s help, we
• The Female Slaves of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  One of them is Emetullah bint Rezīna. To speak accurately, her mother Rezīna was present with the Messenger of
• Those Who Served the Messenger of God Besides His Slaves and Concubines: Anas b. Malik
  Anas b. Mālik b. Naḍr b. Damdān b. Zayd b. Ḥarām b. Jundub b. ʿĀṣim b. Ghanm b. ʿAdiyy b. Najjār al-Anṣārī al-
• Esla b. Sharik
  One of the Messenger of God’s (peace and blessings be upon him) servants was also Esla b. Sharik b. ʿAwf al-Aʿ
• Esma b. Ḥārisa
  Among the servants of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) was also Esma b. Ḥārisa b. Saʿd b. ʿAbd Allāh b
• Shaddah al-Laysī
  One of the servants of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) was Bukayr b. Shaddah al-Laysī.
• Bilāl b. Rabāḥ al-Ḥabashī
  One of the servants of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) was Bilāl b. Rabāḥ al-Ḥabashī. He was born in
• Habbe and Seva'
  The other two of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)'s servants were Habbe and Seva', the s
• Zu-Mihmer
  One of the servants of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) was Zu-Mihmer. He is also called
• Rabiʿa b. Kaʿb al-Aslami
  One of the servants of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) was Rabiʿa b. Kaʿb al-Aslami, al
• Sa'd
  One of the servants of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) was Sa'd, the freedman of Abu Bakr. It is also
• Abdullah b. Rawāḥa
  One of the servants of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) was Abdullah b. Rawāḥa. This ind
• 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.
• ʿUqba b. ʿĀmir
  One of the servants of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) was ʿUqba b. ʿĀmir al-Juhanī. Imam Aḥmad b. Ḥa
• Kays b. Sa'd
  One of the servants of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) was Kays b. Sa'd b. Ubada al-Ans
• Mughīra b. Shuʿba
  One of the servants of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) was Mughīra b. Shuʿba al-Thaqafī
• Miqdad b. Aswad
  One of the servants of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) was Miqdad b. Aswad Abū Maʿbad a
• Muhājir
  One of the Messenger of God’s (peace and blessings be upon him) servants was Muhājir, the freedman of Umm Sala
• Abū Semh
  One of the Messenger of God’s (peace be upon him) servants was also Abū Semh. Abū’l-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Isḥāq a
• The Scribes of Revelation Who Were Present with the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  The four caliphs—Abu Bakr, ʿUmar, ʿUthmān, and ʿAlī son of Abu Ṭālib—were among them. May Allah be pleased wit
• Section
  According to what Ibn ʿAsākir has narrated, one of the individuals whom the Messenger of God (peace and blessi
• The Seal, Weapons, Mounts, and Other Belongings Used by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) During His Lifetime
  From what material was the seal used by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) made? In his book "Sunan
• Narrations Regarding the Abandonment of the Ring
  Muhammad b. Sulaymān al-Luwayn, through the transmission of Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd, narrated from Anas b. Mālik as fo
• The Sword of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal, through the chain of Shurayh, narrated from Ibn ʿAbbās that he said: "The Messenger of G
• The Shoes Worn by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
  It is narrated in a sahih (authentic) hadith that Ibn ʿUmar said: "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings b
• The Cup of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, through the transmission of Yaḥyā ibn Ādam, narrated from ʿĀṣim as follows: "I saw the
• The Kuhl Vessel of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, through the transmission of Yazid, narrated that Ibn ʿAbbās said: "The Messenger of God
• The Cloak of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Ḥāfiẓ al-Bayhaqī said: As for the cloak in the possession of the caliphs, according to the narration we have f
• The Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Horses and Mounts
  It is narrated by Ibn Ishaq, through Yazid b. Habib, that ʿAlī (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The Mess
• Kitāb al-Shamāʾil: The Shamāʾil and Pure Creation of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  On this subject, both old and new books have been classified. Many books have been written on this topic. In s
• The Dazzling Beauty of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Al-Bukhārī, through Aḥmad b. Saʿīd Abū ʿAbdillāh, narrates from al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib as follows: "The Messenger o
• The Complexion of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Al-Bukhari, through Yahya b. Bukayr, narrates from Rabiʿa b. Abi ʿAbd al-Raḥman, who said: "I heard Anas b. Ma
• The Attributes, Beauty, Forehead, Eyebrows, Eyes, Nose, and Hair of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  As previously mentioned, Abū Ṭufayl stated that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had a beautiful
• The Hair of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
  It is narrated in the authentic collections of al-Bukhārī and Muslim from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: "The Messenger
• The Shoulders, Upper Arms, Armpits, Feet, and Heels of the Prophet
  Al-Bukhari and Muslim have narrated, in the previously mentioned statement of al-Baraʾ b. ʿAzib, that he said:
• The Stature of the Prophet and the Pleasantness of His Fragrance
  It is narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari from Anas, who said: "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him
• The Seal of Prophethood Between the Shoulders of the Prophet
  Al-Bukhari, through the transmission of Muḥammad b. ʿUbaydullāh, narrated from Sāʾib b. Yazīd as follows: "My
• Various Hadiths Transmitted Regarding the Qualities of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  As previously transmitted, Nāfiʿ b. Jubayr narrated that ʿAlī, son of Abū Ṭālib, said: "Before the Messenger o
• The Report of Umm Maʿbad on This Matter
  The full hadith concerning this matter is narrated in the section regarding the Messenger of God (peace and bl
• The Hadith of Hind b. Abī Hāla on This Matter
  Hind grew up under the upbringing and care of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him). His moth
• The Character and Pure Traits (Shamāʾil) of the Prophet
  In the previous pages, we described the beauty of the Prophet’s essence, the purity of his nature, the nobilit
• The Generosity of the Prophet
  As mentioned on previous pages, both Bukhari and Muslim, through the transmission of al-Zuhrī, narrate from Ib
• The Temperament (Character) of the Prophet
  Ibn Luhayʿa narrates from Anas, who said: "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) was the pers
• The Prophet’s (peace be upon him) Asceticism and His Indifference to Worldly Life
  Exalted Allah said: “And do not extend your eyes toward that by which We have given enjoyment to [some] catego
• The Worship of the Prophet and His Self-Exertion in This Regard
  ʿĀʾisha said: "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) would fast so much that we would say, 'H
• The Courage of the Prophet
  "O Muhammad, fight in the way of Allah; you are not held responsible except for yourself. And encourage the be
• The Prophet in the Scriptures Transmitted from Previous Prophets
  We have already presented some of these transmissions in the section on glad tidings before his birth. Here, w
• Proofs of Prophethood (Nubuwwa)
  - These proofs are divided into two categories: material and immaterial. The immaterial proofs are as follows:
• Section
  As examples of the spiritual proofs affirming the prophethood of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be
• Spiritual Evidences of Prophethood
  The greatest of these evidences is the splitting of the luminous moon into two parts. Regarding this, the Exal
• The Earthly Miracles of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Some of these miracles pertain to inanimate objects, while others concern living beings. As an example of his
• The Blessing Witnessed in the Well at Quba
  Abū'l-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn al-ʿAlawī narrated that Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said: "Anas b. Mālik came to us in Quba.
• The Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Multiplication and Blessing of Food
  The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) multiplied milk and infused it with blessing on several
• The Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Multiplication of Oil for Umm Sulaym
  Ḥāfiẓ Abū Yaʿlā, through the transmission of Shaybān, narrated from Anas as follows: "My mother had a sheep. S
• 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 Ṭalḥ
• The Multiplication of Food in the House of Lady Fāṭima
  Ḥanz Abū Yaʿlā, through the transmission of Sahl b. al-Ḥanzaliyya, narrated from Jābir as follows: "The Messen
• Another Incident That Occurred in the House of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal, through the transmission of ʿAlī b. Aṣim, narrated from Samura b. Jundub as follows: "On
• The Blessing Observed in the Food Bowl at the House of Abu Bakr al-Ṣiddīq
  Al-Bukhari, through the channel of Musa b. Ismail, narrated that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Bakr said: "The Compani
• The Blessing and Increase of Food During a Journey
  Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, through the transmission of Fezzare ibn ʿUmar, narrated that Abu Hurayra said: "The Mes
• The Debt of Jābir’s Father and the Blessing of Dates by the Prophet
  Al-Bukhārī narrated that Jābir said: "When my father passed away, he had considerable debts. I went to the Mes
• The Multiplication of the Gold Piece to Pay Salmān al-Fārisī’s Contractual Debt
  Imam Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, through the transmission of Yaʿqūb, narrated that Salmān al-Fārisī said: “I said to the
• The Multiplication of Dates in Abu Hurayra’s Bag
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal, through the transmission of Yunus, narrated that Abu Hurayra said: “One day I brought a
• Other Hadiths Regarding the Blessing of Food
  Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir narrated that ʿIrbāḍ said: "In both residence and travel, I would not leave the door of the
• The Blessing of the Shank
  Imam Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal narrated via the isnād of Ismāʿīl from Yaḥyā b. Isḥāq, who said: A man from the Banū Ghif
• The Obedience of Trees to the Messenger of God
  Muslim relates from Jābir b. ʿAbd Allāh, who said: "We set out on a journey with the Prophet (peace and blessi
• The Palm Tree’s Love for the Messenger of God and Its Moaning from Separation
  On this subject, numerous hadiths have been transmitted from the community of the Companions (ṣaḥāba) through
• The Pebbles' Glorification in the Palm of the Messenger of God
  Ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī relates from Suwayd b. Yazīd al-Sulamī, who said: "I heard Abū Dharr say: After witn
• The Prophet’s Miracles Involving Animals as Evidence of His Prophethood: The Case of the Camel That Came, Complained to the Messenger of God, and Prostrated
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal, through the transmission of Ḥusayn, narrates from Anas b. Malik as follows: "There was a
• 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. A
• The Sheep Prostrating to the Messenger of God
  Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥāmid narrated from Anas b. Mālik as follows: "The Prophet (peace and blessings be
• The Wolf's Testimony to the Prophethood of the Messenger of God
  Imam Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, through the chain of Yazīd, narrated from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī as follows: "A wolf attack
• The Story of the Wild Animal in the House of the Prophet
  This animal used to show respect to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). On this matter, Imam Ahmad
• The Lion Incident
  While discussing the biography (tercüme-i hāl) of Safīna, the freedman of the Messenger of God (peace and bles
• The Story of the Deer
  The late Ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym Naʿīm al-Iṣbahānī, in his book "Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwa," narrated from Anas b. Mālik as
• The Story of the Lizard
  Al-Bayhaqī, through Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Damghānī, narrated that ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb said: "The Messeng
• Hadith Concerning the Donkey
  A few of the great hadith (hadith) memorisers have considered this to be munkar (rejected). Abū Muḥammad b. ʿA
• Miracle Concerning the Rock Bird
  Abū Dāwūd al-Tayālisī narrated that ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd said: "We were on a journey with the Messenger of God
• The Miracle of Light
  Al-Bukhārī narrated from Anas b. Mālik that he said: "Two men from among the Companions (ṣaḥāba) left the pres
• The Karāma (Saintly Wonder) of Tamīm al-Dārī
  Ḥāfiẓ al-Bayhaqī relates from Muʿāwiya b. Ḥarmal, who said: "A fire was seen on the black stony ground of Medi
• The Karāma (Saintly Wonder) of a Walī (Friend of God) from This Umma
  Karāma (a saintly wonder) is also considered among the miracles. For the karāma shown by a walī (friend of God
• The Incident of Alāʾ b. Ḥaḍramī and Another Person
  Abū Bakr b. Abī al-Dunyā narrated from Anas b. Mālik as follows: "We went to visit a young man from the Anṣār
• The Story of Zayd b. Ḥāriṯa and His Speaking After Death
  He bore witness to the prophethood of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him), and after him to the caliphate
• The Conversations and Strange States of the Dead
  Ḥakam b. Hishām al-Saqafī narrated that Rabīʿ b. Hirāsh al-ʿAbsī said the following: "My brother Rabīʿ b. Hirā
• The Speech of Small Children and the Mute
  Al-Bayhaqī, through the chain of ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdān, narrated that Muʿayqib al-Yamānī said: "I performed
• Those Afflicted by Illness and Healed by the Supplication of the Messenger of God
  Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrated from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with him) as follows: "A woman
• The Blessed Supplications of the Messenger of God
  It is narrated in the authentic collections of al-Bukhārī and Muslim that Ibn ʿAbbās said: "The Messenger of G
• Section
  Muslim, through Abū Bakr b. Abī Shayba, narrates from Salama b. al-Akwaʿ who said: "A man was eating with his
• Section
  We have previously mentioned in our tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis) that non-Muslims directed certain questions to
• The Jews’ Admission of Muhammad’s Prophethood and Their Appointment of Him as Arbiter for a Malicious Purpose
  Their Appointment The Jews devised a plan among themselves: if the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be up
• Section
  As is categorically stated in the Book of Allah and the sunnah of His Messenger, the coming of the Prophet (pe
• The Prophet Giving an Answer to a Man Before He Could Ask His Question
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal, through the transmission of ʿAffān, narrates from Wābisa al-Asadī as follows: "I went to
• The Prophet’s (peace be upon him) Foretellings Regarding the Future During His Lifetime and After His Death
  This is a great chapter. It is impossible to enumerate everything on this subject here, for there are many ver
• Section
  Now let us turn to the hadiths in which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) foretold future events a
• The Arrangement of the Prophet's Reports Regarding Events to Occur After Him
  It is narrated in the authentic collections of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, through the transmission of al-Aʿmash, t
• Among the Proofs of Prophethood: The Prophet's Foretelling of Unseen Matters Concerning the Future
  According to a narration from ʿĀʾisha through the route of Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd, found in the authentic collections
• The Prophet’s Foretelling of the Tribulations to Occur in the Last Days of ʿUthmān’s Caliphate and During ʿAlī’s Rule
  Foretelling It is narrated in the Ṣaḥīḥs of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, through the chain of Sufyān b. ʿUyayna, tha
• The Messenger's Foretelling Regarding the Two Arbitrators Appointed in the Time of ʿAlī
  ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdān narrated that Suwayd b. Ghafla said: "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upo
• The Prophet's Foretelling of the Khārijites and the Battle Against Them
  Al-Bukhārī, through the channel of Abū al-Yamān, narrated that Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī said: "One day, while the P
• The Prophet's Foretelling of ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib's Death
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal narrated from ʿAmmār b. Yāsir as follows: "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be u
• The Accession of Hasan and His Subsequent Transfer of the Caliphate to Muʿāwiya
  In the "Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwa" of Bukhārī, it is narrated through the channel of ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad from Abū B
• The Prophet’s Foretelling of the Sea Warriors’ Expedition to Cyprus
  Mālik narrated from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) used to
• Words Spoken Regarding the War with the Byzantines
  ʿĪshāk b. Yazīd ad-Dimashqī narrated that Umm Ḥarām said: "I heard the Messenger of God (peace and blessings b
• The Messenger of God's Foretelling of the Expedition to India
  Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrated from Abu Hurayra as follows: "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon
• The Prophet's Foretelling of War with the Turks
  We will, God willing, explain this in detail at the appropriate place. Al-Bukhari narrated from Abu Hurayra th
• 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
• The Prophet’s Foretelling of Maymūna bint al-Ḥārith’s Death in Sharifa
  In the work entitled "Tārīkh" (History), al-Bukhārī relates from Yazīd b. Asam as follows: – "Maymūna fell gra
• The Prophet’s Foretelling of the Killing of Ḥijr b. ʿAdī and His Companions
  Yaʿqūb b. Sufyān, through Abū Bukayr, narrates from ʿAbd Allāh b. Razīn al-Ghāfiqī, who said: "I heard ʿAlī b.
• The Report of Rafīʿ b. Ḥadīj
  Al-Bayhaqī narrated that Yaḥyā b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Rafīʿ reported from his grandfather as follows: "Rafīʿ b. Ḥ
• The Prophet’s Foretelling of the Tribulations to Emerge from the Banu Hashim after His Death
  Al-Bukhari, through the transmission of Muḥammad b. Kasīr, narrated from Ibn Masʿūd as follows: "The Prophet (
• The Messenger of God's Foretelling of the Death of Ḥusayn, Son of ʿAlī
  Imam Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal narrated from Anas, who said: "The angel of rain sought permission to come to the Prophet
• The Harra Incident During the Time of Yazid b. Muawiya
  Yaʿqūb b. Sufyān, through Ibrāhīm b. Munḏir, transmits from Ayyūb b. Bashīr al-Maʿanī that he said: "When the
• Another Miracle
  Al-Bayhaqī narrated that Mūsā b. Maysara said: One of the descendants of ʿAbdullāh led me along the road to Me
• Section
  In the Sahih of al-Bukhārī, it is narrated from Abū Hurayra, and in the Sahih of Muslim, through the chain of
• The Umayyad Crown: Prophetic Indications Regarding the Rule of ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
  Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī narrated that Ḥudhayfa said: "I asked the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon
• Muhammad b. Kaʿb al-Qurazī: Prophetic Indication of His Mastery in Qur'anic Tafsir and Strong Memory
  Harmele, through the transmission of Ibn Wahb from Abū Burda/az-Zurrf's grandfather, has narrated the followin
• The Prophetic Report on the Passing of All Those Living in His Time Within a Century After the Night He Foretold
  It is narrated in the Sahih collections of al-Bukhari and Muslim, from ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar, who said: "The Mess
• Threats Announced Concerning al-Walīd
  If authentic, this refers not to al-Walīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik but to al-Walīd b. Yazīd. Yaʿqūb b. Sufyān narrated
• Collected Reports Concerning the Umayyad Caliphs
  Yaʿqūb b. Sufyān narrated from Abū Hurayra that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "
• Reports Concerning Abbasid Rule
  The Abbasids emerged from Khurasan in the year 132 of the Hijra. Yaʿqūb b. Sufyān, through the transmission of
• The Twelve Imams Who Will All Be from Quraysh
  These are not the twelve imams whose imamate is claimed by the Rāfiḍīs. Of the twelve imams they claim, apart
• Some Events Occurring During the Abbasid Period
  Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād narrated that Erṭād b. Munḏir said: "A man came to Ibn ʿAbbās. At that time, Ḥuḏayfa was also
• Some Noble Hadiths Foretelling the Future
  Al-Tirmidhi narrated from Abu Hurayra that he said: "Soon people will strike the bellies of their camels (i.e.
• The Miracles Granted to Prophet Nūḥ
  The Exalted Allah said: "And he had called to his Lord, saying, 'Indeed, I am overpowered, so help me.'" "So W
• Other Stories Similar to the Story of Alāʾ b. Ḥaḍramī
  In the work "Dalāʾil," al-Bayhaqī relates that Sulaimān b. Marwān al-Aʿmash said: "One of my companions said:
• The Miracles Granted to the Prophet Hūd
  Abū Nuʿaym has stated, in summary: Indeed, the Exalted Allah destroyed the people of the Prophet Hūd with a ba
• The Miracle Granted to Prophet Ṣāliḥ
  Abū Nuʿaym said: If it is asked: Allah, the Exalted, brought forth a she-camel from the rock for Prophet Ṣāliḥ
• The Miracles Granted to Abraham, the Friend of God
  Our shaykh, the erudite Abū'l-Maʿālī b. Zamlekānī, said: "The fire was extinguished for the Prophet Abraham. B
• The Miracles Granted to Prophet Musa
  The greatest and most magnificent of these miracles are nine in number. Indeed, the Exalted Allah has said: "A
• The Story of Abū Mūsā al-Hawlānī
  Abū Mūsā and a group of his companions set out on the road to perform the pilgrimage (ḥajj). He commanded his
• What Was Given to the Messenger of God and the Prophets Before Him
  Muhammad b. Shuʿayb, through Rawḥ b. Mudrik, narrates that ʿAmr b. Ḥassan al-Tamīmī said the following: "The p
• The Sun Being Held at the Western Horizon
  The sun was held at the western horizon for the prophet of the Children of Israel who came after Moses, namely
• The Exalted Station Granted to Prophet Idrīs
  The exalted station he attained is mentioned in the Noble Qur'an as follows: "We raised him to a high station.
• The Miracle Granted to Prophet David
  The Exalted Allah said: "Remember Our servant David, the possessor of strength; indeed, he repeatedly turned b
• The Miracles Granted to Solomon (A.S.), Son of David
  Allah the Exalted said: "So We subjected to him the wind blowing by his command, wherever he wished, and the d
• The Miracles Granted to Jesus, Son of Mary
  The prophet Jesus is called the "Messiah." He was given this name either because he anointed (masaha) the eart
• Another Story
  Ḥasan b. ʿArfa narrated that Abū Sabra al-Nahhāf said: "A man came from Yemen. On the way, his donkey died. He
• Stories of the Blind Who Regained Sight and the Sick Who Were Healed by the Supplication of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal narrated that ʿUthmān b. Ḥanīf said: "A blind man came to the Messenger of God (peace and
• The Caliphate of Abu Bakr and the Events That Occurred During That Period
  Hijri Year Eleven: In the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this year, on the twelfth day, Monday, the Messenger of G
• The Dispatch of the Army of Usama b. Zayd
  The army that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) prepared to send to the borders of the di
• The Appearance, Seizure of Power, and Death of the False Prophet Aswad al-ʿAnsī
  Abū Jaʿfar b. Jarīr, through Ghassān b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd and Juwayriya b. Asmāʾ, narrates from some of their shay
• 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 tr
• When Abū Bakr Went to Dhī’l-Qaṣṣa’ After Preparing and Handing Over a Banner to an Emir
  After the army of Usāma had rested, Abū Bakr, together with the Muslim soldiers, drew his sword and went from
• The Commanders Depart from Dhī'l-Kassa and Proceed to Their Posts
  The chief of the commanders and the leader of the great champions was Abū Sulaymān Khālid b. al-Walīd. Accordi
• The Incident of Umm Zeml
  After the defeat of Tulayḥa at the Battle of Buzāḥa, many men from the Banū Ghaṭafān tribe gathered and went t
• The Story of Fücae
  His actual name is Īyās b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbdī Yalayl b. Umayra b. Hifāf. He was from the Banū Sulaym tribe. I
• The Secah and Banu Tamim Incident
  The Banu Tamim tribe fell into internal conflict during the time of apostasy (irtidad). Some of them apostatiz
• The Story of Mālik b. Nuwayra al-Yarbūʿī al-Tamīmī
  When Mālik b. Nuwayra arrived from the land of al-Jazīra, he began to cooperate with Sajah. However, when Saja
• The Killing of Musaylima al-Kadhdhāb
  When Abū Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) was content with Khālid and accepted his apology, he sent him ag
• The Apostasy of the People of Bahrain and Their Return to Islam
  The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) sent ʿAlāʾ b. al-Ḥaḍramī to the king of Bahrain, Munḏir
• The Apostasy of the People of Oman and Mahra
  Among the people of Oman, a man named Zuʾt-Tāj Lakit b. Mālik al-Azdī emerged. In the pre-Islamic period, he w
• Famous Figures Who Passed Away in the Eleventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, many prominent and renowned figures passed away. Along with them, we have also mentioned those w
• Umm Ayman
  The real name of Umm Ayman was Baraka bint Thaʿlaba b. ʿAmār b. Ḥuṣayn b. Mālik b. Salama b. ʿAmr b. Nuʿmān. S
• Thābit b. Akram b. Thalaba
  The genealogy of this figure is as follows: Thābit b. Akram b. Thalaba b. ʿAdī b. ʿAjlān al-Balawī. He was una
• Thābit b. Qays b. Shammas
  The lineage of this person is as follows: Thābit b. Qays b. Shammas al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī Abū Muḥammad. He was
• Hazn b. Abī Wahb
  The genealogy of this figure is as follows: Hazn b. Abī Wahb b. ʿAmr b. ʿĀmir b. ʿImrān al-Makhzūmī. He was a
• Zayd b. Khattab
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Zayd b. Khattab b. Nufayl al-Qurashī al-ʿAdawī, Abū Muḥammad. He w
• Salim b. ʿUbayd
  According to reports, the grandfather of Salim b. ʿUbayd was named Yamel. Salim was the freedman (mawlā) of Ab
• 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.
• Shujaʿ b. Wahb
  The genealogy of this figure is as follows: Shujaʿ b. Wahb b. Rabīʿa al-Asadī. He was an ally of the Banū ʿAbd
• Tufayl b. ʿAmr b. Ṭarīf
  The genealogy of this figure is as follows: Tufayl b. ʿAmr b. Ṭarīf b. ʿAs b. Thalaba b. Sulaym b. Fihr b. Gha
• ʿAbbād b. Bishr b. Waqsh al-Anṣārī
  This individual became Muslim through the agency of Muṣʿab b. ʿUmayr before the Hijra and before Muʿādh b. Jab
• Abdullah b. Suhayl b. Amr
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: ʿAbdullāh b. Suhayl b. ʿAmr b. ʿAbd al-Shams b. ʿAbdud al-Qurashī
• Abdullah b. Abdullah b. Ubayy b. Salūl
  This individual was from the Anṣār and of the Khazraj tribe. He was among the foremost virtuous figures of the
• ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīq
  This individual became a Muslim in the earliest period of Islam. According to reports, he used to bring food,
• Ukkaşe b. Mihsan
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Ukkaşe b. Mihsan b. Harsan b. Qays b. Murra b. Kasir. He was from
• Maan b. Adiy
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Maʿan b. ʿAdī b. Jaʿd b. ʿAjlān b. Dubāʿa al-Belevī. He was an all
• 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.
• Those of the Ansar Martyred in the Battle of Yamama
  In addition to those whose biographies we have discussed, several other Muslims from among the Ansar (Anṣār, t
• The False Prophet Musaylima b. Ḥabīb al-Yamāmī Killed in the Eleventh Year of the Hijra
  Musaylima came to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) together with the delegation of his t
• Events of the Twelfth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the armies and commanders of Abū Bakr set out in various directions to fight th
• The Dispatch of Khālid b. al-Walīd to Iraq and the Battle of Dhāt al-Salāsil
  After Khālid b. al-Walīd completed the Battle of Yamāma, Abū Bakr sent him a letter commanding him to go to Ir
• The Battle of Mīzar (or Senī?)
  After this, in the month of Ṣafar of the twelfth year of the Hijra, the event known as the Battle of Mīzar too
• The Event of Velje
  The incident of Velje (Velce) occurred in the month of Ṣafar in the twelfth year of the Hijra. According to th
• The Battle of Ullays
  The Battle of Ullays took place in the month of Ṣafar in the twelfth year of the Hijra. The reason for this ba
• Section
  Khalid b. al-Walid later descended to Hawarnak. He moved on to Sedir. These were regions attached to Najaf. He
• The Conquest of Anbār by Khālid b. al-Walīd
  This event is also called the Expedition of Dhāt al-ʿUyūn. Khālid b. al-Walīd set out at the head of his troop
• The Incident of Aynu't-Temr
  After completing the conquest of Anbār, Khālid b. al-Walīd left Zibrikān b. Badr there as his deputy. He himse
• Battle of Dumat al-Jandal
  After completing the Battle of Ayn al-Tamr, Khālid ibn al-Walīd turned towards Dumat al-Jandal. At Ayn al-Tamr
• The Battles of Hasid and Mudayyah
  Seyf b. ʿUmar, Muḥammad, Ṭalḥa, and Muhallab have reported the following: "Khālid b. Walīd stayed for a while
• The Battle of Firaz
  Khalid ibn al-Walid went with the Muslims accompanying him to Firaz, where the borders of Syria, Iraq, and Jaz
• Some Events That Occurred in the Twelfth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq assigned Zayd b. Thābit to collect the Qur'an after the qurrāʾ (expert recite
• Notable Figures Who Passed Away in the Twelfth Year of the Hijra
  The Battle of Yamama and subsequent battles took place in the twelfth year of the Hijra. Individuals who died
• Bashīr b. Saʿd b. Thāliba al-Khazrajī
  This individual was the father of Nuʿmān b. Bashīr. He was present at the Second ʿAqaba Pledge, the Battle of
• 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.
• Abu’l-ʿĀṣ b. Rabīʿ
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Abu’l-ʿĀṣ b. Rabīʿ b. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā b. ʿAbd Shams b. ʿAbd Manāf b.
• The Thirteenth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq began assembling an army to send to Syria (al-Shām). He did
• The Battle of Yarmouk
  According to the account of Sayf b. ʿUmar, the Battle of Yarmouk took place in the thirteenth year of the Hijr
• The Transfer of the Governorship of Damascus from Khālid b. al-Walīd to Abū ʿUbayda after the Battle of Yarmūk
  After this transfer of duty, the governorship of Damascus was entrusted to Abū ʿUbayda. Abū ʿUbayda became the
• An Incident in Iraq After Khālid b. al-Walīd’s Arrival in Syria
  After the killing of their king, the Persians decided to enthrone his son, Shahrīyār b. Ardashīr b. Shahrīyār.
• The Appointment of ʿUmar as Caliph
  Abū Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) passed away on a Monday evening, eight days before the end of the mon
• The Conquest of Damascus (Shām)
  Sayf b. ʿUmar said: Abū ʿUbayda set out from Yarmūk and encamped with his army at Marj al-Sufr. He had decided
• Section
  Scholars have disagreed as to whether Damascus (Shām) was conquered by means of peace or by war. According to
• Section
  Abū ʿUbayda later sent Khālid b. al-Walīd to Bikaa. Khālid conquered the area by force of the sword. Abū ʿUbay
• The Battle of Fihl
  Most sīra (biographical) scholars have stated that this battle took place before the conquest of Syria (Shām).
• The Battles Fought in Iraq During That Period
  As we have explained in previous sections, Musannā b. Ḥāritha remained in Iraq with the soldiers left behind w
• The Battle of Nemarīk
  Rustam dispatched an army under the command of Chaban. On the right and left flanks of the army were two comma
• The Battle of the Bridge and the Death of Many Muslim Soldiers Alongside Their Commander Abu ʿUbayd
  When Calinos fled back to his homeland after being defeated by the Muslims, the Farsh (Persians) encouraged on
• The Battle of Buweib
  In this battle, the Muslims took their revenge on the Iranians. When the Persian commanders heard that the num
• Section
  After this, the Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn) ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb sent a military unit of 6,00
• The Persians' Unification Regarding the Kingship of Yazdegerd
  Shirin gathered the Kisra (Sasanian) dynasty in the White Palace and ordered that all the men of this dynasty
• Events of the Thirteenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, several battles were fought in Iraq by Khālid b. al-Walīd against the enemies of Islam. Detailed
• Notable Figures Who Passed Away in the Thirteenth Year of the Hijra
  According to the account of Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī, the names of the notable figures who passed away in this year, l
• The Fourteenth Year of the Hijra
  This year began with ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb encouraging people to fight against the Iraqis. This was because news
• The Battle of Qadisiyya
  Sa'd continued on his way, encamped at Qadisiyya, and sent out detachments in all directions. He stayed there
• Section
  The Battle of Qadisiyyah was a great battle. There had not been a more astonishing battle than it in Iraq. Thi
• ʿUtba b. Ghazwān
  According to one view, Saʿd b. ʿUbāda also passed away in this year. According to the sound opinion, Saʿd died
• Amr b. Umm Maktum
  One of those who passed away in the fourteenth year of the Hijra was the blind Companion (ṣaḥāba), Amr b. Umm
• Musannā b. Ḥāritha
  Among those who passed away in the fourteenth year of the Hijra was Musannā b. Ḥāritha b. Salama b. Damdam b.
• Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī
  One of those who passed away in this year was Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī al-Najjārī. During the time of the Messenger
• Abū Quḥāfa
  Among the notable figures who passed away in the fourteenth year of the Hijra was Abū Quḥāfa, the father of Ab
• The Fifteenth Year of the Hijra
  Ibn Jarir said: In this year, Sa'd b. Waqqas established Kufa as a city. Ibn Bukayla showed him the location o
• The First Battle of Homs
  Abū ʿUbayda, while pursuing the defeated Byzantines, arrived at Homs and laid siege to the city. Khālid b. al-
• The Battle of Kinnesrin
  After Abū ʿUbayda conquered Ḥimṣ, he sent Khālid b. al-Walīd to Kinnesrin. When Khālid arrived, the townspeopl
• Battle of Caesarea
  Ibn Jarir said: In the fifteenth year of the Hijra, Muʿāwiya b. Abī Sufyān was appointed governor by the order
• Battle of Ajnadayn
  ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ set out with his army. On the right flank of the army was his son ʿAbdallāh, and on the left fl
• The Conquest of Jerusalem by ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb
  According to Abū Jaʿfar b. Jarīr, in the fifteenth year after the Hijra, Abū ʿUbayda, after completing the con
• Battle of Nehreşīr
  They said: Afterwards, Sa'd sent Zuhra ahead. Zuhra set out from Kusa towards Nehreşir. He took the lead of th
• Figures Who Passed Away in the Fifteenth Year of the Hijra, in Alphabetical Order
  Sa'd b. ʿUbāda al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī. Sa'd b. ʿUbayd Nuʿmān Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī al-Awsī: This individual was ma
• The Sixteenth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, Saʿd b. Abī Waqqāṣ had settled in the city of Nahrashir. This was one of the tw
• The Conquest of al-Madāʾin
  Sa'd conquered Nahrashir and settled there. However, he found neither people nor any property to seize as spoi
• Battle of Jalula
  Kisra Yazdegerd b. Shahriyar, fleeing from Madain to Hulwan, began to gather soldiers and auxiliary men along
• The Conquest of Hulwan
  After the Battle of Jalula was completed, Hisham b. Utba continued to reside there by the order of ʿUmar, the
• The Conquest of Tikrit and Mosul
  After Sa'd conquered al-Mada'in, he received news that the people of Mosul had gathered around a disbeliever n
• The Conquest of Masebezan in the Lands of Iraq
  When Hāshim b. ʿUtba completed the battle of Jalūlāʾ and returned to al-Madāʾin, Saʿd heard that Azīn b. Hurmu
• The Conquest of Karkisya and Heyt
  Ibn Jarir and others said: The people of al-Jazira had assisted the people of Homs in fighting against Abu ʿUb
• The Seventeenth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muḥarram of this year, Saʿd b. Abī Waqqāṣ departed from Madāʾin and went to Kufa. This was bec
• The Byzantines' Siege of Abū ʿUbayda at Ḥimṣ and the Arrival of ʿUmar in Damascus
  A group from among the Byzantines decided to besiege Abū ʿUbayda in Ḥimṣ. They requested military assistance f
• The Conquest of al-Jazīra
  Ibn Jarīr said: In the seventeenth year of the Hijra, according to the statement of Sayf b. ʿUmar, the region
• Some Reports Concerning the Plague of Amwas
  Due to this illness, Abū ʿUbayda, Muʿādh, Yazīd b. Abī Sufyān, and other leading Companions (ṣaḥāba), along wi
• The Dismissal of Khālid b. al-Walīd from His Post in Qinnasrīn
  Ibn Jarīr said: In the seventeenth year of the Hijra, Khālid b. al-Walīd and Iyāz b. Ghanam marched against th
• The Conquest of Ahvaz, Menazir, and the Tirīn River
  Ibn Jarīr stated that the aforementioned places were conquered in the seventeenth year of the Hijra. However,
• The First Peaceful Conquest of Tustar
  Ibn Jarir stated that Tustar was conquered in the seventeenth year of the Hijra. There are also those who say
• Battles in the Persian Territories near Bahrain
  During the caliphate of Abū Bakr, Alāʾ b. Ḥaḍramī was the governor of Bahrain. When ʿUmar became caliph, he re
• The Second Conquest of Tustar and the Capture of Hormuzan to Be Sent to ʿUmar
  Ibn Jarir said: According to the narration of Sayf b. ʿUmar al-Tamimi, this event took place in the seventeent
• The Conquest of the City of Sūs
  Abū Sabra set out with his army, accompanied by Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī and Nuʿmān b. Muqrin. They also had Hurmuz
• The Eighteenth Year of the Hijra
  According to the well-known view, which is also supported by the majority of scholars, the Amwas plague appear
• Ḥāris b. Hishām
  This individual was the brother of Abū Jahl and became Muslim on the day of the conquest of Mecca. He was a le
• Shurahbīl b. Ḥasene
  He was one of the four great commanders. He was the commander of Palestine. His lineage is as follows: Shurahb
• Amīr b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Jarrāḥ
  The genealogy of this figure is as follows: "ʿĀmir b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Jarrāḥ b. Hilāl b. Uḥayd b. Dabba b. Ḥār
• Faḍl b. ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
  He was a handsome man of fine stature and appearance. During the Farewell Pilgrimage, on the first day of the
• Muʿādh b. Jabal
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Muʿādh b. Jabal b. ʿAmr b. Aws b. ʿĀbid b. ʿAdiyy b. Kaʿb b. ʿAmr
• Yazid b. Abu Sufyan
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Yazid b. Abu Sufyan, Abu Khalid Sakhr b. Harb b. Umayya b. Abd Sha
• 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 M
• The Nineteenth Year After the Hijra
  Al-Waqidi and others said: In this year, al-Mada'in and Jalula were conquered. However, according to the well-
• Notable Figures Who Passed Away in the Nineteenth Year of the Hijra: Ubayy b. Kaʿb
  This individual was the leader of the reciters (qurrāʾ). His lineage is as follows: Ubayy b. Kaʿb b. Kays b. ʿ
• Hattab (R.A.)
  In the nineteenth year of the Hijra, Hattab, the freedman of Utba b. Ghazwan from among the Muhajirun (the Emi
• The Twentieth Year of the Hijra
  Muḥammad b. Isḥāq stated that Egypt was conquered in this year. Al-Wāqidī said that both Egypt and Alexandria
• The Conquest of Egypt
  After the conquest of Syria was completed, ʿUmar sent ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ to Egypt. According to the account of Say
• The Story of the Nile
  When Egypt was conquered, the people came to ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ as the month of Būna from the Persian months bega
• Notable Figures Who Passed Away in the Twentieth Year of the Hijra: Usayd b. Hudayr
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Usayd b. Ḥuḍayr b. Simāk al-Anṣārī al-Ashhalī al-Awsī Abū Yaḥyā. H
• Unays b. Mirsad b. Abi Mirsad al-Ghanawi
  This individual, along with his father and grandfather, were among the Companions (ṣaḥāba) of the Prophet. Una
• The Messenger of God's Muezzin and Abu Bakr's Freedman: Bilal b. Abi Rabah al-Habashi
  He is also known as Bilal b. Hammama. Hammama was his mother's name. Bilal became a Muslim in the earliest day
• Saʿīd b. ʿĀmir b. Ḥuzaym
  He was among the notables of the Banu Jumah tribe. He was present at the conquest of Khaybar. He was one of th
• ʿIyāḍ b. Ghanm
  Abū Saʿd al-Fihrī was among the first Muhājirūn (early Emigrants). He participated in the Battle of Badr and t
• 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
• 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
• Zaynab bint Jahsh
  Her lineage is as follows: Zaynab bint Jahsh bint Rabab al-Asadiyya. She was from the Asad branch of the Hudha
• The Prophet’s Paternal Aunt Safiya bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
  She is the mother of Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām. She is the full sister of Ḥamza, Muqawwim, and Ḥijl. Their mother w
• Uwaym b. Saʿīda al-Anṣārī
  He was present at the first and second ʿAqaba pledges (bayʿa) and in all the battles (ghazwāt). He was the fir
• Bishr b. ʿAmr b. Hanish
  Among those who passed away in the twentieth year of the Hijra was Bishr b. ʿAmr b. Hanish, known by the nickn
• Abū Hirāsha Huwaylid
  Among those who passed away in the twentieth year of the Hijra was Abū Hirāsha Huwaylid ibn Murra al-Hudhali.
• The Battle of Nihavand
  This was truly a great battle. Muslims called this renowned battle the 'conquest of conquests.' Ibn Isḥāq and
• Khālid b. al-Walīd
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Khālid b. al-Walīd b. al-Mughīra b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUmar b. Makhzūm
• Tulayha b. Huwaylid
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Tulayha b. Huwaylid b. Nawfal b. Nadla b. Astar b. Jahwan b. Faqʿa
• Amr b. Maʿdīkarib
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Amr b. Maʿdīkarib b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAmr b. ʿĀṣim b. ʿAmr b. Zubayd
• Aʿlāb al-Ḥaḍramī
  This person was appointed as the governor of Bahrain by the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
• Numan b. Mukrin b. Aiz al-Muzanī
  He was a distinguished Companion (ṣaḥāba) who served as the commander of the Muslims in the Battle of Nihavand
• The Twenty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, many conquests were made possible. Hamadan was conquered for the second time. Then Rayy and the
• The Conquest of Rayy
  Nuʿaym b. Muqrin appointed Yazid b. Qays al-Hamadani as his deputy over Hamadan. He himself set out with his a
• The Conquest of Komes
  When the bearer of glad tidings brought news of the conquest of the city of Rayy and delivered one-fifth of th
• The Conquest of Jurjan
  When Suwayd established a garrison in Komes, Jurjan, Tabaristan, and other surrounding provinces sent delegati
• The Conquest of Azerbaijan
  When Nuʿaym b. Mukrin first conquered Hamadan and then Rayy, he sent Bukayr b. ʿAbdullah ahead from Hamadan to
• The Conquest of Bab
  Ibn Jarir said: According to the claim of Sayf b. ʿUmar, in this year ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb sent a letter to Sur
• The First Battle Fought with the Turks
  This served as a kind of confirmation of the following sound hadith of the Messenger of God (peace and blessin
• The Story of the Barrier (Sed Kıssası)
  According to what Ibn Jarir relates, Shahr Baraz, in the city of Bab, pointed out a man to Abdurrahman b. Rebi
• The Story of Yazdegerd b. Shahrīyār b. Kisrā
  After Sa'd took from him his capital, the seat of his sovereignty, the royal palace, the carpet upon which he
• Ahnaf b. Qays and Khurasan
  We have chosen such a title because Ahnaf b. Qays was the one who proposed to ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with
• The Twenty-Third Year of the Hijra
  WāḤidī and Abū Maʿshar said: In this year, the cities of Istakhr and Hamadan were conquered. Sayf b. ʿUmar al-
• The Story of the Conquest of Fesa and Dar-i Ebjerd and Sāriya b. Zanim
  Sāriya b. Zanim al-Duʾalī set out towards Fesa and Dar-i Ebjerd, reaching a location near the enemy’s camp, wh
• The Battle Fought with the Kurds
  Ibn Jarir said: A group from among the Kurds had joined with a group from among the Persians. Abu Musa encount
• Salama b. Qays al-Ashjaʿī and the Kurds
  ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him) appointed Salama b. Qays as the commander of a unit and gave him advice
• The Death of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb
  Ibn Jarīr said: In this year, that is, the twenty-third year of the Hijra, ʿUmar made the wives of the Prophet
• The Attributes of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb
  ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb was a tall man, balding, strong, with large eyes and a dark complexion. He was tolerant.
• The Wives, Sons, and Daughters of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb
  Al-Wāqidī, Ibn al-Kalbī, and others said: In the pre-Islamic period, ʿUmar married Zaynab, the sister of ʿUthm
• Elegies Recited for ʿUmar
  Ah b. Muḥammad al-Madāʾinī relates that Mug̲h̲īra b. Shuʿba said: When ʿUmar passed away, Abū Ḥaythama's daugh
• Akra b. Habis
  According to Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Dhahabī, this individual died in the twenty-third year of the Hijra. His lineag
• Habbab b. Munzir
  Habbab, who was among those who passed away in the twenty-third year of the Hijra, has the following lineage:
• Rabīʿa b. Ḥāris b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
  This individual, who passed away in the twenty-third year of the Hijra, was among those who emigrated to Abyss
• Alqama b. ʿUlāsa
  This individual, who died in the twenty-third year of the Hijra, has the following genealogy: Alqama b. ʿUlāsa
• Alqama b. Mujazziz
  This individual, who passed away in the twenty-third year of the Hijra, has the following lineage: Alqama b. M
• Uwaym b. Saʿīda
  This individual, who passed away in the twenty-third year of the Hijra, has the following lineage: Uwaym b. Sa
• Gaylān b. Salama al-Saqafī
  This individual became Muslim in the year of the conquest of Mecca while he had ten wives in his marriage. The
• Mamer b. Ḥārith
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Mamer b. Ḥārith b. Ḥabīb b. Wahb b. Ḥudhāfa b. Jumāḥ al-Qurashī al
• Maysarab. Masrūr al-Absī
  He was a righteous elder. According to reports, he was among the Companions (ṣaḥāba). He participated in the B
• Wāqid b. ʿAbdullāh
  The genealogy of this figure is as follows: Wāqid b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd Manāf b. ʿArīn al-Ḥanzalī al-Yarbūʿī. H
• 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
• 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 Bat
• Sawda bint Zamʿa
  She was of the Quraysh and the Amir clan. She is one of the Mothers of the Believers. After Khadīja, she was t
• The Caliphate of ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān
  When ʿUthmān (may Allah be pleased with him) was chosen as caliph, the twenty-fourth year of the Hijra had beg
• The Twenty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the people of Alexandria broke the peace treaty. This was because the Byzantine emperor, a man c
• The Twenty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  Al-Wāqidī said: In this year, ʿUthmān (may Allah be pleased with him) ordered the renewal of the pillars of th
• The Twenty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  Al-Wāqidī and Abū Maʿshar said: In this year, ʿUthmān removed ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ from the governorship of Egypt a
• African Campaign
  ʿUthmān (Hz. Osman) appointed ʿAbd Allāh b. Saʿd b. Abī Sarḥ to go to the African lands and conduct a military
• The Andalusian Expedition
  After the conquest of Africa, ʿUthmān (Hz. Osman) sent word to ʿAbd Allāh b. Nāfīʿ b. ʿAbdī Qays al-Fihrī and
• The Battle Between the Berber King Jarjīr and the Muslims
  The Muslims, with an army of 20,000 under the command of ʿAbd Allāh b. Saʿd b. Abī Sarḥ, marched upon Africa.
• The Twenty-Eighth Year of the Hijra and the Conquest of Cyprus
  Ibn Jarir, following al-Waqidi, stated that Cyprus was conquered in this year. Cyprus is an island in the sea
• The Twenty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿUthmān (Hz. Osman) removed Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī from the governorship of Basra—after he had serv
• The Thirtieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Saʿīd b. al-ʿĀṣ conquered Ṭabaristān. The first person to launch a military campaign there was S
• Jabbār b. Sahr
  The genealogy of this figure is as follows: Jabbār b. Sahr b. Umayya b. Khansāʾ Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Anṣārī.
• Ḥatīb b. Baltaʿa
  The genealogy of this individual is as follows: Ḥatīb b. Baltaʿa b. ʿAmr b. Umayr al-Lahmī. He was an ally (ḥa
• Tufayl b. Harith
  The lineage of this individual is as follows: Tufayl b. Ḥārith b. Muṭṭalib. He is the brother of ʿUbayda and Ḥ
• Abū Usayd
  The lineage of this individual is as follows: Abū Usayd Mālik b. Rabīʿa. According to the statement of Fellas,
• The Thirty-First Year of the Hijra
  According to al-Wāqidī, in this year the naval battles of Sawārī and Asāwid took place. Abū Maʿshar, however,
• The Killing of the Persian Ruler Kisra Yazdegerd
  Ṭabarī ibn Isḥāq said: Yazdegerd, with a small group, fled from Kirmān and went to the city of Merv. He reques
• The Thirty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Muʿāwiya went to the Byzantine lands and carried out a military expedition (ghazā). He reached a
• Abbas b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib b. Hāshim b. ʿAbd Manāf al-Qurashī al-H
• Abdullah b. Masʿūd
  This figure, who passed away in the thirty-second year of the Hijra, has the following lineage: ʿAbdullāh b. M
• Abdurrahman b. Awf
  The genealogy of this figure is as follows: Abdurrahman b. Awf b. Abdi Awf b. Abdilharith b. Zuhra b. Kilab b.
• 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 Thirty-Third Year of the Hijra
  According to one opinion of Abū Maʿshar*, Cyprus was conquered in this year. However, the majority disagreed w
• The Thirty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  According to the account of Abū Maʿshar, the Battle of Savan took place in this year. However, according to th
• The Thirty-Fifth Year of the Hijra: The Killing of ʿUthmān
  The reason for this event is as follows: When ʿUthmān removed ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ from the governorship of Egypt, h
• The Second Arrival of the Rebel Groups from Egypt to ʿUthmān
  When news reached the people of cities outside Medina about the situation with Marwān and that ʿAlī was angry
• The Siege of the Commander of the Believers, ʿUthmān (may Allah be pleased with him)
  On Friday, when ʿUthmān (may Allah be pleased with him) fell from the minbar, lost consciousness, his head was
• Section
  The siege began towards the end of the month of Dhu al-Qaʿda and continued until Friday, the eighteenth of Dhu
• The Killing of ʿUthmān
  Ḥalīfa b. Ḥayyāṭ narrates from Rabāb as follows: "ʿUthmān sent me to al-Ashtar. I summoned al-Ashtar to him. W
• Section
  When this great event and ugly incident occurred, people were left helpless. They realized that this was a gre
• Section
  According to the well-known report, the siege of ʿUthmān (may Allah be pleased with him) in his house lasted a
• The Attributes of ʿUthmān (Hz. Osman)
  ʿUthmān (Hz. Osman) was a person with a handsome face, fine skin, a large beard, of medium height, and with la
• Section
  Aʿmash narrated that Ḥudhayfa said: "The first of the tribulations (fitna) is the killing of ʿUthmān. The last
• Some Elegies Composed for ʿUthmān
  Mujālid narrated that Shaʿbī said: Among the elegies recited for ʿUthmān, I have not heard one as beautiful as
• Section
  If it is asked, "How was ʿUthmān killed while a large group of the great Companions (ṣaḥāba) were present in M
• Some Hadiths Regarding the Virtue of ʿUthmān
  He is ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān b. Abū al-ʿĀṣ b. Umayya b. ʿAbd Shams b. ʿAbd Manāf b. Quṣayy b. Kilāb b. Murra b. Kaʿ
• Hadiths Mentioning Only the Virtues of ʿUthmān
  Al-Bukhārī narrates from ʿUthmān b. Mawhib: "When a man from Egypt came to Mecca for the pilgrimage, he saw a
• Some Examples Indicating the Virtue of ʿUthmān (may Allah be pleased with him)
  Ibn Masʿūd said: When ʿUmar passed away, we pledged allegiance to the best among us and paid no heed to anythi
• Some of the Sermons of ʿUthmān (may Allah be pleased with him)
  Al-Wāqidī relates from Ibrāhīm b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī Rabīʿa al-Makhzūmī, who narra
• Section
  Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrated that Mūsā ibn Ṭalḥa said: "While the muʾadhdhin was giving the iqāma (call to c
• Section
  One of the great virtues and tremendous benefactions of ʿUthmān (Hz. Osman) was his gathering of the Qur'an in
• The Wives and Children of ʿUthmān (Hz. Osman)
  ʿUthmān (Hz. Osman) married Ruqayya, the daughter of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him). R
• Section
  As mentioned in the section on the proofs of prophethood in this book, Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal narrated from ʿAbd
• Aws b. Sāmit al-Anṣārī
  This individual participated in the Battle of Badr. He is the husband of the woman mentioned in the noble vers
• Aws b. Hawli al-Ansari
  This individual was from the Banu Hubla tribe. He participated in the Battle of Badr. Among the Ansar (al-Anṣā
• Hür b. Kays
  He was a leader among the Anṣār (the Helpers). However, he was miserly. He was accused of nifāq (hypocrisy). A
• The Famous Poet Hatīʾa
  It is said that his name was Jawal and that he was called by the kunya Abū Malika. He was from the Banū ʿAbs t
• Salman b. Rabīʿa al-Bāhīlī
  It is said that he was among the Companions (ṣaḥāba). He was a renowned warrior and a famous hero. During the
• 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
• Abdurrahman b. Sehl b. Zayd al-Ansārī al-Ḥārithī
  He participated in the Battle of Uhud and subsequent expeditions. According to Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, he also took
• Amr b. Suraqa b. Mu'tamir al-ʿAdawī
  He is the brother of ʿAbdullāh b. Suraqa. He was among those who participated in the great Battle of Badr. Acc
• Umayr b. Saʿd al-Anṣārī al-Awsī
  He is among the noble Companions (ṣaḥāba) of exalted rank. He is held in high esteem. Due to his abundant wors
• ʿUrwa b. Ḥizām al-ʿAdawī
  This individual was a poet. He was in love with his cousin, ʿAfrāʾ bint Muḥājir. He composed poems about her a
• Kays b. Mahdī b. Kays b. Thalaba al-Ansārī al-Najjārī
  There is a hadith that he transmitted regarding the performance of two rakʿas (units of prayer) before the mor
• Labīd b. Rabīʿa Abū ʿUqayl al-ʿĀmirī
  He was a famous poet. According to an authentic narration, the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon h
• Muʿādh b. ʿAmr b. al-Jamūḥ al-Anṣārī
  He participated in the Battle of Badr. In this battle, he struck Abū Jahl with his sword, severing his leg. ʿI
• Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. Abī Ṭālib al-Qurashī al-Hāshimī
  He was born in Abyssinia. He migrated to Medina in the year of Khaybar. He was martyred in the Battle of Muʾta
• Muʿayqib b. Abī Fāṭima al-Dawsī
  He was the keeper of the seal of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him). Some say that he died
• Munkīz b. ʿAmr al-Anṣārī
  He was from the tribe of Banū Māzin b. Najjār. He had suffered a head wound, his tongue had been severed, and
• Nuʿaym b. Masʿūd Abū Salama al-Ghaṭafānī
  As we have explained on previous pages, this individual, during the Battle of the Trench, created a rift betwe
• Abū Zuʾayb Huwaylid b. Khālid al-Hudhalī
  He was a poet. He lived during the Jāhiliyya (pre-Islamic period), became Muslim after the passing of the Prop
• Abū Zubayd al-Ṭāʾī
  He was a poet. His real name was Harmala b. Munḏir. He was a Christian. He used to associate with Walīd b. ʿUq
• 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 t
• The Caliphate of ʿAlī, Son of Abū Ṭālib
  He is the Commander of the Faithful. He is ʿAlī, son of Abū Ṭālib. The real name of his father, Abū Ṭālib, is
• The Pledge of Allegiance to the Caliphate for ʿAlī
  It is related that the first person to give the pledge of allegiance (bayʿa) to ʿAlī was Ṭalḥa. He pledged all
• The Thirty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, ʿAlī, son of Abū Ṭālib, became the Commander of the Faithful and assumed the of
• The Beginning of the Battle of the Camel
  When ʿUthmān was killed after the days of tashrīq, the wives of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
• The Journey of ʿAlī to Basra Instead of Damascus
  As previously described, after ʿAlī prepared to go to Damascus, he received news that Ṭalḥa and Zubayr were he
• Section
  In this section, we will list the names of the prominent and noble Companions (ṣaḥāba) and others who were kil
• Talha b. ʿUbaydullāh
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Talha b. ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUthmān b. ʿAmr b. Kaʿb b. Saʿd b. Taym b.
• Zubayr b. al-ʿAwwām
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Zubayr b. al-ʿAwwām b. Khuwaylid b. Asad b. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā b. Quṣay
• Other Events Occurring in the Thirty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿAlī (may Allah be pleased with him) appointed Qays b. Saʿd b. ʿUbāda as governor of Egypt. Prev
• The Battle of Siffin
  This battle took place between the Iraqis and the Syrians. Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal narrates from Muhammad b. Siri
• The Thirty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Commander of the Believers, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, and Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān
• The Killing of ʿAmmār b. Yāsir
  ʿAmmār took the side of ʿAlī, the Commander of the Believers, during the Battle of Ṣiffīn and was killed by th
• The Syrians Raising Qur'an Pages on Their Spears
  When the pages of the Qur'an were placed on the tips of spears, the Iraqis said: "We respond to the Book of Al
• The Arbitration Event
  After lengthy correspondence and appeals between the two sides, they began to negotiate the matter of appointi
• The Uprising of the Khārijites
  Eshʿas b. Qays passed by the assembly of the Banu Tamīm, read to them the document containing the decision of
• Section
  As explained on previous pages, after the event of Ṣiffīn, ʿAlī (may Allah ennoble his face) returned to Kūfa
• The Meeting of Abu Musa and Amr b. al-As at Dumat al-Jandal
  The arbiters met in the month of Ramadan, as they had decided at Siffin. According to the account of al-Waqidi
• The Departure of the Kharijites from Kufa and Their War with ʿAlī
  When ʿAlī sent Abū Mūsā and the soldiers with him to Dūmat al-Jandal, the Kharijites intensified their protest
• The Commander of the Faithful ʿAlī’s Campaign Against the Khārijites
  When ʿAlī (may Allah ennoble his face) and his companions decided to fight the Khārijites, ʿAlī’s herald immed
• Hadiths Transmitted Regarding the Khārijites
  According to a narration in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim from Zayd b. Wahb al-Juhani, ʿAlī said: “O people! I heard the Messen
• Section
  Heytham b. ʿAdī, the author of one of the finest works written about the Khārijites, relates in his work that
• Section
  According to what Haytham b. ʿAdī relates, after the Battle of Nahrawān, a man named Ḥāris b. Rāshid al-Nājī c
• Section
  According to the narration of Ibn Jarīr, Abū Mihnaf and Lūṭ b. Yaḥyā said: "The battle that ʿAlī (may Allah en
• Notable Figures Who Passed Away in the Thirty-Seventh Year of the Hijra: Habbab b. Arat b. Jandala b. Sa'd b. Khuzayma
  This individual was taken captive during the Age of Ignorance. A woman named Anmār al-Khuzāʿiyya, who performe
• Huzayma b. Thabit
  The lineage of this person is as follows: Huzayma b. Thabit b. Faqīh b. Thalaba b. Saʿida al-Anṣārī. He is kno
• Abdullah b. Habbab b. Eret
  He was born during the lifetime of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). He was described with goodne
• ʿAbdullāh b. Saʿd b. Abī Sarḥ
  He was also among the scribes of revelation. In the earliest days of Islam, he became Muslim and served as a s
• Ammar b. Yasir Abu'l-Yaqzan al-Absi
  He was from the Abs tribe of Yemen and an ally of the Banu Makhzum tribe. He embraced Islam in its earliest da
• Rabīʿ b. Muʿawwiz b. ʿAfrāʾ
  He became Muslim in the earliest days of Islam. He would accompany the Messenger of God (peace and blessings b
• The Thirty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Muʿāwiya sent ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ to Egypt. ʿAmr took the land of Egypt from Muḥammad, the son of Abū
• Section
  According to a sound narration reported by Ibn Jarir, ʿAlī (may Allah be pleased with him) fought against the
• Notable Figures Who Passed Away in the Thirty-Eighth Year of the Hijra: Sahl b. Ḥanīf
  The lineage of this individual is as follows: Sahl b. Ḥanīf b. Wahib b. ʿĀlim b. Thalaba al-Anṣārī al-Awsī. He
• Suheyb b. Sinan b. Malik
  He is known as "ar-Rūmī." He was from Yemen. His kunya was Abū Yahyā b. Qāṣid. His father or uncle was the gov
• Muhammad, the Son of Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq
  This figure was born under a tree in the Sacred Precinct (Ḥaram) during the Farewell Pilgrimage, while the Nob
• Asmaʾ bint ʿUmays
  The genealogy of this lady is as follows: Asmaʾ bint ʿUmays ibn Maʿbad ibn Ḥāris al-Ḥasāmiyya. She became Musl
• The Thirty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Muʿāwiya equipped a large number of troops and sent them to the provinces loyal to ʿAlī. For, af
• Notable Figures Who Passed Away in the Thirty-Ninth Year of the Hijra: Sa'd al-Kurazī
  This individual served as the muezzin of the Quba Mosque during the time of the Messenger of God (peace and bl
• ʿUqba b. ʿAmr b. Saʿlaba
  The kunya (honorific) of this person is Abū Masʿūd. He participated in the Battle of Badr; however, he only st
• The Fortieth Year of the Hijra
  Ibn Jarir said: In this year, Muawiya dispatched Busr b. Artat, from the Amir b. Lu'ayy tribe, with a force of
• The Killing of the Commander of the Faithful, ʿAlī (may Allah be pleased with him)
  He was the Commander of the Faithful. May Allah be pleased with him. Affairs had become complicated, his army
• The Wives, Sons, and Daughters of ʿAlī (may Allah be pleased with him)
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal narrated that ʿAlī (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "When Ḥasan was born, the Messen
• The Virtue of ʿAlī, Commander of the Believers
  ʿAlī (may Allah be pleased with him) is the closest relative of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be u
• The Hadith of Brotherhood
  Al-Ḥākim narrated that Abū Umāma said: "When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) establishe
• The Marriage of ʿAlī (may Allah ennoble his face) to Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ (may Allah be pleased with her)
  Sufyān al-Thawrī narrated that ʿAlī (may Allah ennoble his face) said the following from the pulpit of Kufa: "
• The Ḥadīth of Ghadīr Khumm
  Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrated that Abū Ṭufayl said: "ʿAlī gathered the people in the courtyard of the mosque
• The Hadith of the Bird
  Some scholars have compiled works about this hadith. There are various transmission routes for it. However, al
• Another Hadith Concerning the Virtue of ʿAlī
  Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī narrated that Jābir b. ʿAbd Allāh said: "We went with the Messenger of God (peace and bles
• Examples from the Life, Sermons, Judgments, Discourses, and Heart-Penetrating Wisdoms of ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib
  Abdu'l-Wāris narrated that Alāʾ said as follows: "ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib delivered a sermon to the people and said:
• Some Beautiful Sayings of ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib
  Ibn Abī al-Dunyā narrates from Abū Araka, who said: “I performed the morning prayer with ʿAlī. When he turned
• A Strange and Astonishing Thing
  Ibn Abī Ḥaythama relates from ʿAbd al-Razzāq, who said: "Once, when there was no one else present, I was stand
• The Caliphate of Hasan, Son of ʿAlī
  As we have explained on previous pages, when ʿAlī (may Allah be pleased with him) was struck by Ibn Muljam, th
• The Forty-First Year of the Hijra
  Ibn Jarir said: In this year, Hasan, the son of Ali, handed over authority to Muʿawiya b. Abi Sufyan. Ibn Jari
• Muʿāwiya, Son of Abū Sufyān, and His Rule
  As stated in a hadith transmitted on previous pages, after the death of the Prophet (peace and blessings be up
• The Virtue of Muʿāwiya, Son of Abū Sufyān
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Muʿāwiya b. Abī Sufyān Ṣakhr b. Ḥarb b. Umayya b. ʿAbd Shams b. ʿA
• 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, ab
• Rukāne b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Rukāne b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Qurashī.
• Safwan b. Umayya
  The genealogy of this individual is as follows: Ṣafwān b. Umayya b. Khalaf b. Wahb b. Ḥudhāfa b. Wahb al-Quras
• Osman b. Talha
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: ʿUthmān b. Ṭalḥa b. Abī Ṭalḥa b. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā b. ʿAbd al-Dār al-ʿ
• ʿAmr b. Aswad al-Sakūnī
  He was among the devout worshippers and ascetics. He possessed a garment worth 200 dirhams, which he would wea
• Atika bint Zayd
  This lady's lineage is as follows: Atika bint Zayd ibn ʿAmr ibn Nufayl ibn ʿAbdiluzza. She was the sister of S
• The Forty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Muslims launched expeditions against the lands of the Lān and the Byzantines (Rum). They kil
• The Forty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Busr b. Erṭāṭ set out on a military expedition (ghazā) to the lands of the Byzantines (Rum), adv
• The Forty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the son of Khālid b. al-Walīd, went on a military expedition (ghazā) with the Mu
• The Forty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Muʿāwiya appointed Ḥāris b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Azdī as governor of Basra. Four months later, he dismi
• The Forty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Muslims, under the command of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Khālid b. al-Walīd, spent the winter in the
• 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 brav
• The Forty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Muslims spent the winter in the lands of Byzantium. In this year, Muʿāwiya dismissed ʿAbd Al
• The Forty-Eighth and Forty-Ninth Years of the Hijra
  In the forty-eighth year, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kulabī stationed the Muslim soldiers under his command in the
• Hasan, the Son of ʿAlī
  Hasan's kunya (honorific) was Abū Muḥammad. He was of the Quraysh and Hāshimite lineage. He was the grandson o
• The Fiftieth Year of the Hijra
  According to one view, Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī died in this year. However, according to the sound opinion, Abū Mūs
• Safiya, Daughter of Huyayy b. Akhtab
  The genealogy of this lady is as follows: Safiya bint Huyayy b. Akhtab b. Shuba b. Thalaba b. Abd b. Kaʿb b. H
• Umm Shurayk al-Ansāriyya
  It is also said that she was from the ʿĀmiriyya tribe. This woman offered herself in marriage to the Messenger
• Amr b. Umayya al-Damrī
  He was among the great Companions (ṣaḥāba). He became a Muslim after the Battle of Uhud. His first participati
• Jubayr b. Muṭʿim
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Jubayr b. Muṭʿim b. ʿAdī b. Nawfal b. ʿAbd Manāf al-Qurashī al-Naw
• Hakem b. ʿAmr b. Mecdaʿ al-Ghifārī
  He was the brother of Rafīʿ b. ʿAmr. He was also known as Hakem b. Aqraʿ. He was among the eminent Companions
• Dihya b. Khalīfa al-Kalbī
  He was a great Companion (ṣaḥāba). He was handsome, and for this reason, Gabriel would often come to the Proph
• Akil b. Abi Talib
  He is the brother of ʿAlī. He is ten years older than Jaʿfar. Jaʿfar, in turn, is ten years older than ʿAlī. L
• Kaʿb b. Mālik al-Anṣārī al-Sulamī
  He was a poet of Islam. He became Muslim in the earliest days of Islam and was present at the pledge of al-ʿAq
• Mughīra b. Shuʿba
  The genealogy of this figure is as follows: Mughīra b. Shuʿba b. Abī ʿĀmir b. Masʿūd Abū ʾIsā. His teknonym is
• Juwayriya bint al-Ḥārith b. Abī Ḍirār al-Khuzāʿiyya al-Muṣṭaliqiyya
  The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) took this woman captive during the campaign of Muraysīʿ
• The Fifty-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Ḥijr b. ʿAdī b. Jabal b. ʿAdī b. Rabīʿa b. Muʿāwiya al-Akbar b. Ḥāris b. Muʿāwiya b. Thawr b. Ba
• Jarīr b. ʿAbdillāh al-Bajalī
  He entered Islam after the revelation of Sūrat al-Māʾida. He became Muslim in the month of Ramaḍān in the tent
• Jaʿfar b. Abī Sufyān b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
  During the year of the conquest, when the Muslims met them between Mecca and Medina, he became Muslim together
• Ḥāriṡa b. Nuʿmān al-Anṣārī al-Najjārī
  He participated in the battles of Badr, Uhud, and Khandaq, as well as other campaigns. He was among the eminen
• Saʿīd b. Zayd b. ʿAmr b. Nufayl al-Qurashī
  He is one of the ten Companions (ṣaḥāba) who were given the glad tidings of Paradise. He was the cousin of ʿUm
• ʿAbdullāh Enīs b. Juhayna Abū Yaḥyā al-Madanī
  He was among the great Companions (ṣaḥāba). He participated in the pledge at al-ʿAqaba, but did not take part
• 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
• Maymūna bint al-Ḥārith
  In this year, the Mother of the Believers, Maymūna bint al-Ḥārith al-Hilālī, also passed away. The Messenger o
• The Fifty-Second Year of the Hijra
  Sufyān b. ʿAwf al-Azdī went on a military expedition (ghazā) to the Byzantine lands in this year. He spent the
• Prominent Figures Who Passed Away This Year: Khālid b. Zayd b. Kulayb
  This individual, from the Khazraj tribe, bore the honorific title Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī. He participated in the
• 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. Ghaz
• Abdullah b. Muğaffal al-Muzanī
  This individual is among the Companions (ṣaḥāba) who wept because they could not find a mount and thus were un
• ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn b. ʿUbayd
  The lineage of this figure is as follows: ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn b. ʿUbayd b. Khalaf al-Khuzāʿī. He became Muslim in
• Kaʿb b. ʿUjra al-Anṣārī Abū Muḥammad al-Madanī
  He was a distinguished Companion (ṣaḥāba). Regarding him, the verse (āya) concerning the ransom (fidya) in rel
• Muʿāwiya b. Ḥadīc
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Muʿāwiya b. Jafna b. Ḥadīc b. Jafna b. Katīra al-Rindī al-Ḥolānī a
• Ḥaniʾ b. Niyār Abū al-Balawī
  This individual was renowned for slaughtering and butchering kids (young goats) and other sacrificial animals.
• The Fifty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Umm Ḥakam went on a military expedition to the lands of the Byzantines and spe
• Rüwayfīʿ b. Thābit
  He was a Companion (ṣaḥāba) of high standing and participated in the conquest of Egypt. He rendered great serv
• Saʿsaʿa b. Nāciya
  The genealogy of this Companion (ṣaḥāba) is as follows: Saʿsaʿa b. Nāciya b. ʿAffān b. Muḥammad b. Sufyān b. M
• Jabala b. Ayham al-Ghassānī
  He was the ruler of the Arab Christians. His genealogy is as follows: Jabala b. Ayham b. Jabala b. Ḥārith b. A
• The Fifty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Muḥammad b. Mālik spent the winter in the land of the Byzantines. Maʿān b. Yazīd al-Sulamī went
• Some of the Famous Figures Who Passed Away This Year: Usama b. Zayd b. Haritha al-Kalbī
  The kunya (honorific) of this person is Abū Muḥammad al-Madanī. He is the freedman of the Messenger of God (pe
• Sevbān b. Mujaddid
  He was one of the freedmen of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him). We have discussed his bi
• Haris b. Rib'i
  The kunya of this person is Abū Qatāda al-Anṣārī. According to the statement of Wāqidī, his real name is Nuʿmā
• Huveytib b. ʿAbdiluzzā al-Amīrī
  He was among the eminent Companions (ṣaḥāba). He became Muslim in the year of the conquest of Mecca and lived
• Mabed b. Yerbu b. Ankese
  The genealogy of this individual is as follows: Mabed b. Yerbu b. Ankese b. Amir b. Mahzum. He became Muslim i
• Murre b. Shurahil al-Hamadani
  He was also known as Murret al-Tibb and Murret al-Khayr. He would perform 1,000 cycles (rakʿa) of prayer every
• Nuʿaymān b. ʿAmr
  The lineage of this individual is as follows: Nuʿaymān b. ʿAmr b. Rifāʿa b. Ḥarr. He participated in the Battl
• Sawda bint Zamʿa
  She was of the Quraysh and from the Amiriyah clan. She is one of the Mothers of the Believers. The Messenger o
• The Fifty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Muʿāwiya dismissed ʿAbdullāh b. Gaylān from the governorship of Basra and appointed ʿUbaydullāh
• Notable Figures Who Passed Away in the Fifty-Fifth Year of the Hijra: Erkam b. Abī’l-Erkam
  The lineage of this individual is as follows: Erkam b. Abī’l-Erkam, ʿAbd Manāf b. Asad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUmar
• Suhban b. Züfer b. İyas
  The genealogy of this figure is as follows: Suhban b. Züfer b. İyas b. ʿAbd al-Shams b. Ajab al-Bāhilī al-Wāʾi
• Sa'd b. Abī Waqqāṣ
  His real name is Mālik b. Uhayb b. ʿAbd Manāf b. Zuhra b. Kilāb Abū Isḥāq al-Qurashī al-Zuhrī. He is one of th
• Fudale b. ʿUbayd al-Anṣārī al-Awsī
  The first battle he participated in was the Battle of Uhud. He was present at the pledge of Riḍwān (Bayʿat al-
• Kaʿb b. ʿAmr Abū al-Yusr
  He was from the Anṣār. He belonged to the Sulaymī tribe. He participated in the pledge of al-ʿAqaba and in the
• The Fifty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, which coincided with the time of Muʿāwiya, Junāda b. Abī Umayya went to the land of the Byzantin
• Umm Ḥarām bint Milḥān
  According to what Ibn al-Jawzī has related, in this year as well—that is, in the fifty-sixth year of the Hijra
• The Fifty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿAbdullāh b. Qays went on a military expedition to the land of the Byzantines (Rum) and spent th
• The Fifty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Mālik b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥasʿamī went on a military expedition (ghazā) to the land of the Byzantin
• A Strange Tale
  Ibn al-Jawzī recounts this tale with its chain of transmission in his book "al-Muntaẓam." The story is as foll
• Some Notable Figures Who Passed Away This Year
  In this year, Saʿīd b. ʿĀṣ b. Umayya b. ʿAbd Shams b. ʿAbd Manāf al-Qurashī al-Umawī passed away. His father w
• Shaddād b. Aws b. Thābit
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Shaddād b. Aws b. Thābit b. Munḏir b. Ḥarām Abū Yaʿlā al-Anṣārī al
• Abdullah b. Amīr
  The genealogy of this noble person is as follows: Abdullah b. Amīr b. Kurayb b. Rabīʿa b. Ḥabīb b. ʿAbd al-Sha
• 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, lo
• The Story of Abdurrahman, Ruler of the Arabs of Damascus, and Leyla, Daughter of Cudi
  Zubayr ibn Bakkār narrated that Dahhāk al-Ḥizāmī said: In the time of jāhiliyya (pre-Islamic ignorance), ʿAbdu
• ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbbās
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Qurashī al-Hāshimī. H
• Mother of the Believers, ʿĀʾisha (may Allah be pleased with her)
  ʿĀʾisha (may Allah be pleased with her) was the daughter of Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq and the wife of the Messenger o
• The Fifty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  According to the account of al-Waqidi, in this year ʿAmr b. Murra al-Juhani went to the land of the Byzantines
• The Story Between Yazid b. Rabīʿa and the Sons of Ziyad, ʿUbaydullah and ʿAbbād
  According to what Ibn Jarīr has transmitted from Abū ʿUbayda Maʿmar b. al-Muthannā and others, Yazid b. Rabīʿa
• Shāʾir Hatie
  His real name was Jarwal b. Mālik b. Jarwal b. Mālik b. Juwaiyya b. Makhzūm b. Mālik b. Qaṭīʿa b. ʿĪsā b. Mali
• 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 Ab
• Qays b. Saʿd b. ʿUbāda al-Khazrajī
  He was a Companion (ṣaḥābī) of great stature, just like his father. There is a hadith narrated by him found in
• Maʿkīl b. Yasār al-Muzanī
  He was a Companion (ṣaḥābī) of high rank, and participated in the Treaty of Hudaybiyya. While the people were
• Abū Hurayra
  There has been disagreement regarding the name of Abū Hurayra in both the pre-Islamic and Islamic periods. The
• The Sixtieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Mālik b. ʿAbdullāh went to Syria and engaged in a military expedition (ghazā). According to the
• The Biography and Legends of Muawiya
  The genealogy of Muawiya is as follows: Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan Sahr ibn Harb ibn Umayya ibn Abd Shams ibn Abd
• The Wives and Children of Muʿāwiya
  Muʿāwiya had a son named ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, by whose name he was known (kunya). He also had a son named ʿAbdullāh
• Ṣafwān b. Muʿaṭṭal
  One of the figures said to have died in the sixtieth year of the Hijra is Ṣafwān b. Muʿaṭṭal b. Raḥasa b. Muʾa
• 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
• Yazid, Son of Mu'awiya, and the Events That Occurred During His Reign
  After the death of his father Mu'awiya in the sixtieth year of the Hijra, Yazid was given the pledge of allegi
• The Departure of Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī from Mecca with the Request for Leadership and His Martyrdom
  I will first discuss his biography, and then address his legends and virtues in detail. The lineage of Ḥusayn
• The Departure of Husayn to Iraq
  At the time when letters and envoys from the Iraqis were arriving one after another to Husayn, the letter from
• The Sixty-First Year of the Hijra
  Husayn, the son of ʿAlī, was advancing on the road to Kufa, traveling with his companions and relatives betwee
• The Killing of Husayn ibn ʿAlī
  We will narrate this subject by drawing on the views of the imams of sīra (biographical tradition). We will no
• Section
  Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī was killed on the tenth day of Muḥarram in the sixty-first year of the Hijra, which was the da
• The Tomb of Husayn
  According to the majority of the later scholars (mutaʾakhkhirīn ʿulamāʾ), Husayn's tomb is at Tafta, by the ri
• The Head of al-Ḥusayn
  According to the view well-known among historians and biographers, Ibn Ziyad sent the severed head of al-Ḥusay
• The Virtues of al-Ḥusayn
  Al-Bukhārī and Ibn Abī Nuʿaym narrated the following: "I heard ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUmar say, when an Iraqi man aske
• Some Poems Attributed to Husayn ibn Ali
  Abū Bakr b. Kāmil, narrating from ʿAbd Allāh b. Ibrāhīm, has stated that Husayn ibn ʿAlī once recited the foll
• al-Ḥusayn (may Allah be pleased with him)
  In this year, al-Ḥusayn, the son of ʿAlī (may Allah be pleased with them), was killed at Karbala together with
• Jābir b. ʿAtīk b. Qays
  The genealogy of this individual is as follows: Jābir b. ʿAtīk b. Qays Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Anṣārī al-Sulamī. He p
• Hamza b. ʿAmr al-Aslamī
  He was a Companion (ṣaḥāba) of great stature. According to what is narrated in the authentic collections of al
• Shayba b. ʿUthmān
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Shayba b. ʿUthmān b. Abī Ṭalḥa al-ʿAbdarī al-Ḥajabī. The key to th
• ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib b. Rabīʿa b. al-Ḥārith
  One of those who passed away in this year was ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib b. Rabīʿa b. al-Ḥārith b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib b. H
• Walid b. ʿUqba b. Abī Muʿayṭ
  The genealogy of this individual is as follows: Walid b. ʿUqba b. Abī Muʿayṭ b. Abbān b. Abī ʿAmr Zakwān b. Um
• Mother of the Believers Umm Salama
  The real name of Umm Salama is as follows: Hind bint Abī Umayya Huzayfa (or) Sahl b. Mughīra b. ʿAbd Allāh b.
• The Sixty-Second Year of the Hijra
  The delegation from Medina went to Yazid, son of Muawiya, this year. Yazid honored them and gave them valuable
• Buraida b. al-Husayb al-Aslami
  This individual embraced Islam when the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) granted him permission near Kurāʾ
• Rabiʿ b. Khaytham
  His lineage is as follows: Rabiʿ b. Khaytham Abū Yazīd al-Sawrī al-Kūfī. He was among the companions of Ibn Ma
• Alqama b. Qays
  The genealogy of this figure is as follows: Alqama b. Qays Abū Shabl al-Nahāʾī al-Kūfī. He was among the great
• ʿUqba b. Nāfiʿ al-Fihrī
  Muʿāwiya sent this figure as the commander of an army of 10,000 to Ifriqiyya (Tunisia). He founded the city of
• Muslim b. Muhalled al-Ansari
  He was from the Zurkī tribe. He was born in the year of the Hijra. He heard hadith from the Messenger of God (
• Muslim b. Muʿāwiya al-Daylamī
  He was a Companion (ṣaḥābī) of great stature. He participated in the battles of Badr, Uhud, and Khandaq, takin
• The Sixty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the incident of al-Harra took place. The reason for this event was as follows: When the people o
• The Sixty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of the month of Muḥarram in this year, Muslim b. ʿUqba set out towards Mecca to fight Ibn al-
• Yazīd b. Muʿāwiya
  The genealogy of Yazīd is as follows: Yazīd b. Muʿāwiya b. Abī Sufyān b. Ṣakhr b. Ḥarb b. Umayya b. ʿAbd Shams
• The Children of Yazid, Son of Muawiya, and Their Number
  One of Yazid's sons was Muawiya. His kunya (honorific) was Abu Layla. A poet said about him: "I see a fitna (c
• The Emirate of Yazid's Son Muʿāwiya
  His kunya was Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. He also had the kunyas Abū Yazīd and Abū Yaʿlā. He was of Quraysh, from the
• The Emirate of ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr
  As we have explained in previous sections, when Yazīd died, the Syrian army besieging Ibn al-Zubayr withdrew f
• The Oath of Allegiance to Marwan b. al-Ḥakam
  The reason for this was as follows: When Ḥusayn b. Numayr came from the Ḥijāz, ʿUbaydullāh b. Ziyād from Basra
• The Battle of Marj Rahit and the Killing of Ḍaḥḥāk b. Qays al-Fihrī
  As previously mentioned, Ḍaḥḥāk was the deputy (nāʾib) of Muʿāwiya b. Abī Sufyān in Damascus. When Muʿāwiya wa
• The Killing of Nuʿmān b. Bashīr al-Anṣārī
  He was also killed in the sixty-fourth year of the Hijra. His mother's name was ʿAmra bint Rawāḥa. Nuʿmān was
• Miswar b. Makhrama b. Nawfal
  In this year, Miswar b. Makhrama b. Nawfal, who was a young Companion (ṣaḥāba), also passed away in Mecca toge
• Munzir b. Zubayr b. al-ʿAwwām
  He was born during the caliphate of ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with him). His mother was Asmāʾ, the daughter
• Mus'ab b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAwf
  He was a devout and virtuous young man. Mus'ab was killed together with ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr during the sieg
• The Demolition and Reconstruction of the Ka'ba during the Time of ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr
  Ibn Jarīr said: In the sixty-fourth year of the Hijra, Ibn al-Zubayr demolished the Ka'ba. This was because th
• The Sixty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sulaymān b. Surad gathered with about 17,000 men. All of them sought to avenge the killing of Ḥu
• Battle of ʿAyn al-Warda
  When the Syrians approached, Sulaymān stood up and addressed his companions. He directed them toward the after
• Marwan b. al-Ḥakam
  The genealogy of Marwan is as follows: Marwan b. al-Ḥakam b. Abū al-ʿĀṣ b. Umayya b. Shams b. ʿAbd Manāf al-Qu
• The Caliphate of ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān
  During his father's lifetime, he received the bayʿa (pledge of allegiance) for the caliphate. When his father
• The Sixty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a man named Mukhtār b. Abī ʿUbayd al-Thaqafī, known for his falsehoods, began to act in Kūfa und
• Section
  Muḫtār then began to investigate the killers of Ḥusayn. Regardless of their status—whether honorable or dishon
• The Killing of Shimr b. Dhī al-Jawshan, Commander of the Unit that Killed al-Ḥusayn
  The notables of Kufa fled to Basra, to Musʿab b. al-Zubayr. Among those who fled was the accursed Shimr b. Dhī
• The Killing of Hawla b. Yazid al-Asbahī, Who Severed the Head of Husayn
  Muḫtār sent the commander of the guards, Abū ʿAmra, to capture him. Abū ʿAmra went and raided his house; his w
• The Killing of ʿUmar b. Saʿd b. Abī Waqqāṣ, Commander of Those Who Killed Husayn
  Al-Wāqidī said: While Saʿd b. Abī Waqqāṣ (may Allah be pleased with him) was sitting one day, one of his slave
• Section
  When Mukhtār realized that Ibn al-Zubayr was on guard against him and could not sleep, and that ʿAbd al-Malik
• Section
  Ibn Jarir said: In this year, Ibrahim b. al-Ashtar marched against Ubaydullah b. Ziyad. This event occurred ei
• The Sixty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿUbaydullāh b. Ziyād was killed by Ibrāhīm b. al-Ashtar al-Nakhaʿī. This event unfolded as follo
• ʿUbaydullāh b. Ziyād
  ʿUbaydullāh b. Ziyād b. ʿUbayd. He is also known as Ibn Ziyād b. Abī Sufyān. He is also referred to as Ziyād b
• The Killing of Mukhtār b. Abī ʿUbayd by Musʿab b. Zubayr
  ʿAbdullāh b. Zubayr, in this year, dismissed the governor of Basra, Ḥāris b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Rabīʿa al-Makhzū
• Muḫtār b. Abī ʿUbayd al-Thaqafī
  Muḫtār b. Abī ʿUbayd b. Masʿūd b. ʿAmr b. Umayr b. ʿAwf b. ʿAfrāʾ b. Umayra b. ʿAwf b. Thaqīf al-Thaqafī. His
• Section
  After Mus'ab b. al-Zubayr established his authority in Kufa, he sent word to Ibrahim b. al-Ashtar to come to h
• The Sixty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr reappointed his brother Muṣʿab as governor of Basra. Muṣʿab went to Basra
• Notable Figures Who Passed Away This Year
  ʿAbdullāh b. Yazīd al-Awsī. This individual participated in the expedition of Ḥudaybiyya. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. As
• Abdullah b. Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him)
  His lineage is as follows: Abdullah b. Abbas b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib b. Hāshim b. ʿAbd Manāf b. Quṣayy Abū’l-ʿAbbā
• Abdullah b. Abbas's Seeing Gabriel (peace be upon him) in Another Form
  Qutayba narrated that Mūsā b. Maysara said: "ʿAbbās sent his son ʿAbdullāh to the Messenger of God (peace and
• Section
  Ibn ʿAbbās, at the command of ʿUthmān (may Allah be pleased with him) who was under siege, assumed the leaders
• The Physical Appearance of Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with him)
  He was of large build. When he sat, he would occupy the space of two people. He was handsome and had a beautif
• Abū Shurayḥ al-Huzāʿī
  In the sixty-eighth year of the Hijra, Abū Shurayḥ al-Huzāʿī al-ʿAdawī al-Kaṭaʿī passed away. There is disagre
• Abū Wakīd al-Laythī
  In this same year, Abū Wakīd al-Laythī also passed away. He was a Companion (ṣaḥāba) of great stature. There i
• The Sixty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿAmr b. Saʿīd al-Ashdaq al-Umawī was killed. He was killed by ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān. The reaso
• Biography of Amr b. Saʿīd al-Ashdaq
  Anr b. Saʿīd b. ʿĀṣ b. Umayya b. ʿAbd al-Shams Abū Umayya al-Qurashī al-Umawī, known by the nickname al-Ashdaq
• Abu'l-Aswad ad-Duʾalī
  It is also said that he was al-Dilī. He was the judge of Kufa. He was a noble tābiʿī (successor to the Compani
• The Seventieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Byzantines took action. They attacked the Muslims in Damascus. Taking advantage of the confl
• Kabīsa b. Zuʾayb al-Huḏāʾī al-Kalbī
  His kunya was Abū al-ʿAlāʾ. He was among the great figures of the Tābiʿūn (the generation following the Compan
• Yazīd b. Ziyād b. Rabīʿa al-Ḥimyarī
  He was a poet, and had many poems and satires. ʿUbaydullāh b. Ziyād wanted to kill him because he satirized hi
• Malik b. Yuhamir
  Malik b. Yuhamir al-Saksaki al-Ilhani was from Homs. He was a tābiʿī (a member of the generation following the
• The Seventy-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Musʿab b. al-Zubayr was killed. The development of this event was as follows: ʿAbd al-Malik b. M
• Biography of Mus'ab b. Zubayr
  The genealogy of this figure is as follows: Mus'ab b. Zubayr b. ʿAwwām b. ʿId b. Asad b. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā b. Quṣa
• Section
  Musʿab had sons named Ukkāsha and ʿĪsā, and a daughter named Sakīna. ʿĪsā was killed together with him. T
• Ibrāhīm b. Ester
  The father of this figure was among those who rebelled against ʿUthmān (may Allah be pleased with him) and kil
• The Freedman of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him): Sefīna
  His teknonym is Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. He was the slave of Umm Salama. Umm Salama freed him, but stipulated that
• Yazīd b. Aswad al-Jurashī al-Sakūnī
  He was a devout, ascetic, and righteous man. He settled in the village of Zayd near Damascus. According to ano
• The Seventy-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a great battle took place at a place called Solak between al-Muhallab b. Abī Ṣufra and the Azāri
• Biography of ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥazīm
  ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥazīnī b. Asmāʾ al-Sulamī Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Baṣrī was the governor of Khurasan. He was among the renow
• Ahnef b. Qays
  Abū Muʿāwiya b. Ḥusayn al-Tamīmī al-Saʿdī, Abū Baḥr al-Baṣrī. He was the nephew of Saʿṣaʿa, the brother of Muʿ
• Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib
  Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib b. Ḥāris b. ʿAdī b. Majdāʿ b. Ḥāritha b. Ḥāris b. Khazraj b. ʿAmr b. Mālik b. Aws al-Anṣārī al-
• ʿUbeyde al-Selmani al-Qāḍī
  ʿUbeyde b. ʿAmr. It is also said that he was ʿUbeyde b. Qays b. ʿAmr al-Selmani al-Muradi, Abu ʿAmr, and that
• Abdullah b. Hammam
  His kunya was Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. He was a poet and belonged to the Salūl tribe. He satirized the Umayyads wit
• The Seventy-Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) was killed by the murderer Ḥajjāj b. Yūs
• Biography of the Commander of the Believers, ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Zubayr
  ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Zubayr b. al-ʿAwwām b. Ḥuwaylid b. Asad b. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā b. Qusayy b. Kilāb, Abū Bakr (he was
• Abdullah b. Safvan
  ʿAbdullāh b. Ṣafwān b. Umayya b. Khalaf al-Jumaḥī, Abū Ṣafwān al-Makkī. He was the eldest son of his father. H
• Abdullah b. Muti
  Abdullah b. Muṭīʿ b. Aswad b. Ḥāritha al-Qurashī al-ʿAdawī al-Madanī. He was born during the lifetime of the M
• ʿAwf b. Mālik
  ʿAwf b. Mālik b. Abī ʿAwf al-Ashjaʿī al-Ghaṭafānī. He was a Companion (ṣaḥāba) of high standing. He participat
• Asma, Daughter of Abu Bakr
  She was the mother of ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr. She was known as "the possessor of two sashes." At the time of t
• Thābit b. Daḥḥāk al-Anṣārī
  He was one of the Companions (ṣaḥāba). He narrated hadith from the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be up
• Tawba bint Samme
  She was called the Majnun (madly in love) of Layla. Tawba used to launch attacks against the Banu Harith ibn K
• The Seventy-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān dismissed Ṭāriq b. ʿAmr from the governorship of Medina and a
• Rāfiʿ b. Ḥadīl b. Rāfiʿ al-Anṣārī
  He was a Companion (ṣaḥāba) of great dignity. He participated in the Battle of Uhud and subsequent expeditions
• 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. H
• Abdullah b. ʿUmar
  Abdullah b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb al-Qurashī al-ʿAdawī Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Makkī, later al-Madanī. He became M
• ʿUbayd b. ʿUmayr
  ʿUbayd b. ʿUmayr b. Qatāda b. Saʿd b. ʿĀmir b. Handāʾ b. Lays al-Laysī al-Handaʾī Abū ʿĀṣim al-Makkī. He was t
• Abū Juḥayfa
  His real name was Wahb b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Sawāʾī. He was one of the Companions (ṣaḥāba). He saw the Messenger of
• Salama b. al-Akwaʿ
  Salama b. al-Akwaʿ b. ʿAmr b. Sinān al-Anṣārī was among those who pledged allegiance to the Messenger of God (
• Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī
  He was among the Qurʾān reciters (qurrāʾ) of Kufa. His real name was ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥabīb. He recited the Noble
• 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 ble
• Bishr b. Marwān al-Umayyī
  He was the brother of ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān. ʿAbd al-Malik appointed him as governor of the two Iraqs (Irāqa
• The Seventy-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Muḥammad b. Marwān, the father of Marwān al-Ḥimār and brother of ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān, launch
• Abū Nujayḥ
  According to the accounts of Abū Mazhar and Abū ʿUbayd al-ʿIrbaḍ b. Sāriya, Abū Nujayḥ passed away in this yea
• Abū Thaʿlaba al-Khushani
  He was a Companion (ṣaḥāba) of great stature. He participated in the pledge (bayʿa) made under the Tree of Riḍ
• Aswad b. Yazid
  He was a companion of Ibn Masʿūd. Aswad b. Yazid al-Nakhaʿī was among the great figures of the tābiʿūn (the ge
• Himrān b. Abbān
  He was among the freedmen of ʿUthmān (may Allah be pleased with him). He was one of those taken captive in the
• The Seventy-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, on the first days of the month of Ṣafar, on a Wednesday night, Ṣāliḥ b. Masraḥ,
• Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī al-Kudāʾī
  His real name was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mil. He embraced Islam during the time of the Prophet (peace and blessing
• Ṣila b. Ashyam al-ʿAdawī
  He was among the eminent figures of the Tābiʿūn (the generation following the Companions). He was from Basra.
• Zuhayr b. Qays al-Balawī
  He participated in the conquest of Egypt. He was among the Companions (ṣaḥāba) who settled there. The Byzantin
• The Seventy-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Ḥajjāj expelled the Kufan warriors from the city. They numbered around 40,000. An additional 10,
• The Death of Shabīb
  At this time, Ḥajjāj sent an order to his governor in Basra, Ḥakam b. Ayyūb b. Ḥakam b. Abī ʿUqayl, instructin
• Kesīr b. Ṣalt
  Kesīr b. Ṣalt b. Mādikarib al-Kindī was the chief of his tribe, a person whose command was heeded and to whom
• Muḥammad b. Mūsā b. Ṭalḥa b. ʿUbayd Allāh
  This individual was the brother-in-law of ʿAbd al-Malik. ʿAbd al-Malik appointed him as governor of Sijistan.
• Mutarrif b. Abdullah
  He had two other brothers named ʿUrwa and Ḥamza. They were supporters of the Umayyads. al-Ḥajjāj appointed the
• The Seventy-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Muslims launched a major military expedition (ghazā) against the Byzantine lands and conquer
• Jābir b. ʿAbd Allāh
  Jābir b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī al-Sulamī was a companion (ṣaḥāba) and close fri
• Shurayḥ b. Ḥāris
  Shurayḥ b. Ḥāris b. Qays Abū Umayya al-Kindī. He was the qāḍī (judge) of Kufa. He served as a judge during the
• Alā b. Ziyād al-Baṣrī
  He was from Basra. He was among Allah's righteous servants, a person who greatly feared Allah and possessed ta
• Nabīgha al-Jadī
  He was a poet. His real name was Ṣāʾib b. Yazīd al-Kindī. He died in this year (in the seventy-eighth year of
• The Seventy-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a major plague broke out in Damascus. The severity of this epidemic was such that nearly the ent
• The Eightieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a great flood occurred in Mecca. Pilgrims within Mecca, along with their laden camels, women, an
• Eshlem, the Freedman of ʿUmar
  The kunya (honorific name) of this person is Abū Zayd. He was among those taken captive at ʿAyn al-Namr. ʿUmar
• Jubayr b. Nufayr
  Jubayr b. Nufayr b. Mālik al-Ḥaḍramī was one of the Companions (ṣaḥāba) who transmitted hadith. He was among t
• Abdullah b. Jaʿfar b. Abī Ṭālib
  He was born in Abyssinia. His mother was Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays. He was among the Hāshimites who saw the Prophet (p
• Abū Idrīs al-Ḥawlānī
  His real name is ʿAyz b. ʿAbd Allāh. He was known for many karāma (saintly wonders) and exemplary accounts. He
• Mābed al-Juhani
  He was a proponent of predestinarianism (qadarism). His real name was Mābed b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿĀlim. He is the
• The Eighty-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān conquered the city of Kalikula. The Muslims obtained a gr
• The Rebellion of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ashʿath
  According to the account of Abū Mikhnaf, the beginning of this rebellion took place in the eighty-first year o
• Suwayd b. Ghafla
  Suwayd b. Ghafla b. Awsaja b. ʿĀmir Abū Umayya al-Juʿfī al-Kūfī. He participated in the Battle of Yarmuk. He n
• Muhammad, Son of ʿAlī
  He was known by the honorifics Abū'l-Qāsim and Abū ʿAbdillāh. He became famous as Ibn Ḥanafiyya. His mother wa
• The Eighty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, the Battle of Zawiya took place between Ibn al-Ash'ath and al-Hajjaj. T
• The Battle of Dayr al-Jamājim
  Al-Wāqidī said: When Ibn al-Ashʿath turned towards Kufa, the people left the city to meet him and surrounded h
• Muhallab b. Abī Ṣufra
  In this year, Muhallab b. Abī Ṣufra passed away. This Muhallab b. Abī Ṣufra is the infamous Abū Saʿīd al-Azdī.
• Esma bint Ḥāriṯa al-Fazārī al-Kūfī
  He was a praiseworthy and generous man. It is related that one day he saw a young man sitting in front of his
• Abdullah b. Abi Talha b. Abi'l-Aswad
  He is the father of the jurist (faqīh) Ishaq. On the night of his brother's death, his mother Umm Sulaym becam
• Cemil b. Abdullah
  The genealogy of this figure is as follows: Cemil b. Abdullah b. Muammer b. Sabah b. Zibyan b. Hazen b. Rebia
• ʿUmar b. ʿUbaydullāh
  ʿUmar b. ʿUbaydullāh b. Muʿammar b. ʿUthmān Abū Ḥafṣ al-Qurashī al-Tamīmī. He was a generous and noble person,
• Kumayl b. Ziyad
  Kumayl b. Ziyad b. Nuḥayk b. Haytham al-Nahāʾī al-Kūfī. He narrated hadith from ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased wi
• Zazan Abū ʿAmr al-Kindī
  He was among the Tābiʿūn (the Followers, the generation after the Companions). In his earlier days, he used to
• Küçük Ümmü Derda
  The name of this woman is Hecime. It is also said to be Cehime. She was a devout, knowledgeable, and learned w
• The Eighty-Third Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the army of Ḥajjāj was stationed at Dayr-i Karā, while the army of Ibn al-Ashʿa
• The Founding of the City of Wāsiṭ
  Ibn Jarīr said: In this year, al-Ḥajjāj founded the city of Wāsiṭ. The reason for this was as follows: al-Ḥajj
• ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Juhayra al-Hawlānī
  He was Egyptian. He transmitted hadith from a group of the Companions (ṣaḥāba). The governor of Egypt, ʿAbd al
• Ṭāriq b. Shihāb
  Ṭāriq b. Shihāb b. ʿAbd Shams al-Aḥmasī. He was among those who saw the Messenger of God (peace and blessings
• ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAdī b. Hiyār
  He lived during the lifetime of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him). He transmitted hadith
• The Eighty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  Al-Wāqidī said: In this year, ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbd al-Malik conquered Masisa. Muḥammad b. Marwān went to Armenia
• Abū Zurʿa al-Juzāmī al-Filasṭīnī
  Abū Zurʿa al-Juzāmī al-Filasṭīnī was a person of high rank among the people of al-Shām (Greater Syria). Muʿāwi
• ʿImrān b. Ḥaṭṭān al-Khārijī
  ʿImrān b. Ḥaṭṭān al-Khārijī. He was formerly among the people of the sunnah and the community (ahl al-sunna wa
• Abdurrahman b. Esh'as al-Kindī
  Abdurrahman b. Esh'as al-Kindī was killed in this year. It is also said that he was killed in the following ye
• Eyyūb b. Kirayye
  Kirayye is the name of his mother. His father was Yazīd b. Qays b. Zurarah b. Muslim al-Namrī al-Hilālī. Eyyūb
• Ruh b. Zinba
  He is also known as Ruh b. Zinba b. Salama al-Juzāmī Abū Zurʿa Abū Zinba al-Dimashqī. His house in Damascus wa
• The Eighty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  As narrated by Ibn Jarīr, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ashʿath was killed in this year. Allah knows best. In this year, Ḥ
• ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Marwān
  ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Marwān b. Ḥakam b. Abī l-ʿĀṣ b. Umayya b. ʿAbd Shams Abū l-Aṣbaġ al-Qurashī al-Umawī. He was
• Abd al-Malik's Taking of the Oath of Allegiance for His Son al-Walid, and Then for His Other Son Sulayman as Heirs Apparent
  This oath of allegiance for the heir apparent was taken in this year, after the death of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Marw
• The Eighty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Ḥajjāj’s deputy in Merv and Khurasan, Qutayba b. Muslim, launched military expeditions (ghazā) a
• The Ancestor of Umayyad Caliphs: ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān
  ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān b. Ḥakam b. Abī al-ʿĀṣ b. Umayya, Abū al-Walīd al-Umawī, was the Commander of the Fait
• Ertat b. Züfer
  b- Züfer b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Mālik b. Shaddād b. Damura b. Gakʿān b. Ḥāritha b. Murra b. Shabba b. Numayt b. Murr
• Mutarrif b. ʿAbdillāh b. al-Shāhir
  He was among the eminent figures of the Tābiʿūn (the generation following the Companions). He was one of the c
• The Caliphate of al-Walīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik
  Al-Walīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik, after the death of his father in the middle of the month of Shawwāl in the eighty-s
• The Eighty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  Al-Walīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik dismissed Hishām b. Ismāʿīl, the governor of Medina, from his post and appointed in
• ʿUtba b. ʿAbd al-Sulamī
  He was a Companion (ṣaḥābī) of great stature. He settled in Homs. It is reported that he was present at the Ba
• Mikdam b. Mādi Karib
  He was a Companion (ṣaḥāba) of great stature. He settled in Homs and transmitted many hadith. Several individu
• Abū Umāma al-Bāhilī
  His real name is Suʿda b. Ajlān. He settled in Homs. He is the transmitter of the following hadith: "After bur
• Kabīsa b. Zuʾayb
  Kabīsa b. Zuʾayb Abū Sufyān al-Huzāʿī al-Madanī. He was born in the year of the conquest of Mecca. He was brou
• Yahya B. Yamur
  He was the qadi (judge) of Marw. He was the first person to add diacritical marks to the muṣḥaf (written copie
• Shurayḥ b. Ḥāris b. Qays
  He was a qāḍī (judge). He also lived during the Jāhiliyya (pre-Islamic period). ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased wi
• The Eighty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In the summer of this year, Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik and his nephew ʿAbbās b. al-Walīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik went o
• ʿAbdullāh b. Busr b. Abī Busr al-Māzinī
  He was a Companion (ṣaḥāba) like his father. He lived in Homs, and a group from among the Successors (tābiʿūn)
• Abdullah b. Abī Awfā
  ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Awfā Alqama b. Khālid b. Ḥāris al-Huzāʿī al-Aslamī. He was a Companion (ṣaḥāba) of great stat
• Hishām b. Ismāʿīl
  Hishām b. Ismāʿīl b. Hishām b. Walīd al-Makhzūmī al-Madanī was the father-in-law of Caliph ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ma
• Umayr b. Ḥakim
  Umayr b. Ḥakim al-Ārisī al-Shāmī. He transmitted hadith. In addition to him and Ibn Muḥayriz Abū'l-Abyad, ther
• The Eighty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik and his nephew ʿAbbās launched military expeditions (ghazā) into the Byzantine lands.
• The Ninetieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik and ʿAbbās b. al-Walīd launched military expeditions (ghazā) into Byzan
• Tabib Yitazuk
  He was a specialist physician, and he had authored classified works on the science of medicine. He was a perso
• Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Saqafī
  He was the brother of Ḥajjāj. He served as the governor of Yemen. He would curse ʿAlī (may Allah ennoble his f
• Khalid b. Yazid b. Mu'awiya
  Khalid b. Yazid b. Mu'awiya, Abu Hashim al-Umayyī al-Dimashqī. His house was in Damascus, next to Dār al-Hijār
• Abdullah b. Zubayr b. Sulaym
  Abdullah b. Zubayr b. Sulaym al-Asadī was a person known as a poet. His kunya (honorific) was Abū Kasir. It is
• The Ninety-First Year of the Hijra
  In the summer of this year, Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik and his nephew ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Walīd went out on campaig
• Saʾib b. Yazīd
  Saʾib b. Yazīd b. Saʿd b. Tamāma. When he was seven years old, his father had him perform the pilgrimage (ḥajj
• Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī
  He was a Companion (ṣaḥāba) of great stature. He was from Medina. When the Messenger of God (peace and blessin
• The Ninety-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Maslama and his nephew ʿUmar b. al-Walīd launched a raid into the lands of the Byzantines. They
• Abū Saʿīd al-Madanī
  There is disagreement regarding whether this individual was among the Companions (ṣaḥāba) or not. Some have sa
• Tuvays al-Mughnī
  His real name was ʿĪsā b. ʿAbd Allāh Abū ʿAbd al-Munʿim al-Madanī. He was a freedman of the Banū Mahzūm tribe.
• The Ninety-Third Year of the Hijra
  Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik conquered many fortresses in the lands of the Byzantines. Among the fortresses he cap
• The Conquest of Samarkand
  After Qutayba had resolved all affairs and decided to return to his homeland, one of his commanders said to hi
• Anas b. Mālik
  Anas b. Mālik b. Naḍr b. Damdam b. Zayd b. Ḥarām b. Jundub b. ʿĀmir b. Ghanefn b. ʿAdiyy b. Najjār, Abū Ḥamza.
• ʿUmar b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī Rabīʿa
  ʿUmar b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī Rabīʿa b. Muġīra b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUmar b. Maḫzūm was a famous poet. It is related
• Bilāl b. Abī al-Dardāʾ
  He was appointed as governor of Damascus. Afterwards, he served as its judge (qāḍī). Later, ʿAbd al-Malik dism
• Zürare b. Evfa
  Zürare b. Evfa b. Hacip al-Amirī. He was the qadi (judge) of Basra. He was among the great scholars and righte
• Hubayb b. ʿAbd Allāh
  This individual was the son of ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Zubayr. By order of the caliph al-Walīd, ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzī
• Said b. Abdurrahman
  Said b. Abdurrahman b. Attab b. Usayd al-Umawī was among the notables of Basra. He was a generous and praisewo
• Ferve b. Mücahid
  It is said that this person was among the abdāl (substitutes, a class of righteous saints). In a military expe
• Abū Shaʿṣāʾ Jaʿfar b. Zayd
  Abū Shaʿṣāʾ would not bargain over three things. He would not negotiate the price for bringing goods and passe
• The Ninety-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿAbbās b. al-Walīd launched a military expedition (ghazā) into Byzantine territory. According to
• The Killing of Saʿīd b. Jubayr
  Ibn Jarīr said: "In this year, Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf killed Saʿīd b. Jubayr. The reason was as follows: Ḥajjāj had p
• Said b. Jubayr
  Said b. Jubayr al-Asadi al-Walibi. His kunya was Abu Muhammad, though it is also said to have been Abu Abdulla
• Said b. Musayyab
  Said b. Musayyab b. Huzun b. Abi Wahb b. Aiz b. Imran b. Manzum al-Qurashi Abu Muhammad al-Mudnif. He was undo
• Ṭalq b. Ḥabīb al-ʿAnazī
  He was a tābiʿī (a member of the generation following the Companions) of high standing. He transmitted hadith
• ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr b. al-ʿAwwām
  He was from the Quraysh, of the clan of Banū Asad. His kunya was Abū ʿAbd Allāh. He was a native of Medina and
• Ali b. Ḥusayn
  Ali b. Ḥusayn b. Ali b. Abī Ṭālib al-Qurashī al-Hāshimī, known as Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn. His mother was a umm walad
• 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 A
• The Ninety-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿAbbās b. al-Walīd launched a ghazā (military expedition) against the Byzantine territories and
• Biography of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī
  Al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf b. Abī ʿUqayl b. Masʿūd b. ʿĀmir b. Muʿattib b. Mālik b. Kaʿb b. ʿAmr b. Saʿd b. ʿAwf b. Th
• Section
  In the previous sections, we recounted how, in the seventy-fifth year of the Hijra, al-Ḥajjāj entered Kufa, de
• Beneficial Sayings Transmitted from Hajjāj and His Extreme Audacity
  Abū Dāwūd narrated that ʿĀṣim said: I heard Hajjāj say the following from the pulpit: "Fear Allah as much as y
• Ibrāhīm b. Yazīd al-Nakhaʿī
  He used to say: When we attended a funeral ceremony or heard that someone had died, this ḥāl (spiritual state)
• Hasan b. Muhammad b. al-Hanafiyya
  His kunya was Abū Muḥammad. He was preeminent among his brothers. He was a learned and jurist individual, know
• Mutarrif b. ʿAbdullājī b. al-Shāhir
  The biography of this individual has been discussed on previous pages. The biographies of all these figures ar
• The Ninety-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Qutayba b. Muslim conquered Kashgar in the land of China—may Allah have mercy on him. He sent en
• Reports Transmitted Concerning the Mosque of Damascus
  It is narrated that Qatāda interpreted Sūrat al-Tīn as follows: "He said that the word 'Tīn' at the beginning
• The Head of Prophet Yahya, Son of Zakariya
  Ibn ʿAsākir narrated that Zayd b. Wāqid said: "Al-Walīd appointed me as overseer of the workers building the m
• The Clocks at the Gate of the Umayyad Mosque
  Qāḍī ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Zabr said: The reason why the gate on the façade side of the mosque is called the G
• The Commencement of Qur'an Recitation According to the Seven Readings (Qirāʾāt al-Sabʿa) in the Umayyad Mosque
  Abū Bakr b. Abī Dāwūd narrated that Ḥassān b. ʿAṭiyya said as follows: "Qur'an lessons began to be given in th
• Section
  The construction of the mosque of Damascus began towards the end of the eighty-sixth year of the Hijra. The ch
• Biography of al-Walīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik, Founder of the Damascus Mosque
  Al-Walīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān b. Ḥakam b. Abī al-ʿĀṣ b. Umayya b. ʿAbd Shams b. ʿAbd Manāf, Abū al-ʿAbbā
• Ziyād b. Ḥāris al-Tamīmī al-Dimashqī
  This person’s house was located to the west of the Sakafiyyīn pavilion. He transmitted hadith from Ḥabīb b. Ma
• The Caliphate of Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Malik
  On the day of his brother al-Walīd’s death, that is, on a Saturday in the middle of the month of Jumādā al-Ākh
• The Killing of Qutayba b. Muslim
  The development of this event was as follows: Qutayba gathered soldiers with the intention of deposing Sulaymā
• The Ninety-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Malik prepared an army to march on Constantinople. He assigned his son Dāwūd
• Hasan b. Hasan, the Grandson of ʿAlī
  Hasan b. Hasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, Abū Muḥammad al-Qurashī al-Hāshimī. He transmitted the following hadith,
• Musa b. Nusayr
  Musa b. Nusayr Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Lahmī. He was a freedman of a woman from the Lahm tribe. According to ano
• The Ninety-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Malik sent a second military unit under the command of his brother Maslama b
• Abdullah b. Abdullah b. Utba
  He was an imam and a ḥujja (authoritative religious figure). He served as the muʾaddib (tutor and educator) of
• The Ninety-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Malik died on the tenth day of the month of Ṣafar, or ten days be
• The Caliphate of ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
  As explained on previous pages, when Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Malik passed away on a Friday, ten days before the en
• Hasan b. Muḥammad b. Ḥanafiyya
  He was a tābiʿī (member of the generation following the Companions) of great stature, and it is said that he w
• Abdullah b. Muhayriz
  Abdullah b. Muhayriz b. Junāda b. ʿUbayd al-Qurashī al-Jumahī al-Makkī lived in Jerusalem. He was a tābiʿī (me
• Mahmud b. Lebid b. Ukbe
  Mahmud b. Lebid b. Ukbe Abū Naʿīm al-Anṣārī al-Ashhalī. He was born during the lifetime of the Prophet (peace
• Nafiʿ b. Jubayr b. Muṭʿim
  Nafiʿ b. Jubayr b. Muṭʿim b. ʿAdiyy b. Nawfal al-Qurashī al-Nawfalī al-Madanī narrated hadith from his father,
• Muhammad b. Jubayr b. Muṭʿim
  He was among the scholars and notables of Quraysh. He narrated many hadith. He remembered that when he was fou
• Muslim b. Yasar
  Muslim b. Yasar Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Baṣrī was a jurist (faqīh) and ascetic (zāhid). He transmitted many hadith. N
• Hāritha b. Zayd
  Hāritha b. Zayd b. Dahḥāk al-Anṣārī al-Madanī was a jurist (faqīh) who issued legal opinions (fatwas) in Medin
• The Hundredth Year of the Hijra
  Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal narrated that Nuʿaym b. Dujāja said: "Ibn Masʿūd went to ʿAlī. ʿAlī asked him: 'Are you t
• The Commencement of Abbasid Propaganda
  These propaganda activities began as follows: Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbbās, who was residing in th
• Salim b. Abī’l-Jaʿd al-Ashjaʿī
  He was a freedman from the Ashjaʿ tribe residing in Kufa. He was the brother of Ziyad, Abdullah, ʿUbaydullah,
• 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
• 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
• 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 wa
• Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī
  The real name of this person is ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mul al-Baṣrī. He lived during the Age of Ignorance (Jāhiliyy
• The One Hundred and First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, when Yazid b. Muhallab heard that ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAziz had fallen ill, he escaped from prison
• The Biography of ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
  ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Marwān b. Ḥakam b. Abī al-ʿĀṣ b. Umayya b. ʿAbd Shams b. ʿAbd Manāf, Abū Ḥafṣ al-Qur
• Foreknowledge of the Coming of ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and the Expectation of His Arrival
  Abū Dāwūd al-Tayālisī narrates from Ibn ʿUmar: "How astonishing! How astonishing! People believed that the end
• Section
  In the chapter "Proofs of Prophethood" of this book, we mentioned the hadith narrated by Abū Dāwūd in his own
• Section
  As we have explained in previous sections, ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz eliminated all injustices. So much so that h
• The Cause of Death of ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
  May Allah have mercy on him, the cause of ʿUmar's death was tuberculosis. According to a weak narration, one o
• Section
  When he assumed the caliphate, ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz said to the commander of the guards who came to walk bef
• The Caliphate of Yazid b. ʿAbd al-Malik
  Because his brother Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Malik had appointed him as heir apparent after ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz,
• The One Hundred and Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik and Yazīd b. Muhallab confronted each other. The situation was as follo
• Mesleme’s Governorship in the Provinces of Iraq and Khurasan
  After completing the war he waged against the Muhallabid family, Mesleme received a letter from his brother Ya
• A Battle Between the Turks and the Muslims
  The reason for the occurrence of this battle was as follows: The Turkish ruler, the Great Khagan, sent a milit
• Dahḥāk b. Muzāḥim al-Hilālī
  His kunya was Abū'l-Qāsim. He was also called Abū Muḥammad. He was from Khurasan, and also lived in Balkh, Sam
• The One Hundred and Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿUmar b. Hubayra Saʿīd, known by the nickname Huzayna, was dismissed from the deputy governorshi
• Yazīd b. Abī Muslim
  In this year, alongside Yazīd b. Abī Muslim, Abū'l-Aʿlā al-Madanī, ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār al-Hilālī, Abū Muḥammad al-Q
• Mujāhid b. Jabr al-Makkī
  His kunya was Abū'l-Ḥajjāj. He was of Quraysh and from the Mahzūm clan. He was the freedman of Ṣāʾib b. Abī Sa
• Section
  Ṭabarānī narrated that Mujāhid said: "Ibn ʿAbbās said to me: 'Do not sleep without being in a state of ritual
• The One Hundred and Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Saʿīd b. ʿAmr al-Ḥirašī, the deputy governor of Khurasan, fought against the Sogdians. He besieg
• Halid b. Sa'dan al-Kulāʾī
  He transmitted reports from the community of the Companions (ṣaḥāba). He was a tābiʿī (a member of the generat
• ʿĀmir b. Shurayḥīl al-Shaʿbī
  ʿĀmir is among the figures who passed away in the year 104 of the Hijra. This person was from Hamadan. His kun
• 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 caliph
• Abū Qilāba al-Jurmī
  His real name was ʿAbd Allāh b. Yazīd al-Baṣrī. He transmitted many reports from the Companions (ṣaḥāba) and o
• The One Hundred and Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Jarrāḥ b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥakamī launched a military expedition against the land of Lan. He conquer
• The Biography of Yazid b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwan
  Yazid b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwan, Abu Khalid al-Qurashi al-Umayyad, was the Commander of the Faithful. His mot
• The Caliphate of Hisham b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwan
  Hisham b. ʿAbd al-Malik was given the oath of allegiance (bayʿa) on the Friday when his brother Yazid died, fi
• Eban b. ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān
  The death of this person was mentioned among the events of the eighty-fifth year of the Hijra. He was one of t
• The One Hundred and Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Hisham b. ʿAbd al-Malik dismissed ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Nadrī from the governorships of
• Salim b. Abdullah
  Salim b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb Abū ʿAmr al-Faqīh. He was among the jurists (fuqahāʾ) and scholars.
• Ṭāwūs b. Kaysān al-Yamanī
  He was among the most important companions of Ibn ʿAbbās. We have transmitted the biographies of Ibn ʿAbbās’s
• The One Hundred and Tenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a man named ʿAbbād al-Raʾīnī rebelled in Yemen. He called people to the doctrine of the Khārijit
• Süleyman b. Yesar
  He was among the Tābiʿūn (the Followers, the generation after the Companions). He was the brother of ʿAtāʾ b.
• Ikrima, the Freedman of Ibn ʿAbbās
  He was among the Tābiʿūn, one of the exegetes with many transmissions, a Rabbānī scholar, and one of those who
• Qāsim b. Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīq
  He was among the renowned jurists (fuqahāʾ). He transmitted many reports. He narrated from the Companions (ṣaḥ
• The Famous Poet Kusayyir and Azza
  Kusayyir b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aswad b. ʿĀmir Abū Sahr al-Khuzāʿī al-Ḥijāzī. He is also known as Ibn Abī Jumʿa.
• The One Hundred Eighteenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik conquered Kayseri. Ibrāhīm b. Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik also conquered on
• Bakr b. ʿAbdallāh al-Muzanī al-Baṣrī
  He was a scholar, a devout worshipper, an ascetic, humble, and a man of few words. He transmitted many reports
• Muḥammad b. Kaʿb al-Quraẓī
  According to one opinion, he passed away in this year. His kunya was Abū Ḥamza. He transmitted many reports fr
• The One Hundred and Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Hisham b. ʿAbd al-Malik dismissed Asad b. ʿAbdullah al-Qusarī from the governorship of Khurasan
• The One Hundred and Tenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik fought against the great Turkish Khagan. The Khagan advanced upon Masla
• The Poet Jarīr
  Jarīr b. Ḥiṭfī is also known as Ibn ʿAṭiyya b. Ḥiṭfī. Ḥiṭfī’s real name is Ḥudhayfa b. Badir b. Salama b. ʿAwf
• Ferezdak
  His full name is Hammām b. G̲h̲ālib b. Saʿṣaʿa b. Nājiya b. Īkāl b. Muḥammad b. Sufyān b. Mūjāshiʿ b. Dārim b.
• Hasan b. Abī l-Ḥasan
  His father's name was Yasār. As for Abred, he is Abū Saʿīd al-Baṣrī. This person was a freedman of Zayd b. Thā
• Section
  The author should have narrated the biographies of these distinguished scholars before those of the poets ment
• Hasan al-Basri
  He is known as Abū Saʿīd. He was from Basra. He was a jurist and a renowned scholar. He was among the great fi
• Muhammad b. Sirin
  Abū Bakr b. Abī ʿAmr al-Anṣārī. He was the freedman of Anas b. Mālik al-Naḍrī. His father was among the captiv
• Wahb b. Munabbih al-Yamanī
  He was a tābiʿī (member of the generation following the Companions) of great stature. He possessed knowledge c
• Section
  Wahb b. Munabbih reached several of the Companions (ṣaḥāba). He transmitted hadiths by conveying their chains
• Süleyman b. Sa'd
  He was a handsome man, eloquent and well-versed in Arabic. Together with Ṣāliḥ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kātib, he
• ʿĀʾisha bint Ṭalḥa b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
  Her mother was Umm Kulthūm bint Abū Bakr. She married her maternal cousin ʿAbd Allāh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Bak
• The One Hundred and Eleventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Muʿāwiya b. Hishām went on a military expedition (ghazā) to the Anatolian coasts. Saʿīd b. Hishā
• The One Hundred and Twelfth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Muʿāwiya b. Hishām set out on a military expedition (ghazā) to Anatolia. He conquered several fo
• Rajāʾ b. Ḥaywa al-Kindī
  His patronymic is Abū Mikdām. It is also said that he was Abū al-Naṣr. He was a tābiʿī (member of the generati
• Shahr b. Hawshab al-Ashʿarī
  He was from Homs, though it is also said that he was from Damascus. He was a tābiʿī (member of the generation
• The One Hundred and Thirteenth Year of the Hijra
  Muʿāwiya b. Hishām carried out a military expedition (ghazā) in the region of Marash. A group of Abbasid propa
• Amir ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Buht
  This individual was together with Battāl ʿAbdullāh and was martyred in the land of the Byzantines (Rum). His b
• Mekhūl of Damascus
  He was a tābiʿī (member of the generation following the Companions) of high standing. In his time, he was the
• The One Hundred and Fourteenth Year of the Hijra
  Muʿāwiya b. Hishām went to the Anatolian coasts and undertook a ghazā (military expedition). Sulaymān b. Hishā
• Atāʾ b. Abī Rabāḥ
  He was from the Banū Fihr tribe and was one of their freedmen. His teknonym was Abū Muḥammad al-Makkī. He was
• Section
  Abū Muḥammad ʿAṭāʾ b. Abī Rabāḥ. The real name of Abū Rabāḥ is Aslam. He transmitted hadith from many of the C
• The One Hundred and Fifteenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a plague broke out in al-Sham (Greater Syria). Muhammad b. Hisham b. Ismaʿil, the governor of th
• 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 mothe
• Section
  Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib. His father was ʿAlī Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn. His grandfath
• The One Hundred Sixteenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Muʿāwiya b. Hishām went on a military expedition (ghazā) to Anatolia. A great plague appeared in
• The One Hundred and Seventeenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Muʿāwiya b. Hishām set out on a military expedition (ghazā) to the Anatolian coasts. Sulaymān b.
• Qatāda b. Diʿāma al-Sadūsī
  His kunya was Abū’l-Khaṭṭāb al-Baṣrī, and he was blind. He was among the scholars of the Tābiʿūn (the generati
• Section
  As for Saʿīd b. Yasār, he was among the devout worshippers and ascetics. He transmitted reports from a group o
• Nāfiʿ, the Freedman of Ibn ʿUmar
  Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Madanī. His origin is from the Maghrib (North Africa). There are also reports that he was fr
• The Poet Zu Rimme
  His real name was Ghaylān b. ʿUtba b. Bahīs. He was from the sons of Banū ʿAbd Manāt b. Ed b. Ṭabīḥa b. Ilyās
• The One Hundred and Eighteenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Muʿāwiya and Sulaymān, the sons of the Commander of the Believers, Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik, went
• Ali b. Abdullah b. Abbas
  ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Qurashī al-Hāshimī. His kunya (honorific), is Abū'l-Ḥasan.
• The One Hundred and Nineteenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Walīd b. Kaʿka went on a military expedition (ghazā) to Anatolia. In this year, Asad b. ʿAbdullā
• The One Hundred and Twentieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sulaymān b. Hishām launched a ghazā (military expedition) against the Byzantine lands and conque
• The One Hundred and Twenty-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Maslama b. Hisham went on a military expedition (ghazā) to Anatolia. He conquered the fortress o
• Mesleme b. ʿAbd al-Malik
  Mesleme b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān al-Qurashī al-Umawī. His kunya was Abū Saʿīd. It is also said that he was k
• Numayr b. Kays
  He was an Ashʿarī. He served as the qadi (judge) of Damascus. He was a tābiʿī (a member of the generation foll
• The One Hundred and Twenty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Zayd b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib was killed. The reason for his killing was as follow
• Abdullah Abu Yahya Known as Battal
  Battal resided in Antioch. Abu Marwan al-Antaki transmitted reports from him and recounted his life. He then n
• Iyās al-Zakī
  Iyās b. Muʿāwiya b. Murra b. Iyās b. Hilāl b. Ribāb b. ʿUbayd b. Dū-rayd b. Aws b. Sawāh b. ʿAnir b. Sāriya b.
• The One Hundred and Twenty-Third Year of the Hijra
  According to what al-Madāʾinī narrated from his own teachers, when the Turkic Khagan was killed during the gov
• The One Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sulaymān b. Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik went on a military campaign (ghazā) to Anatolia. He encounte
• Qāsim b. Abī Bazza
  His patronymic is Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Makkī al-Qārī. He was a freedman of ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Sāʾib. He was a tābiʿ
• Zuhrī
  Muḥammad b. Muslim b. ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. Shihāb b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥārith b. Zuhra b. Kilāb b. Murra Abū
• Fasl
  Ṭabarānī narrated that Ṣāliḥ b. Kaysān said: "I kept company with al-Zuhrī. We studied knowledge together. We
• Bilal b. Sa'd
  Bilāl b. Saʿd b. Tamīm al-Sakunī, Abū ʿAmr. He was among the great ascetics (zāhid), devoted worshippers (ʿābi
• Jaʿd b. Dirham
  He was the first person to assert that the Qur'an is created. This view is attributed to Marwan al-Jaʿdī. Marw
• The One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  Ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr al-Bezzār narrated that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The adorn
• The Death and Biography of Hisham b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwan
  Hisham b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwan b. Hakem b. Abī al-ʿĀṣ b. Umayya b. ʿAbd Shams, Abū al-Walīd al-Qurashī al-U
• The Caliphate of Yazid b. ʿAbd al-Malik
  Al-Wāqidī said: After the death of his uncle Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik, which occurred on a Wednesday, six days
• Muhammad b. Ali
  Muhammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbbās Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Madanī. This person is the father of al-Saffāḥ and
• Yahya b. Zayd
  Yahya b. Zayd b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib. When his father Zayd was killed in the year 121 of the H
• Biography of Walid b. Yazid b. ʿAbd al-Malik
  Walid b. Yazid b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwan b. Hakam, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Umawī al-Dimashqī. He was pledged allegia
• The Killing of Walīd and the Fall of the State
  This man would openly commit sins. He was persistent in doing evil things. He would violate and disregard the
• The Killing of Walīd b. Yazīd by Yazīd b. Walīd al-Nāqiṣ
  We have previously described some of the acts of impiety, frivolity, disregard for religious rulings, and lack
• The Caliphate of Yazid b. al-Walid b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwan
  This individual was given the nickname "Nāqiṣ" (the Diminisher). This was because he reduced the generous gran
• Yazid b. al-Walid b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwan
  Yazid b. al-Walid b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwan b. Hakam b. Abi’l-ʿAs b. Umayya b. ʿAbd Shams b. ʿAbd Manaf b. Qu
• Khalid b. ʿAbdallāh b. Yazīd
  Khalid b. ʿAbdallāh b. Yazīd b. Asad b. Kurz b. ʿĀmir b. Abkarī Abū'l-Haytham al-Bajalī al-Kusarī al-Dimashqī.
• The One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, Ibrāhīm b. Walīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik assumed the caliphate upon the bequest of his
• The Entry of Marwan b. Muhammad al-Himar into Damascus and His Accession to the Caliphate
  Marwan, together with the soldiers accompanying him, set out from Ayn al-Jard and began his journey. He approa
• The One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Ḥāris b. Surayya was killed. The reason for his killing was as follows: Yazīd b. Walīd al-Nāqiṣ
• The One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, after the killing of the Khaybari, the Khārijites (Kharijis) gathered around a Khārijite named S
• The First Emergence of Abu Muslim al-Khurasani
  In this year, a letter arrived from the Abbasid imam, Ibrahim b. Muhammad, commanding Abu Muslim al-Khurasani
• The Killing of Ibn Kirmani
  A war broke out between Nasr b. Sayyar and Juday' b. ʿAlī al-Kirmanī. Many men were killed on both sides. Abū
• The One Hundred and Thirtieth Year of the Hijra
  On the 9th of the month of Jumada al-Awwal of this year, on a Thursday, Abū Muslim al-Khurasānī entered the ci
• The Killing of Shaybān b. Salama al-Ḥarūrī
  When Naṣr b. Sayyār fled, Shaybān sided with him and worked against Abū Muslim. He became his enemy. Abū Musli
• The Entry of the Kharijite Abu Hamza into al-Madina al-Munawwara and His Occupation of the City
  Ibn Jarir said: In this year, the Kharijite Abu Hamza came to Madina from the region of Kadid. In the early da
• The One Hundred and Thirty-First Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, Kaḥṭaba b. Shabīb sent his son Ḥasan to Komes to fight against Naṣr b.
• The Year One Hundred and Thirty-Two of the Hijra
  In the month of Muḥarram of this year, Kaḥṭaba b. Shabīb crossed the Euphrates River with infantry and cavalry
• The Killing of Imam Ibrahim b. Muhammad
  While discussing the events of the year 129 AH, we previously mentioned that Marwan intercepted a letter sent
• The Caliphate of Abū’l-ʿAbbās al-Saffāḥ
  When the people of Kufa heard the news of the death of Imam Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad, Abū Salama al-Ḥallāl sought t
• The Killing of Marwan b. Muhammad b. Marwan
  Marwan b. Muhammad b. Marwan was the last caliph of the Umayyads. After him, the caliphate passed to the Abbas
• The Biography of al-Ḥimār
  ʿIyrervān b. Muḥammad b. Marwān b. Ḥakam b. Abī l-ʿĀṣ b. Umayya, known as al-Umawī Abū ʿAbd al-Malik, was the
• Prophetic Reports Concerning the Fall of the Umayyad State and the Beginning of the Abbasid State
  ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated from Abū Hurayra that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)
• Abu'l-Abbas al-Saffah's Independent Accession as Caliph, Consolidation of His Authority, and Display of Good Governance to the People
  As described in previous sections, the bayʿa (oath of allegiance) for the caliphate was given to al-Saffah on
• Marwan b. Muhammad b. Marwan b. al-Hakam
  His honorific is Abū ʿAbd al-Malik al-Umawī. He was the last caliph of the Umayyads. He died during one of the
• 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 orde
• The One Hundred Thirty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Saffāḥ appointed his uncle Sulaymān as governor of Basra, the agricultural distric
• The Year One Hundred and Thirty-Four of the Hijra
  In this year, Bessam b. Ibrahim b. Bessam rebelled against Saffah. Saffah sent Hazim b. Khuzayma against him.
• The One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Ziyad b. Salih, who was located behind the river of Balkh, rebelled against Abu Muslim al-Khuras
• The One Hundred Thirty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Abu Muslim, after receiving permission, came from Khurasan to visit the caliph al-Saffah. The ca
• Biography of the First Abbasid Caliph, Abū’l-ʿAbbās al-Saffāḥ
  Al-Saffāḥ, also known as al-Murtaḍā and Qāsim, has the following lineage: ʿAbdallāh al-Saffāḥ b. Muḥammad b. I
• The Caliphate of Abu Ja'far al-Mansur
  His real name was ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbbās. As mentioned on previous pages, at the
• The Revolt of Abdullah b. Ali Against His Nephew Abu Ja'far al-Mansur
  After the death of his brother al-Saffah, Abu Ja'far al-Mansur entered Kufa upon returning from the pilgrimage
• The Killing of Abu Muslim al-Khurasani
  After performing the pilgrimage in this year, Abu Muslim al-Khurasani traveled one stage ahead of the caravan.
• The Biography of Abū Muslim al-Khurāsānī
  His name was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muslim, and his kunya was Abū Muslim. He was the master of the Abbasid state. H
• The One Hundred Thirty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Byzantine emperor Constantine entered Malatya by force. He demolished the city's walls and p
• The One Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Ṣāliḥ b. ʿAlī completed the reconstruction and restoration of the city of Malatya. Then, taking
• The One Hundred and Fortieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, some soldiers rebelled against the governor of Khurasan, Abu Dawud. They besieged his house. In
• The One Hundred and Forty-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a group known as the Rayendis rebelled against Mansur. According to what Ibn Jarir narrates from
• The One Hundred and Forty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿUyayna b. Mūsā b. Kaʿb, the governor of Sind, rebelled against the caliph. The caliph prepared
• The One Hundred Forty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph Mansur called upon the people to undertake a military expedition (ghazā) against the
• The One Hundred and Forty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Muḥammad b. Abī al-ʿAbbās al-Saffāḥ, by order of his uncle Manṣūr, set out on a military campaig
• The One Hundred and Forty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  Among the events that took place in this year were the uprisings of Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥasan in Medina
• The Killing of Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥasan
  Meanwhile, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥasan sent an envoy to the people of Syria, inviting them to accept his c
• The Revolt of Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥasan
  Meanwhile, in Basra, Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥasan also initiated a rebellion. A messenger arrived at night t
• The Uprising of Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥasan in Basra
  Ibrāhīm fled to Basra. He was hosted in the house of Ḥāris b. ʿĪsā, a member of the Banū Dābiʿa tribe among th
• Famous Figures Who Died in the One Hundred and Forty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  Among the foremost and renowned figures of the Ahl al-Bayt (the Family of the Prophet), Abdullah b. Hasan, his
• Abdullah b. Mukaffaʿ
  A famous writer. He became Muslim through the mediation of ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī, who was the uncle of Saffāḥ and Manṣū
• The One Hundred and Forty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the construction of the city of Baghdad (Madīnat al-Salām) was completed. In the month of Ṣafar
• Works and Reports Concerning the City of Baghdad
  There are four lexical forms associated with the name of this city: Baghdad, Baghdaz, Baghdan, and Maghdan. Th
• Reports of the Scholars about Baghdad
  Yūnus b. ʿAbd al-Aʿlā al-Ṣadafī said: Imām Shāfiʿī asked me: "Have you ever seen Baghdad?" – No. – Then you ha
• The One Hundred and Forty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Es̱terhān al-Ḥārazmī attacked the Armenian regions with the Turkish army. He entered Tbilisi, ki
• The One Hundred and Forty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In the previous year, Mansur sent Hamid b. Kahtaba on a military expedition (ghazā) to fight the Turks who had
• The Year One Hundred and Forty-Nine of the Hijra
  In this year, Mansur completed the construction of the walls and moat of the city of Baghdad. ʿAbbās b. Muḥamm
• The One Hundred and Fiftieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, in the land of Khurasan, a disbeliever named Ustadh Sis rebelled and seized many regions of Khur
• Imam Abu Hanifa
  His real name was Nuʿmān b. Thābit al-Taymī. He was from Kufa. He was an Iraqi jurist (faqīh). He is one of th
• The One Hundred and Fifty-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph Mansur dismissed ʿUmar b. Ḥafṣ from the governorship of Sind and appointed Hisham b.
• The Founding of the City of Rusafe
  Ibn Jarir said: In this year, after his son Mahdi returned from Khurasan, Mansur began the construction of the
• The One Hundred and Fiftieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph Mansur dismissed Yazid b. Hatim from the governorship of Egypt and appointed Muhammad
• The One Hundred and Fifty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Mansur had his secretary, Abu Ayyub al-Muriyani, arrested. He also imprisoned his
• The Year One Hundred and Fifty-Four of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph Mansur entered the land of al-Sham (Greater Syria). He visited Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusa
• Eshʿab al-Tāmi
  Eshʿab b. Jubayr. His kunya was Abū l-ʿAlāʾ; it is also said that he was Abū Isḥāq al-Madanī. He was also call
• Abū ʿAmr b. al-ʿAlāʾ
  Abū ʿAmr b. al-ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAmmār b. ʿUryān b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥusayn al-Tamīmī al-Māzinī al-Baṣrī. It is also said
• The One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Yazīd b. Ḥātim entered Ifrīqiya and conquered it. He killed the Khārijites from the Taghlib trib
• The Construction of the City of Rafika
  This is a famous city. In this year, the caliph Mansur ordered the construction of the city of Rafika with a p
• Hammad ar-Rāwiya
  His full name is Ibn Abī Laylā Maysara (some have used the name Sabur instead of Maysara) b. Mubārak b. ʿUbayd
• The One Hundred and Fifty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Mansur's governor of Basra, Haytham b. Muʿāwiya, defeated ʿAmr b. Shaddād, the governor of Fars
• The One Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Mansur, hoping to remain in the world forever, had the Palace of Khuld built in Ba
• The Biography of Imam al-Awzāʿī
  His name was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAmr b. Muḥammad Abū ʿAmr al-Awzāʿī. Awzāʿ is a branch of the Himyar tribe. Ima
• The One Hundred and Fifty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the construction of the Huld Palace was completed. The Caliph al-Mansur stayed there for only a
• The Biography of Mansur
  Abdullah b. Muhammad b. Ali b. Abdullah b. Abbas b. Abd al-Muttalib b. Hashim, Abu Jaʿfar al-Mansur. He was th
• The Children of Mansur
  Muhammad al-Mahdi: He was the heir apparent of his father, Mansur. Jaʿfar al-Akbar: He passed away during his
• The Caliphate of al-Mahdi
  When his father al-Mansur died in Mecca on the 6th or 7th of Dhu al-Hijjah in the year 158 of the Hijra, befor
• The One Hundred and Fifty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the caliph was Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Manṣūr al-Mahdī. At the start of the
• The One Hundred and Sixtieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, in Khurasan, a man named Yūsuf al-Barem rebelled, disapproving of the conduct, manner of governa
• The Oath of Allegiance to Musa al-Hadi
  As we have explained on previous pages, the caliph al-Mahdi proposed to ʿIsa b. Musa that he renounce his own
• The One Hundred and Sixty-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sumāma b. Walīd went on a military expedition to Anatolia. He encamped in the region of Dābiq, a
• Abū Dulāma
  Zayd b. al-Jawn. He was a poet who mixed seriousness and jest. He was among the refined ones. His origin is fr
• The One Hundred and Sixty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿAbd al-Salām b. Hāshim al-Yushkarī rose up in rebellion in Kinnasrīn. Many people followed him,
• Ibrāhīm b. Adham
  He is among the famous ʿābids (devout worshippers) and great ascetics (zāhids). He possessed lofty spiritual a
• Dāwūd al-Ṭāʾī
  One of the renowned figures who passed away in the year 162 of the Hijra was Abū Sulaymān Dāwūd Nusayr al-Ṭāʾī
• The One Hundred and Sixty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the heretic Mukanna‘, who appeared in Khurasan and claimed the existence of transmigration (tanā
• The One Hundred Sixty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿAbd al-Kabīr b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Zayd b. Khaṭṭāb set out on a military expedi
• The One Hundred and Sixty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Mahdi sent his son Hārūn al-Rashīd to Anatolia for a military campaign. He placed
• The One Hundred Sixty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muḥarram of this year, Hārūn al-Rashīd came from Byzantium and entered Baghdad with great pomp
• The One Hundred Sixty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Mahdī dispatched his son Mūsā al-Hādī to Jurjān with an army of unprecedented size
• Bashshār b. Burd
  Among the famous figures who died this year is the poet Bashshār b. Burd Abū Muʿādh, a freedman of the ʿUqayl
• The One Hundred and Sixty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Ramadan of this year, the Byzantines broke the peace treaty they had previously concluded with
• The Year One Hundred Sixty-Nine of the Hijra
  In the month of Muḥarram of this year, the caliph Mahdī b. Manṣūr passed away in the town of Māsebezān, which
• Mehdi b. Mansur
  Muhammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Muhammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh b. al-ʿAbbās, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Mahdī, was the Comman
• The Caliphate of Musa al-Hadi, Son of al-Mahdi
  His father, al-Mahdi, passed away at the beginning of the year 169 AH, in the month of Muharram. He had been a
• The One Hundred and Seventieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph Hādī sought to remove his brother Hārūn al-Rashīd from the position of heir apparent
• Biography of Caliph Musa al-Hadi
  Mūsā b. Muḥammad al-Mahdī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Manṣūr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbbās, Abū Muḥammad al
• The Caliphate of Hārūn al-Rashīd
  He was given the oath of allegiance for the caliphate on the night his brother passed away. That is, in the mi
• Halil b. Ahmed
  Ahmed b. ʿAmr b. Tamīm Abū ʿAbdirraḥmān al-Farāhīdī, also known as al-^^. He belonged to the Azd tribe. He is
• Rabīʿ b. Sulaymān
  Rabīʿ b. Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Kāmil al-Murādī. He was a freedman of the Murād tribe and was Egyptian.
• The One Hundred and Seventy-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Hārūn al-Rashīd granted to Yaḥyā b. Khālid, in addition to the rank of vizier, his seal as well.
• The One Hundred and Seventy-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Hārūn al-Rashīd abolished the tithe tax that was taken from the Iraqis in addition to half of th
• The Year One Hundred and Seventy-Three of the Hijra
  In this year, Muḥammad b. Sulaymān passed away in Basra. Hārūn al-Rashīd ordered the confiscation of his wealt
• Gadir
  Gadir was a concubine of Mūsā al-Hādī. Mūsā al-Hādī truly loved her—Gadir was indeed a beautiful singer. One d
• Heylane
  She was the concubine of al-Rashid. This woman was called "Hiye liennehu: She gave it that name" because she f
• The Year One Hundred and Seventy-Four of the Hijra
  In this year, some disturbances broke out in Damascus. Also in this year, Hārūn al-Rashīd appointed Yūsuf, the
• The Year One Hundred and Seventy-Five of the Hijra
  In this year, Hārūn al-Rashīd appointed his son Muḥammad b. Zubayda as heir apparent for the period after him,
• Shaʿwāne: A Devout and Ascetic Woman
  Shaʿwāne was a Black slave woman who engaged in much worship. Beautiful sayings have been transmitted from her
• Lays b. Sa'd
  Lays b. Sa'd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Fahmī. He was a freedman of the Fahm tribe. Ibn Khallikān said: "Lays was th
• Mundhir b. ʿAbd Allāh
  Mundhir b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Mundhir al-Qurashī. The caliph al-Mahdī offered him the position of judge (qāḍī), say
• The Year One Hundred and Seventy-Six of the Hijra
  In this year, Yaḥyā b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥasan b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib rebelled in the land of Daylam. Many
• Ibrāhīm b. Harama
  This individual was a poet. His lineage is as follows: Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī b. Salama b. ʿĀmir b. Harama Abū Isḥāq
• Ṣāliḥ b. Bashīr al-Mīrrī
  He was among the devout worshippers and ascetics. He wept much and gave admonitions. Sufyān al-Thawrī and othe
• Musayyab b. Zuhayr
  Musayyab b. Zuhayr b. ʿAmr Abū Salama al-Dabbī. During the caliphates of al-Mansur, al-Mahdi, and Hārūn al-Ras
• The Year One Hundred and Seventy-Seven of the Hijra
  In this year, Hārūn al-Rashīd dismissed Jaʿfar al-Barmakī from the governorship of Egypt and appointed Isḥāq b
• The One Hundred and Seventy-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a group from the Qays and Kudāʿa tribes rebelled against the governor of Egypt, Isḥāq b. Sulaymā
• The Year One Hundred and Seventy-Nine of the Hijra
  In this year, Faḍl b. Yaḥyā left Khurasan for Baghdad, appointing ʿUmar b. Jamīl as his deputy in his place. H
• Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad
  Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad b. Yazīd b. Rabīʿa Abū Hāshim al-Ḥimyarī. He bore the title of Sayyid. He was among the fa
• Imam Malik
  Imam Malik is the most renowned of the figures who passed away in this year. He is one of the four imams of th
• The One Hundred and Eightieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a great fitna (civil strife) broke out in Damascus between the Nizaris and the Yemenis. Hārūn al
• Ismāʿīl b. Jaʿfar
  Ismāʿīl b. Jaʿfar b. Abī Kathīr al-Anṣārī. He was a scholar and qāriʾ (Qur'an reciter) of the people of Medina
• Hassan b. Abi Sinan
  Hassan b. Abi Sinan b. Abi Awfa b. Awf al-Tanūhī al-Anbārī. He was born in the sixtieth year of the Hijra. He
• Afiye b. Yazid
  Afiye b. Yazid b. Qays. He was appointed as judge (qāḍī) to the eastern part of Baghdad by Caliph Mahdi, toget
• Sībawayhī
  He is a scholar among the imams of grammar (nahw). His real name is ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān b. Qanbar or Bishr. He is
• Ufayra al-ʿĀbida
  This woman was always sorrowful and wept much. A relative of hers returned from a journey. Ufayra began to wee
• The One Hundred and Eighty-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Hārūn al-Rashīd launched a ghazā (military expedition) against Byzantium. He conquered the fortr
• Hasan b. Kahtabe
  He was among the great commanders. Among those who died in this year was also Ḥamza b. Mālik. During the time
• Abdullah b. Mubarak
  His patronymic is Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. He was from Merv, and his father was a Turk. He was the freedman of a me
• Mufaddal b. Fudale
  He was appointed as judge (qāḍī) of Egypt twice. He was a devout and trustworthy person. He asked Allah, the E
• Yaʿqūb al-Tāʾib
  He was a person devoted to abundant worship. He was from Kufa. ʿAlī b. Muwafaq and Manṣūr b. ʿAmmār have narra
• The One Hundred and Eighty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, after returning from the pilgrimage, Hārūn al-Rashīd took the oath of allegiance (bayʿa) at Raqq
• Maan b. Zaide
  He accumulated a great deal of wealth and became the owner of a vast fortune. Yet, he was still among the most
• Qadi Abu Yusuf
  His full name is Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm b. Ḥabīb b. Saʿd b. Ḥasene. Ḥasene is his mother's name. His father was Buj
• Yaʿqūb b. Dāwūd b. Tahmān
  He was known by the kunya (honorific) Abū ʿAbdillāh. He was the freedman (mawlā) of ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥāzim al-Sula
• The Year One Hundred and Eighty-Three of the Hijra
  In this year, the Khazars infiltrated through the border of Armenia and initiated a rebellion in the land, cau
• Musa b. Jaʿfar
  Musa b. Jaʿfar b. Muhammad b. ʿAli b. Husayn b. ʿAli b. Abi Talib, Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Hāshimī. He was also known a
• Hāshim b. Bashīr b. Abī Ḥāzim
  Hāshim b. Bashīr b. Abī Ḥāzim is al-Qāsim b. Dīnār. Abū Muʿāwiya al-Sulamī al-Wāsiṭī. His father was the cook
• Yunus b. Ḥabīb
  He was among the authoritative grammarians. He learned the science of grammar (nahw) from Abū ʿAmr b. al-ʿAlāʾ
• The Year One Hundred and Eighty-Four of the Hijra
  In this year, Hārūn al-Rashīd returned from Raqqa to Baghdad. He ordered the people to pay the remaining insta
• Ahmed b. Rashid
  He was a zahid (ascetic) and an ʿābid (devoted worshipper). He was committed to his worship. He supported hims
• Abdullah b. Mus'ab
  Abdullah b. Musʿab b. Thābit b. Abdullah b. Zubayr b. ʿAwwānī al-Qurashī al-Asadī. This individual was the fat
• ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-ʿUmarī
  He lived during the time of Abū Tivāle. He transmitted reports from his father and from Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd. He wa
• Muhammad b. Yusuf b. Maʿdan
  His patronymic is Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Iṣbahānī. He lived during the era of the tābiʿūn (the generation following
• The One Hundred and Eighty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  The people of Ṭabaristān killed their governor, Mehreveyh al-Rāzī. Hārūn al-Rashīd appointed ʿAbd Allāh b. Saʿ
• ʿAbd al-Ṣamad b. ʿAlī
  ʿAbd al-Ṣamad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbbās. He was the uncle of al-Saffāḥ and al-Manṣūr. He was born in the
• Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya
  Rābiʿa bint Ismāʿīl al-ʿAdawiyya al-Baṣriyya. She was the freedwoman of ʿAlī ʿAtik. She is among the renowned
• The One Hundred and Eighty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā b. Mahān set out from the city of Merv to Nasa in order to fight with Abū'l-Ḥasib.
• Famous Figures Who Passed Away in the One Hundred Eighty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  Among the famous figures who passed away in this year are Asbaġ b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Marwān b. Ḥakam Abū Rayyān
• The Poet Süllem al-Ḥaṣir
  Süllem b. ʿĀmir b. Ḥammād b. ʿAṭāʾ. The reason he was called al-Ḥaṣir (the one who squanders) was as follows:
• Abbas b. Muhammed
  ʿAbbās b. Muḥammed b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbbās. He was the uncle of Hārūn al-Rashīd. He was among the lead
• Yaktin b. Musa
  He was among those who engaged in propaganda for the establishment of the Abbasid state. He was one of the int
• The Year One Hundred and Eighty-Seven of the Hijra
  In this year, the Barmakids were killed by Hārūn al-Rashīd. Hārūn al-Rashīd killed Jaʿfar b. Yaḥyā b. Khālid a
• Jaʿfar b. Yaḥyā
  Jaʿfar b. Yaḥyā b. Khālid b. Barmak, Abū'l-Faḍl al-Barmakī, was a vizier, as was his father. Hārūn al-Rashīd a
• 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 t
• Fudayl b. ʿIyāḍ
  His kunya was Abū ʿAlī. He was from the Tamīm tribe, and among the imams known for their devotion and ascetici
• The One Hundred and Eighty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Ibrāhīm b. Isrāʾīl went on a military expedition during the summer. He entered Byzantine territo
• Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī
  Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Ḥāris b. Ismāʿīl b. Khārija. He was the leading authority (imam) o
• Ibrāhīm al-Muṣilī
  He was one of the intimates (nadīm) of Hārūn al-Rashīd. He would participate in drinking gatherings. His real
• The Year One Hundred Eighty-Nine of the Hijra
  In this year, after returning from the pilgrimage (ḥajj), the caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd went to the city of Rayy.
• Kisaʾī
  ʿAlī b. Ḥamza b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Fayrūz, Abū’l-Ḥasan al-Asadī. He was a freedman (mawlā) of the Asad tribe. He w
• Muhammad b. Hasan b. Zufar
  He was addressed by the kunya Abū ʿAbdillāh. He was a freedman of the Shaybān tribe. He was a student of Abū Ḥ
• The One Hundred and Ninetieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the governor of Samarkand, Rāfiʿ b. Lays b. Naṣr b. Sayyār, rebelled against the caliph and invi
• Asad b. ʿAmr b. ʿAmir
  Asad b. ʿAmr b. ʿAmir Abū'l-Mundhir al-Bajali al-Kūfī. He was a companion of Abū Ḥanīfa. He served as a judge
• Yahya b. Khalid b. Barmak
  His kunya was Abū ʿAlī. He served as vizier. He was the father of Jaʿfar al-Barmakī. The caliph al-Mahdī entru
• The One Hundred and Ninety-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, in the Sawād of Iraq, a man named Sarwān b. Sayf rebelled. He wandered from city to city causing
• The One Hundred and Ninety-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Herseme b. A'yūn went to Khurasan as governor. He arrested ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā, confiscated his wealth
• Ismāʿīl b. Jāmīʿ
  Ismāʿīl b. Jāmīʿ b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Muṭṭalib b. Abī Wadāʿa Abū'l-Qāsim was among those renowned for h
• Bekir b. Nattah
  Bekir b. Nattah Abū Wāʾil al-Ḥanafī. He was from Basra and counted among the famous poets. During the time of
• Abdullah b. Idris
  He was from the Evd tribe and a native of Kufa. He heard hadith from al-Aʿmash, Ibn Jurayj, Shuʿba, Mālik, and
• Saʿsāʿa b. Salām
  He is also known as Ibn ʿAbdillāh. His kunya was Abū ʿAbdillāh. He was from Syria (Shām). Later, he migrated t
• Ali b. Zibyan
  His patronymic was Abū'l-Ḥasan. He belonged to the Abs tribe. He served as the judge (qāḍī) of the eastern sid
• Abbas b. Ahnef
  Abbas b. Ahnef b. Aswad b. Talha. He is among the renowned poets. He was of the Arab population of Khurasan an
• Fadl b. Yahya
  Fadl b. Yahya b. Khālid b. Barmak. He was the brother of Jaʿfar and his sisters. Fadl was nursed together with
• Mansur b. Zibrikan
  Mansur b. Zibrikan b. Salama Abū'l-Faḍl al-Numayrī. He was a poet who praised Hārūn al-Rashīd. His origin was
• Yusuf, Son of Qadi Abu Yusuf
  Yusuf listened to hadith from Ṣirri b. Yaḥyā and Yunus b. Abī Isḥāq. He studied raʾy (independent legal reason
• The One Hundred and Ninety-Third Year of the Hijra
  Ibn Jarīr said: In the month of Muḥarram of this year, Faḍl b. Yaḥyā passed away. Ibn al-Jawzī also said: Faḍl
• The Death of Hārūn al-Rashīd
  While Hārūn al-Rashīd was in Kufa, he had a dream that greatly frightened and distressed him. When Jibrīl b. B
• Biography of Hārūn al-Rashīd
  Hārūn al-Rashīd b. al-Mahdī Muḥammad b. Manṣūr Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās
• "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
• “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
• “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
• Even if you cut off my hands and feet, I would say out of my love for you: You did well, do even more.
  Hārūn al-Rashīd laughed and appreciated this statement of ʿAbbās. There is a poem by Hārūn al-Rashīd about his
• The Wives, Sons, and Daughters of Hārūn al-Rashīd
  Hārūn al-Rashīd, in the year 165 of the Hijra, during the lifetime of his father al-Mahdī, married Umm Jaʿfar
• The Caliphate of Muhammad Amin
  In the month of Jumada al-Akhira of the 193rd year of the Hijra, when Hārūn al-Rashīd passed away in the city
• The Dispute Between Amin and Ma'mun
  The cause of this dispute was as follows: When Harun al-Rashid reached the lands of the province of Khurasan,
• Ismāʿīl b. ʿAliyya
  This person was among the leading figures of the scholars and the eminent class of hadith transmitters (muhadd
• Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
  He was known by the nickname Gunder. He narrated from Shuʿba, Saʿīd b. Abī ʿArūba, and many others. A group, a
• 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
• The Year One Hundred and Ninety-Four of the Hijra
  In this year, the people of Homs deposed their governor. Al-Amin, in response to their request, removed their
• Salim b. Salim Abu Bahr al-Balkhī
  He came to Baghdad. There, he studied hadith with Ibrāhīm b. Ṭahmān and al-Thawrī. Ḥasan b. ʿArafa also heard
• 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)
• The One Hundred and Ninety-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Ṣafar of this year, Amin requested that the people refrain from conducting transactions with d
• Ishak b. Yusuf al-Azraq
  This individual is among the imams of hadith. Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal and others have transmitted hadith from him
• Bekkar b. Abdullah
  Bekkar b. ʿAbdullah b. Musʿab b. Thābit b. ʿAbdullah b. Zubayr. He was appointed as the governor of Medina by
• The Poet Abū Nuwās
  His full name was Ḥasan b. Hānīʾ b. Saʿabbāḥ b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Jarrāḥ b. Hunnab b. Dāwūd b. Ghanam b. Sulaym. ʿ
• Do you not count me among those who will attain the intercession of the Prophet?
  Abū Nuwās said: "I have never recited poetry without transmitting from sixty women, among whom were Khansāʾ an
• The Year One Hundred Ninety-Six of the Hijra
  In this year, one of the hadith scholars, a trustworthy and renowned transmitter, Abū Muʿāwiya, passed away. W
• The Dismissal of Amin from the Caliphate and the Accession of His Brother Ma'mun
  Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Māhān did not respond to Caliph Amin's summons that night and did not go to the palace. Afte
• Qāḍī Ḥafṣ b. Ghiyās
  He lived for more than ninety years. While he was in the throes of death, one of his companions by his side be
• Abū Shis
  He was a poet. His real name was Muḥammad b. Razzīn b. Sulaymān. He was the master of poets. For him, composin
• The One Hundred and Ninety-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, Ṭābir b. Ḥusayn, Ḥarsama b. Aʿyūn, and the soldiers with them tightened the sie
• The One Hundred and Ninety-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Huzayma b. Hazim separated from Muhammad al-Amin and received amān (safe-conduct) from Tahir. Ha
• The Killing of Muḥammad al-Amīn
  When al-Amīn's situation became dire, he gathered his commanders, soldiers, and servants and sought their coun
• The Biography of Muhammad al-Amin
  Muhammad al-Amin ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī ibn Manṣūr, Abū ʿAbd Allāh. It is also said that hi
• Those who ride these mounts travel on water as if walking on land, as if mounted on a lion of the forest.
  Afterwards, Abū Nuwās described each of these boats individually in his poetry. Amin was particularly eager to
• As One of the Chiefs Once Betrayed Kisra, They Killed Him to Take His Place.
  Amin became enraged with his chamberlain because of this song. He struck him on the head with a wine cup and o
• Zubayda, Mother of Amin, Returns to the Huld Palace from the Abu Ja'far Palace
  She ordered Zubayda, the mother of Amin, to return from the Abu Ja'far palace to her former residence, the Hul
• The Caliphate of ʿAbdallāh al-Maʾmūn, Son of Hārūn al-Rashīd
  Following the killing of his brother Muḥammad al-Amīn on the fourth day of the month of Ṣafar of this year (ac
• The One Hundred and Ninety-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Ḥasan b. Sahl, who had been appointed as governor by Maʾmūn, arrived in Baghdad. He sent his own
• The Two Hundredth Year of the Hijra
  On the first day of this year, Ḥusayn b. Ḥasan al-Aftas sat behind the Station of Abraham (Maqām Ibrāhīm) on a
• The Two Hundred and First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the people of Baghdad encouraged Mansur b. Mahdi to become caliph, but he did not consent to thi
• The Allegiance of the People of Baghdad to Ibrahim b. Mahdi
  When news reached that al-Ma'mun had secured the bayʿa (pledge of allegiance) for ʿAlī al-Riḍā as heir apparen
• The Two Hundred and Second Year of the Hijra
  On the first day of this year, in the city of Baghdad, allegiance (bayʿa) was given to Ibrāhīm b. al-Mahdī for
• The Two Hundred and Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Maʾmūn arrived in Iraq. He stopped in the city of Ṭūs and stayed there for several days near his
• The Deposition of Ibrahim b. Mahdi by the People of Baghdad
  On the following Friday, the people offered dua (supplication) for al-Ma'mun and deposed Ibrahim from the cali
• Ali b. Musa
  Ali b. Mūsā b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib al-Qurashī al-Hāshimī al-ʿAlawī. He b
• The Two Hundred and Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, al-Ma'mun came to the land of Iraq. The reason for this was as follows: he had come to Jurjan, s
• Imam Shafi'i
  At the beginning of our book "Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyīn" (The Generations of the Shafi'is), we have recounted the
• “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 beginnin
• Ibn Abi Hatim relates that his father said: "Al-Shafi‘i was a jurist in body, and truthful in speech."
  One of the transmitters relates that Abu Zur‘a said: "Among the knowledge of al-Shafi‘i, there is not a single
• Imam Shafi'i used to say: "The Qur'an is the speech of Allah; it is not created. Whoever says it is created is a disbeliever."
  According to reports from Rabīʿ and many of his prominent companions, whenever Imam Shafi'i encountered verses
• In the end, many belittled the rights of Allah, and disregarded the duty to uphold the rights they were obliged to bear on their shoulders.
  they disregarded them." In the opening section of our book "Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyya," we have already quoted suf
• The Two Hundred and Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, al-Ma'mun appointed Ṭāhir b. Ḥusayn b. Muṣʿab as governor with authority over Baghdad, Iraq, Khu
• Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī
  There are various reports regarding the full name of Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī, stating it as either ʿAbd al-Raḥm
• According to me, the Exalted Allah has created a being as weak as Iblis
  According to me, the Exalted Allah (Cenâb-ı Allah) has created a being as weak as Iblis. If the Exalted Allah
• The Two Hundred and Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Caliph Maʾmūn appointed Dāwūd b. Masʿkūr as governor over Basra, Yamāma, Bahrain, and the region
• The Two Hundred and Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. ʿAlī b. Ṭāliḥ appeared in the town
• Yahya b. Ziyad b. Abdullah b. Mansur
  Abū Zakariyyā al-Kūfī. He had settled in Baghdad. He was a freedman of the Banū Saʿd tribe. He became famous b
• The Two Hundred and Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Hasan b. Ḥusayn b. Musʿab, the brother of Ṭāhir, fled from Khurasan to Kirmān and rebelled there
• The Death of Sayyida Nafisa
  Nafisa bint Abī Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. Zayd b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib al-Qurashiyya al-Hāshimiyya. Her fathe
• The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) had cupping performed while in ihram.
  However, Ibn Maʿīn and Ibn ʿAdī have stated that he was among the weak transmitters. Ibn Ḥibbān, on the other
• Fadl b. al-Rabīʿ
  Fadl b. al-Rabīʿ b. Yunus b. Muhammad b. ʿAbd Allah b. Abī Farwa Kaysān. Kaysān was a freedman of ʿUthmān (may
• At a time when the rights of Yahya were not observed; nor were the rights of the family of Rabi' observed.
  Fadl also served as vizier to Harun al-Rashid's son, Amin, after Harun al-Rashid. When Ma'mun entered Baghdad,
• The Two Hundred and Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, after five years of warfare, ʿAbdullāh b. Ṭāhir besieged Naṣr b. Shabath. He put him in a truly
• The Two Hundred and Tenth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Ṣafar of this year, Naṣr b. Shabath entered Baghdad. He had been sent by ʿAbdallāh b. Ṭāhir. H
• Me'mun's Consummation of Marriage with Boran
  In the month of Ramadan of this year, Me'mun consummated his marriage with Boran, the daughter of Hasan b. Sah
• The Famous Poet Abū l-ʿAtāhiya
  The real name of this person is as follows: Ismāʿīl b. Qāsim b. Suwayd b. Kaysān. He was originally from the Ḥ
• "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 reache
• The Two Hundred and Twelfth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph Maʾmūn dispatched Muḥammad b. Ḥamīd al-Ṭūsī by way of Mosul to fight Bābak al-Khurram
• The Two Hundred and Thirteenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, two individuals named ʿAbd al-Salām and Ibn Jalis rebelled. They did not recognize the caliphate
• Poet Akuk
  Abū'l-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Jabal al-Khurasānī. He was given the nickname Akuk. He was of the mawālī (non-Arab clie
• After Hamid departed from this world, we too say 'Peace be upon you' to the world.
  When Hamid died, Abū'l-ʿAtāhiya also composed an elegy for him with the following poem: "O Abū Ghanim (Hamid),
• The Year Two Hundred and Fourteen of the Hijra
  On Saturday, five days before the end of the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this year, Muḥammad b. Ḥāmid and the a
• Ahmet b. Yusuf b. Qasim b. Sabih
  His kunya was Abū Jaʿfar. He worked as a scribe. He served as the director of the correspondence bureau (dīwān
• 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 sch
• The Two Hundred and Fifteenth Year of the Hijra
  At the end of Muḥarram in this year, Maʾmūn set out from Baghdad with his troops, intending to wage a military
• Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī
  The real name of this figure is Saʿīd b. Aws b. Thābit. He was from Basra. He was among the scholars of lexico
• The Two Hundred and Sixteenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Byzantine emperor Theophilos son of Michael attacked the Muslim community in the region of T
• Zubayda, Wife and Cousin of Hārūn al-Rashīd
  Zubayda is her epithet. Her real name is Umm ʿAzīz. Her lineage is as follows: Zubayda bint Jaʿfar ibn Manṣūr
• The Two Hundred and Seventeenth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muḥarram of this year, Maʾmūn entered Egypt. He had ʿAbdus al-Fihrī apprehended and executed i
• The Two Hundred and Eighteenth Year of the Hijra
  On the first day of the month of Jumada al-Awwal in this year, al-Ma'mun sent his son Abbas to Byzantium in or
• The First Fitna and Trial
  In this year, al-Maʾmūn wrote a letter to the governor of Baghdad, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. Musʿab, ordering him to
• Section
  When the replies sent by Governor Ishaq reached him, Ma'mun sent him a letter in response, praising his action
• Abdullah al-Ma'mun
  Abdullah al-Ma'mun b. Hārūn al-Rashīd al-ʿAbbāsī al-Qurashī al-Hāshimī, Abū Jaʿfar. He was the Amīr al-Muʾminī
• The Caliphate of Muʿtaṣim Billah
  Muʿtaṣim Billah, Abū Isḥāq b. Hārūn al-Rashīd. On Thursday, the 12th of Rajab in the year 218 AH, in Tarsus, o
• Bishr al-Marisī
  Bishr b. Ghiyās b. Abī Karīma Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Marisī. He was a mutakallim (scholar of kalām, speculative
• 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 th
• The Year Two Hundred and Nineteen of the Hijra
  In this year, Muḥammad b. Qāsim b. ʿUmar b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib appeared in the town of Ṭālikā
• The Two Hundred and Twentieth Year of the Hijra
  On the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ of this year, Ujayf entered Baghdad by ship, accompanied by 27,000 Zut people. They had
• The Year Two Hundred and Twenty-One of the Hijra
  In this year, a fierce battle took place between Buzurg Būqā (the Great Bull) and Bābak. Bābak defeated Buzurg
• The Two Hundred and Twenty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, al-Muʿtaṣim prepared a large military force to reinforce Afshin in his war against Babak, and se
• The Capture of Babek
  When the Muslims captured his city known as Bezz—which was his capital and the place where his forces were sta
• The Two Hundred and Twenty-Third Year of the Hijra
  On the 3rd of the month of Ṣafar in this year, on a Thursday, Afshīn, accompanied by Bābak, went to al-Muʿtaṣi
• The Conquest of Amorium by al-Muʿtaṣim
  After al-Muʿtaṣim had completed the matter of Bābak, killed him, and taken over his territory, he summoned his
• The Killing of Abbas b. Ma'mun
  Abbas b. Ma'mun was with his uncle, al-Mu'tasim, during the Battle of Amorium. Ujayf b. Anbasa made him regret
• The Year Two Hundred and Twenty-Four of the Hijra
  In this year, a man named Mazyar b. Karin b. Yazdihurmuz appeared in the Amil region, which was part of Tabari
• The Two Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Great Boğa came to Baghdad, accompanied by Mengücür, to whom he had granted protection in re
• Said b. Mes'ade
  His patronymic was Abū al-Ḥasan al-Akhfash al-Awsat. He was from Balkh, and later migrated to Basra. He was a
• The Grammarian al-Jaramī
  The real name of this person is Ṣāliḥ b. Isḥāq. He was from Basra. He came to Baghdad and engaged in debate th
• The Year Two Hundred and Twenty-Six of the Hijra
  Afshin died in prison in the month of Shaʿbān of this year. Al-Muʿtaṣim had him hanged, then ordered his body
• 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
• The Two Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, on the frontier regions, a man named Abū Ḥarb al-Mubarka al-Yanīʿānī appeared in Syria and rebel
• Biography of al-Muʿtaṣim Billah
  Abū Isḥāq Muḥammad al-Muʿtaṣim b. Hārūn al-Rashīd b. Mahdī b. Manṣūr al-ʿAbbāsī. He was the eighth son of al-ʿ
• The Caliphate of Hārūn al-Wāthiq ibn al-Muʿtaṣim
  Before the death of his father, on Wednesday, the 8th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this year, allegiance (bayʿa) was g
• The Famous Ascetic Bishr al-Ḥāfī
  Bishr b. Ḥārith b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAṭāʾ b. Hilāl b. Mahān b. ʿAbdullāh al-Marwazī, Abū al-Naṣr, was an asce
• The Year Two Hundred and Twenty-Eight of the Hijra
  In the month of Ramadan of this year, the caliph Wāthiq bestowed a robe of honor upon the commander Ashnās. He
• The Poet Abū Tammām al-Ṭāʾī
  He is the author of the poetry book entitled "Ḥamāsa," compiled on the virtues of women in the house of the vi
• The Year Two Hundred and Twenty-Nine of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph Wāthiq ordered the punishment of the scribes, their being flogged, and the confiscati
• The Year Two Hundred and Thirty of the Hijra
  In the month of Jumada al-Awwal of this year, the Banu Sulaym rebelled and caused disorder in the vicinity of
• Abdullah b. Tahir b. Husayn
  He was the governor of Khurasan and the surrounding towns. Annually, 48,000,000 dirhams of tribute were collec
• The Two Hundred and Thirty-First Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, the ransoms for Muslim captives held by the Byzantines were paid by the
• The Two Hundred and Thirty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, in Yamama, the Banu Numayr tribe caused great turmoil. Wasīq wrote a letter to the Great Bull, w
• The Caliphate of al-Mutawakkil ʿAlāllāh Jaʿfar b. al-Muʿtaṣim
  After the death of his brother al-Wāthiq, which occurred on a Wednesday at midday six days before the end of t
• The Two Hundred and Thirty-Third Year of the Hijra
  On Wednesday, the seventh day of the month of Ṣafar in this year, the caliph al-Mutawakkil ʿalā Allāh ordered
• The Two Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, in Azerbaijan, Muḥammad b. Buʿays b. Ḥalbas rebelled, claiming that al-Mutawakkil had died. He g
• The Two Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Jumada al-Thani of this year, Ītāh died in prison. While returning from the pilgrimage, the ca
• Ishaq b. Mahan
  Ishaq b. Mahan al-Musili. He was a man of letters, as was his father. In their time, such individuals were rar
• The Two Hundred and Thirty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Mutawakkil ordered the destruction of the tomb of Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib and
• The Two Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Yusuf b. Muhammad b. Yusuf, the governor of Armenia, captured the great Armenian commander there
• The Two Hundred Thirty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this year, Būyūk Boğa (the Great Bull) laid siege to the city of Tbilisi. At
• The Two Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, the caliph al-Mutawakkil acted more harshly and severely towards the dh
• Ahmed b. Asim al-Antaki
  Ahmed b. Asim al-Antaki, also known as Abu Ali, was a preacher and ascetic. He was among the great worshippers
• The Year Two Hundred and Forty of the Hijra
  In this year, the people of Homs rose up against their governor, Abū'l-Qays Mūsā b. Ibrāhīm al-Rafīqī, because
• Ahmed b. Abi Duad
  His father, Abu Duad, was originally named Faraj. It is also said that he was from the Da'mi tribe. According
• Sahnun al-Maliki
  His name was Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Salām b. Saʿīd b. Jundab b. Ḥassan b. Hilāl b. Bakkār b. Rabīʿa al-Tanūhī, and
• The Two Hundred and Forty-First Year of the Hijra
  In either the month of Jumada al-Awwal or Jumada al-Akhir of this year, the people of Homs once again attacked
• Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal
  We begin by seeking help from Allah. The genealogy of Imam Ahmad is as follows: Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Hanbal b.
• The Taqwa, Asceticism, and Seclusion of Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal
  Al-Bayhaqī narrates from Muzanī as follows: "Imam Shāfiʿī said to Hārūn al-Rashīd: 'It is necessary to appoint
• The Ordeals Suffered by Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal
  According to Bayhaqī, Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal was subjected to great ordeals during the caliphates of Maʾmūn, the
• The Beating of Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal in the Presence of al-Muʿtaṣim
  When al-Muʿtaṣim brought him out of prison and into his presence, he increased his chains and bonds even more.
• The Praises of Other Imams for Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal
  Al-Bukhārī said: When Ahmad b. Hanbal was beaten for the purpose of torture, we were in Basra. I heard Abū Wal
• The Situation of Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal After the Ordeal
  When Imam Ahmad left the caliphal palace and returned home, he remained there until he recovered, praise be to
• The Death of Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal
  His son Ṣāliḥ said: "My father fell ill at the beginning of the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal in the year 241 of the
• Dreams Seen About Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal
  It is stated in a sahih hadith: "Nothing remains of prophethood except glad tidings (dreams)." In another narr
• The Two Hundred and Forty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, terrible earthquakes occurred in various parts of the country. One of these was the earthquake i
• 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
• The Two Hundred and Forty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Dhu al-Qaʿda of this year, the caliph al-Mutawakkil ʿalā Allāh departed from Iraq to reside in
• Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbbās
  This person was the administrator (mütevelli) of the village councils. His full name is as follows: Ibrāhīm b.
• The Year Two Hundred and Forty-Four of the Hijra
  In the month of Ṣafar of this year, the Caliph al-Mutawakkil entered the city of Damascus with the pomp of the
• The Two Hundred and Forty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Mutawakkil ordered the construction of the city of Mahuza and the excavation of it
• Ibn al-Rāwandī
  He was a zindīq (heretic). His real name was Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. Isḥāq Abū'l-Ḥusayn b. Rāwandī. Rāwand is the na
• Dhū'n-Nūn al-Miṣrī
  His real name is Thawbān b. Ibrāhīm. It is also said that his name was Thawbān b. Fayz b. Ibrāhīm. His kunya w
• The Two Hundred and Forty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  On the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ in this year, the caliph al-Mutawakkil entered the city of Māḥūza. He settled in the ca
• Dabül b. ʿAlī
  Dabül b. ʿAlī b. Rezin b. Sulaymān al-Khuzāʿī. He was a freedman of the Khuzāʿa tribe. He was a poet known for
• Ahmed b. Abī al-Ḥawārī
  Ahmed b. Abī al-Ḥawārī, ʿAbd Allāh b. Maymūn b. Ayyāsh b. Ḥāris Abū al-Ḥasan al-Taghlibī al-Ghaṭafānī. He was
• The Two Hundred and Forty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Shawwal of this year, the caliph al-Mutawakkil ʿalā Allāh ordered his son and heir apparent, ʿ
• The Biography of al-Mutawakkil ʿalā Allāh
  The real name of al-Mutawakkil ʿalā Allāh was Jaʿfar b. al-Muʿtaṣim b. al-Rashīd b. Muḥammad al-Mahdī b. Manṣū
• The Caliphate of Muḥammad al-Muntaṣir b. al-Mutawakkil
  As described on previous pages, Muḥammad al-Muntaṣir and a group of emirs plotted the assassination of the cal
• The Grammarian Abū ʿUthmān al-Māzinī
  His real name was Bakr b. Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān al-Baṣrī. He was the master of the grammarians of his time. He l
• The Two Hundred and Forty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  Muntasir sent Vāsif al-Turkī to Anatolia to fight the Byzantines. The reason was this: the Byzantine emperor h
• The Caliphate of Mustaʿīn Billāh
  Abū’l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Muʿtaṣim. On the day of Muntasir’s death, allegiance (bayʿa) was given to hi
• The Two Hundred and Forty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In the middle of the month of Rajab of this year, on a Friday, the Muslims and the Byzantines confronted each
• Ali b. al-Jahm
  Ali b. al-Jahm b. Badr b. Masʿūd b. Asad al-Qurashī al-Samī. He was from the descendants of Sām b. Luʾayy al-K
• The Two Hundred and Fiftieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Abū’l-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā b. ʿUmar b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥusayn b. Zayd b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib re
• The Two Hundred and Fifty-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, al-Mustaʿīn, along with al-Bughā al-Ṣaghīr and Wāṣif, decided to kill Bāghir al-Turkī. Bāghir al
• The Succession of al-Muʿtazz bi-ʾllāh, Son of al-Mutawakkil ʿalā ʾllāh, to the Caliphate after al-Mustaʿīn in the Year 252 of the Hijra
  Succession At the beginning of this year, the caliphate passed into the hands of Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Mu
• The Killing of al-Mustaʿīn
  In the month of Shawwal of this year, al-Muʿtazz sent a letter to his governor, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Ṭāhi
• The Two Hundred and Fifty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Rajab of this year, Mūʿtazz dispatched Mūsā, the son of the Great Bugha, at the head of a mili
• Sirri al-Saqaṭī
  He was among the great Sufis (mutaṣawwif). He was a student of Maʿrūf al-Karkhī. He transmitted hadith from Hā
• The Two Hundred and Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Muʿtazz ordered the killing of Bughā al-Sharābī. He had his head displayed first i
• Abū’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Hādī
  Abū’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Hādī ibn Muḥammad al-Jawād ibn ʿAlī al-Riḍā ibn Mūsā al-Kāẓim ibn Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq ibn Muḥa
• The Two Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a battle took place between Mufliḥ and Ḥasan b. Zayd al-Ṭālibī. Mufliḥ defeated Ḥasan and entere
• The Death of Caliph al-Muʿtazz
  Three days before the end of the month of Rajab in this year, Caliph al-Muʿtazz Billāh was deposed. It was ann
• The Caliphate of al-Muhtadī bi-’llāh
  Al-Muhtadī bi-’llāh Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Wāthiq b. Muʿtaṣim b. Hārūn. After al-Muʿtazz, in his
• The Rebellion in Basra by Another Kharijite Claiming Descent from the Ahl al-Bayt
  In the middle of the month of Shawwal of this year, a man appeared outside Basra and rebelled. He claimed to b
• The Mu'tazilite Theologian al-Jāḥiẓ
  Because his eyes were bulging, the sect called the Jahiliyya, meaning "those with bulging eyes," was attribute
• Muhammad b. Karram
  The Karrāmiyya sect is attributed to him. It is said that he considered it permissible to fabricate hadiths in
• The Two Hundred and Fifty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  On Monday morning, the 12th of Muḥarram in this year, Mūsā, son of the Great Bull, arrived in Sāmarrāʾ. He ent
• The Deposition of Muhtadi Billah and the Accession of al-Mu'tamid Ahmad ibn al-Mutawakkil to the Caliphate
  When Musa, son of the Great Buğa, heard that Mushavir al-Shari was causing disorder in those regions, he set o
• The Caliphate of al-Muʿtamid ʿalā Allāh
  His real name was Aḥmad b. al-Mutawakkil ʿalā Allāh. He was also known as Ibn Futyan. On the 13th of Rajab of
• Zubayr b. Bakkār
  Zubayr b. Bakkār b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Musʿab b. Thābit b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Zubayr b. al-ʿAwwām al-Qurashī al-Zubayrī.
• Imam Bukhari
  Imam Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī is the author of the work known as "Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī." We have previously
• The Two Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Caliph al-Muʿtamid appointed Yaʿqūb b. Layth as governor over regions such as Balkh, Ṭukhāristān
• Hasan b. ʿArafa b. Yazīd
  This is the owner of the famous juzʾ (a thirtieth of the Qur'an) that has been transmitted. He was 110 years o
• The Year Two Hundred and Fifty-Eight of the Hijra
  Ten days before the end of the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this year, on a Monday, the caliph appointed his bro
• The Two Hundred and Fifty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  On the Friday four days before the end of the month of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of this year, Abū Aḥmad b. al-Mutawakkil
• The Year Two Hundred and Sixty of the Hijra
  In this year, a severe famine occurred in the lands of Islam. So much so that the inhabitants of many cities m
• The Two Hundred and Sixty-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Ḥasan b. Zayd moved from Daylam to Ṭabaristān. He burned the city of Shālos because its inhabita
• The Biography of Imam Muslim
  Abū'l-Ḥusayn al-Qushayrī al-Nīsābūrī. He was among the great imams of hadith and among the ḥuffāẓ (masters of
• Bāyezīd-i Bestāmī
  His real name is Tayfūr b. ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī. He is among the mashāyikh (spiritual elders) of the Sufis. His grandf
• The Two Hundred and Sixty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Yaʿqūb b. Layth arrived with a large military force. He entered the city of Wāsiṭ by force. The
• The Two Hundred and Sixty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, many battles took place in various regions. One of these battles was fought against the Zanj. Ma
• The Two Hundred and Sixty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, Abu Ahmad and Musa, the son of the Great Bughā, equipped their military
• Abū Zurʿa
  Among the renowned figures who passed away in this year is Abū Zurʿa, whose full name is ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbd a
• The Two Hundred and Sixty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a battle took place between Ibn Laysawayh, appointed by Abu Ahmad, and Sulayman b. Jamiʿ. Ibn La
• Yaʿqūb b. Layth al-Ṣaffār
  He was one of the intelligent warriors and rulers. He conquered many lands. He also conquered the city of Raja
• The Year Two Hundred and Sixty-Six of the Hijra
  In the month of Ṣafar of this year, ʿĪsā Tekīn seized the city of Rayy. He exiled the city's governor. Then he
• The Two Hundred and Sixty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Abū al-Aḥmad al-Muwaffaq sent his son Abū al-ʿAbbās at the head of a military unit composed of a
• 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
• The Two Hundred and Sixty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muḥarram of this year, Jaʿfar b. Ibrāhīm, known by the epithet Seccan and counted among the gr
• The Year Two Hundred and Sixty-Nine of the Hijra
  In this year, Muvaffaq Billah exerted great effort to destroy the city of the black leader. He destroyed many
• The Two Hundred and Seventieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the black rebel leaders were killed—may Allah destroy him. The manner of his killing was as foll
• Ahmed b. Tolon
  His honorific was Abū'l-ʿAbbās. He was the emir of the land of Egypt. He was the founder of the Mosque of Tolo
• Hasan b. Zayd al-ʿAlawī
  He was the governor of Ṭabaristān. He passed away in the month of Rajab of this year. He served as governor fo
• Dāwūd b. ʿAlī
  Originally from Isfahan, he later settled in Baghdad. He was an adherent of the Ẓāhirī school and its leading
• Ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī
  ʿAbd Allāh b. Muslim b. Qutayba al-Dīnawarī. He was the qāḍī (judge) of Dīnawar. He was a scholar of hadith an
• The Two Hundred and Seventy-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph dismissed ʿAmr b. Layth from the governorship of Khurasan and ordered that he be curs
• Boran
  She was the wife of Maʾmūn. It is said that her original name was Khadīja, and that Boran was a nickname given
• The Two Hundred and Seventy-Second Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Jumada al-Awwal of this year, Ezgütekīn, the governor of Qazvin, marched with 4,000 warriors a
• Astrologer Abū Maʿshar
  His real name is Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad al-Balkhī. He was the master of his age in the art of astrology. He has fa
• The Year Two Hundred and Seventy-Three of the Hijra
  In this year, a conflict arose between Ishaq b. Kundaj, the governor of Mosul, who had previously been an ally
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥakam al-Umayyī
  He was the ruler of al-Andalus. He died at the age of sixty-five. He ruled for thirty-four years and eleven mo
• Halaf b. Ahmad b. Khalid
  During the reign of al-Muʿtamid, he was the governor of Khurasan. It was he who expelled and banished Imam Muh
• Ibn Mājah of Qazvin
  This figure is the author of the hadith collection entitled "Sunan." He is known by the name Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥ
• The Year 274 of the Hijra
  In this year, a declaration of war was made in the land of Persia between Abū Aḥmad al-Muwaffaq and ʿAmr b. La
• The Two Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muḥarram of this year, a fierce battle took place near Senniyyat al-ʿUqāb, east of Damascus, b
• 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 individ
• Ahmed B. Muhammed B. Galib
  Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Galib b. Huld b. Mirdas, known as Gulām-i Khalīl, Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Bāhilī. He was from Ba
• Abdullah b. Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Tamīmī
  He was from Mosul. He worked as a herbalist. Ibn al-Athir said: "ʿAbdullah b. Yaʿqūb was someone who narrated
• 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
• The Two Hundred and Seventy-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, ʿAmr b. Lays was reinstated as the commander of the Baghdad garrison fo
• Baki b. Mahled
  His patronymic is Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. He was from al-Andalus. He was a great ḥadīth memorizer (ḥāfiẓ). He comp
• The Two Hundred and Seventy-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Yazman, the governor of Tarsus, had the Friday sermon (khuṭba) delivered in the name of Humarave
• Ahmed b. Isa
  His patronymic was Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥarrāz. He was one of the famous Sufis, renowned for his worship, spiritual st
• 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
• Muhammad b. Hasan b. Musa
  Muhammad b. Hasan b. Musa b. Hasen Abū Jaʿfar al-Kūfī al-Harrāz, also known by the nickname Jundī. He was know
• Muhammad b. Saʿdān
  Muhammad b. Saʿdān Abū Jaʿfar al-Rāzī. He listened to hadith from more than 500 hadith scholars, but himself t
• Yaʿqūb b. Sufyān b. Harrān
  Yaʿqūb b. Sufyān b. Harrān Abū Yūsuf b. Abī Muʿāwiya al-Fārisī al-Fasawī. He listened to many hadiths. He narr
• Arib al-Ma'mūniyya
  Ibn ʿAsākir, in his "Tārīkh" (History), has recounted her biography. According to some transmitted reports, Ar
• The Two Hundred and Seventy-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  Ibn al-Jawzī said: In the month of Muharram of this year, a comet appeared. In this year, the water of the Nil
• Biography of Abu Ahmad al-Muwaffaq
  He was called Emir Nāṣir Li-Dīn Allāh, meaning "the helper of Allah's religion." He also bore the epithet al-M
• The Two Hundred and Seventy-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  At the end of the month of Muharram in this year, Jaʿfar al-Mufawwiḍ was deposed from the position of heir app
• Biography of al-Muʿtamid ʿalā Allāh
  The Commander of the Faithful, al-Muʿtamid ibn al-Mutawakkil ibn al-Muʿtaṣim ibn al-Rashid. Al-Muʿtamid's give
• The Historian al-Balādhurī
  His full name is Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. Jābir b. Dāwūd Abū'l-Ḥasan. There are various reports regarding his kunya,
• The Caliphate of al-Muʿtaḍid
  The Commander of the Faithful, Abū’l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Aḥmad al-Muwaffaq b. Jaʿfar al-Mutawakkil, was among the
• Tirmidhī
  His full name is Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā b. Sawra b. Mūsā b. Daḥḥāk. It is also said that his full name was Muḥammad
• The Two Hundred and Eightieth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muḥarram of this year, al-Muʿtaḍid killed one of his black commanders who had sought his prote
• The Construction of the Caliphal Palace in Baghdad in This Year
  It was al-Muʿtaḍid who first had the caliphal palace built in Baghdad in this year. Until the end of the Abbas
• Ahmed b. Muhammed b. ʿĪsā b. Azhar
  He was the qadi (judge) of Wāsiṭ. He is the author of the work entitled "Musnad." He narrated from Muslim b. I
• The Master of Grammarians: Sībawayh
  According to one narration, he passed away in the year 277 of the Hijra. There are various reports that he die
• The Two Hundred and Eighty-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Muslims entered Byzantine territory. They obtained spoils and returned safely. In this year,
• 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 B
• The Two Hundred and Eighty-Second Year of the Hijra
  On the 5th of the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this year, on a Tuesday, al-Muʿtaḍid consummated his marriage wit
• Ismāʿīl b. Isḥāq
  Ismāʿīl b. Isḥāq b. Ismāʿīl b. Ḥammād b. Zayd Abū Isḥāq al-Azdī. He was a qāḍī (judge). He was from Basra, but
• Humaraveyh b. Ahmad b. Tulun
  After his father Ahmad, in the year 271 of the Hijra, he assumed the governance of the land of Egypt. During t
• 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).
• Muhammad b. Qāsim b. Khallād
  Muhammad b. Qāsim b. Khallād Abū'l-ʿAynāʾ al-Baṣrī. He was blind. He was a poet, a man of letters, and a schol
• The Two Hundred and Eighty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, al-Muʿtaḍid set out from Baghdad to Mosul to fight the Khariji Hārūn al
• The Poet Ibn al-Rūmī
  He has a collection of poetry (dīwān). His real name is ʿAlī b. ʿAbbās b. Jurayj Abū'l-Ḥasan. However, he beca
• The Poet Buhturī
  He is the owner of the famous dīwān (collected poems). His real name is said to be Walīd b. ʿUbāda, or Ibn ʿUb
• The Year 284 of the Hijra
  In the month of Muḥarram of this year, the severed head of Rāfiʿ b. Harsama was brought to Baghdad. The caliph
• Ahmed b. Mubārak Abū ʿAmr al-Mustamlī
  He was from Nishapur. He was a zahid (ascetic). He was known by the epithet Ḥakamwayh al-ʿĀbid. He studied wit
• Ishaq b. Hasan
  Ishaq b. Hasan b. Maymun b. Sa'd Abu Ya'qub al-Harbi. He studied with Affan, Abu Nu'aym, and others. He was th
• The Two Hundred and Eighty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Ṣāliḥ b. Mudrik al-Ṭāʾī attacked the pilgrims in the region of Ajfar. He took their property and
• Ibrahim b. Ishaq
  Ibrahim b. Ishaq b. Bashir b. Abdullah b. Rustam, Abu Ishaq al-Harbi. He was one of the leading imams in fiqh
• The Grammarian Mubarrad
  Muḥammad b. Yazīd b. ʿAbd al-Akbar Abū'l-ʿAbbās al-Azdī al-Sumālī. He is also known as the grammarian Mubarrad
• The Two Hundred and Eighty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of this year, the city of Amid was surrendered from the hands of Ibn al-Shaykh.
• The Emergence of Abu Saʿid al-Jannābī, Leader of the Qarmatians
  The Qarmatians were more impure and more corrupt than the Zanj. Abu Saʿid al-Jannābī emerged in the region of
• Ishaq b. Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Eban
  His patronymic is Abū Yaʿqūb al-Nahāʾī al-Aḥmar. The Ishāqiyya branch of the Shia is ascribed to him. Accordin
• Bakī b. Mahled
  Bakī b. Mahled b. Yazīd Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Andalusī was among the hadith ḥuffāẓ (memorizers of hadith). He
• Hasan b. Bashshar
  His patronymic was Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥayyāt. He narrated from Abū Bilāl al-Ashʿarī. Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī also narrate
• Muhammad b. Ibrahim
  Muhammad b. Ibrahim Abu Jaʿfar al-Anmati. He was known as Murabba. He was a student of Yahya b. Maʿin. He was
• Muhammad b. Yunus
  Muhammad b. Yunus b. Musa b. Sulayman b. ʿUbayd b. Rabiʿa b. Kadim, Abū'l-ʿAbbās al-Qurashī al-Baṣrī al-Kadimī
• Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq
  Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq b. Nahbe Abū Yūsuf al-Wāsiṭī. He listened to hadith from Yazīd b. Hārūn. He came to Baghdad. T
• The Two Hundred and Eighty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this year, the situation of the Qarmaṭīs under the command of Abū Saʿīd al-J
• Muhammad b. Zayd al-ʿAlawī
  Tabaristan and Daylam were wild regions. The reason for his death was as follows: When Ismāʿīl al-Samanī defea
• Ahmed b. ʿAmr b. Abī ʿĀṣim al-Daḥḥāk
  His grandfather, Daḥḥāk, was the son of Nabil. The kunya (honorific) of Ahmed b. ʿAmr was Abū Bakr. He authore
• The Two Hundred and Eighty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, numerous calamities and misfortunes occurred in succession. That is: The Byzantines (Rum), with
• Bishr b. Mūsā b. Ṣāliḥ
  He was from the Asad tribe. His kunya was Abū ʿAlī. He was born in the year 190 of the Hijra. He requested a h
• Thābit b. Qurra
  Thābit b. Qurra b. Hārūn (or Zahrūn) b. Thābit b. Kudām b. Ibrāhīm al-Sabū was a philosopher from Harran. He a
• Hasan b. ʿAmr b. Cehm
  His kunya was Abū’l-Ḥasan. He was a Shīʿī. He was not among the Rāfiḍīs, but rather from the Shīʿīs who were s
• ʿUbaydullāh b. Sulaymān b. Wahb
  He was the vizier of Caliph al-Muʿtaḍid. He held a position of esteem in his eyes. His death deeply shook al-M
• The Two Hundred Eighty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Qarmatians (Qarmatīler) caused turmoil in the Sawad region of Kufa. Some governors defeated
• Caliph al-Muʿtaḍid Billah
  Ahmed b. al-Amir Abu Ahmed al-Muwaffaq. He bore the laqab (honorific title) Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh. His father, Ab
• The Caliphate of Muktafi Billah Abu Muhammad
  The real name of Muktafi Billah was ʿAlī. He was the son of the Commander of the Faithful (Amīr al-Muʾminīn) a
• Bedir
  Vizier Qāsim had resolved to transfer the caliphate to someone other than the descendants of al-Muʿtaḍid, and
• Hüseyin b. Muhammed
  Hüseyin b. Muhammed b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Fahm b. Muḥriz b. Iḥ rāḥīm al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Baghdādī. He studied with Khal
• The Year Two Hundred and Ninety of the Hijra
  In this year, Yaḥyā b. Zikrawayh b. Bahrawayh Abū Qāsim al-Qarmaṭī, known by the epithet "Shaykh," came to Raq
• Abdullah, Son of Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal
  His kunya was Abū ʿAbdirraḥmān al-Shaybānī. He was an imam, a ḥāfiẓ (one who has memorized many ḥadīth), with
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh Abū Bakr al-Daqqāq
  He was among the great Sufis (mutaṣawwif) and ascetic worshippers (ṣūfī ʿābid). According to a narration, Juna
• The Two Hundred and Ninety-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a great battle took place between the caliph's army and the Karmatians. The caliph's army defeat
• Ahmed b. Yahyā b. Zayd b. Sayyār
  His kunyah was Abū 1-ʿAbbās al-Shaybānī. He was an ally of the Shaybān tribe. He had acquired the nickname Ṣāl
• The Two Hundred and Ninety-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Muḥammad b. Sulaymān, sent by the caliph al-Muktafī to fight against Hārūn b. Ḥumārawayh, entere
• Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdullāh b. Muslim al-Kaʿcī
  He was one of the nīshāyī who lived a long life. His assembly was attended by 50,000 people who brought with t
• The Two Hundred Ninety-Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Karmatians gathered around the brother of Benli Hu-tein along the Euphrates route. It is kno
• The Poet Abū'l-ʿAbbās al-Nāshī
  His real name is ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad. Abū'l-ʿAbbās is his kunyah (teknonym). He belonged to the Muʿtazila ma
• Nasr B. Ahmed B. Abdülaziz
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Muḥammad al-Kindī. He was a famous ḥadīth (Prophetic tradition) memorizer known
• Muḥammad b. Naṣr Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Marwazī
  He was born in Baghdad, grew up in Nishapur, and made Samarkand his homeland. He was the most knowledgeable am
• Mūsā b. Hārūn b. ʿAbdillāh
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿImrān. His father was famously known by the nickname Ḥammāl. He was born in the
• The Two Hundred Ninety-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a prisoner exchange took place between the Muslims and the Romans. The number of Muslim prisoner
• Biography and Death of Caliph al-Muktafī Billāh
  The Commander of the Faithful, al-Muktafī Billāh b. al-Muṭadid b. Amīr Abī Aḥmad al-Muwaffaq b. al-Mutawakkil
• Hāfiẓ al-Muʿammerī
  He is the author of the work titled Amal al-Yawm wa al-Laylah (The Deed of the Day and the Night). His real na
• Abdullah b. Hasan
  Abdullah b. Hasan b. Ahmed b. Ebi Şuayb (the original name of Ebu Şuayb is Abdullah) b. Muslim al-Umavi al-Har
• 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 Two Hundred Ninety-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Rabiʿ al-Awwal of this year, a group consisting of commanders, soldiers, and ʿumaraʾ (notables
• Hāfiẓ Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Zakariyyā
  Hāfiẓ Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Zakariyyā b. Abī ʿAṭṭāb Abū Bakr al-Baghdādī. He is also known as Aḥū Maymīn. He tr
• 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
• Halef b. ʿAmr b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. ʿĪsā
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Muḥammad al-Akbarī. He listened to ḥadīth. He was a person of refinement. He had
• Caliph and Poet Ibn Mutez
  ʿAbdullāh b. Mutez Billāh Muḥammad b. Mutevekkil Al-Lāh Jāfir b. Mutāssim Billāh Muḥammad b. Rashīd. His kunya
• Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn b. Ḥabīb
  His kunyah is Abū Ḥusayn al-Wadīʿ. He served as a qāḍī (judge) and is the author of the Ḥadīth book titled "Mu
• Muḥammad b. Dāwūd b. Jarrāḥ
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAbdillāh. He served as a scribe. He was the uncle of the vizier ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā. He
• The Two Hundred and Ninety-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Kasım b. Sima went on a ghazwah (military expedition) to the Anatolian region during the summer
• Muḥammad b. Dāwūd b. ʿAlī
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Bakr. He was a faqīh (jurist). His father was also a faqīh. He belonged to the Ẓ
• Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān b. Abī Shayba
  His kunyah was Abū Jaʿfar. He narrated ḥadīth from Yaḥyā b. Manīʿ, ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and some others. Ibn Saʿ
• Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir b. ʿAbdullāh
  Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥasan b. Musʿab. He belonged to the emirate and the dynasty of splendor. He
• Mūsā b. Isḥāq
  Mūsā b. Isḥāq b. Mūsā b. ʿAbdullāh Abū Bakr al-Anṣārī al-Ḥutā-nīʿī. He was born in the year 210 AH. He heard ḥ
• Yusuf b. Yakub
  Yusuf b. Yakub b. Ismāʿīl b. Ḥammād b. Zayd. He was the father of Qāḍī Abū ʿUmar, who executed Hallāj al-Mansū
• The Two Hundred and Ninety-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Kasım b. Sima came from the Rum provinces and entered Baghdad. He was accompanied by captives an
• Ibn Rawandi
  He was one of the most famous heretics. His father was a Jew. He professed to be a Muslim. It is related that
• Junayd b. Muhammad b. Junayd (Junayd al-Baghdādī)
  His patronymic is Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥazzāz. It is also said that he was called al-Qawārīrī. He was originally fr
• Preacher Sāʿīd b. Ismāʿīl b. Saʿīd b. Manṣūr Abū ʿUthmān
  He was born and raised in the city of Rayy. Later, he moved to Nishapur, where he remained until his death. He
• Semnūn b. Ḥamza
  It is also said that his father's name was ʿAbdallāh. He was among the Sufi meşāyīh (spiritual masters). He ha
• Safi al-Harbī
  He was one of the great nobles of the Abbasid state. When he fell ill, he left a will stating that his servant
• Isḥāq b. Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Yaʿqūb. He belonged to the ʿAbbādī tribe. This tribe is among the tribes of the J
• Husayn b. Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Zakariyya
  His kunyah is Abū ʿAbdallāh. He was a Shīʿī, and he propagated for Mahdī ʿAbdallāh b. Maymūn. He invited the p
• The Two Hundred and Ninety-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  Ibn al-Jawzī said: "In this year, three comets were seen. One of them appeared in the month of Ramaḍān, and tw
• Ahmed b. Nasr b. Ibrāhīm Abū ʿAmr al-Haffāf
  He was a ḥāfiẓ of ḥadīth. He would discuss 100,000 ḥadīth. He studied and listened to ḥadīth from Isḥāq b. Raḥ
• Behlūl b. Isḥāq b. Behlūl
  Behlūl b. Isḥāq b. Behlūl b. Ḥassan b. Sīnān Abū Muḥammad al-Tanūhī. He heard and studied ḥadīth from Ismāʿīl
• Husayn b. ʿAbdullah
  Husayn b. ʿAbdullah b. Aḥmad Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥirakī. He is the author of the work entitled al-Mukhtaṣar in fiqh. H
• Muḥammad b. Ismāʾīl
  Muḥammad b. Ismāʾīl Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Maghribī. He went on pilgrimage on foot 97 times. Even in the dark night,
• Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr
  Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr b. Abī Ḥaysame Abū ʿAbdillāh. Both he and his father were ḥadīth ḥāfiẓ (memorizer of ḥadī
• Nahiyci Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Kaysān
  He is one of the hadith memorizers (ḥāfiẓ) who is found in many transmissions. He knew the method of grammar (
• Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā
  His kunyah was Abū Saʿīd. He lived in Dimashq. He transmitted from Ibrāhīm b. Saʿīd al-Jawharī, Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
• The Three Hundredth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the water of the Tigris River increased. There was a great deal of rain in Baghdad. Seven days b
• Ahves b. Fadl
  Ahves b. Fadl b. Muʿāwiya b. Khālid b. Ghassān Abū ʿUmayya al-Ghilābī. He served as a qāḍī (judge) in Basra an
• ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ṭāhir
  ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ṭāhir b. Ḥusayn b. Musʿab Abū Aḥmed al-Ḥuzāʾī. He was appointed governor of Baghda
• Poet Sinavberî
  Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Fūrāt Abū Bakr ad-Dabbī as-Sinavberī al-Ḥanbalī. Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir stated tha
• Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad
  Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Mawlīd Abū Isḥāq al-Ṣūfī. He was among the high-ranking preachers. He was a ḥa
• The Three Hundred and First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Ḥusayn b. Ḥamdan went on a military expedition to Anatolia. He conquered many cities and fortres
• Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad
  Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn b. Muṣṭafā Abū Bakr al-Faryābī. He was the judge (qāḍī) of Dīnawar. He traveled t
• Muhammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī
  Muhammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī b. Muhammad b. Abī al-Shawārib. He was known by the honorific Ahmad. When his b
• The Three Hundred and Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a letter arrived reporting that the servant Munis had dealt a severe blow to the Byzantines (Rum
• Bishr b. Nasr b. Mansur
  His kunya (honorific name) was Abū’l-Qāsim. He was among the Shāfiʿī jurists. He was Egyptian and was known as
• Cariye Bed'a
  She was a slave-girl (cāriye) renowned for her beautiful singing. One of the caliphs offered her mistress 120,
• Qadi Abu Zurʿa Muhammad b. ʿUthman al-Shafiʿi
  He first served as a qadi (judge) in Egypt, and later in Damascus. He was the first qadi in Damascus to issue
• The Three Hundred and Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, al-Muqtadir Billah endowed a great amount of wealth and property for the Two Noble Sanctuaries (
• Nasa'i, Ahmad b. Ali
  Ahmad b. ʿAlī b. Shuʿayb b. ʿAlī b. Sinān b. Bahr b. Dīnār Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasāʾī. He is the author of t
• Hasan b. Sufyan
  Ḥasan b. Sufyān b. ʿĀmir b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Nuʿmān b. ʿAṭāʾ Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Shaybānī al-Nasawī was a traditi
• Rūwaym b. Aḥmad
  It is also said that his name was Ibn Muḥammad b. Rūwaym b. Yazīd. His kunya was Abū'l-Ḥasan. It is also repor
• Zuhayr b. Ṣāliḥ
  Zuhayr b. Ṣāliḥ b. Imām Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal. He narrated hadith from his father. Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Sulaymān al-Naj
• Abū ʿAlī al-Jubbāʾī
  He is the shaykh (spiritual leader) of the Muʿtazilites. His full name is Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb Abū ʿAlī
• The Poet Abū Ḥasan b. Bassāmī
  His real name was ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Manṣūr b. Naṣr b. Bassām al-Bassāmī. He was a great poet in satire (hijāʾ).
• The Three Hundred and Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Muqtadir dismissed his vizier, Abū Ḥusayn ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā b. al-Jarrāḥ. This was beca
• Lebid b. Muhammed
  Lebid b. Muhammed b. Ahmed b. Heysem b. Salih b. Abdullah b. Husayn b. Alkame b. Nuaym b. Utarid b. Hacib. His
• Yusuf b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī
  His patronymic is Abū Yaʿqūb al-Rāzī. He listened to hadith from Imām Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal. He kept company with Dh
• Yemut b. Müzriʾ b. Yemut
  His patronymic is Abū Bakr al-ʿAbdī. He was from the ʿAbd al-Qays tribe. He belonged to the Thawrī school. He
• The Three Hundred and Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the envoy of the Byzantine emperor came to Baghdad to pursue the exchange of prisoners and peace
• Muhammad b. Ahmad Abu Musa
  He was a grammarian from Kufa, known as Jāḥiẓ. He was a companion of Sa'lab, and their companionship lasted fo
• The Three Hundred and Sixth Year of the Hijra
  On the first day of the month of Muharram in this year, the mental hospital built by the mother of al-Muqtadir
• Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad b. Ḥāris
  His patronymic is Abū'l-Qāsim al-Kilābī. He belonged to the Shāfiʿī madhhab (legal school). He listened to had
• Ahmed b. ʿUmar b. S̱arīc
  His honorific is Abū'l-ʿAbbās. He served as the judge (qāḍī) of Shiraz. He compiled around 400 works. He was a
• Ahmed b. Yahya
  His patronymic was Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Jallād. He was from Baghdad, but later went to and settled in Damascus. He
• 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 (
• Muḥammad b. Babshāz
  His kunya (honorific), is Abū ʿUbaydullāh. He was from Basra, and later went to settle in Baghdad. There, he l
• Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn b. Shahrīyār
  His patronymic is Abū Bakr al-Qaṭṭān. He was originally from Balkh. He transmitted reports from Fallas and Bis
• Muhammad b. Khalaf b. Hayyan
  Muhammad b. Khalaf b. Havyan b. Saduka b. Ziyad. His kunya was Abū Bakr al-Dabbī. He served as a judge (qāḍī).
• Mansur b. Ismail b. Umar
  His honorific was Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Faqīr. He was among the Shāfiʿī imams. He authored various works related to t
• Abū Naṣr al-Muḥibb
  He was called among the Sufi shaykhs. He was a person of karāma (a saintly wonder), generous and possessed of
• The Three Hundred Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Ṣafar of this year, a great fire broke out in the district of Karkh. Many people died as a res
• Ahmed b. Ali b. Müsenna
  His patronymic is Abū Yaʿlā. He was from Mosul. He is the author of the famous "Musnad." He heard hadith from
• Ishaq b. Abdullah b. Ibrahim
  His name is Ishaq b. Abdullah b. Ibrahim b. Abdullah b. Salama. His kunya is Abu Yaʿqub al-Bazzar. He was from
• Ali b. Sahl b. Azhar
  His honorific (kunya) was Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was from Isfahan. Previously, he lived a life of luxury, but later b
• The Year 338 of the Hijra
  In this year, prices rose in Baghdad and there was a surge in the cost of living. The people became restless.
• Ahmed b. es-Salt
  Ahmed b. es-Salt b. Mugallez Abū’l-ʿAbbās al-Hamanī. He is one of those who fabricated hadith. He transmitted
• Abdullah b. Sabit b. Yaʿqub
  His kunya was Abū ʿAbdillāh. He was a qurrāʾ (Qur'an reciter) and grammarian. He was from the city of Tuz, but
• The Year 309 of the Hijra
  In this year, due to the execution of a zindīq (heretic) in Baghdad, fires broke out in many neighborhoods. Th
• Biography of al-Hallāj
  Seeking refuge in Allah from attributing to him words he did not say and from slandering him in his words and
• Examples of Hallaj's Deceptions
  Hatib al-Baghdadi narrated as follows: “Hallāj ordered one of his own men to go to the town of Jabal and prese
• The Execution of al-Hallāj
  Hatīb al-Baghdādī and others said: When al-Hallāj came to Baghdad for the last time, he associated with the ṣū
• Among the Great Sufis: Abū’l-ʿAbbās b. ʿAṭāʾ
  His full name was Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAṭāʾ al-Edmī. He transmitted reports from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Qaṭṭān, Muf
• The Year 310 of the Hijra
  In this year, Yūsuf b. Abī’s-Sāj was released from the prison in which he had been held. His wealth was restor
• 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
• Tabarī
  Imam Muḥammad b. Jarīr b. Yazīd b. Kathīr b. Ghālib Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭabarī. He was born in the year 224 of the H
• The Three Hundred and Eleventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the emir of the Qarmatians, Abu Tahir Sulayman b. Abi Saʿid al-Janabi, entered Basra at night wi
• Hallāl Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ḥāwīn
  This person’s kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Bakr al-Hallāl. He is the author of the book titled al-Kitāb al-Jāmiʿ l
• 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 Author of the Work Maʿāni'l-Qurʾān, az-Zajjāj
  His real name was Ibrāhīm ibn Sirrī ibn Sahl Abū Isḥāq az-Zajjāj. He was a virtuous, pious person with a sound
• Hamid b. ʿAbbās
  He served as a vizier. The ruler appointed him to the vizierate in the 306th year of the Hijra. He had much we
• Ibn Ḥuzayma
  His real name was Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Ḥuzayma b. Muġīra b. Ṣāliḥ b. Bakr al-Sulamī. He was a freedman of Muḥs
• The Year 312 of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, the accursed leader of the Karmatians, Abū Ṭāhir al-Ḥusayn b. Abī Saʿīd
• Ibrāhīm b. Ḥāmiš
  His kunya (teknonym) is Abū Isḥāq. He was a preacher and a zahid (ascetic). He used to give advice to people.
• ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Furāt
  Caliph al-Muqtadir appointed him as vizier. Then he dismissed him, appointed him again, dismissed him again, a
• Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Sulaymān b. Ḥāris b. ʿAbdirraḥmān
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Bakr al-Ezdī. He was from the city of Wāsiṭ. He was known by the nickname Bāghan
• The Three Hundred and Third Year of the Hijra
  Ibn Jawzī said: "On the night before the end of the month of Muḥarram of this year, a star fell from the south
• ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Sulaymān
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ghādirī. He heard ḥadīth from Kawārīrī and ʿAbbās al-ʿAnbarī. He was
• Ḥāfiẓ Abū’l-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj
  Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. Mihrān b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Sakatī. He was a freedman of the Thaqīf tribe. His kun
• The Year 304 of the Hijra
  In this year, the Byzantine emperor Domestikos wrote letters to the Muslim population living on the borders, d
• The Three Hundred and Fifteenth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Ṣafar of this year, the new vizier ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā arrived in Baghdad from Damascus. The people w
• Ibn Jassās al-Jawharī
  His real name was Ḥusayn b. ʿAbdullāh b. Jassās al-Jawharī, Abu ʿAbdil-lāh. He was from Baghdad. He possessed
• ʿAlī b. Sulaymān b. Mufaddal
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Ahfash. He transmitted ḥadīth from Mubarrad, Saʿlab, Yazīdī, and other
• The Three Hundred and Sixteenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Abū Ṭāhir Sulaymān b. Abī Saʿīd al-Jannābī, the leader of the Qarmaṭians, caused turmoil in the
• Benān b. Muḥammad
  Benān b. Muḥammad b. Ḥamdān b. Saʿīd. His kunyah was Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was an ascetic. He was known as Hammāl. H
• The Three Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Muqtadir was deposed from the caliphate. In his place, al-Kāhir Muḥammad b. al-Muṭ
• The Karmatians Taking the Hajar al-Aswad and Carrying It to Their Homeland
  In this year, the caravan from Iraq set out for pilgrimage under the command of Mansur ad-Daylamī and safely r
• Ahmed b. Mehdi b. Remîm
  He was an abid (devout worshipper) and zahid (ascetic) personality. He spent 300,000 dirhams for the sake of a
• Badr b. Haytham
  Badr b. Haytham b. Khalaf b. Khalid b. Rashid b. Dahhak b. Numan b. Muhrik b. Numan b. Munzir. His kunyah (tek
• ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
  ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Marzūbān b. Sābūr b. Shāhinshāh. His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū'l-Qās
• Muḥammad b. Abī'l-Ḥusayn
  Muḥammad b. Abī'l-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān. He was martyred. He was a ḥāfiẓ (memorizer of ḥadīth). His ku
• The Theologian Ka'bī of History
  Abū'l-Qāsim ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Maḥmūd al-Balḥī al-Kaʿbī. He was a theologian (kalām scholar). He belonged t
• The Year 328 of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Muqtadir dismissed his vizier Abū ʿAlī b. Mukla. Abū ʿAlī had served as vizier for
• Ahmed b. Ishaq
  Ahmed b. Ishaq b. Bahlul b. Hasan b. Abi Sinan Abu Ja'far al-Tanuhī. He was a judge belonging to the Hanafi ma
• Yahya b. Muḥammad b. Saʿīd
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Muḥammad. He was a slave of Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr. He traveled to various places t
• Hasan b. Ali b. Ahmed
  Hasan b. Ali b. Ahmed b. Bashshar b. Ziyad. He is known as Ibn Allaf al-Darir al-Nahrawani. He is a famous poe
• The Year 309 of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, the pilgrims returned to Baghdad. Hadim Munis had also gone on pilgrima
• Ali b. Ḥusayn b. Ḥarb b. ʿĪsā
  He served as a judge in Egypt for a long period. He was a trustworthy and learned individual, among the distin
• Muhammad b. Faḍl b. ʿAbbās
  Muhammad b. Faḍl b. ʿAbbās Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Balḥī. He was an ascetic person. It is narrated that for forty yea
• Muhammad b. Sa'd
  Muhammad b. Sa'd b. Abū Ḥusayn al-Warrāq. He was a friend of Abū ʿUthmān an-Nīsāburī. He was a jurist (faqīh).
• The Three Hundred and Twentieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Caliph al-Muqtadir Billah was killed. The reason for this was as follows: Hadim Munīs, in the mo
• The Biography of al-Muqtadir bi’llāh
  His lineage is as follows: Jaʿfar b. Aḥmad al-Muʿtaḍid bi’llāh Aḥmad b. Abī Aḥmad al-Muwaffaq b. Jaʿfar al-Mut
• The Caliphate of al-Kāhir
  When Muktaḍir Billāh was killed, the servant Munīs intended to appoint Muktaḍir's son Abū'l-ʿAbbās to the cali
• Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī
  Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Betha b. ʿAlī b. Mukle. His kunyah is Abū Isḥāq al-Tamīmī. He served as a muḥta
• Abū ʿAlī b. Ḥayzurān
  He was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). He is among the imams of the Shāfiʿī madhhab. His real name was Ḥusayn b. Ṣāl
• Mālikī Judge Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad b. Yūsuf
  Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad b. Yūsuf b. Ismāʿīl b. Ḥammād b. Zayd. Abū ʿUmar is his kunya (honorific name). He served a
• The Year 321 of the Hijra
  In the safer month of this year, Caliph al-Kāhir captured a highway robber and brought him before his presence
• The Emergence of the Buyid Dynasty
  They were three brothers: ʿImād al-Dawla Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan, Rukn al-Dawla Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn, and Muʿizz al-Da
• Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Selame
  Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Selame b. Seleme b. ʿAbdülmelik Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī. He was a Ḥanafī faqīh (jurist). He
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Mūsā
  Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Mūsā b. Naḍr b. Ḥakīm b. ʿAlī b. Zürbī Abū Bakr. Known as Ibn Abī Ḥāmid. He served as the
• Muktedir Billah's Mother Known by the Epithet Seyyide Şuğeb
  She derived an annual income of 1,000,000 dinars from her estates. She spent even more on the food and drink o
• ʿAbdussalām b. Muḥammad
  ʿAbdussalām b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdulwahhāb b. Sallām b. Khālid b. Himrān b. ʿIbān. He is a descendant of ʿUthmān
• Ahmed b. Hasan b. Dureyd b. Atahiye
  His patronymic is Abū Bakr b. Dureyd. He belonged to the Azd tribe. He was a scholar of lexicography and gramm
• The Three Hundred and Twenty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Byzantine emperor attacked Malatya with 50,000 soldiers. He placed the city under siege, the
• The Deposition of al-Qāhir, the Blinding of His Eyes and His Subjecting to Torture
  The reason for this was as follows: The vizier ʿAlī b. Muqla, during the capture of the eunuch Munis, had esca
• The Caliphate of Radi Billah Abu'l-Abbas
  Radi Billah Abu'l-Abbas Muhammad b. al-Muqtadir Billah. When the soldiers deposed al-Kahir and blinded him by
• The Death of the Ruler of Ifriqiyya, al-Mahdī
  In this year, the ruler of Ifriqiyya and the first of the false Fāṭimid caliphs, al-Mahdī Abū Muḥammad ʿUbaydu
• Muhammad b. Aḥmad b. Qāsim Ruzbarī
  Muhammad b. Aḥmad b. Qāsim Abū ʿAlī al-Ruzbarī. Although there are various reports regarding his name being Aḥ
• Muḥammad b. Ismāʾīl
  Known as "Ḥayrü'n-nessāc" (the best of the weavers), he was called Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Ṣūfī. He was one of the grea
• The Year 323 of the Hijra
  In this year, a qurrāʾ (Qur'an reciter) named Ibn Shanbuz was brought before the vizier ʿAlī b. Mukla. Due to
• Nahivci Nefteveyh
  His real name was Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿĀrefa b. Sulaymān b. Mughīra b. Ḥabīb b. Muhallab b. Abī Ṣufra al-Ez
• ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbdussāmid b. al-Muhtadī Billāh
  ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbdussāmid b. al-Muhtadī Billāh al-Ḥāshimī al-Abbā-sī- Bashshār b. Naṣr al-Ḥalabī narrated ḥadīt
• Ali b. Fadl b. Tahir
  Ali b. Fadl b. Tahir b. Nasr b. Muhammed Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Delhī traveled extensively in pursuit of collecting ha
• Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Asad
  Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Asad Abū Bakr al-Ḥāfiẓ, known as Ibn Bestibnan. He transmitted hadith from Zubayr b. Bakk
• The Year 324 of the Hijra
  In this year, soldiers came and surrounded the caliphate palace and said: "Caliph Radi himself should come out
• Kurra Ibn Mujahid
  Abu Bakr Aḥmad b. Mūsā b. ʿAbbās b. Mujāhid. He was called Kurra. He is one of the imams of qirāʾāt (Qur'anic
• The Poet Cahza al-Barmakī
  Ahmad b. Jaʿfar b. Mūsā b. Yaḥyā b. Khālid b. Barmak al-Barmakī. His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Nadī
• Ẓāhirī Faqīh Ibn Mugallis
  He is among the famous faqīhs (jurists). He has beneficial works within his madhhab (school of law). He learne
• 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,
• ʿAffān b. Sulaymān
  ʿAffān b. Sulaymān b. Ayyūb Abū'l-Ḥasan at-Tājir. He resided in Egypt and there established a waqf (endowment)
• Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī
  He came to Baghdad. He learned ḥadīth from Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī and fiqh from Ibn Sūrayj. We have narrat
• Harun b. Muktedir
  He was the brother of Caliph al-Rāḍī. He passed away in the month of Rabiʿ al-Awwal of that year. His brother
• The Year 325 of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, Caliph al-Rāḍī and the commander of commanders Muḥammad b. Raik set out
• Ahmed B. Muhammed B. Hasan
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Ḥāmid al-Sharqī. He was born in the year 240 AH. He was a great ḥadīth ḥāfiẓ (mem
• Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū't-Tīb. He is a grammarian (nahiwcī). Abū'l-Wafāʾ has stated that he authored many
• Muhammad b. Hārūn al-ʿAskarī
  His patronymic is Abū Bakr. He studied the jurisprudence (fiqh) of the school of Abū Thawr and became a jurist
• The Year 326 of the Hijra
  In this year, a letter arrived from the Byzantine emperor to Caliph al-Rāḍī. The original of the letter was wr
• The Three Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, the caliph al-Rāḍī set out on the road to Mosul to fight against the go
• Hasan b. Qāsim b. Jaʿfar b. Raḥīm
  His kunya (teknonym) is Abū ʿAlī al-Dimashqī. His father was a muḥaddith (hadith scholar). He himself was a hi
• Husayn b. Qāsim b. Jaʿfar
  Husayn b. Qāsim b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Khālid b. Bishr Abū ʿAlī al-Kawkabī. He served as a scribe. He was a
• Osman b. Hattab
  Osman b. Hattab b. ʿAbdillah Abū ʿAmr al-Balawī al-Maghribī al-Ashajj. He is known as Abūʾd-Dunyā. This person
• Hāfiẓ Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Abī Ḥātim
  One of the famous personalities who passed away this year was the ḥadīth hāfiẓ (memorizer of ḥadīth) Abū Muḥam
• The Year 328 of the Hijra
  In his work "al-Muntazam," Ibn al-Jawzī said: "At the beginning of the month of Muḥarram in this year, a sever
• 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 r
• 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 (te
• ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Muzayyin al-Ṣaghīr
  He is among the spiritual masters of the Ṣūfīs. Originally, he was from Baghdad. He was a companion of Junayd
• Ahmed b. ʿAbdurrabbīḥ
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Ahmed b. ʿAbdurrabbīḥ b. Ḥabīb b. Jarīr b. Ṣālim Abū ʿUmar al-Qurṭ
• ʿUmar b. Abī ʿUmar Muḥammad b. Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: ʿUmar b. Abī ʿUmar Muḥammad b. Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb b. Ḥammād b. Zayd b
• Kurra Ibn Shanbuz
  His lineage is as follows: Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ayyūb b. Ṣalt Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was known by the name Ibn Shanbu
• Muhammad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. ʿAbdullah
  His kunya was Abū ʿAlī. He became famous as Vizier Ibn Muqla. In the early part of his life, his circumstances
• Abū Bakr Ibn Anbārī
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Muḥammad b. Qāsim b. Muḥammad b. Bishār b. Ḥasan b. Bayān b. Sammā
• The Three Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In the middle of the month of Rabiʿ al-Awwal of this year, the caliph Radi Billah Abū'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Muktaḍ
• Ahmed b. Ibrāhīm
  Ahmed b. Ibrāhīm b. Tezmürd. He was a faqīh (jurist) and one of the companions of Ibn Sūrayj. Once he went to
• Beckem al-Turkī
  He was the emir of emirs of Baghdad. He had served as emir in Baghdad before the Buyid sons. He was a wise per
• Abū Muḥammad al-Barbahārī
  He was a scholar, ascetic, jurist, and preacher affiliated with the Ḥanbalī school. He was a companion of Marw
• Yusuf b. Yakub
  Yusuf b. Yakub b. Ishāq b. Bahlūl Abū Bakr al-Azraq. He was called Azraq because of his blue eyes. He belonged
• The Three Hundred and Thirtieth Year of the Hijra
  Ibn al-Jawzī said: “In the month of Muharram of this year, a comet appeared with its head directed westward an
• Isḥāq b. Muḥammad
  Isḥāq b. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Nahrajūrī. He is among the Sufi shaykhs. He was a companion of Junayd b. Muḥamm
• Husayn b. Ismaʿil b. Muhammad
  Husayn b. Ismaʿil b. Muhammad b. Ismaʿil b. Sard b. Aban, Abu ʿAbdillah al-Dabbī al-Qāḍī al-Mahāmilī. He was a
• Ali b. Muḥammad b. Sahl
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Sāʿij. He was an ascetic (zāhid), devout worshipper (ʿābid), and a po
• Shaykh Abū Ṣāliḥ Muflih al-Ḥanbalī
  He was the founder of the Abū Ṣāliḥ Mosque located outside the eastern gate of Damascus. He had karāmat (saint
• The Three Hundred Thirty-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sayf al-Dawla entered the city of Wasit. Baridi and his brother Abu l-Husayn were defeated befor
• Sābit b. Sinān b. Kurrā al-Ṣābiʿī
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Saʿīd. He practiced medicine. He embraced Islam in the presence of Kāhir Billāh,
• Muhammad b. Aḥmad b. Yaʿqūb
  Muhammad b. Aḥmad b. Yaʿqūb b. Shayba b. Ṣalt al-Sadūsī. He was a mawla (client) of the Sadūs tribe. His kunya
• Muḥammad b. Muḥalled b. Jāʿfar
  His kunyah was Abū ʿUmar al-Durrī. He worked as a pharmacist. He lived in the Durr neighborhood of Baġdād's Va
• Majnūn al-Baġdādī
  Ibn Jawzī narrated that Abū Bakr al-Shiblī said: "I saw Majnūn naked beside the Rusafah Mosque. He was saying
• The Three Hundred and Thirty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Caliph al-Muttaqi, angered at Tuzun, left Baghdad and went to Mosul. At that time, Tuzun was in
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Saʿīd
  Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Saʿīd b. ʿAbdirraḥmān Abū'l-ʿAbbās al-Kūfī, known as Ibn Ukda, was so called because he c
• Ahmed b. ʿAmīr al-Marwazī
  Ahmed b. ʿAmīr b. Bishr b. Ḥāmid al-Marwazī. He is from Marwaz. "Ruz" is the name of a river. He was a Shāfiʿī
• The Three Hundred and Thirty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Muttaqī returned to Baghdad. He was deposed from the caliphate and his eyes were b
• The Caliphate of al-Mustakfi Billāh ʿAbdallāh b. al-Muktafi b. al-Muʿtadid
  After having al-Muttaqi's eyes put out, Tūzūn returned to Baghdad and summoned al-Mustakfi. He pledged allegia
• The Three Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, the caliph al-Mustakfi Billah added the epithet "Imām al-Ḥaqq" (Leader
• The Initial Phase of the Buyid Dynasty and Their Domination over Baghdad
  Muʿizzü'd-Dawla Aḥmad b. Ḥasan b. Buyayh marched towards Baghdad with a great army. When he approached the cit
• The Capture and Deposition of Caliph Mustakfi Billah
  On the twenty-second day of the month of Jamāzī al-ʾAkhir of that year, Muʿizzü'd-Dawla entered the caliphate
• The Caliphate of Muti Lillah
  When Muizzü'd-Devle came to Baghdad and arrested al-Mustakfi and blinded him, he summoned Abu'l-Qasim al-Fadl,
• ʿUmar b. Ḥusayn
  He is the author of the work titled al-Mukhtaṣar fī’l-Fiqh , written according to the madhhab of Imam Aḥmad b.
• Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAbdillāh. He was a Ḥanafī faqīh (jurist) and one of the leading great imams of t
• Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Faḍl al-Sulamī. He served as a vizier; he was a jurist (faqīh), a muḥaddith (scholar of ḥ
• Iḥshīd Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ṭawāǧ
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Bakr. Iḥshīd is his laqab (epithet), meaning "the ruler of rulers." This laqab wa
• Abū Bakr al-Shiblī
  He is among the shaykhs of the Sufi tradition. There is disagreement regarding his actual name. Some have said
• The Three Hundred Thirty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Caliph Mutī li-llāh settled in the palace of the caliphate. Muʿizzü'd-Dawla b. Buwayh and Nā
• Hasan b. Hamaveyh b. Ḥusayn
  He was the qāḍī of Esterābādh. He narrated many ḥadīths and taught ḥadīth to others. He had a gathering of his
• Abdurrahman b. Ahmed b. Abdullah
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥātilī. He heard and transmitted hadith from Ibn Abī al-Dunyā and ot
• ʿAbdülselām b. Rağbān
  ʿAbdülselām b. Rağbān b. ʿAbdülselām b. Ḥabīb b. ʿAbdullāh b. Rağbān b. Fayd b. Tamīm. His kunyah is Abū Muḥam
• ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā b. Dāwūd b. Jarrāḥ
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Ḥasan. He served as vizier under Caliph al-Muqtadir and Caliph al-Qāhir. He was born in t
• Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl
  Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Isḥāq b. Bahr Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Fārisī. He was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). He was a trustw
• Harun b. Muḥammad
  Harun b. Muḥammad b. Harun b. ʿAlī b. Mūsā b. ʿAmr b. Jābir b. Yazīd b. Jābir b. ʿAmīr b. ʿUsayd b. Tamīm b. Ṣ
• Abū'l-ʿAbbās b. Qāḍī Aḥmad
  Abū'l-ʿAbbās b. Qāḍī Aḥmad b. Abī Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī. A Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist) and sayyid. He was a student of Ib
• The Year 336 of the Hijra
  In this year, Muʿizzü'd-Dawla took the caliph al-Muṭīʿ li-llāh with him and left Baghdad, proceeding to Basra.
• Abū'l-Ḥusayn b. Munādī
  His name is Aḥmad b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. ʿUbaydullāh b. Yazīd. He transmitted and narrated ḥadīth from his g
• Solî Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās
  Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās b. Muḥammad al-Ṣūl Abū Bakr al-Ṣūlī was a scholar of literature. He possessed
• The Transgender Woman Shaykh Abū'z-Zāhid al-Makkī
  This woman was one of the worshippers (ʿābid) residing in Mecca who devoted herself to worship. She sustained
• The Three Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Muʿizzü'd-Dawla departed from Baghdad to Mosul. Nāṣirü'd-Dawla fled before him and went to Nisib
• ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. Ḥamdayyah
  ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. Ḥamdayyah b. Nuʿaym b. Ḥākim Abū Juhaymammad al-Bayʾ. This person is the father of al
• Muhammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿUmar
  Muhammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿUmar Abū ʿAlī al-Muzakkir. He preached in Nishapur. He narrated hadiths from some hadith
• Muḥammad b. Muṭahhar b. ʿAbdallāh
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Munja. He was a farāʾiḍ (Islamic inheritance law) jurist of the Mālikī madhhab. He wrote
• The Three Hundred and Thirty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Rabiʿ al-Awwal of this year, a fitna (sedition) occurred between the Shīʿīs and the Ahl al-Sun
• Biography of Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Buwayh
  He was the eldest of the Buwayhid family and the first among them to ascend to rulership. He was intelligent,
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʾīl b. Yūnus
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Jaʿfar al-Murādī. He was Egyptian. He was a scholar of nahw (Arabic grammar). He
• Mustakfī Billāh
  Caliph Mustakfī Billāh ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAlī al-Muktafī Lillāh. He ruled as caliph for one year, four months, and
• ʿAlī b. Memshād b. Ṣahnūn b. Nasr
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Madīl. In his time, he was the muḥaddith (scholar of ḥadith) of Nishapur. He tr
• ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥasan
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was a preacher from Baghdad. He migrated to Egypt, resided there, an
• The Three Hundred Thirty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In the blessed month of Dhu al-Qi'dah of this year, the Hajar al-Aswad (the Black Stone) was returned to its p
• Hasan b. Dāwūd b. Babshāz
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was Egyptian. He came to Baghdad. He became one of the most virtuous and learne
• Caliph Kāhir Billāh
  Muḥammad Kāhir Billāh b. Mutadid Billāh. He served as caliph for one year, six months, and seven days. He was
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh b. Aḥmad
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Saffār. He is from Isfahan. In his time, he was the muḥaddith (hadit
• Farabī
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Naṣr. He is a Turkish philosopher. His knowledge of musīqī (music) was greater th
• The Year Three Hundred and Forty of the Hijra
  In this year, the governor of Oman launched an attack with many ships full of soldiers, seeking to seize Basra
• ʿIshhab b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
  ʿIshhab b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abī Dāwūd b. Ibrāhīm Abū ʿUmar al-Amīrī. Since he was attributed to ʿUmar b. Ruway
• Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Karhī
  He is one of the famous Hanafi imams. He was born in the year 260 AH in Baghdad. He studied the fiqh of Abū Ḥa
• Muḥammad b. Ṣāliḥ b. Yazīd
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Jaʿfar al-Varrāq. He heard many ḥadīth. He possessed a sound intellect and memor
• Mansur B. Karatekin
  He was appointed as the commander of the Khorasan armies by Emir Nūḥ al-Samānī. He could not recover from an i
• The Year 341 of the Hijra
  In this year, the Byzantines captured Suruç, killed its people, and burned their mosques. Ibn al-ʿAsīr said: "
• Mansur al-Fāṭimī
  Abū Ṭāhir Ismāʿīl b. Kāʾim Biʾamrillāh Abū'l-Qāsim Muḥammad b. ʿUbaydullāh al-Mahdī. He was the ruler of the M
• Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Ṣāliḥ
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAlī al-Saffār. He is among the muḥaddithīn (scholars of hadith). He met Mubarrad
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ziyād
  Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ziyād b. Yūnus b. Dirham Abū Saʿīd b. al-ʿArabī. He lived in Mecca. He became the shaykh
• Ismāʿīl b. Kāʾim b. Mahdī
  He was nicknamed Mansūr al-ʿUbaydī. He claimed to be Fatimid. He ruled the land of al-Maghrib. He is the fathe
• The Year 342 of the Hijra
  In this year, the governor of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla, entered Byzantine territories. He killed a large number o
• ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Abī l-Fahm
  His kunyah is Abū l-Qāsim. He is from the Tenuh tribe. He is the grandfather of the judge Abū l-Qāsim al-Tenuh
• Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm
  Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Ḥusayn b. Ḥasan b. ʿAbdulḥaylak Abū'l-Faraǧ al-Baġdādī. He was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist)
• Muhammad b. Musa b. Yaʿqub
  Muhammad b. Musa b. Yaʿqub b. Maʾmūn b. Hārūn al-Rashīd. His kunya (honorific), was Abū Bakr. In the year 268
• The Three Hundred and Twenty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a battle took place between Sayf al-Dawla b. Hamdan and Domestikos. Some of Domestikos' men were
• Hasan b. Ahmed
  His kunyah is Abū ʿAlī. He served as a scribe. He is Egyptian. He was friends with Abū ʿAlī al-Ruzbarī and oth
• ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿUkba b. Ḥummām
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī. He was from Kūfah. He came to Baghdad and there listened to
• Abū'l-Ḥayr al-Tinnānī
  He was an ascetic and a devout worshipper. He was of Arab origin. He resided in the village of Tinnān, affilia
• The Three Hundred Forty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  Ibn al-Jawzī said: In this year, in the cities of Baghdad, Wasit, Isfahan, and Ahvaz, a disease composed of bl
• Osman b. Ahmed
  Osman b. Ahmed b. Abdullah b. Yezid Abū ʿAmr ad-Dakkāk. He was known by the name Ibn Sammāk. He narrated ḥadit
• Muhammad b. Aḥmad b. Muhammad b. Aḥmad
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Jaʿfar al-Summānī. He served as a qāḍī (judge). He was born in the year 361 AH.
• Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Batte b. Isḥāq al-Isfahānī
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAbdillāh. He went to and settled in Nisābur. Then he returned to Isfahān. The pe
• Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf b. Ḥaǧǧāǧ
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'n-Nadr. He is a faqīh (jurist). He is from the city of Tus. He is a scholar, trus
• 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 Sh
• Abū Yaʿqūb al-Azraʿī
  Ishaq b. Ibrahim b. Hashim b. Yaʿqūb al-Nahdī. Ibn ʿAsākir said: "Abū Yaʿqūb al-Azraʿī, that is, Ishaq b. Ibra
• The Three Hundred Forty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Ruzbihān rebelled against Muʿizzü'd-Dawla and withdrew to the region of Ahvaz. Previously, a gro
• Gulam-I Sa'leb
  His real name was Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Abī Hāshim, Abū ʿAmr al-Zāhid Gulām-i Saʿleb. He narrated ḥadīt
• Muhammad b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Rustam
  His patronymic is Abū Bakr al-Madraʾī. He worked as a scribe. He was born in Iraq in the year 255 of the Hijra
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl
  Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm Ṭābāṭabā b. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm b. Ḥasan b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib
• The Year 346 of the Hijra
  In this year, a fitna (sedition) arose between the Karmatians and Ahl al-Sunnah due to their insulting the ṣaḥ
• Ahmed b. ʿAbdullah b. Ḥusayn
  His kunyah is Abū Ḥurayra al-ʿUzrī. He used to write ḥadīth in the presence of the ḥadīth shuyūkh (masters). H
• Hasan b. Ḥalef b. Shāzan
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAlī al-Wāsiṭī. He narrated ḥadīth from Isḥāq al-Azraq, Yazīd b. Hārūn, and other
• Abū'l-ʿAbbās al-Asam
  His real name was Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Yūsuf ibn Makīl ibn Sīnān ibn ʿAbdillāt al-Umayyī. He was a freedman
• The Year 347 of the Hijra
  In the month of April of this year, an earthquake occurred in Baghdad and other eastern provinces. Because of
• Zubayr b. ʿAbdurraḥmān
  Zubayr b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Muḥammad b. Zakariyyāʾ b. Ṣāliḥ b. Ibrāhīm. His kunyah is Abū ʿAbdillāh. He is from
• 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
• Nahivci Ibn Dūrūstveyh
  ʿAbdullāh b. Jāfir b. Dūrūstveyh b. Marzūbān Abū Muḥammad al-Fārisī. He was a nahivci (grammatician). He settl
• Muhammad b. Hasan
  Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Abīʾsh-Shawārib. Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Qurashī
• Muḥammad b. ʿAlī
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Hāshimī. He was from Dimashq (Damascus) and served as a khāṭīb (orat
• The Year 348 of the Hijra
  In this year, a fitna (sedition) broke out between the Rafidah and Ahl al-Sunnah, and many people were killed
• Ibrāhīm b. Shaybān al-Karmikīnī
  He was a shaykh of the Sufis in the Jabal region. He befriended Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Maghribī. One of his beautifu
• 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
• Muhammad b. Ibrahim b. Yusuf b. Muhammad
  His patronymic is Abū ʿUmar al-Zajjāj. He was from Nishapur. He kept company with Abū ʿUthmān, Junayd al-Baghd
• Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Fudāla
  Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Fudāla b. Yazīd b. ʿAbdil-Abū Bakr al-ʿAdmī. He was a writer of lyric poetry
• 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. Ḥasa
• The Three Hundred Forty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, one of the sons of ʿĪsā b. Muktafī appeared in Azerbaijan and took the epithet Mustajir Billāh,
• Kātib Jaʿfar b. Ḥarb
  He possessed great wealth. He held a rank close to the office of vizier. One day, while riding his mount and p
• Hāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī
  Hāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī b. ʿAlī b. Yazīd b. Dāwūd al-Nīsāburī. He was among the reliable ḥadīth hāfiẓs (memorizers) and
• Hassan b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Marwān
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Walīd. He is from the Quraysh. He belonged to the Shāfiʿī madhhab (legal school
• Ḥamd b. Ibrāhīm b. Ḥattāb
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Sulaymān al-Ḥattābī. He listened to and transmitted many ḥadīths. He composed bea
• ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. Abī Hāshim
  He was among those who knew the science of qirāʾāt (Qur'anic readings) best. He has classifications in this fi
• Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAṣṣāl
  Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm b. Sulaymān b. Muḥammad. Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAṣṣāl al-Isfahānī. One of the great
• The Three Hundred and Fiftieth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, Muʿizzü'd-Dawla b. Buwayh contracted a disease causing inability to uri
• Abd al-Rahman al-ʿUmayyad, the Andalusian Ruler
  His epithet was Nāṣir Liddīnillāh (Defender of the Religion of God). He held the caliphate for fifty years and
• 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 (me
• Ismāʿīl b. ʿAlī b. Ismāʿīl
  Ismāʿīl b. ʿAlī b. Ismāʿīl b. Bayān. Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥāṭibī. He heard and transmitted ḥadīth from Ibn Abī Usām
• Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Said
  Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Said b. Ubeydullah b. Ahmed b. Said b. Ebi Meryem Abu Bakr al-Kurashi al-Warraq. Also kno
• Temmam B. Muhammed B. Abbas
  Temmam b. Muhammed b. Abbas b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib Abū Bakr al-Hāshimī al-ʿAbbāsī. He transmitted hadith from ʿAb
• Husayn b. Qāsim
  His kunya (teknonym) is Abū ʿAlī al-Ṭabarī. He is a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). He is one of the imams who wrote o
• ʿAbdullāh b. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm
  ʿAbdullāh b. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿĪsā b. Jāʿfar b. Abī Jāʿfar al-Manṣūr al-Hāshimī. He was an imām. He was k
• ʿUtbah b. ʿAbdullah
  ʿUtbah b. ʿAbdullah b. Mūsā b. ʿAbdullah Abū's-Saʿīb. He is from the Heneda tribe and belongs to the Shāfiʿī m
• Muhammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥayyān
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Bakr. He served as a dīkhān (landholder). He is from Baghdad. However, he later w
• The Year 351 of the Hijra
  In this year, the Byzantines, under the command of the Domestikos, entered Aleppo with 200,000 warriors. The r
• Hasan b. Muḥammad b. Hārūn
  Hasan b. Muḥammad b. Hārūn al-Muḥallabī. He was the vizier of Muʿizzud-Dawla b. Buwayh. He served as vizier fo
• Daʿlec b. Aḥmed b. Daʿlec b. ʿAbdurraḥmān
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Muḥammad al-Sijistānī. He studied hadith scholars in Khurāsān, Hulwān, Baghdad,
• ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Kānīʿ
  ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Kānīʿ b. Marzuk. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Umayyī. He was a freedman of the Umayyads. He heard and trans
• The Qur'anic Exegete Abū Bakr al-Naqqāsh
  Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Ziyād b. Hārūn b. Jāfir, Abū Bakr al-Naqqāsh. He was a mufassir (Qur'anic exe
• 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
• The Year 352 of the Hijra
  On the 10th of Muharram in this year, Muʿizzud-Dawla b. Buwayh ordered the closing of shops, women to wear coa
• Biography of the Armenian Ruler Nikophoros (Domestikos)
  He died in the year 356 of the Hijra. There are also weak reports that he died in 355 or 352. May Allah not ha
• The Year 353 of the Hijra
  In the middle of the month of Muharram of this year, the Rafizis—just as they had done in previous years—held
• Bekkâr b. Ahmed
  Bekkâr b. Ahmed b. Bekkâr b. Beyan b. Bekkâr b. Dürüstveyh b. Īsā was a qurrāʾ (Qurʾān reciter). He narrated ḥ
• Abū Isḥāq al-Jahmī
  He was born in the 250th year of the Hijra. He listened to and transmitted ḥadīth. When offered to recite ḥadī
• The Year 354 of the Hijra
  On the 10th of Muharram in this year, the Shīʿīs, continuing their previous custom, observed the mourning of Ḥ
• The Famous Poet al-Mutanabbī
  Ahmad b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Samad Abū't-Tīb al-Juʿfī. He is the famous poet known by the name al-Mutanabbī. His
• Muḥammad b. Ḥibbān
  He is the author of the work titled "Ṣaḥīḥ." His lineage is as follows: Muḥammad b. Ḥibbān b. Aḥmad b. Ḥibbān
• Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Yaʿqūb
  Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Yaʿqūb b. Ḥasan b. Ḥusayn b. Muksirn Abū Bakr b. Muksim. He was a qurrāʾ (Qurʾānic reader
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ibrāhīm
  Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdurabbih b. Mūsā Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī. He was born in the year 260 AH in
• The Three Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  On the 10th of Muharram in this year, the Rafidhis, according to their custom, performed their ugly innovation
• Hasan b. Dāwūd
  Hasan b. Dāwūd b. ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā b. Muḥammad b. Qāsim b. Hasan b. Zayd b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib Abū ʿAbdil
• Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn
  Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥasan b. Wad-dah Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Enbarī. He was a poet. He be
• 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.
• The Three Hundred and Fifty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the caliph was Mutī Lillāh. The sultan was Muʿizzü'd-Dawla b. Buwayh ad-Daylamī
• The Death of Muʿizzü'd-Devle b. Būwayh
  On the 13th of Rabiʿ al-Awwal of this year, Abū'l-Ḥasan Aḥmad b. Būwayh al-Daylamī passed away. He was called
• Abū'l-Faraj al-Isfahānī
  He is the author of the book "al-Aghānī". His lineage is as follows: ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥa
• Sayfū’d-Dawla
  Although he had some Shiʿism, he was among the brave commanders and one of the rulers with many ihsān (acts of
• Ihshid Kafur
  He was the slave of Muḥammad b. Ṭughāj al-Iḥshīdī. After the death of Muḥammad b. Ṭughāj, since his son was ve
• 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 H
• The Three Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, reports emerged in Baghdad and other regions about a man named Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh who took on
• ʿUmar b. Jaʿfar b. ʿAbdillāh
  ʿUmar b. Jaʿfar b. ʿAbdillāh b. Abī's-Ṣirrī. His kunya is Abū Jaʿfar. He was from Basra. He was a ḥadīth memor
• Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Muḥalled
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAbdillāh. He is of the Jawharī lineage. He became famous under the name Ibn al-M
• Kāfūr b. ʿAbdullāh al-Iḥshīdī
  He was a slave of Sultan Muḥammad b. Ṭawāǧ. Muḥammad b. Ṭawāǧ purchased him from an Egyptian for eighteen dina
• The Year Three Hundred and Fifty-Eight of the Hijra
  On the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ of this year, the Rāfiḍīs performed the innovations (bidʿa) of mourning for al-Ḥusayn a
• The Year 349 of the Hijra
  On the 10th of Muharram in this year, the Rafīḍah once again performed their ugly innovations. They mourned fo
• Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥusayn
  Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥusayn b. Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdillāh Abū ʿAlī al-Sawwāf. He narrated ḥadīth from ʿAbdu
• Abū'l-Ḥusayn Aḥmad b. Muḥammad
  He became famous under the name Ibn al-Kattān. He is among the Shāfiʿī imams. He took fiqh lessons from Ibn Su
• The Year 360 of the Hijra
  On the 10th of Muharram of this year, the day of Ashura, the Rafidah, following their past customs, performed
• Suleyman b. Ahmed b. Ayyub
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Qāsim al-Tabarānī. He was a great ḥadīth hafīẓ (memorizer) and the author of th
• Poet Refa Ahmed b. Sırrı Abū'l-Ḥasan
  He belonged to the Kinda tribe and was a poet from Mosul. Ibn al-ʿAsīr reported that he died in the city of Ba
• Muḥammad b. Jāʿfar
  Muḥammad b. Jāʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Ḥaytham b. ʿImrān b. Yazīd Abū Bakr b. Munzir. Originally from Anbār. He hea
• Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. ʿAbdillāh al-ʾAǧurī
  Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. ʿAbdillāh Abū Bakr al-ʾAǧurī. He heard ḥadīth from Jāfir al-Faryābī, Abū Shuʿayb al-Ḥarrā
• Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū ʿAmr. He was an ascetic person. He heard many ḥadīths. For this purpose, he trav
• Muḥammad b. Dāwūd Abū Bakr al-Ṣūfī
  He became famous by the name Dakkī and was originally from Dinawar. He resided in Baghdad, then left there and
• Muḥammad b. Firhānī
  Muḥammad b. Firhān b. Zarwiyya al-Marwazī. He was a physician. He came to Baghdad. There he narrated munqir ḥa
• Ahmed B. Feth
  He is also called Ibn Abī'l-Feth al-Ḥākānī. His kunyah was Abū'l-ʿAbbās an-Najjād. He was the imam of the Dama
• The Year 361 of the Hijra
  On the 10th of Muharram in this year, the Rafizis once again performed their ugly bidʿa (innovation), mourning
• Osman b. ʿUmar b. Ḥafīf
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿUmar. He is a qurrāʾ (Qurʾān reciter). He was famous by the nickname Darrāch. He
• ʿAlī b. Isḥāq b. Ḥalaf
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Ḥusayn al-Qaṭṭān. He is a poet known by the pen name Merāḥī. One of his poems i
• Ahmed b. Sehl
  Ahmed b. Sehl b. Shaddād Abū Bakr al-Mahramī. He heard ḥadīth from Abū Khalīfa, Jāfir al-Firyābī, Ibn Abī'l-Fa
• The Three Hundred and Sixty-Second Year of the Hijra
  On the 10th of Muḥarram in this year, the Rāfiḍīs once again mourned and lamented for al-Ḥusayn, hanging kerch
• Sirri b. Aḥmad b. Abī's-Sirrī
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Kindī. He is from Mosul. He is a poet known by the epithet ar-Riffāʿ.
• Muḥammad b. Ḥānī
  He is among the Andalusian poets. When Muʿizz al-Fātimī came to Egypt, he took him from Kairouan to accompany
• Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad
  Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Shajnūn b. ʿAbdillāh al-Muzakkī. He is among the ḥadīth ḥuffāẓ (memorizers of ḥadīth).
• Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Kawthar b. ʿAlī
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Bahr al-Barbahārī. He transmitted ḥadīths from Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, Tammām, Bāghandī
• The Year 363 of the Hijra
  On the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ in this year, the Rafīḍah once again performed their ugly bidʿah (innovation) and mourn
• The Deposition of al-Mutīʿ and the Accession of al-Tāʾi to the Caliphate
  According to Ibn al-ʿAsīr, on the 13th of Dhu al-Qiʿdah, and according to Ibn al-Jawzī, on the 19th of Dhu al-
• The Battle Between Muʿizz al-Fāṭimī and Ḥusayn
  After Muʿizz al-Fāṭimī established his authority in the land of Egypt, building the cities of Cairo and al-Qas
• Muʿizz al-Fāṭimī's Liberation of Damascus from the Karmatians
  After the Karmatians were defeated, Muʿizz al-Fāṭimī dispatched a detachment under the command of Zālim b. Maw
• Chapter
  When the Turks gained strength in Baghdad, Bahtiyār b. Muʿizzü'd-Dawla, who was residing in Ahvaz and unable t
• ʿAbbās b. Ḥusayn
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū al-Faḍl al-Ṣirājī. He was the vizier of ʿIzz al-Dawla Baḥṭīyār b. Muʿizz al-Dawla
• 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 Ha
• ʿAlī b. Muḥammad
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Fath. He is from Basṭam. He is a famous poet. He has a dīwān (collection of poe
• Poet Abū Firās b. Ḥamdān
  He is renowned for his famous poetry dīwān (collected poems). His brother Sayf al-Dawla appointed him as deput
• The Three Hundred and Sixty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿAḍud al-Dawla ibn Rukn al-Dawla ibn Buwayh came to Wāsiṭ together with his father's vizier, Abū
• The Capture of Damascus from the Fatimids
  According to what Ibn al-ʿAṯīr narrates in his work al-Kāmil, Muʿizz al-Dawla's slave Alptekin rebelled agains
• Türkhacib Sebüktigin
  While he was the freedman and ḥājib (chamberlain) of Muʿizz al-Dawla al-Daylamī, his rank rose beside him. Eve
• The Three Hundred and Sixty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Ruknü'd-Dawla b. Buwayh, due to old age, divided his country among his sons. He left the provinc
• Ahmed B. Jaʿfar B. Muḥammad B. Salim
  His kunyah is Abū Bakr al-Ḥanbalī. He has a great "Musnad". He narrated ḥadith from ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanb
• Husayn b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAlī al-Māsercesī. He is a ḥadīth ḥāfiẓ (memorizer of ḥadīth). He traveled to man
• 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 ḥadī
• Muʿizz al-Fāṭimī
  The founder of the city of Cairo was Maʿad b. Ismāʿīl b. Saʿīd b. ʿAbdillāh Abū Tamīm. He claimed descent from
• The Year 366 of the Hijra
  In this year, Rukn al-Dawla b. ʿAlī b. Buwayh passed away, having exceeded ninety years of age. He had ruled f
• The Beginning of Sebüktigin's Sovereignty
  Sebüktigin was the father of Mahmud, the ruler of Ghazni. He was the freedman of Abu Ishaq b. Alptekin. He was
• Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf
  Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. Ḥusayn al-Janābī. He was the ruler of the land of Hajar and the leader of the Karmatians.
• Husayn b. Ahmad
  Husayn b. Ahmad b. Abi Saʿid al-Junaydi Abu Muhammad al-Karmati. Ibn ʿAsākir said about him: The real name of
• Ismāʿīl b. Nūceyd
  Ismāʿīl b. Nūceyd b. Aḥmad b. Yūsuf Abū ʿAmr al-Sulamī. He was a companion of Junaid al-Baghdādī and others. H
• Hasan b. Büveyh
  Hasan b. Büveyh, Abu Ali Ruknü'd-Dawla. He contracted a stomach illness. He passed away on the night of Saturd
• Muḥammad b. Isḥāq
  Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. Eflāḥ b. Rāfiʿ b. Rāfiʿ b. Ibrāhīm b. Eflāḥ b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Rufāʿ b. Rāfiʿ
• Muhammad b. Hasan
  Muhammad b. Hasan b. Ahmad b. Ismāʿīl Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Sirrāj. He heard hadith from Qāḍī Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb and oth
• Qadi Munzir al-Baluti
  May Allah have mercy on him. He was the chief qadi (qāḍī al-quḍāt) of al-Andalus. He was an imam, a scholar, e
• Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad
  Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Marzūbān. He was a Shāfiʿī jurist. He studied fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) with A
• The Three Hundred and Sixty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿAḍud al-Dawla entered Baghdad. ʿIzz al-Dawla Bakhtiyar departed from there and left. ʿAḍud al-D
• The Killing of ʿIzz al-Dawla Bakhtiyar
  When ʿAḍud al-Dawla entered Baghdad and took possession of the city, ʿIzz al-Dawla Bakhtiyar, humiliated and e
• Baḥṭiyār b. Būwayh al-Daylamī
  After the death of his father, he ascended to the throne having just passed his twentieth year. He was a perso
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbdurraḥmān
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Bakr. He served as a qāḍī (judge). He became famous under the name Ibn Kāriya. He
• The Three Hundred and Sixty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Shaʿbān of this year, Ṭāʾiʿ Lillāh ordered that prayers be made for ʿAdūdü'd-Dawla in the pulp
• Kassām al-Turāb Captures Damascus
  When Alptekin went to the land of Egypt, a man from the people of Damascus named Kassām al-Turāb (the Soil Str
• Akikî
  He is the owner of the bathhouse and complex located in the Babü'l-Berid neighborhood of Damascus, which is at
• Ahmed b. Jaʿfar
  Ahmed b. Jaʿfar b. Malik b. Shabīb b. ʿAbdillāh Abū Bakr b. Malik al-Katīʿī. He is from the Katīʿat al-Daqīq n
• Tamim b. Muʿizz al-Fāṭimī
  He bore the kunya Abū Tamīm. He was among the greatest commanders of the state founded by his father and broth
• 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 i
• ʿAbdullāh b. Ibrāhīm
  ʿAbdullāh b. Ibrāhīm b. Abī'l-Qāsim ar-Rayḥānī. Also known as Endiberī. He traveled to various regions for the
• ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. Warkā
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Aḥmad al-Shaybānī. He held an emirate. He was a Ḥanafī. Islamic History, vol. XI,
• Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā
  Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā b. ʿAmrayh al-Jalūdī. He transmitted Ṣaḥīḥ al-Muslim from Muslim b. Ḥajjāj through the chain
• The Three Hundred Sixty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, Emir ʿUmar b. Shāhin, who had ruled the land of Bāṭiḥa for forty years,
• Ahmed b. Zekeriya
  Ahmed b. Zekeriya Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was a lexicographer. Regarding lexicography, he is the author of "Kitāb al-M
• Ahmed b. ʿAṭā b. Ahmed
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAbdillāh. He is al-Rūzbarhd. He is the nephew of Abū ʿAlī al-Rūzbarī's sister. H
• Abdullah b. Ibrāhīm
  Abdullah b. Ibrāhīm b. Ayyūb b. Māsī Abū Muḥammad al-Bezzāz. He transmitted ḥadīths with their sanad (chain of
• Muhammad b. Ṣāliḥ
  Muhammad b. Ṣāliḥ b. ʿAlī b. Yaḥyā Abū Ī-Ḥasan al-Ḥāshimī. Known as Ibn Ummu Shaybān. He was a scholar and a p
• The Three Hundred and Seventieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Muʾayyad al-Dawla sent Ṣāḥib b. ʿAbbād to his brother ʿAḍud al-Dawla. ʿAḍud al-Dawla met him out
• 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. H
• Muhammad b. Jaʿfar
  Muhammad b. Jaʿfar b. Muhammad b. Zakariyāʾ Abū Bakr al-Warrāq. He bore the epithet Gunder. He was a person wh
• Ibn Ḥalawayh
  His real name was Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad b. Ḥalawayh. Abū ʿAbdallāh was his kunyah (teknonym). He was a grammarian (n
• The Year 371 of the Hijra
  In the month of Rabiʿ al-Awwal of this year, a fire broke out in the Karh district of Baghdad. In this year, a
• Ismāʿīlī
  Ahmed b. Ibrāhīm b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbbās Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī al-Jūrjānī. He was a great ḥadīth hafīẓ (memorizer
• Hasan b. Ṣāliḥ
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Muḥammad al-Sabīʾ. He heard ḥadīth from Ibn Jarīr, Qāsim, Mutarriz, and others. D
• Hasan b. ʿAlī b. Hasan
  Hasan b. ʿAlī b. Hasan b. Ḥaytham b. Ṭahmān Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Shāhid. He is famous by the epithet Bādī. He hear
• ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Ḥāris
  ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Ḥāris b. Asad b. Lays Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Tamīmī. He was a Ḥanbalī faqīh (jurist). He has works co
• ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm
  ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Ḥusūrī al-Ṣūfī. He was the shaykh of the mutasawwifs (Sufis) in Baghdad. He ser
• ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Ahdab al-Muzawwir
  He wrote beautiful handwriting. He could imitate another person's handwriting and signature so perfectly that
• Shaykh Abū Zayd al-Marwazī
  Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad Abū Zayd al-Marwazī. He was the shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs in his time.
• Muḥammad b. Ḥafīf
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Shīrāzī. He is among the well-known ṣūfīs (Sufis). He associated wit
• The Year 372 of the Hijra
  Ibn al-Jawzī said: "In the month of Muḥarram of this year, the water that ʿAdūd al-Dawla had drawn to his hous
• Some Reports Regarding ʿAdūdü'd-Dawla
  Abū Shujāʿ b. Ruknü'd-Dawla Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn b. Buwayh ad-Daylamī was the emir of Baghdad and other cities. He
• Muḥammad b. Jāʿfar
  Muḥammad b. Jāʿfar b. Aḥmad b. Jāʿfar b. Ḥasan b. Wahb Abū Bakr al-Jarīrī. He is famously known by the name Za
• The Year 373 of the Hijra
  In this year, inflation appeared in Baghdad, and prices rose sharply. So much so that a kurr of wheat was sold
• Buwayh Mu'ayyad al-Dawla
  Buwayh Mu'ayyad al-Dawla ibn Rukn al-Dawla. He ruled over a part of the territory that belonged to his father.
• Belkin b. Zīrī b. Munādī
  He belonged to the Himyarite and Sinhājī tribes. He also bore the name Yūsuf. He was one of the great commande
• Saʿīd b. Salām
  His patronymic is Abū ʿUthmān al-Maghribī. He was originally from Kairouan. He came to Damascus, befriended Ab
• ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad
  ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh b. ʿUthmān b. Muḥtār b. Muḥammad al-Mirrī al-Wāsiṭī. He was known as Ibn Sā
• The 374th Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a peace agreement was made between Samsame and his uncle Fahrü'd-Devle. The Caliph sent gifts an
• Hafiz Abu'l-Fath
  Hafiz Abu'l-Fath Muhammad b. Hasan b. Ahmad b. Husayn al-Azdī. He was from Mosul. He compiled a work related t
• Hatip b. Nabata al-Hazza
  He comes from the Banu Kuda tribe. According to one narration, during the time of Sayf al-Dawla b. Hamdan, the
• The Year 375 of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph granted Samsame the title of emir. He adorned his arm and chest with insignia and sea
• Husayn b. ʿAlī
  Husayn b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā Abū Aḥmad al-Nīsāburī. He became famous by the nickname Hasnak. He studied
• Abū'l-Qāsim al-Dāriqī
  ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad Abū'l-Qāsim al-Dāriqī. He was one of the Shāfiʿī imams of his time. He
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. Ṣāliḥ
  His kunyah is Abū Bakr. He is a Mālikī faqīh (jurist). He listened to and transmitted ḥadīth from Ibn Abī ʿAmr
• The Year 376 of the Hijra
  Ibn al-Jawzī said: "In the month of Muḥarram of this year, snakes increased in Baghdad. Because of this, many
• The Three Hundred and Seventy-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Ṣafar of this year, a gathering was convened in the presence of the caliph, with the judge and
• Ahmed b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī
  His honorific is Abū Ḥāmid al-Marwazī. He is known as Ibn Ṭabarī. He was a ḥadīth memorizer (ḥāfiẓ). He engage
• Isḥāq b. Muktedir Billāh
  He passed away at the age of sixty on the night of Friday, the seventeenth of the month of Dhū al-Ḥijja of thi
• Abū ʿAlī al-Fārisī
  He was a grammarian. He is the author of the work "al-Iẓāh" and many other works. He was born in the land of P
• Steyte
  Steyte bintī Qāḍī Abū ʿAbdillāh Ḥusayn b. Ismāʿīl al-Mahāmilī. She bore the kunya Ummu ʿAbduwāḥid. She recited
• The Three Hundred Seventy-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, a great famine occurred in Baghdad that caused the death of a large num
• Hasan b. ʿAlī b. Sābit
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAbdallāh. He was a qurrāʾ (Qurʾān reciter). He was born blind. He would attend t
• Ziyād b. Muḥammad
  Ziyād b. Muḥammad b. Ziyād b. Ḥaytham Abū'l-ʿAbbās al-Ḥurḥānī. Ḥurḥān is the name of a village affiliated with
• The Year 379 of the Hijra
  In this year, Sharafu d-Dawla b. ʿAdud d-Dawla b. Buwayh ad-Dayʿimī passed away. His illness was severe, and d
• Sharaf al-Dawla
  Sharaf al-Dawla b. ʿAdūd al-Dawla b. Rukn al-Dawla b. Buwayh al-Daylamī. After his father, he took control of
• Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. ʿAbbās
  His kunyah was Abū Jaʿfar. He also bore the kunyah Abū Bakr al-Najjār. He had also acquired the laqab Hunder.
• ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAbd al-Karīm
  ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Būdayl Abū'l-Faḍl al-Ḥuzāʾī al-Jūrjānī. He came to Baghdad and there narrate
• Muḥammad b. Mutarrif
  Muḥammad b. Mutarrif b. Mūsā b. ʿĪsā b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdillāh b. Salamah b. ʿIyāḍ Abū'l-Ḥusayn al-Baʿzzār. He
• The Three Hundred Eightieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sharīf Abū Aḥmad Ḥasan b. Mūsā al-Mūsawī was appointed as the naqīb al-ashrāf (head of the noble
• Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū l-Futūḥ. His grandfather's name was Keleş. He was the vizier of ʿAzīz, the gover
• The Year 381 of the Hijra
  On the nineteenth of Sha‘bān in this year, on a Saturday, Caliph Tāʾiʿ Liʾllāh was captured. In his place, Qād
• Ahmed b. Hasan b. Mehran
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Bakr. He was a qurrāʾ (Qurʾān reciter). He passed away at the age of eighty-six i
• Abdullah b. Aḥmad b. Maʿrūf
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Muḥammad. He was the qāḍī al-quḍāt (chief judge) of Baghdad. He transmitted from
• Jawhar b. Abdullah
  He is among the great commanders. He is the founder of Cairo. He was originally Armenian. He is known as "the
• The Three Hundred and Eighty-Second Year of the Hijra
  On the tenth day of the month of Muharram of this year, the vizier Abū Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Kawkabī—who w
• Muhammad b. ʿAbbās
  Muhammad b. ʿAbbās b. Muhammad b. Muhammad b. Zakariyāʾ, b. Yaḥyā b. Muʿādh Abū ʿUmar al-Kazzāz. He became fam
• Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAskarī
  Ḥasan b. ʿAbdallāh b. Saʿīd. Abū Aḥmad is his kunyah (teknonym). He was a leading figure in the Arabic languag
• The Year 483 of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Qādir bi-llāh ordered the repair of the Harbiyya Mosque and the installation of a
• Ahmed b. Ibrāhīm
  Ahmed b. Ibrāhīm b. Ḥasan b. Sāzan b. Ḥarb b. Mihrān Abū Bakr al-Bazzār. He heard and transmitted many ḥadīth
• The Year 384 of the Hijra
  In this year, in Baghdad, thieves, looters, and pickpockets plunged Baghdad into great corruption. They plunde
• Ibrāhīm b. Hilāl
  This renowned author, who was the author of various works and one of the leading figures among the Sabians, ha
• Abdullah b. Muḥammad
  Abdullah b. Muḥammad b. Nafī b. Mukarram Abū'l-ʿAbbās al-Basṭī. He was an ascetic person, having inherited a g
• Ali b. ʿĪsā b. ʿUbaydullāh
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was a grammarian (nahwī). He became famous under the name Rummānī. He
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbbās b. Aḥmad b. Kazzāz
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was a writer, muḥaddith (scholar of hadith), and a trustworthy rāwī (
• Muḥammad b. ʿImrān b. Mūsā b. ʿUbaydallāh
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAbdillāh. He is a scribe famous by the nickname Ibn Marzubān. He transmitted fro
• The Three Hundred Eighty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Rukn al-Dawla b. Buwayh's son, Abu'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm al-Dabbī, known by the epithet al-K
• Sahib b. Abbad
  Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbbād b. ʿAbbās b. ʿAbbād b. Aḥmad b. Idrīs al-Ṭāleqānī. His kunya was Abū'l-Qāsim. He was a vizie
• Hasan b. Hamid
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Muḥammad. He was a man of literature and a poet. He was a spirited person with m
• Vaiz Ibn Shāhin
  ʿUmar b. Aḥmad b. ʿUthmān b. Muḥammad b. ʿAyyūb b. Zazān. His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Ḥafs. He is a preacher
• Hāfiẓ Darekutnī
  ʿAlī b. ʿUmar b. Aḥmad b. Mahdī b. Masʿūd b. Dīnār b. ʿAbdillāh. He was a great ḥadīth hāfiẓ (memorizer) and a
• ʿAbbād b. ʿAbbās b. ʿAbbād
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Tāleqānī. He is the father of the vizier Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbbād mentioned o
• Ukayl b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid
  Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Ahnef al-Akbarī. He is a famous poet. He has a dīwān (collection of poems). It is of unparallel
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Sikrā
  Abū'l-Husayn al-Hāshimī. He is among the sons of ʿAlī b. Mihdī. He is one of the elegant and witty poets. He a
• Yusuf b. ʿUmar b. Masrūr
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Fath al-Qawwās. He heard and transmitted ḥadīth from al-Baghawī, Ibn Abī Dāwūd, Ibn Saʿīd
• Yusuf b. Abi Saʿīd
  Yusuf b. Abi Saʿīd al-Sayrafī. His kunyah was Abū Muḥammad. He was a scholar of nahw (Arabic grammar) and comp
• The Year 386 of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, the people of Basra opened an old grave. In the grave, they found a fre
• Ahmed b. Ibrāhīm
  Ahmed b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Sahreveyh Abū Ḥāmid b. Isḥāq al-Muzakki al-Nīsāburī. He heard ḥadīth
• 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.
• Azīz, the Ruler of Egypt
  Nizār b. Muʿīẓ Maʿad Abī Tamīm. Nizār bore the kunyah Abū Manṣūr and the laqab Azīz. He died at the age of for
• The Year 387 of the Hijra
  In this year, Fakhr al-Dawla Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Rukn al-Dawla b. Buwayh passed away. His four-year-old son R
• Hasan b. ʿUbaydullāh
  Hasan b. ʿUbaydullāh b. Saʿīd b. Aḥmad al-ʿAskarī. He was a lexicographer, a polymath in his field and in the
• Abdullah b. Muḥammad b. Abdullah
  Abdullah b. Muḥammad b. Abdullah b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿUbaydullāh b. Ziyād b. Mihrām. His kunyah was Abū'l-Qāsim. He
• Ibn Zawlaq
  Hasan b. Ibrāhīm b. Ḥusayn b. Hasan b. ʿAlī b. Ḥuld b. Rashīd b. ʿUbaydullāh b. Sulaymān b. Zawlaq. His kunyah
• Ibn Batte ʿUbaydullah b. Muḥammad
  Ibn Batte ʿUbaydullah b. Muḥammad b. Ḥimrān. His kunyah is Abū ʿAbdillāh al-ʿAkbarī. He became famous under th
• ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Mudrik
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū al-Ḥasan al-Bardāʾī. He transmitted from Abū Ḥātim and others. He possessed great
• Fahrü'd-Devle b. Büveyh
  Fahrü'd-Devle b. Büveyh, Ali b. Ruknü'd-Devle Abu Ali Hasan b. Büveyh al-Daylamī. He ruled over the city of Ra
• The Preacher Ibn Samun
  Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ismāʿīl Abū Ḥusayn b. Samūn. He was one of the righteous and learned men, and served as a
• The Last Ruler of the Samanids, Nūḥ b. Manṣūr
  His name is Nūḥ b. Manṣūr b. Nūḥ b. Naṣr b. Aḥmad b. Ismāʿīl. His kunyah is Abū al-Qāsim al-Samānī. He ruled o
• Abū't-Tīb Sahl b. Muḥammad
  Abū't-Tīb Sahl b. Muḥammad b. Sulaymān b. Muḥammad b. Sulaymān al-Sāʿluqī. He was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). He
• The Year Three Hundred and Eighty-Eight of the Hijra
  Ibn al-Jawzī said: "In the month of Dhu'l-Ḥijja of this year, a great amount of hail fell in Baghdad. So much
• Hattabī
  Abū Sulaymān Ḥāmid (or Aḥmad) b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Ḥattāb al-Ḥattābī al-Bistī. He is one of the prominent
• Husayn b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdullah
  Husayn b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdullah b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Bakīr b. ʿAbdullah al-Sayrafī was a great ḥadīth ḥāfiẓ (memori
• Samsametü'd-Devle
  Samsametü'd-Devle b. ʿAdūdü'd-Devle was the governor of the Persian region. His cousin Ebu Nasr b. Bahtiyār re
• Muhammad b. Ahmed
  Muhammad b. Ahmed b. Ibrāhīm Abū'l-Fath. He is known as Gulām al-Shanbuzī. He was a qirāʾāt (Qur'anic recitati
• The Year 389 of the Hijra
  In this year, Maḥmūd b. Sebüktegin attacked the land of Khurasan. He took sovereignty from the Samanids. In th
• Zāhid b. ʿAbdullāh
  Zāhid b. ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā al-Serahsī. He was a qurrāʾ (Qurʾānic reader), faqīh (jurist),
• Abdullah b. Muḥammad b. Isḥāq
  Abdullah b. Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Sulaymān b. Muḥallad b. Ibrāhīm b. Marwaz Abū'l-Qāsim. He became famous under
• The Year 392 of the Hijra
  In the land of Sijistan, a gold mine was discovered. The miners dug pits like wells and extracted pure gold. I
• Ahmed b. Muhammed
  Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Ebi Musa Ebu Bekir al-Hashimī. He was a Maliki jurist. He served as a qāḍī (judge) in al-
• ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUthmān b. Yaḥyā
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Qāsim al-Daqqāq. He is known as Ibn Ḥanīfa (son of Ḥanīfa). Allāmah Qāḍī Abū Ya
• Hüseyin b. Muḥammad b. Ḥalef
  Ḥüseyin b. Muḥammad b. Ḥalef b. Farrā. He is the father of Qāḍī Abū Ya'lā. He was a righteous and faqīh (juris
• ʿUmar b. Ibrāhīm
  ʿUmar b. Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad Abū Naṣr. He became famous by the name Kettānī. He was a qurrāʾ (Qurʾānic reader). H
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥusayn
  Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAbdullāh b. Hārūn. His kunyah was Abū Ḥusayn al-Dakkāk. He became famous a
• Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. Yaḥyā
  Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥusayn b. Zayd b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib. He is known among the Ala
• Master Abū'l-Futūḥ Burjvān
  During the reign of ʿAzīz al-Ḥākim from the Fatimids, the administration of Egypt is attributed to Harret al-B
• Cerirī
  Muʿāfa b. Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥāmid b. Ḥammad b. Dāwūd Abū Faraǧ al-Nahrāwānī. He served as a qāḍī (judge).
• Ummu Salama
  She is the daughter of Qāḍī Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Kāmil b. Ḥalef b. Shenhārā. She also bears the kunyah Ummu Fath.
• The Three Hundred and Ninety-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Qādir Billāh appointed his son Abū'l-Faḍl as heir apparent for the period after hi
• Jaʿfar b. Faḍl b. Jaʿfar
  Jaʿfar b. Faḍl b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Fūrāt Abūl-Faḍl. He is known as Ibn Ḥanzāba. He served as a vizier. He
• The Poet Ibn Ḥaccāç
  Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad b. Ḥaccāç Abū ʿAbdillāh. He was a poet who used jocular and obscene words. A person's tongue i
• ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Aḥmad b. Ḥasan al-Jazarī
  He was a judge (qāḍī) of the harem. He also served as a judge in the caliphate palace and other places. He was
• Isa b. Vizier Ali b. Isa
  He is the son of Vizier Ali b. Isa b. Dayud b. Jarrah. His kunya is Abu'l-Qasim al-Raedath. His father, Ali b.
• The Year 392 of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, Yamīmī'd-Dawla Maḥmūd b. Sabuktigin went on a military expedition (ghaz
• Ibn Jinnī
  Abū'l-Fath ʿUthmān b. Jinnī al-Muṣilī. He was a grammarian and lexicographer. He is the author of valuable wor
• Ali b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
  He was the qadi (judge) of Rev. He listened to hadith. He advanced in various sciences. In the end, people ack
• The Year 393 of the Hijra
  As will be related later, in this year Tāʾī Lillāh passed away. In this year, Amidü'l-Cüyūş forbade the Shīʿīs
• Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad
  Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Abū Īshāq al-Ṭābarī. A Mālikī in fiqh, he was among the pioneers and leading figu
• Tâʾī Lillah ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Mūtī
  The resolution of this matter was explained in the previous sections, and the events that befell him were clar
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. ʿAbbās b. Zakariyyāʾ
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Ṭāhir al-Muḥlis. He is a great riwāyah shaykh (transmitter of hadith). He listene
• Meymune
  She was a memorizer of the Qur'an (ḥāfiẓa) and a preacher. One day, while giving a sermon, she pointed to her
• Ebualiel-al-Iskāfī
  He bore the epithet Muvaffak. He was a person of esteem in the presence of Bahāʾ al-Dawla. Bahāʾ al-Dawla appo
• The Year 395 of the Hijra
  In this year, Muḥezzibü'd-Dawla returned to Batiha. Ibn Wasīl did not prevent him. However, he stipulated that
• Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Mūsā b. Jāʿfar
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Naṣīr. He is from Bukhārā. He is known as al-Malahimī. He is from the riǧāl (narr
• Muhammad b. Abi Ismāʿīl
  Muhammad b. Abi Ismāʿīl ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. Ḥasan b. Qāsim Abū-al-ʿAlawī. He was born in Hamadān. He was raised
• 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 R
• The Three Hundred and Ninety-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  Ibn al-Jawzī said: "At the beginning of the month of Shaʿbān of this year, on a Friday night, a star appeared
• Abū Saʿīd al-Ismāʿīlī
  Ibrāhīm b. Ismāʿīl Abū Saʿīd al-Jurjānī. He became well-known by the epithet al-Ismāʿīlī. When he came to Bagh
• Muhammad b. Ahmad
  Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Jaʿfar b. Muhammad b. Muhammad b. Buhayr Abū ʿAmr al-Muzakkī. He was a ḥāfiẓ
• Abū ʿAbdillāh b. Mendeh
  Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Mendeh wa Akdillāh al-Isfahānī. He was steadfast and a reliable ḥāfi
• The Three Hundred and Ninety-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Abu Rakwa rebelled against the Egyptian ruler Ḥākim al-ʿUbaydī. The summary of this rebellion is
• ʿAbd al-Samad b. ʿUmar b. Isḥāq
  Abū al-Qāsim al-Dīnawarī. He was a preacher and an ascetic. He used to recite the Qurʾān. He learned Shāfiʿī f
• Abū'l-ʿAbbās ibn Wasīl
  He served as governor of Sayraf and Basra. Previously, he was in service in Karḥ. He used to say that he would
• The Year 398 of the Hijra
  In this year, Yaminü'd-Devle Mahmud b. Sebüktekin went on a ghazā (military expedition) to India. He conquered
• The Burning of Ibn Masʿūd's Mushaf
  According to what Ibn al-Jawzī narrated in his work "al-Muntazam," Ibn Masʿūd's mushaf was burned based on the
• The Destruction of the Church of Komame
  Al-Hākim ordered the destruction of the Church of Konīame belonging to the Christians in Jerusalem and permitt
• Abū Muḥammad al-Bāqī
  His given name is ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad al-Bāqī. He is from Bukhara and Khwarazm. He is among the Shāfiʿī imam
• Abdullah b. Ahmed
  Hah b. Ahnıed b. Ali b. Ḥusayn. His kunyah is Abū'l-Qāsim. He is famous by this epithet. He is among the last
• Poet Bebğa
  ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Naṣr b. Muḥammad Abū'l-Faraǧ al-Mahzūmī. He bore the nickname Beb-m. He passed away in the mo
• Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAbdillāh. He is from Jūrqān. He was among the ʿālim (scholars), zahid (ascetics)
• Badīʿ al-Zamān
  He is the author of the work titled al-Makāmāt . His real name is Aḥmad b. Ḥusayn b. Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd. His kunya
• The Three Hundred and Ninety-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the deputy of Rahba, ʿAlī b. Sumāl, was killed by Ḥākim al-ʿUbaydī. However, the actual person w
• ʿAbdullāh b. Bakr b. Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Aḥmad al-Ṭabarānī. He listened to ḥadīth in Mecca, Baghdad, and other cities. He
• Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Muslim. He was the kātib (secretary) of the vizier Ibn Ḥanzabah. He transmitted r
• Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Abī Saʿīd
  ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Aḥmad b. Yūnus b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ṣādefī. He was Egyptian. He is the author of the four-volume b
• The Mother of Caliph Qādir Billāh, Temenna
  This lady was a slave woman of ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Mukhtadir. She was a noble and pious woman. She was virtuous a
• The Four Hundredth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of this year, the water of the Tigris decreased greatly. So much so that some i
• Nakīb Abū Aḥmad al-Mūsawī
  Ḥasan b. Mūsā b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Mūsā b. Jāʿfar al-Mūsawī. He was the father of Riḍā and Murtadā. He wa
• Hajjāj b. Hurmuz Abū Jaʿfar
  He was appointed as the deputy of Iraq by Bahāʾ al-Dawla. He was Hajjāj's assistant in fighting the Bedouins a
• Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Kummī
  He was a merchant from Egypt. Indeed, he possessed great wealth. At his death, he had more than ten thousand d
• Abū'l-Ḥusayn b. Refa
  He was a qurrāʾ (Qurʾānic reciter). When mentioning events in the year 394 AH, his biography and recitation we
• The Four Hundred and First Year of the Hijra
  On the fourth day of the month of Muḥarram in this year, which was a Friday, the governor of Mosul, Karwāsh b.
• Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Masʿūd. He was from Dimašq (Damascus). He was a great ḥadīth ḥāfiẓ (memorizer of
• Vizier Amidü'l-Cüyūsh
  Ḥasan b. Abī Jāfir. He was the master of Hurmuz. He was born in the year 350 AH. His father was one of the cha
• Halef al-Wāsiṭī
  He is also the author of a work titled al-Atraf . His real name is Halef b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥamdūn. His ku
• Abū ʿUbayd al-Ḥarawī
  He is the author of the works "Ṭarīb al-Qurʾān" and "Gharīb al-Ḥadīth." His name is Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abū
• ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn
  ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn b. Yūsuf. He was a poet and writer. Ibn Ḥallīkān has transmitted that he said: "The
• The Four Hundred and Twenty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, the vizier Fahrü'l-Mulk allowed the Rafidites to perform their ugly bid
• The Baghdad Imams and Scholars' Criticism of the Fatimids' Lineage
  In the month of Rabi' al-Akhir of this year, the imams and ulema of Baghdad convened a session. They investiga
• Hasan b. Hasan b. Ali
  Hasan b. Hasan b. Ali b. ʿAbbās b. Nobaht Abū Muḥammad al-Nobahtī. He was born in the year 320 AH. He transmit
• Uthmān b. ʿĪsā Abū ʿAmr al-Bakillānī
  He was among the famous and great ascetics. He had a date palm grove. He worked there and in his field, and li
• Muhammad b. Jaʿfar b. Muhammad
  Muhammad b. Jaʿfar b. Muhammad b. Hārūn b. Farwa b. Nāciya. His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū l-Ḥasan. He was a gra
• Abū't-Tīb Sahl b. Muḥammad
  Sahl b. Muḥammad al-Saʿlūqī. He is from Nishapur. Abū Yaʿlā al-Ḥalīlī said: "Abū't-Tīb Sahl b. Muḥammad died i
• The Four Hundred and Forty-Third Year of the Hijra
  On the sixteenth of Muharram in this year, Sharif Rıza Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Mūsawī was appointed as the naqīb (head)
• Ahmed b. ʿAlī Abū al-Ḥasan al-Laysī
  He used to write letters to Caliph al-Qādir in Baṭīḥa. He served as a scribe. Then he was appointed by Caliph
• Hasan b. Hamid
  Hasan b. Hamid b. ʿAlī b. Marwān al-Warrāq al-Ḥanbalī. He was the teacher of the companions of Imam Aḥmad and
• Husayn b. Hasan
  Husayn b. Hasan b. Muḥammad b. Ḥalīm Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Ḥālī-nī. He is the author of the work al-Minhāj fī ʿUṣūl
• Fayruz Abu Nasr
  Bahāʾu'd-Dawla b. ʿAdūdü'd-Dawla. He acquired the epithet al-Daylamī. He served as governor of Baghdad and oth
• Kabus b. Vešmgir
  The state dignitaries formed a front against him by pledging allegiance (bayʿah) to his son Menuçehr and kille
• Qāḍī Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī
  Muḥammad b. Ṭīb Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī. He belonged to the Shāfiʿī madhhab and was the leader of the theologian
• Muḥammad b. Mūsā b. Muḥammad
  He bore the kunyah Abū Bakr. He was from Khwarazm. He was the shaykh and faqīh (jurist) of the Ḥanafīs. He stu
• Hafiz Abu'l-Hasan Ali b. Muhammad
  Hafiz Abu'l-Hasan Ali b. Muhammad b. Khalaf al-Amiri al-Kabisi. He is the author of the work entitled "al-Talk
• Hāfiẓ Ibn Farāzī
  Abū'l-Walīd ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf b. Naṣr al-Azdī al-Farāzī. He served as the judge of Kunsiyah. He l
• The Four Hundred and Forty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of the month of Rabi' al-Awwal in this year, on a Thursday, the caliph Qādir Billāh ascended
• Hasan b. Ahmed
  Hasan b. Ahmed b. Jaʿfar b. ʿAbdillāh. He became famous under the name Ibn Baġdādī. He listened to ḥadīth. He
• Ali b. Saʿīd al-Istakhrī
  He was among the scholars of the Muʿtazila school. He compiled a work titled "Refutation of the Bāṭiniyya" for
• The Four Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the governor of Egypt, al-Hākim, forbade women from leaving their homes, from extending their he
• Bekr b. Sāzan b. Bekr
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū'l-Qāsim. He was a qurrāʾ (Qur'ān reciter) and a preacher. He heard ḥadīth from A
• Bedir b. Ḥasnevayh b. Ḥusayn
  His kunyah was Abū Najm al-Kurdī. He was among the distinguished rulers of the Dīnavar and Hamadān region. He
• ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ibrāhīm
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Muḥammad al-ʿAsadī. He became famous as Ibn Ikfānī. He served as the chief judge
• Abdurrahman b. Muḥammad
  Abdurrahman b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdillāh b. Idrīs b. Saʿīd. He was a ḥāfiẓ (memorizer) of ḥadīth. He w
• 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 Ḥamd
• ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿUmar
  ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. Nabātah Abū Naṣr al-Saʿdī. He is a poet. There is no one who writes beau
• Hakim al-Nisābūrī
  He is the author of the work "al-Mustadrak." His lineage is as follows: Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. Ḥ
• The Four Hundred and Forty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of the month of Muharram in this year, on a Tuesday, a great fitna (sedition) occurred betwee
• Shaykh Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfarāyinī
  He is the imam of the Shāfiʿīs. His real name is Aḥmad b. Muḥammad. In his time, he was a leading figure in th
• Abū Aḥmad al-Farāzī
  ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Mihrān. His kunyah was Abū Muslim al-Farāzī. He was a qurrāʾ (Qur
• Sharif Rıza
  Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir Abū Aḥmad Ḥusayn b. Mūsā Abū'l-Ḥasan al-ʿAlawī. Bahāʾ al-Dawla bestowed upon him the honorif
• Badīs b. Manṣūr al-Ḥimyarī
  Abū'l-Muʿīẓ Munāẓir b. Badīs was the deputy (nāʾib) of the governor of Ifrīqiya. His father had also served as
• The Four Hundred and Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this year, the martyrdom site of Ḥusayn (may Allah be pleased with him) in K
• Ahmed b. Yusuf b. Dost
  His kunyah is Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Bezzār. He was among the ḥadīth ḥuffāẓ (memorizers of ḥadīth) and a fuqahāʾ (ju
• Vizier Fakhr al-Mulk
  Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Khalaf Abū Ghālib was from Wāsiṭ. His father was a money-changer. Circumstances changed. E
• The Year Four Hundred and Eight of the Hijra
  In this year, a great war broke out in Baghdad between the Ahl al-Sunnah (the people of the Sunnah) and the Rā
• Shabashi Abu Nasr
  He was the freedman of Sherefü'd-Devle. He served as his ḥājib (chamberlain). Bahaü'd-Devle gave him the nickn
• The Year Four Hundred and Nine of the Hijra
  On the seventeenth day of the month of Muharram in this year, on a Thursday, during a gathering at the Palace
• Recâ b. ʿĪsā b. Muḥammad
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū'l-ʿAbbās al-ʾAnsanāwī. ʾAnsanā is the name of a village in Egypt. Recâ came to B
• Abdullah b. Muḥammad b. Abī Allan
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Aḥmad. He served as the judge of Ahvaz. He was a wealthy person. He authored a bo
• ʿAlī b. Naṣr
  ʿAlī b. Naṣr b. Abī'l-Ḥasan Muhazzabü'd-Dawla. He was the ruler of the region of al-Bāṭiḥa. He possessed many
• ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Saʿīd
  ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Saʿīd b. ʿAlī b. Bishr b. Marwān b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Abū Muḥammad al-Azdī. He was Egyptian. He w
• Muḥammad b. Imīr al-Muʾminīn
  His kunyah was Abū’l-Faḍl. He was appointed as heir by his father, coins were minted in his name, and sermons
• Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm
  Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Yazīd Abū'l-Fath al-Bazzār was from Tarsus. He is known as Ibn Basrī. He he
• The Four Hundred and Tenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a letter from Yamin al-Dawla Mahmud b. Sebüktegin arrived in Baghdad. In his letter, he enumerat
• Hibatullah b. Salamah
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Qāsim. He was a ʿĀmmah (Qurʾānic reader). He is a qurrāʾ (Qurʾānic reciter) and
• The Four Hundred and First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the ruler of Egypt died. On the Tuesday night, two nights before the end of the month of Shawwal
• The Killing of al-Mal'un al-Ḥākim
  Al-Ḥākim's wickedness spread to the entire people, even to his sister. He accused his sister of prostitution a
• The Four Hundred and Twenty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Qāḍī Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Simnanī was appointed as the head of the court responsible
• 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 wi
• Hasan B. Hüseyin
  Hasan b. Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn b. Rāmīn. He served as a judge (qāḍī). His honorific (kunya) is Abū Muḥa
• Husayn b. ʿAmr
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Ghazzāl. He heard ḥadīth from Najjād, Ḥuldī, and Ibn Sammāk, among o
• Muḥammad b. ʿUmar
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Bakr al-Anbarī. He was a poet, a person who wrote elegant and beautiful poetry w
• Muhammad b. Aḥmad b. Muhammad
  Muhammad b. Aḥmad b. Muhammad b. Kavk b. ʿAbdillāh b. Zayd b. Khālid. His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū al-Khālid a
• Abū ʿAbdurraḥmān al-Sulamī
  Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Mūsā Abū ʿAbdurraḥmān al-Sulamī. He was from Nisābūr. He transmitted ḥadīth
• Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. ʿAlī al-Daqqāq
  Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. ʿAlī al-Daqqāq was from Nishapur. He would give sermons to people, speaking about spiritual
• The Poet Sarīʿ ad-Dellāl
  Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. ʿUbayd al-Wāḥid. He was a jurist (faqīh) from Baghdad. He was also the author of poems co
• The Four Hundred and Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a very strange and great calamity occurred. It happened as follows: An Egyptian man from the peo
• Ibn Bawwāb al-Kātib
  He is the inventor of the famous calligraphic style attributed to him. His real name was ʿAlī b. Hilāl Abū al-
• ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā
  ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā b. Sulaymān b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbbān Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Fārisī. He was a poet famous by the name Sukkari
• Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad
  Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Mansur Abū Jaʿfar al-Bayʾ, was famously known by the name Atikī. He was born
• Ibn Numān
  He is a shaykh of the Rafīḍī Imāmīya madhhab and a person who composed works for them and acted as their prote
• The Year 404 of the Hijra
  In this year, Malik Sharaf ad-Dawla came to Baghdad. The caliph went out to meet him. Along with him were emir
• Hasan b. Fadl b. Shihlan
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Muḥammad. He is from Rāmihurmuz. He was the vizier of Sulṭānü'd-Dawla. He is the
• Hasan b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh
  Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Kayshghālī al-Ṭabarī. He was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). He took lessons in fiqh from Abū’l-Qās
• ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh b. Jahdam
  His kunyah is Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Jahdamī. He was a Sufi from Mecca. He is the author of the work titled Bahjat al-
• Qasim b. Jaʿfar b. ʿAbd al-Wahid
  His honorific (kunya) was Abū ʿUmar al-Hāshimī. He was from Basra. There, he served as a judge (qāḍī). He list
• Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥasan
  Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār Abū'l-Faraj. He was a Shāfiʿī qāḍī (judge). He became fa
• Muḥammad b. Aḥmad
  His kunyah was Abū Jaʿfar al-Nasafī. He was a scholar of the Ḥanafīs in his time. He had a method concerning m
• The Four Hundred and Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the vizier summoned all the Turks, those among the Arabs who were from other ethnic groups, Shar
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. Ḥasan
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Faraj al-Madhal. He became famous as Ibn Maslama. He was born in the year 337 A
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ahmed
  Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ahmed b. Qāsim b. Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Saʿīd b. Abbān ad-Dabbī Abū'l-Ḥasan a
• ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh
  ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥusayn Abū'l-Qāsim al-Ḥaffāf. He was famously known as Ibn Naqīb. He is among the
• ʿUmar b. ʿAbdullah b. ʿUmar
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Ḥafs al-Dallāl. He said that he heard Shiblī recite the following poem: “We reme
• The Four Hundred and Sixteenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, thieves and marauders in Baghdad increased and grew stronger. They began to openly plunder house
• Sabur b. Erdeşir
  He served as vizier three times to Bahāʾu'd-Dawla. He also served as vizier to Sharafu'd-Dawla. He was a write
• Uthmān al-Nīsāburī
  Uthmān al-Nīsāburī al-Jadawī was a preacher. Ibn al-Jawzī said: “He authored many books on preaching. But thes
• Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Ṣāliḥān
  His kunyah was Abū Manṣūr. He served as vizier to Sharafī al-Dawla and Bahāʾ al-Dawla. He was a well-mannered,
• Melik Sherefü'd-Devle
  Abū ʿAlī b. Bahāʾu'd-Dawla Abū Naṣr b. ʿAbdu'd-Dawla b. Buwayh contracted a fiery illness. He passed away at t
• The Poet Tihāmī
  ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Tihāmī Abū'l-Iʿyāsān. He has a famous divan of poetry. Due to the early death of his son,
• The Four Hundred and Seventeenth Year of the Hijra
  On the twentieth of Muḥarram in this year, a battle took place between the Turks and the bands of thieves and
• Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Abdullah
  Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Abdullah b. Abbas b. Muhammed b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Abīʾl-Shawārib Abūʾl-Ḥasan al-Qurashī a
• ʿUmar b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdawayh
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Ḥāẓim al-Ḥūzelī. He is from Nisābūr. He heard ḥadīth from Ibn Nujayd, Ismāʿīlī, a
• ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿUmar b. Ḥafs
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was a qurrāʾ (Qurʾānic reader). He was known by the nickname Ḥammāmī
• Sāʿid b. Ḥasan
  Sāʿid b. Ḥasan Ibn ʿĪsā al-Ribʿī al-Baghdādī. He is the author of the work Kitāb al-Fuṣūṣ, which resembles in
• Kaffāl al-Marwazī
  He is one of the great Shāfiʿī imams. He is among the foremost great imams in terms of knowledge, asceticism,
• The Four Hundred and Eighteenth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Rabiʿ al-Awwal of this year, hail fell in Baghdad causing the destruction of a great quantity
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh
  Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbdussāmid b. Muhtadī Billāh g.b.u. ʿAbdillāh al-Shāhid. In the year 386 of
• Husayn b. ʿAlī b. Husayn
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū al-Qāsim al-Maghribī. He served as a vizier. He was born in Egypt in the month of
• Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm
  His kunyah was Abū Bakr al-Warrāq. He became famous as Ibn Ḥaffāf. He narrated ḥadīth from al-Qātil and others
• Abū'l-Qāsim al-Lalkānī
  Hibatullah b. Hasan b. Mansur al-Rāzī. Originally from Tabaristan. He was a student of Shaykh Abū Ḥanīfa al-Is
• Abū'l-Qāsim ibn Amīr al-Muʾminīn al-Qādir
  He was the son of Caliph al-Qādir. He passed away on a Sunday night in the month of Jamāzī al-Ākhir of this ye
• Sharīf Ibn Ṭabataba Abū Isḥāq
  Master Abū Isḥāq al-Isfarāyinī Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Mihran al-Imām al-ʿAllāma Rukn al-Dīn. He was a Shāfiʿī
• Kuddurî
  He is the author of the famous Kuddurî book in the Hanafi madhhab. His lineage is as follows: Aḥmad b. Muḥamma
• The Four Hundred and Forty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, unrest arose between the soldiers and Jalāl al-Dawla. The soldiers revolted against him and plun
• Hamza b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdullāh
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū'l-Khaṭṭāb. He practiced astrology. He was a respected figure among Bahāʾu'd-Dawl
• Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥalled
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was engaged in trade. He heard ḥadīth from most of the previous ʿula
• Abū'l-Fawāris b. Bahāʾ al-Dawla
  He was a cruel person. When drunk, after making one of his friends or his vizier swear an oath on a talāq not
• 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-
• The Poet Ibn Galbun
  ʿAbd al-Muḥsin b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ghalib Abū Muḥammad al-Shāmī al-Sūrī. He is a great poet. He has a beau
• The Four Hundred and Twenty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, heavy rains fell on the eastern side of Baghdad. Meanwhile, large hailstones also fell. Ibn al-J
• Hasan b. Abū al-Kayn
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAlī az-Zāhid. He is among the ʿābidīn (devout worshippers), the zahidīn (ascetic
• ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā b. Faraǧ b. Ṣāliḥ
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Ḥasan ar-Ribʿī. He was a grammarian (nahiwī). He first learned Arabic from Abū Saʿīd as-S
• Esedlpd-Devle
  Abū ʿAlī Ṣāliḥ b. Mirdās b. ʿIdrīs al-Kilābī. He was the first ruler from the Banū Mirdās tribe in Ḥalab. He t
• The Year 421 of the Hijra
  The great mujahid, ghazi, and conqueror of India, the magnificent ruler named Maḥmūd b. Sabuktigin, passed awa
• Ahmed b. ʿAbdullah b. Ahmed
  He was a preacher. His kunyah was Abū al-Ḥawān. He became famous under the name Ibn Iqrāt. He was known for hi
• The Great and Just Sovereign Mahmud b. Sebüktegin
  His patronymic was Abū'l-Qāsim. He received the titles Yamin al-Dawla (Right Hand of the State) and Amīn al-Mi
• The Year 422 of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph Qādir Billāh passed away. His son Qāʾim Bi-Amrillāh became the caliph in his place. A
• The Caliphate of al-Qāʾim bi-Amrillāh
  Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbdallāh b. Qādir al-Billāh. After the death of his father Abū'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Muktaḍir b. Mutad
• ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAlī
  ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAlī b. Naṣr b. Aḥmad b. Ḥasan b. Hārūn b. Mālik b. Ṭawq was the governor of Rahba. He belon
• The Year 423 of the Hijra
  On the sixth of Muharram of this year, due to the delay of the rains and the resulting drought in the land, mo
• Rūḥ b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad
  His kunyah was Abū Zurʿa ar-Rāzī. al-Ḥāṭib al-Baghdādī said: “Abū Zurʿa heard ḥadīth from a group. While on ḥa
• Ali b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasan
  ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Nuʿaym b. Ḥasan al-Baṣrī. He became famous under the name Nuʿaymī. He
• Muhammad b. Tayyib
  Muhammad b. Tayyib b. Saʿd b. Mūsā Abū Bakr al-Sabbāgh. He heard hadith from Najjād and Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī. H
• The Year Four Hundred and Twenty-Four of the Hijra
  In this year, thieves and pickpockets grew in strength. Their numbers increased. They engaged in many acts of
• Ahmed b. Ḥusayn b. Ahmed
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Ḥusayn. He was a preacher. He became famous under the name Ibn Sammāk. He was born in the
• The Four Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Masʿūd, the son of Sultan Maḥmūd, went on a military expedition to India. He conquered many fort
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ahmed b. Gālib
  He was a ḥāfiẓ of ḥadīth. He became famous under the name Berkanī. His kunyah was Abū Bakr. He was born in the
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Saʿīd
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-ʿAbbās al-Ebyordī. He was among the Shāfiʿī imams and a student of Shaykh Abū Ḥ
• Abū ʿAlī al-Bandanbijī
  Ḥasan b. ʿAbdullāh b. Yaḥyā Shaykh Abū ʿAlī al-Bandanbijī. He was one of the Shāfiʿī imams and a student of Ab
• ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
  ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Ḥāris b. ʿAsad Abū Ṣabāḥ al-Tamīmī. He was a Ḥanbalī scholar and preacher.
• Garīb b. Muḥammad
  Garīb b. Muḥammad b. Muftī Sayfī ad-Dawla Abū Sinān. He had his name inscribed on coins. He was an authoritari
• The Four Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, the Bedouins cut through the roads and penetrated deep into Baghdad. Th
• Poet Ahmed b. Kūlayb
  This is one of those who died because of love. In his work al-Muntaẓam, Ibn al-Jawzī relates that the poet Ahm
• Hasan b. Ahmed
  Hasan b. Ahmed b. Ibrāhīm b. Hasan b. Muḥammad b. Sāzan b. Ḥarb b. Mihrān al-Bezzār. He was a ḥadīth scholar.
• Hasan b. Osman
  Hasan b. Osman b. Ahmed b. Ḥusayn b. Sūray Ebu ʿUmar. He was a preacher. He became famous under the name Ibn G
• The Four Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, the repair of the destroyed Bridge of Jesus was completed. The expense
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Sālibī
  He is also called Salebī. He is from Nishapur. He is a famous mufassir (Qur'anic exegete). He has a work entit
• The Four Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Caliph clothed Abu Tammāra Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Zaynabī with the MTat and appoint
• Kuddurî Ahmed b. Muḥammad
  Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ahmed b. Jāfir Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Kuddurī al-Baghdādī. He was a Ḥanafī scholar. He listened t
• Hasan b. Shihab
  Hasan b. Shihāb b. Hasan b. ʿAlī Abū ʿAlī al-Akbarī was a Hanbalī faqīh (jurist) and poet. He was born in the
• Lutfullah Ahmed b. Isa
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Faḍl al-Ḥāshimī. He served as a khatīb (preacher) and qāḍī (judge) in Darb al-R
• Muḥammad b. Ḥasan
  Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Aḥwāzī. He is known as Ibn ʿAlī al-Isfahānī. He was born in
• The Poet Mehyār al-Daylamī
  Mehyār b. Marzawayh Abū'l-Ḥusayn was a Persian author. It is also said that he was from Daylam. He was a Majus
• Hibetullah b. Hasan
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Husayn. He is famous by the epithet Hājib. He was a person of virtue, propriety
• Abū ʿAlī b. Sīnā
  He was a philosopher and physician. His real name was Ḥasan b. ʿAbdullāh b. Sīnā al-Raʾīs. In his own time, he
• The Four Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Seljuk State entered its establishment phase. In this year, Ruknü'd-Dawla Abu Talib Tuğrul B
• Saalibī
  Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Malik b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Saʿālibī al-Nīsābūrī. He was a distinguished figure in Arabic l
• Master Abū Manṣūr
  ʿAbd al-Kāhir b. Ṭāhir b. Muḥammad al-Baghdādī. He was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). He was among the imams in uṣū
• The Year Four Hundred and Thirty of the Hijra
  In this year, Malik Masʿūd b. Maḥmūd and the Seljuk malik Ṭuğrul Bey confronted each other. Ṭuğrul Bey's broth
• Hafiz Abu Nuʿaym al-Isfahani
  Ahmad b. ʿAbdullah b. Ahmad b. Ishaq b. Musa b. Mehran Abu Nuʿaym al-Isfahani. He is the author of many well-k
• Hasan b. Hafs
  Hasan b. Hafs Abū'l-Futūḥ al-ʿAlawī Emir of Mecca Hasan b. Ḥusayn. His kunyah was Abū ʿAlī al-Burjumī. He serv
• Husayn b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasan
  Husayn b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbdillāh al-Muʿaddib. His kunyah is Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥallāl. He heard Ṣ
• ʿAbd al-Malik b. Muḥammad
  ʿAbd al-Malik b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. Bishr b. Ṭaylehrān. His kunyah was Abū'l-Qāsim. He serve
• Muhammad b. Ḥusayn b. Ḥalaf
  Muhammad b. Ḥusayn b. Ḥalaf b. Farrā Abū Ḥāzim. His kunyah was Abū Yalā al-Ḥanbalī. He served as a qāḍī (judge
• Muhammad b. ʿAbdullah
  Muhammad b. ʿAbdullah Abū Bakr ad-Dīnawarī. A zahid (ascetic). He had a good life. Ibn Kazwīnī praised him gre
• Fadl b. Mansur
  His kunyah was Abū Riḍā. He became famous as Ibn Zarīf. He was a refined poet. One of his poems is as follows:
• Abū Zayd al-Dabbūsī
  ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. ʿĪsā was a Ḥanafī jurist. He was the first scholar to establish and bring forth the scie
• al-Hūfī
  Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm b. Saʿīd b. Yūsuf al-Hūfī. He was a grammarian. He authored a major book on gramm
• The Year 431 of the Hijra
  In this year, the Tigris River swelled excessively. So much so that the bridge over the river and the people o
• Ismāʿīl b. Aḥmad
  Ismāʿīl b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdullāh Abū ʿAbdurraḥmān al-Dārīr al-Ḥayrī. He is from Nisābūr. He is among the foremost
• Bushrī al-Fāṭinī
  Bushrī b. Mīsīs. He was among the Rūm prisoners. The chiefs of Banī Ḥamdān had gifted him to Fāṭin, the slave
• Muhammad b. ʿAlī
  Muhammad b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Yaʿqūb b. Marwān Abū'l-Alāʾ al-Wāsiṭī. Originally from the city of Fumussuīh. He
• The Year 432 of the Hijra
  In this year, the glory of the Seljuks was exalted. Their rulers, Tuğrul Bey and his brother Davud, became ren
• Muhammad b. Ḥusayn
  Muhammad b. Ḥusayn b. Faḍl b. ʿAbbās Abū Yāla al-Baṣrī al-Ṣūfī. He spent his life in exile and travels. In the
• The Year 433 of the Hijra
  In this year, Tuğrul Bey conquered Jūrqān and Tabaristān. Then, having grown stronger and victorious, he retur
• Behram b. Menafih
  He bore the kunyah (teknonym) Abū Manṣūr. He served as vizier to Abū Kalijār. He was a chaste, modest person w
• Muhammad b. Jaʿfar b. Ḥusayn
  He became famous by the nickname Cehremi. al-Ḥātib al-Baġdādī said: "He is among the poets from whom we have h
• Masʿūd, Son of Mahmud of Ghazni
  He ruled the Ghaznavid dynasty. His father Mahmud was also the ruler there. Masʿūd was killed by his cousin Ah
• The Year 434 of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Jalāl al-Dawla gave Abu Ṭāhir the authority to collect the jizyah (tribute) and ordered t
• Abū Dharr al-Ḥarawī
  ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mālikī. He studied ḥadith from many masters. He traveled extensivel
• Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn
  Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Jāʿfar Abū'l-Fath al-Shaybānī al-ʿAṭṭār. He became famous by the nickname Ka
• The Year 435 of the Hijra
  In this year, the minorities again began to pay the jizya to the caliph's officials. In this year, Sultan Tuğr
• 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
• Husayn b. ʿUthmān
  ʿUthmān b. Sahl b. Ahd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abī Dulayf al-ʿIjlī. He was from the tribe of Saʿd. He was among th
• Abdullah b. Abī'l-Fath
  Abdullah b. Abī'l-Fath Aḥmad b. ʿUthmān b. Farrāj b. Azhar. His kunyah was Abū'l-Qāsim al-Azharī. He was a fam
• Sultan Jalāl al-Dawla
  Jalāl al-Dawla Abū Ṭāhir ibn Bahāʾ al-Dawla ibn Buwayh al-Daylamī. He was the ruler of Iraq. He loved the ʿābi
• The Year Four Hundred and Thirty-Six of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Abu Kalijar entered Baghdad. He ordered drums to be beaten during the five daily prayers.
• Husayn b. ʿAlī
  Husayn b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Jāfir Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Saymarī's nisba (attribution) comes from the Saymar River
• ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Manṣūr
  ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Manṣūr b. Aḥmad Abū'l-Ḥasan. He became famous under the name Ibn al-Muštarī. He was from Ahv
• Sharif Murtaza
  Ali b. Husayn b. Musa b. Muhammad b. Musa b. Jaʿfar b. Muhammad b. Ali b. Husayn b. Ali b. Abi Talib al-Sharif
• Muḥammad b. Aḥmad
  Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Shuʿayb b. ʿAbdallāh b. Faḍl. His kunyah is Abū Manṣūr al-Royānī. He was a friend of Shay
• 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
• The Four Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Seljuk sultan Tughril Beg sent his brother Ibrahim to the region of Jabal. Ibrahim took cont
• Hatice Binti Musa
  Hatice binti Musa b. Abdullah. She was a preacher. She was known as Binti Bakkāl (daughter of the grocer). She
• Ahmed b. Yūsuf al-Sīlīkī al-Munāzī
  He was a poet and writer. He was the vizier of Ahmed b. Marwān al-Kurdī. He served as governor of Silvan and D
• The Year 438 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, many riding animals died in Baghdad. So much so that the city of Baghdad became
• Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Juwaynī
  He is the imam of the Shāfiʿīs. His lineage is as follows: ʿAbdullāh b. Yūsuf b. Muḥammad b. Ḥaysawayh Shaykh
• The Year 439 of the Hijra
  In this year, Tuğrul Bey and Abu Kalijar reconciled. Tuğrul Bey married his daughter. Abu Kalijar's son Abu Ma
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullah b. Ahmed
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Faḍl. He is a Hāshimī. He is from the lineage of Hārūn al-Rashīd. He served as
• ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Muḥammad
  ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. ʿAyyūb Abū'l-Qāsim. He is a poet famous by the name Mutarriz. One of his
• Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Mūsā
  His kunyah is Abū ʿAbdillāh. He served as a preacher. He was from Shīrāz. al-Ḥātib al-Baghdādī said: “He came
• Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Khaṭṭāb al-Ḥanbalī. He is a poet. One of his poems is as follows: “Every judgme
• Shaykh Abū ʿAlī al-Sanjī
  Ḥusayn b. Shuʿayb b. Muḥammad. He was the shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs in his time. He learned the science of jurisp
• The 440th Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Jumādā al-Awwal of this year, the Baghdad governor Abū Kalīcar passed away. He had fallen ill
• Hasan b. ʿĪsā b. Muktedir
  His kunyah was Abū Muḥammad al-ʿAbbāsī. He was born in the month of the year 343 AH. He studied under his teac
• Hibetullāh b. ʿUmar
  Hibetullāh b. ʿŪnīr b. Aḥmad b. ʿUthmān. His kunyah was Abū al-Qāsim. He was a preacher. He became famous unde
• ʿAlī b. Ḥasan
  ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Muntab Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim. He became famous under the name Ibn Abī ʿUthmān al-
• Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. Abū'l-Faraǧ
  He was a vizier bearing the epithet Zū's-Sāʿada (the Possessor of Felicity). He served as vizier to Abū Kalijā
• Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm
  Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm b. Gaylān b. ʿAbdillāh b. Gaylān b. Ḥalīm b. Gaylān. He was the brother of Ṭālib
• Sultan Abū Kalijar
  His original name was Marzubān b. Sulṭānü'd-Dawla b. Bahāü'd-Dawla. He died after living only a few months bey
• The Four Hundred Forty-First Year of the Hijra
  On the tenth of Muharram in this year, the residents of the Kerh neighborhood were forbidden from holding the
• Ahmed b. Muhammad b. Mansur
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū'l-Ḥasan. He became famous by the name Akīkī. He took this name in relation to hi
• ʿAlī b. Ḥasan
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Qāsim al-ʿAlawī. He became famous as Ibn Muḥyī's-Sunna. al-Ḥāṭib al-Baghdādī sa
• ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Qāḍī Mawrāḍī
  He bore the kunyah Abū al-Fāʾiz. In the year 431 AH, he testified before Ibn Makūla. Ibn Makūla accepted his t
• Hāfiẓ Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Sūrī
  Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Sūrī. He was a ḥadīth hāfiẓ (memorizer of ḥadīth).
• The Year 442 of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Tuğrul Bey conquered Isfahan after a one-year siege. He transferred his belongings from R
• Alib. ʿUmar b. Ḥasan
  His kunyah was Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarbī. He became famous under the name al-Kāzvīnī. He was born at the beginning
• ʿUmar b. Sābit al-Samanīnī
  He was a grammarian. He was blind. He is the author of the commentary on the work called al-Lumāʿ. He was a sc
• Karvaş b. Mukallid
  His kunya was Abū'l-Manī. He was a wild man from the cities of Mosul, Kufa, and Sawra. He was among the tyrann
• The Four Hundred and Forty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Ṣafar of this year, a battle occurred between the Rafīḍīs and the Sunnīs. Many men were killed
• Muhammad b. Muhammad b. Ahmad
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was a poet. He was from Basra. He came from a village near Akbara. The names of
• The Four Hundred Forty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the genealogies of the caliphs of Egypt were written. It was said that they had no lineage conne
• Hasan b. ʿAlī
  Hasan b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Wahb. Kurrā b. Wāqid Abū ʿAlī al-Tamīmī. He was a preacher. He b
• ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was known by the epithet Shāshī. He was from Baghdad. He resided in Basra. He a
• Qāḍī Abū Jaʿfar
  His real name was Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Aḥmad. His kunyah was Abū Jaʿfar al-Sammānī. He served as a qāḍī (judge
• The 445th Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a renewed clash occurred in Baghdad between the Rafizīs and the Sunnis. They set the surrounding
• Ahmed B.Ömer B. Ruh
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Nahravānī. He used to oversee calibration work at the mint. He has bea
• Ismāʿīl b. ʿAlī
  Ismāʿīl b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Zancawayh, Abū Saʿīd ar-Rāzī. He became famous under the name Sūmmān.
• The Four Hundred and Forty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Tuğrul Bey, after conquering Azerbaijan, went on a ghazw (military expedition) against By
• Husayn b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad
  Husayn b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Dāwud. His kunyah was Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Nīʿ. He heard ḥadith from Ibn Shāhin, I
• ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdurraḥmān
  His kunyah is Abū ʿAbdillāh. He is from Isfahan. He became famous under the name Ibn Labbān. Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfa
• The 447th Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Tuğrul Bey captured Baghdad. He was the first ruler of the Seljuks. He took control of Ba
• Hasan b. ʿAlī
  Hasan b. ʿAlī b. Jāfir b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Dūlif b. Abī Dūlif al-ʿIjlī. He served as a qāḍī al-quḍāt (chief
• Alī b. Muḥsin b. Alī
  Alī b. Muḥsin b. Alī b. Muḥammad b. Abī'l-Fahm Abū'l-Qāsim al-Tanūhī. Ibn al-Jawzī said: “Tanūh is a collectiv
• The Year Four Hundred and Forty-Eight of the Hijra
  On Thursday, eight days before the end of the month of Muḥarram in this year, the caliph married Khadīja, the
• ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Silk
  His kunyah is Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Muʿaddib. He became famous under the name al-Fālī and is the author of the work a
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid
  Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Muḥammad al-Ṣabbāgh was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). He is not the author of the wor
• Hilal b. Muhsin
  Hilāl b. Muhsin b. Ibrāhīm b. Hilāl. His kunya was Abū'l-Khayr. He worked as a scribe. He was a Ṣābiʾī (a memb
• The Year 449 of the Hijra
  In this year, famine and deaths occurred successively in Baghdad and other towns. So many houses were left own
• Ahmed b. ʿAbdullah b. Sulaymān
  Ahmed b. ʿAbdullah b. Sulaymān b. Muḥammad b. Sulaymān b. Ahmed b. Sulaymān b. Dāwūd b. Muṭahhar b. Ziyād b. R
• Master Abu ʿUthmān al-Sabūnī
  The genealogy of this person is as follows: Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Aḥmad b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿĀmir b. ʿAbīd al-N
• The Four Hundred and Fiftieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the sedition of Mundhir al-Basāsirī emerged. The real name of al-Basāsirī was Arslān al-Turkī. T
• 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
• Qāḍī Māwardī
  He is the author of the work al-Ḥāwī al-Kabīr. His real name is ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Ḥabīb Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Māwar
• Reis'ür Rüesa Abū'l-Qāsim b. Maslama
  ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar. He was the vizier of the Caliph al-Qāʾim bi-Amr Allāh. In his ear
• The Year 451 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, Baghdad was still under the control of al-Basasiri. There, the khutbah was deli
• Chapter
  After Sultan Tuğrul Bey escaped from his confinement in Hamadan and from the captivity under his brother İbrah
• Tuğrul Bey's Killing of Besasīrī
  When Tuğrul Bey pursued Besasīrī, his first detachment caught him in the land of Taʿif. Ibn Muzyad was also wi
• Arslan Abu'l-Haris al-Basasiri al-Turkī
  He was one of Baha' al-Dawla's slaves. Before that, he was the slave of a man from the city of Besa. Due to hi
• Hasan b. Fadl
  His patronymic was Abū ʿAlī al-Sharmakānī. He was a man of letters, a qurrāʾ (expert reciter) and ḥāfiẓ (memor
• ʿAlī b. Maḥmūd b. Ibrāhīm b. Māǧira
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Ḥasan ar-Rawzanī. He is among the sofiyye (Sufi) shuyūkh (masters). The Ribāṭ a
• Muhammad b. ʿAlī
  Muhammad b. ʿAlī b. Fath b. Muhammad b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib al-Ḥarbī. He became famous with the epithet al-Ashʿa
• al-Wanī al-Farādī
  Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdillāh Abū Muḥammad al-Wanī. Wanī is a village in one of the cities of the land of Ji
• The Four Hundred and Fifty-Second Year of the Hijra
  On Thursday, the seventeenth of the month of Ṣafar in this year, Sultan Ṭuğrul Bey, after killing Besāsirī and
• Hasan b. Muḥammad
  Hasan b. Muḥammad b. Abī'l-Faḍl Abū Muḥammad al-Fāsawī al-Walī. He listened to ḥadīth. He was a very intellige
• Muḥammad b. ʿUbaydallāh
  Muḥammad b. ʿUbaydallāh b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿArūs Abū'l-Dafīʿ was among the scholars to whom the leadershi
• Katrü'n-Nedā
  She was also given names such as Duca and Alem. She was the mother of the Caliph al-Qāʾim bi-Amrillāh (the Cal
• The Year 453 of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Tuğrul Bey sought to marry the caliph's daughter. The caliph was displeased and said, "Su
• Ahmed b. Marwān
  His kunyah was Abū Naṣr al-Kurdī. He was the ruler of Diyarbakır and Silvan— the Caliph al-Qādir gave him the
• The 454th Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Tuğrul Bey wrote letters to the rulers of neighboring countries and to Qāḍī al-Quḍāt ad-Dāmīgānī
• Sūmal b. Ṣāliḥ
  His epithet was Muʿizzü'd-Dawla (the Honourer of the State). He was the governor of Ḥalab. He was a gentle-nat
• Hasan b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad
  His kunyah was Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī. He was born in the month of Shaʿbān in the year 363 AH. He heard ḥadīt
• Husayn b. Abu Yazid
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAlī al-Dabbāgh. He said: I saw the Rasūlullāh (peace and blessings be upon him)
• Saʿd b. Muḥammad b. Manṣūr
  His kunyah is Abū'l-Mahāsin. He is from Jūrgān. He was an old reist (tribal leader). Around the year 410 of th
• The Year 454 of the Hijra
  In this year, Tuğrul Bey entered Baghdad. The caliph intended to receive him. Then he abandoned this intention
• Tuğrul Bey's Consummation of Marriage with the Caliph's Daughter
  When Sultan Tuğrul Bey settled in Baghdad, he sent his vizier Amid al-Mulk to the caliph, requesting that the
• Zuhayr b. ʿAlī
  Zuhayr b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Ḥuzām. His kunyah was Abū Naṣr al-Ḥuzānī. He came to Baghdad. He learned fiqh (Isla
• Melik Abu Talib Tuğrul Bey
  Muḥammad b. Mikāʾīl b. Seljūk Tuğrul Bey was the first Seljuk ruler. He was a virtuous person who performed hi
• The Year 456 of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Alp Arslan arrested his uncle's vizier, ʿAmidü'l-Mulk al-Kundurī, and imprisoned him in h
• Ibn Hazm al-Zāhirī
  He was a polymath, an imam, and an authoritative scholar of ḥadīth. His genealogy is as follows: Abū Muḥammad
• B. ʿAlī B. Burhān
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Qāsim. He was a grammarian. Indeed, he was a man of very corrupt morals. He nev
• The 457th Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a group from Iraq went on pilgrimage under the supervision of security officers. However, when t
• The Four Hundred and Fifty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  On the day of Ashura in this year, the residents of the Kerh district closed their shops. The women mourned an
• Hāfiẓ Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī
  He was a great ḥadīth hāfiẓ (memorizer). His real name and lineage are as follows: Aḥmad b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b.
• Hasan b. Ghalib
  Hasan b. Ghalib b. ʿAlī b. Ghalib b. Manṣūr b. Saʿlūq Abū ʿAlī al-Tamīmī. He became famous by the name Ibn Mub
• Qadi Abu Ya'la b. Farra al-Hanbali
  Muhammad b. Hasan b. Muhammad b. Khalaf b. Ahmad al-Farrāʾ. He served as a qadi (judge). His kunya is Abu Ya'l
• Ibn Sayyidih
  He is the author of the lexicographical work al-Muḥkam. His kunya is Abū'l-Ḥusayn. His real name is ʿAlī b. Is
• The Four Hundred Forty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Abu Saʿīd al-Mustafī, who bore the epithet Sharaf al-Mulk, commissioned the construction of the
• Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad
  His kunyah was Abū ʿAlī al-Tarsūsī. Since he resided for a long time in Iraq, he was called al-ʿIrāqī. He hear
• The Year 460 of the Hijra
  Ibn al-Jawzī said: “In the month of Jumādā al-Awwal of this year, an earthquake occurred in the land of Palest
• Abd al-Malik b. Muhammad b. Yusuf b. Maksur
  He bore the epithet Shaykh al-Ajal. In his own time, he was the singular figure pointed out for commanding goo
• 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 b
• The Year 461 of the Hijra
  In the middle of the month of Shaʿbān of this year, a fire broke out in the Dınıaşk Mosque. The cause was this
• Forānī
  He is the author of the work entitled al-ʾIbāna. His kunyah is Abū'l-Qāsim. His lineage is as follows: ʿAbdurr
• The Four Hundred and Sixty-Second Year of the Hijra
  Ibn al-Jawzī said: On Tuesday, the eleventh of Jumādā al-Awwal of this year (eighteenth of March), a great ear
• Hasan b. Ali
  Hasan b. Ali b. Muhammed Abū'l-Jawā'iz was from Wāsiṭ. He lived for a long time in Baghdad. He was a poet, a m
• Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Sahl
  He became famous by the name Ibn Bushrān. He was from Wāsiṭ. He was a grammarian. He was born in the year 380
• The Four Hundred and Sixty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Byzantine Emperor Romanos set out towards the lands of Islam with a great army composed of G
• Ahmed b. Ali
  Ahmed b. Ali b. Sabit b. Ahmed b. Mehdi Abu Bakr al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī. He is a famous ḥadīth memorizer. He is
• Hassan b. Saʿīd
  Hassan b. Saʿīd b. Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. Menī b. Khālid b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Kh
• Emin b. Muhammad b. Hasan b. Hamza
  His lineage is Abū ʿAlī al-Jaʿfarī. He was a Shia jurist (faqīh) in his time. His original name is Muḥammad b.
• Ibn Zaydun
  He was a poet. His real name was Aḥmad b. ʿAbdallāh b. Aḥmad b. Ghālib b. Zaydun Abū al-Walīd. He was a master
• Karīmah bint Aḥmad
  Karīmah bint Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Abī Ḥātim al-Marwazīyah. She was a learned and pious woman. She listened to
• The Year 464 of the Hijra
  In this year, Shaykh Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī, in alliance with the Ḥanbalīs, rose up against the corrupters and t
• 2ekeriya b. Muḥammad b. Ḥayde
  He was a member of the Lāl family and a disciple of ^U Manṣūr. He was from Nisābūr. He claimed to be descended
• Muhammed b. Ahmed
  Muhammed b. Ahmed b. Muhammed b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbdüssaʿīned b. Muhtadī Billāh. His kunyah was Abū'l-Ḥasan. He
• Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Shāriʿ
  Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Shāriʿ b. Jāfir Abū ʿAbdallāh. He was from Isfahan. He served as a qāḍī (judge) in the to
• The Four Hundred Sixty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  On the eleventh of Muharram in this year, on a Thursday, Abū al-Wafāʾ b. Muḥammad b. ʿUkayl al-ʿUkaylī al-Ḥanb
• The Death of Alparslan and the Accession of His Son Malikshah
  At the beginning of this year, while Sultan Alparslan was setting out to wage a military campaign in Transoxia
• Sultan Alp Arslan
  He bore the epithet Sultan-ı Âlem (Sultan of the World). His father was Dāwūd Chāghrī Bey. Chāghrī Bey was the
• Abū'l-Qāsim al-Qushayrī
  He is the author of the work Risālat al-Qushayrīya. His real name was ʿAbd al-Karīm b. He was Ḥawāzin b. ʿAbd
• Ibn Surrubaʿr
  He is a poet, his real name is ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Faḍl. His kunyah is Abū Manṣūr. He is famously known
• Muhammad b. ʿAlī
  Muhammad b. ʿAlī b. Muhammad b. ʿAbdullah b. ʿAbdüssamed b. Muhtadī Billāh. His kunyah was Abū'l-Ḥusayn. He be
• The Year 466 of the Hijra
  In the month of Ṣafar of this year, the caliph made his accession before the people. Beside him stood his gran
• The Flooding of Baghdad
  In the month of Jumādā al-Ākhirah of this year, a great amount of rain fell. There were strong and successive
• Ahmed b. Muhammad b. Hasan al-Samnanī
  He belongs to the Nefî madhhab. In creed (ʿaqīdah), he adheres to the Ashʿarī madhhab. Ibn al-Jawzī said, "Thi
• ʿAbdulʿAzīz b. Aḥmad
  ʿAbdulʿAzīz b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Sulaymān. His kunyah is Abū Muḥammad al-Kinānī. He was a ḥadīth ḥāfiẓ (memoriz
• Al-Māwardīyah
  According to Ibn al-Jawzī, this woman was from Basra. She was a righteous and very elderly woman. Women would
• The Four Hundred and Forty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Ṣafar of this year, the caliph al-Qāʾim bi-Amrillāh fell seriously ill. His throat became swol
• The Death of the Caliph al-Qāʾim bi-Amrillāh
  On the twenty-eighth of the month of Rajab this year, on a Thursday, bloodletting was performed on the caliph'
• The Caliphate of al-Muqtadī bi-Amrillāh
  Abū'l-Qāsim ʿUddat al-Dīn ʿAbdullāh ibn Amīr Ẓāhirat al-Dīn Abū'l-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn Khalīfa al-Qāʾim bi-Amril
• Dāwūdī
  The genealogy of this person, who was a narrator of al-Bukhārī, is as follows: ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Muḥammad b. Muz
• Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ḥasan
  Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī't-Tayyib al-Bahrazzī. He is a famous poet. Initially, he studied unde
• The Year 468 of the Hijra
  Ibn al-Jawzī said: In the month of Shaʿbān of this year, after a storm of sand and gravel, a swarm of locusts
• Muhammad b. ʿAlī
  Muhammad b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā b. Mūsā Abū Tammām b. Abī'l- b. Qāḍī Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥāshimī. He was the naqīb (
• Muḥammad b. Qāsim
  Muḥammad b. Qāsim b. Ḥabīb b. ʿAbdus Abū Bakr al-Ṣaffār. He is from Nīsābur. He heard ḥadīth from al-Ḥākim, Ab
• Muhammad b. Muhammad b. Abdullah
  Muhammad b. Muhammad b. Abdullah Abū'l-Ḥusayn al-Baydāwī al-Shāfiʿī. He was the son-in-law of Abū Ṭayyib al-Ṭa
• Masʿūd b. Muḥsin
  Masʿūd b. Muḥsin b. Ḥasan b. ʿAbdurrizzāq b. Jāʿfar al-Bayāḍī. He was a poet. Some of his poems are as follows
• The Qur'anic Exegete al-Wāḥidī
  His real name was ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Būwayh al-Wāḥidī. Ibn Ḥallikān said: "I do not know the re
• Nasīr b. Muḥammad
  Nasīr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Abū Manṣūr al-Tūrkī al-Ṣafīrī. He is the father of Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad b. Nasīr. He recit
• The Four Hundred and Sixty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the restoration of the citadel of Damascus began. When Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam Atsız b. Uv of al-Khwar
• Isfahdost b. Muḥammad
  Isfahdost b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasan Abū Manṣūr ad-Daylamī. He was a poet. He encountered Abū ʿAbdillāh b. Ḥajjāj, ʿ
• Tāhir b. Aḥmad b. Babshāz
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was from Basra and a grammarian (nahwī). He fell from the roof of the
• ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh
  ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. Aḥmad b. Mujmī b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Mabid b. Ḥazarmard Abū M
• Hayyān b. Ḥalaf
  Hayyān b. Ḥalaf b. Ḥusayn b. Hayyān b. Muḥammad b. Hayyān b. Wahb b. Hayyān Abū Marwān al-Qurṭubī. He had a wa
• Abū Naṣr al-Sajzī al-Wābilī
  He is from the village of Wābil, affiliated with Sijistān. He heard many ḥadīths. He compiled works. He transm
• Muhammad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn
  His kunya is Abū ʿAbd Allāh. He is from Enmat. He became known by the name Ibn Sakinah. He was born in the yea
• The Year 477 of the Hijra
  Ibn al-Jawzī said: In the month of Rabiʿ al-Awwal of this year, lightning struck the Nūba neighborhood on the
• Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Ahmed
  Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Ahmed b. Yakub b. Ahmed Abu Bakr al-Yarbuʿī was a qurrāʾ (Qur'an reciter). He was the las
• Ahmed b. Muhammed
  Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Ahmed b. Abdullah Abū'l-Ḥasan Ibn Nā-kur al-Bezzāz. He is among the musnad (hadith with c
• Ahmed b. ʿAbdülmelik
  Ahmed b. ʿAbdülmelik b. ʿAlī b. Ahmed. His kunyah was Abū Ṣāliḥ. He was a muezzin. He was from Nisābūr. He was
• 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. H
• ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Mendeh
  ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Mendeh b. Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ibrāhīm Abū'l-Qāsim b. Abū ʿAbdallāh. He w
• ʿAbd al-Malik b. Muḥammad
  ʿAbd al-Malik b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muzaffar b. ʿAlī Abū'l-Qāsim al-Hamadānī. He was a walī (friend
• Sharīf Abū Jaʿfar al-Ḥanbalī
  His lineage is as follows: ʿAbd al-Ḥālik b. ʿĪsā b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdillāh b. Mābid b. ʿAbb
• The Year 471 of the Hijra
  In this year, the victorious ruler and Tāj al-Mulūk Tutuš b. Alp Arslān al-Saljūqī captured the city of Dimash
• Saʿd B. ʿAlī
  Saʿd b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn Abū'l-Qāsim az-Zanjānī traveled to various regions for the purpose
• Süleym b. al-Jawzī
  Al-Jawz is the name of a village affiliated with Duceyl. Süleym was an ʿābid (devout worshipper) and zahid (as
• The Year 472 of the Hijra
  In this year, Mahmud b. Mas'ud b. Mahmud b. Sebüktegin, the ruler of Ghazna, conquered many fortresses in Indi
• Muhammed b. Muhammed b. Ahmed
  Muhammed b. Muhammed b. Ahmed b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Mihrān al-Akbarī. He heard ḥadīth from Hilāl al-Ha
• Hayyāj b. ʿAbdallāh
  He was an orator from Damascus. He heard ḥadīth. In asceticism, fiqh, and abundant worship, he was the unique
• The Year 473 of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Malikshāh's brother Takish invaded a part of Khurāsān. In this year, preachers were permi
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar
  Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl Abū ʿAbdallāh b. Ahdar. A muḥaddith (hadith scholar). He hea
• Suleyhî
  He is the person who conquered Yemen. His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū al-Ḥasan. His real name is AH b. Muḥammad b
• Muhammad b. Ḥusayn
  Muhammad b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAbdullah b. Aḥmad b. Yūsuf b. Shiblī. His kunyah is Abū ʿAlī. He is a poet. He is from
• Yusuf b. Hasan
  Yusuf b. Hasan b. Muhammed b. Hasan. His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Qāsim al-ʿAskarī. He is from the city of Z
• The Year 474 of the Hijra
  In this year, Abū Kāmil Manṣūr b. Nūr ad-Dawla Debīs acquired the territories that his father possessed. The s
• Dāwūd b. Sulṭān b. Malikshāh
  He was deeply grieved by his father's death. He was almost about to kill himself. The emirs forbade him from c
• Qāḍī Abū'l-Walīd al-Bājī
  His lineage is as follows: Sulaymān b. Khalaf b. Saʿd b. Ayyūb al-Tujībī al-Andalusī al-Bajjī. He was a Mālikī
• The Year 475 of the Hijra
  In this year, Muayyadü'l-Mulk came to Baghdad and stayed at his father's madrasa. At the time of the three pra
• ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Muḥammad
  ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Muḥammad b. Mandaḥ. His kunyah was Abū ʿUmar. He was a ḥāfiẓ of ḥadīth
• Ibn Makūla
  Amīr Abū Naṣr ʿAlī ibn Wazīr Abūʾl-Qāsim Hibatullāh ibn ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar ibn Alqān ibn Muḥammad ibn Dulaf ibn A
• The Year 476 of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿAmidü'd-Dawla b. Juhayr was dismissed from the vizierate of the caliph. He then went to Sultan
• Shaykh Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī
  His real name was Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī b. Yūsuf al-Fīrūzābādī. Fīrūzābād is one of the villages in the province of
• Tahir b. Hüseyin
  Tahir b. Hüseyin b. Ahmed b. Abdullah al-Kawāf. He recited the Qur'an and listened to hadith. He took fiqh les
• Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ismāʿīl
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Ṭāhir. He is from Anbār. He was a khāṭīb (orator). He became famous under the nam
• Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥusayn b. Jarrāde
  He was one of the leaders in Baghdad. He was a wealthy and generous person. His wealth was estimated at 300,00
• The Four Hundred and Seventy-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a battle took place between the caliph’s vizier Fakhr al-Dawla ibn Juheyr and the governor of Di
• Ahmed B. Muhammed B. Dubest
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Saʿd al-Nīsābūrī. He was the shaykh (spiritual master) of the ṣūfīs. In the city
• Ibn Sabbāgh
  He is the author of the work entitled esh-Shāmil. His real name was ʿAbd al-Sayyid b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥi
• Masʿūd b. Nāṣir
  Masʿūd b. Nāṣir b. ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ismāʿīl. His kunyah was Abū Saʿd al-Sajarī. He was a ḥāfiẓ of ḥadīth.
• The Year Four Hundred and Seventy-Eight of the Hijra
  In the month of Muḥarram of this year, there was an earthquake in Ercan. A great number of Greeks (Rum) and th
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasan
  Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Ayyūb Bakr al-Fūrakī. He is the grandson of the master Ab
• Hasan b. ʿAlī
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Mardūsī. He was the leader of the people of his time. In terms of m
• Abū Saʿd al-Mutawallī
  ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Maʾmūn b. ʿAlī Abū Saʿd al-Mutawallī. He is the author (muṣannif) of the work entitled at-Tati
• Imām al-Haramayn
  ʿAbd al-Malik b. Shaykh Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Yūsuf b. ʿAbdallāh b. Yūsuf b. Muḥammad b. Ḥayyāwīh Abū'l-Ma
• Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdallāh b. Aḥmad
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū ʿAlī b. Walīd. He was a shaykh of the Muʿtazila. He taught them as a mudarris (i
• Qāḍī Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Dāmighānī
  Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Hā-mwayh al-Dāmighānī. He was the chief judge
• Muḥammad B. ʿAlī B. Muttalib
  His kunyah was Abū Saʿīd. He was a man of literature. He studied nahw (Arabic grammar), literature, lughāt (le
• Mansur b. Debis
  Mansur b. Debis b. ʿAlī b. Mezyed. His kunyah was Abū Kāmil. He ruled as emir after Sayf al-Dawla. He frequent
• Hibetullah b. Ahmed b. Seybî
  He served as the harem kadı (judge of the harem) in the Mauila River. He was the deputy (wakīl) of Caliph al-M
• The Year 479 of the Hijra
  In this year, a war broke out between the governor of Damascus, Tutush, and Süleyman ibn Kutalmish, the govern
• Emir Jaʿbar b. Sabīq al-Kushayrī
  He had acquired the laqab Sabiku'd-Dīn. He held the fortress of Jaʿbar for a long time. The fortress was attri
• Emir Cenfel Kutluğ
  He served as the Hajj emir. He was the tax collector (mültezim) of Kūfa. He fought several times against the A
• ʿAlī b. Fuddāl al-Muṣāciʿī
  His kunyah was Abū ʿAlī. He was Maghribī. He was a grammarian (nahwī). He has works that demonstrate his schol
• The Four Hundred and Eightieth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muḥarram of this year, the dowry of Sultan Malikshāh’s daughter was brought to the caliphal pa
• Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm
  Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm b. Mūsā b. Saʿīd Abū'l-Qāsim al-Nīsāburī. He traveled to various towns for the purpose of c
• Tāhir b. Ḥusayn al-Bandanījī
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Wafāʾ. He was a poet. He composed two qaṣīdas praising Niẓām al-Mulk. One of these is pun
• Muhammad, the Son of al-Muktaḍī
  He contracted smallpox. He died at the age of nine. His father and the people were deeply saddened by his deat
• Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Zayd
  Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Zayd b. AH b. Mūsā b. Jāʿfar b. Ḥammed b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib Abū'l-Ḥa
• Muhammad b. Hilal b. Hasan
  His patronymic was Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Sabīʿ. He bore the epithet Garsü'n-Nimet. He gave much charity and was known
• Abū Bakr b. ʿUmar
  He was the commander of the Mulessimīn. He was in the region of Fergana. He was extraordinarily honorable to a
• Fatīma Bintī ʿAlī
  She was a literati and writer. She was known by the name Bintī Akra. She narrated ḥadīth from Abū ʿUmar b. Mah
• The Year 481 of the Hijra
  In this year, a great clash occurred in Baghdad between the Rafizīs and the Sunnis. Events unfolded. In the mo
• Ahmed B. Sultan Melikshah
  He was the heir of his father. He died at the age of eleven. People sat in mourning for him for seven days. Du
• Abdullah b. Muḥammad
  Abdullah b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Abū Ismāʿīl al-Ansārī al-Harawī. He transmitted ḥadīth. He authored w
• The Four Hundred and Eighty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, Abū Bakr al-Shāshī? began teaching at the Tājiyya madrasa in Bāb al-Ibr
• ʿAbdussamad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī
  He became famous by the name Ṭāhir. He was from Nisābūr. He was a ḥadīth ḥāfiẓ (memorizer of ḥadīth). He trave
• Asim b. Hasan
  Asim b. Hasan b. Muhammad b. Ali b. Asim b. Mihran Abū'l-Husayn al-Asimī. He was one of the residents of the K
• Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥamīd b. ʿUbayd
  His kunyah is Abū Jaʿfar al-Bukhārī. He was a mutakallim (scholar of kalām). He belonged to the Muʿtazila madh
• Muhammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdallāh
  Muhammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdallāh b. Muhammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Isfahānī. He is famous by the name Musarīfah. He is a
• The Year Four Hundred and Eighty-Three of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, a decree from Niẓām al-Mulk arrived stating that the jurist Abū ʿAbdull
• Vizier Abū Naṣr b. Juhayr
  Abū Naṣr b. Juhayr b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Juhayr Amī al-Dawla. He was one of the famous viziers. He served
• The Year Four Hundred and Eighty-Four of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, the astrologer Belya, who had burned the city of Basra, sent word to th
• Abdurrahman b. Ahmed
  His kunyah was Abū Ṭāhir. He was born in Isfahan. He learned the nikaḥ (marriage contract) in Samarkand. He wa
• Muhammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Naṣr al-Marwazī. He was an imām (leader) in Qur'an qirāʾah (recitation). He auth
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥasan
  His kunyah was Abū Bakr. He was an admonishing preacher. He was a Ḥanafī faqīh (jurist). He was a muʿtazilī th
• Artuk b. Alp al-Turkmani
  He is the ancestor of the Artuqids, the rulers of Mardin. He was a noble and courageous person. He conquered m
• The Four Hundred and Eighty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Malikshah ordered the construction of the city walls of the town known by the name of Tug
• Jaʿfar b. Yaḥyā b. ʿAbdallāh
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū'l-Faḍl al-Mutammimī. He became famous under the name Ḥaqqāq al-Makkī. He travele
• Vizier Nizām al-Mulk
  Hasan b. ʿAlī b. Isḥāq. His kunyah was Abū ʿAlī. He served as vizier to Sultan Alp Arslan and his son Malikshā
• ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn
  ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn b. Dāwūd b. Yāqiyya. His kunyah was Abū'l-Qāsim. He was a poet. He was from
• Malik b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī
  Malik b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Banyāsī al-Shāmī. His mother also gave him the name ʿAlī Ab
• Sultan Malikshah
  Celāl al-Dīn wa'd-Dawla Abū'l-Fath Malikshāh b. Abū Shujāʿ Alp Arslān b. Dāwūd b. Mikāʾīl b. Saljūq Dukāk al-T
• The Founder of the Taciye Madrasa in Baghdad
  Merzūbān b. Khusraw Tāj al-Mulk al-Wazīr Abū'l-Ghanāʾim was the founder of the Taciye madrasa. The instructor
• Hîbetullah b. ʿAbdülvaris
  Hîbetullah b. ʿAbdülvaris b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad Nūrī. His kunyah was Abū'l-Qāsim. He was from Shīrāz. He was among
• The Year Four Hundred and Eighty-Six of the Hijra
  In this year, Ardashir b. Mansur Abu Husayn al-ʿAbbādī came to Baghdad on his return from the pilgrimage. He s
• Süleyman b. Ibrāhīm
  Süleyman b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Süleyman Abū Masʿūd al-Isfahānī. He heard many ḥadīths. He compiled them. H
• ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Aḥmad b. Muḥsin
  He is from Deşkarlī. His kunyah is Abū Saʿīd. He is a Shāfiʿī jurist. He attended the circle of Abū Isḥāq al-S
• Ali b. Ahmed b. Yusuf
  His patronymic is Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was from Hakkari. He came to Baghdad and adhered to the recitation (riwāya)
• Ali b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū al-Ḥasan. He is from Anbār. He served as a khāṭīb (orator). He was known by the n
• 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 Death of the Muktedî
  When Sultan Berkyaruk arrived in Baghdad, he requested from the caliph a sultanic decree (ferman) to be writte
• Muktedî Bi Emrillah
  Caliph Muktedî Billah Abu ʿAbdullah ibn az-Zahire. He was the heir of Abu'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad. Muktedî Bi Emrillah
• The Caliphate of al-Mustazhir bi Amrillah Abu’l-Abbas
  When his father passed away on a Friday, they brought al-Mustazhir, who was two months past his seventeenth ye
• Atabeg Aksungur
  He bore the epithet Qāsimü'd-Dawla. He was Seljuk. He was known by the title ḥājib (chamberlain). He was the g
• Emīr al-Juyūsh Badr al-Jamālī
  He was the commander of the Egyptian armies and the governor of the Fatimid realm. He was a wise, noble, and l
• Caliph al-Mustansir al-Fatimi
  Abu Tamim Maʿad b. Abi'l-Hasan ʿAli b. Hakim. He reigned for sixty years. Before and after him, no caliph had
• Sultan Malikshah's Son Mahmud
  His mother had granted him the rulership, and for this reason, he spent a great deal of money. Berkyaruk fough
• The Year 488 of the Hijra
  In this year, Yūsuf b. ʿAbak al-Turkmanī came to Baghdad as an envoy of Tutush, the governor of Damascus, to c
• Hasan b. Ahmed b. Hayrûn
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Faḍl. He became famous under the name Ibn Bakillānī. He heard many ḥadīths. Ḥāt
• Tutuş Abū'l-Muẓaffar
  He is the son of Alp Arslan. His honorific title is Tāj al-Dawla. He was the ruler of Damascus and some other
• Rizkullah ʿAbdülvehhab
  Rizkullah ʿAbdülvehhab b. ʿAbdülaziz Abū Muḥammad al-Tamīmī. He was the imam of the qurrāʾ (Qurʾān reciters),
• Abū Sayf al-Kāzvīnī
  ʿAbdussalām b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf b. Bandār. He was a shaykh of the Muʿtazila. He studied under ʿAbduljabbār b.
• Vizier Abu Shuja
  Muhammad b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAbdullah b. Ibrāhīm. His kunyah was Abū Shujāʿ. His laqab was also Zāhirü'd-Dīn. Origin
• Qāḍī Abū Bakr al-Shāshī
  Muḥammad b. Muzaffar b. Bakrān al-Ḥāmiwī Abū Bakr al-Shāshī. He was born in the year 400 AH. He learned fiqh (
• Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥumaydī
  Muhammad ibn Abū Naṣr Futūḥ ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn Ḥumayd al-Andalusī was from the island of Berka near al-Andalus.
• Hibetullah b. Shaykh Abū'l-Wafāʾ b. ʿUkayl
  He memorized the Qur'an. He learned fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). It became evident that he was a person of no
• The Four Hundred Eighty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In the work al-Muntazam, Ibn al-Jawzī said: In this year, ignorant astrologers predicted a flood of a magnitud
• ʿAbdullāh b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdullāh
  He was the brother of Abū Ḥākim al-Ḥayrī. Ḥayr is the name of one of the Persian provinces. ʿAbdullāh listened
• ʿAbdulmuhsin b. Aḥmad al-Shanjī
  He was a trader. He was known as Ibn Shuhadāʾ al-Makkah (the son of the martyrs of Mecca). He was from Baghdad
• ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ibrāhīm
  ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad Abū al-Faḍl. He was known as al-Hamadānī. He took fiqh (Islamic jurisprudenc
• Muhammad b. Ahmad b. ʿAbd al-Bāqī
  Muhammad b. Ahnıed b. ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Manṣūr. His kunyah was Abū Bakr al-Daqqāq. He was known as Ibn Ḥadīna. H
• Abū Muzaffar al-Samʿānī
  Mansūr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Abū Muzaffar al-Samʿānī. He was a ḥadīth ḥāfiẓ (memo
• The Year Four Hundred and Ninety of the Hijra
  In this year, the Khwarazmians began to establish their rule. That is to say: Sultan Berkyaruk, after killing
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasan
  Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. AK b. Zakariyāʾ b. Dīnār Abū Yalā al-ʿAbdī al-Baṣrī. He was known by the name Ib
• Muʿammer b. Muḥammad
  Muʿammer b. Muḥammad b. Muʿammer b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Abū'l-Ghanāʾim al-Ḥusaynī. He listened to and transmitte
• Yaḥyā b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Bistī
  He listened to hadith. He traveled to various places with the purpose of collecting hadith. He was a trustwort
• The Four Hundred and Ninety-First Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Jumada al-Awwal of this year, the Franks, after a severe siege, took the city of Antioch by co
• Tarrad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī
  Tarrad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Sulaymān b. ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. Ibrā
• Muzaffer Abū'l-Fath
  Muzaffer Abū'l-Fath ibn Raʾs al-Ruʾasāʾ Abū'l-Qāsim ibn Maslama. His house was a meeting place for people of k
• The Year 492 of the Hijra
  In this year, the Franks captured Jerusalem. On a Friday at mid-morning, seven days before the end of the mont
• Sultan Ibrāhīm b. Sultan Maḥmūd
  Sultan Ibrāhīm b. Sultan Maḥmūd b. Masʿūd b. Sultan Maḥmūt b. Sabuktigin. He was the ruler of Ghazna and the t
• ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Yūsuf
  ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Yūsuf b. ʿAlī b. Ṣāliḥ Abū Ṭūrāb al-Birāʾī. He was born in the year 401 AH. He took fiqh (Isla
• The Four Hundred and Ninety-Third Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Ṣafar of this year, Sultan Berkyaruq came to Baghdad. He stayed at the government palace. Once
• Sufi ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Ghaznavī
  He was the shaykh of the Attap Tekke. He went on pilgrimage many times without taking anything with him. He di
• Vizier Amidü'd-Devle b. Juhayr
  His real name was Muḥammad b. Abū Naṣr b. Muḥammad b. Juhayr. His kunyah was Abū Manṣūr. He was among the chie
• Tabīb Ibn Jazlah
  Yahyā b. ʿĪsā b. Jazlah. He is the author of the work al-Minhāj fī al-Ṭibb (The Method in Medicine). He was or
• The Year Four Hundred and Ninety-Four of the Hijra
  In this year, great events occurred in Isfahan and its surroundings due to the Bāṭinīs. The Sultan killed many
• Ahmed b. Muhammed
  Ahmed b. Muhammed b. ʿAbdülvahid b. Sabbah. His kunyah was Abū Manṣūr. He listened to ḥadith. After the qāḍī A
• Abdullah b. Hasan
  Abdullah b. Hasan b. Abū Mansūr Abū Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī. He traveled to various towns for the purpose of collec
• Abdurrahman b. Ahmed
  Abdurrahman b. Ahmed b. Muhammed Abu Muhammed al-Razāz al-Serahsī. He came to and settled in the city of Merv.
• Azīz b. ʿAbdü'l-Malik
  Azīz b. ʿAbdü'l-Melik Manṣūr Abū'l-Maʿālī al-Jilī. He was a qāḍī (judge). He bore the epithet Sayyid Leh. In j
• Muhammad b. Ahmed
  Muhammad b. Ahmed b. ʿAbdülbāqī b. Ḥasan b. Muhammad b. Tawq Abū'l-Faẓāʾil ar-Ribī al-Mawṣilī. He took fiqh (I
• Muḥammad b. Ḥasan
  His kunyah was Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Murādī. He settled in Evān. He was a qurrāʾ (Qurʾānic reciter), faqīh (jurist)
• Muhammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿUbaydullāh
  Muhammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿUbaydullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ṣāliḥ b. Sulaymān b. Wadʿān. His kunyah was Abū Naṣr. He was from
• Muhammad b. Mansur
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Saʿd al-Mustafī. His laqab (epithet) was Sharaf al-Mulk al-Ḥāriẓī. He was a pers
• Muḥammad b. Manṣūr al-Kūsarī
  He is known as Amidü Khurāsān. He came to Baghdad during the time of Tughrul Bey. He narrated ḥadith from Abū
• Nasr b. Ahmed
  Nasr b. Ahmed b. Abdullah b. Batran al-Khattabi al-Bezzar. He was a qurrāʾ (Qur'an reciter). He was born in th
• The Four Hundred and Ninety-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muḥarram of this year, ʿAlī Abū’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad, who was famous by the name Keyya al-
• Muḥammad b. Ḥībetullāh
  His kunyah was Abū Naṣr. He served as a qāḍī (judge). He was from Bendenic. His eyes were blind. He was a Shāf
• The Year 496 of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Berkyaruk besieged his brother Muhammad in Isfahan. The people of Isfahan began to suffer
• Ahmed b. Ali
  Ahmed b. Ali b. ʿAbdallāh b. Suwwār. His kunyah was Abū Ṭāhir. He was a qurrāʾ (Qur'anic reciter). He authored
• Abū'l-Maʿālī
  He was a righteous (ṣāliḥ), ascetic (zāhid), possessor of karāma (a saintly wonder) and recompense, one who wo
• Seyyide, Daughter of al-Qāʾim bi-Amrillāh
  Seyyide was the daughter of the caliph al-Qāʾim bi-Amrillāh (the one who stands by God's command) and was marr
• The Four Hundred and Ninety-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Crusaders—may Allah curse them—attacked Damascus (Shām). The Muslims fought against them and
• Erdeşir b. Mansur
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Ḥasan al-ʿAbbādī. He served as a preacher, as described in the previous sections. He came
• Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad
  Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿUthmān Abū Faraǧ al-Kumsānī. He was from the people of Hamadān. He heard ḥadī
• Alā b. Ḥasan b. Wahb
  Alā b. Ḥasan b. Wahb b. Muslayā Saddü'd-Dawla. He was a construction scribe in Baghdad. He was a Christian. He
• Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿUmar
  His kunyah was Abū ʿUmar. He was from Nihāwand. He served as a qāḍī (judge) in Basra for a long time. He was a
• The Year 498 of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Berkyaruk passed away. He had appointed his younger son Melikshāh as the walī al-ʿahd (he
• Sultan Berkyaruk b. Melikshah
  His epithet was Ruknü'd-Dawla (Pillar of the State). He was a Seljuk. He fought many battles. He accomplished
• Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm
  Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm b. Salafah al-Isfahānī. His kunyah was Abū Aḥmad. He was a trustworthy and chaste
• Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥayālī
  Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥayālī Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Ghassānī. He was Andalusian. He was the author of the work T
• Muhammed b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan
  Muhammed b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Abū's-Saqr Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Wāsiṭī. He listened to ḥadīth. He took fiqh (Islamic ju
• The Year 499 of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, a man from Nihavand claimed prophethood. He gave the names of the four
• Hakīm Abū ’l-Fath
  He heard ḥadīth from Bayhaqī and others. He also learned from the qāḍī (judge) about good conduct and behavior
• Muhammed b. Ahmed
  Muhammed b. Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Ali b. ʿAbdürrezzāq. Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥannāt. He was among the qurrāʾ (Qur'an re
• Muhammad b. ʿUbaydullāh b. Ḥasan
  Muhammad b. ʿUbaydullāh b. Ḥasan b. Ḥusayn. His kunyah was Abū'l-Faraj. He was from Basra. He served as a qāḍī
• Muḥāriš b. Mujallā
  He was the Arab emir in Ḥadīsü Gane. The Caliph al-Qāʾim bi-Amrillāh had been placed under his custody for sur
• The Five Hundredth Year of the Hijra
  In his work Sunan, Abū Dāwūd relates that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah,
• The Killing of Fakhr al-Mulk Abu Muzaffar
  On the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ of this year, Fakhr al-Mulk Abu Muzaffar, the son of Niẓām al-Mulk, was killed in Nisha
• Ahmed B. Muhammed B. Muzaffer
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Muẓaffar al-Ḥawāfī. He was a Shāfiʿī jurist. Ibn Ḥallīkān said: "He was the most attentiv
• Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad
  Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad b. Jaʿfar al-Sarrāj Abū Muḥammad. He was a qurrāʾ (expert reciter of the
• Abdulvehhab B. Muhammed
  ʿAbdulvehhab b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdulvehhab b. ʿAbdulwāḥid b. Muḥannamed al-Shīrāzī al-Fārisī. He listened to man
• Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm
  Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿUbayd al-Asadī. He was a poet. He met Ḥunayṣī al-Tihānī. The theme of love was always
• Yusuf b. ʿAlī
  Yusuf b. Qāsim az-Zanjānī. A faqīh (jurist). He was among the people of the dīnāyah (religious establishment).
• The Five Hundred and First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph bestowed the robe of honor (hilʿat) upon his new vizier, Abūl-Maʿālī Ḥibatullāh b. Mu
• Tamīm b. Muʿīz b. Bādīs
  He was the ruler of Ifrīqiya. Among rulers, he was one of the most distinguished in gentleness, generosity, an
• Ṣadaka b. Manṣūr
  Ṣadaka b. Manṣūr b. Debīs b. ʿAlī b. Mazyad al-ʿAsadī al-Amīr Sayfīʾd-Dawla. He was the owner of Ḥilla, Tikrīt
• The Five Hundred and Twenty-Second Year of the Hijra
  On the twenty-third of the month of Shaʿbān in this year, on a Friday, the caliph al-Mustazhir married the dau
• Hasan al-ʿAlawī
  His kunyah was Abū Hāshim. He was the son of the chief of Hamadān. He possessed great wealth. Once the Sultan
• Hasan b. ʿAlī
  Hasan b. ʿAlī Abū'l-Fawāris b. Ḥazīn. He is a scribe famous for his well-known handwriting attributed to him.
• Er-Rubānī
  ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ismāʿīl Abū'l-Mahāsin al-Rubānī. He is from Tabaristān. He is among the Shāfiʿī imams. He was
• Yahya b. ʿAlī
  Yahya b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Bestām al-Shaybānī al-Ṭabrīzī. His kunyah was Abū Zakariyyā. He was a ma
• The Five Hundred and Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Crusaders captured the city of Tripoli. They killed the men there. They took the women and c
• Ahmed b. Ali
  Ahmed b. Ali b. Ahmed Abu Bakr al-ʿAlawī. He whitewashed walls. But he did not paint images on the walls. He n
• ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-Karīm
  ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Saʿdawayh al-Fiṭyān al-Dihkarī traveled to various places in order to collect hadith
• Muḥammad Aḥī Ḥammād (Also Known As)
  He was one of the great and pious personalities. He had contracted a chronic illness. When he saw the Prophet
• The Year Five Hundred and Fourth of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, a group from among the jurists and others, including Ibn Zağūnī, a community fr
• Idris b. Hamza
  Idris b. Hamza Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Shāshī al-Ramlī al-ʿUthmānī. He was a famous disputant advocating the Shāfiʿī ma
• Ali b. Muḥammad
  ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿImād al-Dīn Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Ṭabarī. Known as Kayyā al-Ḥarāsī. He was one of the gr
• The Five Hundred and Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Gıyaseddin mobilized a large army under the command of the ruler of Mosul, Mawdūd b. Zang
• Imam Ghazali
  Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazzālī. He was born in the year 450 AH. He took fiqh lessons f
• The Five Hundred and Sixty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Jumada al-Akhir of this year, al-Shāshī was dismissed from his position as a mudarris (profess
• Sâid b. Mansur
  Sâid b. Mansur b. Ismāʿīl b. Sâid Abū'l-Alāʾ. He was from Nishapur. He was a khāṭīb (orator). He heard many ḥa
• Muhammad b. Musa b. Abdullah
  He was known as Muhammad b. Musa b. Abdullah Abu Abdillah al-Balasaghuni al-Turki al-Hanafi al-Lamshi. Hafiz I
• Muammer b. Muammer
  Muammer b. Muammer Abu Sa'd b. Abi Ammar. He was a preacher. He was a person endowed with eloquence and rhetor
• 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 M
• The Five Hundred and Seventy-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a great battle took place in Tiberias between the Muslims and the Crusaders. The commander of th
• Ismāʿīl b. Ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī
  Ismāʿīl b. Ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr b. Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī. He studied under numerous ḥadīth scholars. For this purpose, h
• Shujāb Abīshujāʾ
  Fāris b. Ḥusayn b. Fāris Abū Ghalib az-Zuhhalī. He was a ḥadīth ḥāfiẓ (memorizer of ḥadīth). He heard ḥadīth f
• Muhammed b. Ahmed
  Muhammed b. Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Ahmed b. Ishāq b. Ḥusayn b. Manṣūr b. Muʿāwiya b. Muhammed b. ʿUthmān b. ʿUtb
• Muhammad b. Tahir
  Muhammad b. Tahir b. Ali Ahmed Abū'l-Faḍl al-Maqdisī. He was a ḥāfiẓ of ḥadīth. He was born in the year 448 AH
• 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
• Mü'tamen b. Ahmed
  Mü'tamen b. Ahmed b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. ʿUbaydullāh Abū Naṣr al-Sāci al-Maqdisī. He studied under numerous ḥadī
• The Five Hundred and Eighteenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a great fire broke out in Baghdad. In this year, a terrible earthquake occurred in the land of J
• The Five Hundred and Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the ruler of Iraq, Sultan Ghyāṣ al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Malikshāh, having put an end to the rebellion
• Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad
  Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Abū ʿUthmān al-Isfahānī. He was among those who traveled to various towns for the
• Abdullah b. Mubarak
  Abdullah b. Mubarak b. Musa Abū-l-Barakāt al-Sakātī. He heard hadith from many scholars. He traveled to variou
• Yahya b. Tamim b. Muʿizz b. Bādīs
  He was the ruler of Ifrīqiya. He was among the distinguished and virtuous rulers. He was an ʿārif (gnostic), a
• The Five Hundred and Tenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a fire broke out in Baghdad. Due to the fire, many houses burned down. Among the houses that bur
• Ukayl b. Imam Abu'l-Wafa
  Ukayl b. Imam Abu'l-Wafa Ali b. Ukayl al-Hanbali. While still a young man, he rose to prominence in knowledge.
• Ali b. Ahmed b. Muhammed
  Ali b. Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Rezzaz. He is the last person to narrate hadith from Ibn Muhalled through the juzʾ
• Muhammad b. Mansur
  Muhammad b. Mansur b. Muhammad b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār Abū Bakr al-Samʿānī. He listened to many ḥadīths. He transmit
• Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Tahir
  Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Tahir b. Ahmad b. Mansur al-Hazīn. He was the jurist (faqīh) and mufti of the adherents o
• Mahfuz b. Ahmed
  Mahfuz b. Ahmed b. Hasan Abū al-Ḥaṭṭāb al-Kalvezānī. He was one of the imams and authors among the Hanbalis. H
• The Five Hundred and Eleventh Year of the Hijra
  On the fourth of the month of Ṣafar in this year, the moon was completely eclipsed. On that night, the Crusade
• Qāḍī Murtaza
  Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh b. Qāsim b. Muzaffar b. ʿAlī b. Qāsim al-Shahrazūrī. He is the father of Qāḍī Jamāl al-
• Muhammed b. Sa'd
  Muhammed b. Sa'd b. Nebehan. His kunyah was Abū ʿAlī. He served as a scribe. He listened to and transmitted ḥa
• Hajj Commander
  Yumn b. ʿAbdullāh Abū al-Khayr al-Mustazhirī was a generous, noble, praiseworthy, right-sighted, and intellige
• The Five Hundred and Twenty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, by the order of the caliph al-Mustazhir Billah, a khutbah was delivered in the name of Sultan Mu
• The Death of Caliph al-Mustazhir Billāh
  Al-Mustazhir Billāh Abū'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Muktaḍī. He was a virtuous, noble, intelligent, and high-charactered
• The Accession of al-Mustarshid to the Caliphate
  Al-Mustarshid Abū'l-Manṣūr Faḍl b. Mustazhir. When his father passed away, he was pledged allegiance to the ca
• Armenian Arguvan
  She was called Kurretü'n-Ayn. She had many virtues and good deeds. She performed the ḥajj three times. She wit
• Bekr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī
  Bekr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Faḍl Abū al-Faḍl al-Anṣārī. He transmitted ḥadīth. He was cited as an example in t
• Husayn b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb
  Husayn b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Zaynabī. He recited the Qurʾān, listened to hadith. He took fiqh (Isla
• Yusuf b. Aḥmad Abū Ṭāhir
  He is known as Ibn Jazari. He served as treasurer during the time of al-Mustazhir. When al-Mustarshid was the
• Abū'l-Faḍl b. Ḥāzin
  He was a literary man, refined, virtuous, and a poet. One of his poems is as follows— "I arrived at his house.
• The Five Hundred and Thirteenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, fierce battles took place between Sultan Mahmud b. Muhammad and his uncle Sultan Sanjar b. Malik
• Ibn Ukayl
  Ibn Ukayl Ibn Muḥammad Abū'l-Wafāʾ. He was the shaykh of the Hanbalīs in Baghdad. He was well-versed in variou
• Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Damīgānī
  He was a qāḍī al-quḍāt (chief judge) as was his father, who also served as qāḍī al-quḍāt. He was born in the m
• Mubarak b. Ali
  Mubarak b. Ali b. Husayn Abu Sa'd al-Mahramī. He listened to hadith. He studied the fiqh (jurisprudence) of th
• The Five Hundred and Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In the middle of the month of Rabiʿ al-Awwal of this year, a great battle took place near the Esedabad pass be
• Ahmed b. ʿAbdülvahhāb b. Sünā
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Barakāt. He narrated hadiths along with their isnāds (chains of transmission). He was the
• ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. ʿAbd al-Kabīr
  Abū Ḥawāzin, Abū Naṣr al-Kushayrī. He studied the sciences of the Qurʾān from his father and from the Imām al-
• ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAlī
  ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAlī b. Ḥāmid Abū Ḥāmid al-Dīnawarī. He possessed great wealth. He gave much sadaqa (charity)
• The Five Hundred and Fifteenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Mahmud granted the city of Mayyāfāriqīn (Silvan) as an iqṭāʿ (land grant) to Emir Gāzī. It remai
• Lughatçı Ibn al-Kattā Abū al-Qāsim
  Ibn al-Kattā Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī b. Jāʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ziyādatullāh b. Muḥamma
• Shahinshah Abu'l-Qasim
  Shahinshah Abu'l-Qasim al-Afdal was the son of the Commander of the Armies (Emir al-Juyush) of Egypt. He was t
• ʿAbd al-Razzāq b. ʿAbdallāh
  ʿAbd al-Razzāq b. ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAlī b. Isḥāq al-Tūsī. He was the nephew of Nizām al-Mulk's brother. He took fi
• Sufriyya Ḥātun
  She was the favorite of Sultan Malikshāh. She is the mother of Sultan Muḥammad and Sultan Sanjar. She gave muc
• Tuğrāʾī
  He is the author of the qaṣīda known as Lamīyat al-ʿAjam. His real name was Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Ṣanīʿ Mu
• The Five Hundred and Sixteenth Year of the Hijra
  "Previously, when his brother Mahnıud rebelled and conquered Azerbaijan, Sultan Tuğrul Bey submitted to him in
• Abdullah b. Ahmed
  Abdullah b. Ahmed b. ʿUmar b. Abī'l-ʿAshʿas Abū'l-Muḥammad al-Samarkandī. He is the brother of Abū'l-Qāsim. He
• ʿAlī b. Aḥmad al-Sumayramī
  Sumayram is a village affiliated with Isfahan. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad was the vizier of Sultan Maḥmūd. He openly commit
• al-Harirī
  Kasım b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān Fahrü'd-Dawla Abū Muḥammad al-Harirī. He is the author of the
• The Qur'anic Exegete al-Baghawī
  Ḥasan b. Masʿūd b. Muḥammad al-Baghawī. He is the author of Tafsir and Sharḥu's-Sunnah as well as al-Tahdhīb .
• The Five Hundred and Seventeenth Year of the Hijra
  On the day of Ashura in this year, the caliph returned from Hule to Baghdad, victorious, aided, and strengthen
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad
  Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ṣadaka al-Ṭaġlibī. He became famous under the name Ibn Ḥayyāt. He was from Dimash
• The Five Hundred and Eighteenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Batīnīs appeared in the regions of Amid. The people of Amid fought against them and killed 7
• Ahmed b. ʿAlī b. Burhān
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Fath. He was also known as Ibn Hammāmī. He took fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) lessons from
• ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. Jāʿfar
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAlī al-Danīgānī. He listened to ḥadīth. He served as a witness alongside his fat
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad
  Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm Abū'l-Faḍl al-Maydānī. He has a book titled al-Emsāl. There is no other book simi
• The Five Hundred and Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Debis and Sultan Tuğrul marched towards Baghdad to take it from the caliph's hand. When they app
• Aksungur al-Pursukī
  He was the governor of Ḥalab. He was killed by the Batīnīs on a Friday in the maqsūra of his own mosque. Aksun
• Bilāl b. ʿAbdurraḥmān
  Bilāl b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Shurayḥ b. ʿUmar b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Sulaymān b. Bilāl b. Ribhāh. As i
• The Five Hundred and Twentieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Mahmud corresponded with the caliph in order to form an alliance against Sultan Sanjar. W
• Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Muhammed
  Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Muhammed Abū'l-Fatḥ al-Ṭūsī al-Ghazālī. He is the brother of Imām Ghazālī. He was a preac
• Ahmed B. Ali
  Ahmed b. Ali b. Muhammed al-Wakil. He is known by the name Ibn Burhān. His kunyah is Abū'l-Fath. He is a Shāfi
• The Five Hundred and Twenty-First Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the caliph and Sultan Mahmud were at war. The caliph was in his gardened house
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Malik
  Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad Abū'l-Ḥasan b. Abī'l-Faḍl al-Hamadānī al-Farazī. He belonged to
• Fatīma Bintī Ḥusayn b. Ḥasan b. Fadlawayh
  She heard ḥadīth from al-Ḥāṭib al-Baghdādī and Ibn Maslama and others. She was a preacher. She had a khānqāh w
• Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad
  Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. Sayyid al-Batlīyawsī al-Tanīsī. He is the author of compendious works on
• The Five Hundred and Twenty-Second Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the envoy of Sultan Sanjar came to the caliph and requested that the Friday ser
• Hasan b. ʿAlī b. Ṣadaka
  He bore the kunyah Abu ʿAlī. He was the vizier of Caliph al-Mustarshid. He died in the month of Rajab of this
• Hasan b. ʿAlī
  Hasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī'l-Qāsim al-Lāmitanī. He was from Samarqand. He transmitted ḥadīth. He studied fiqh. He wa
• The Year 523 of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, Sultan Mahmud arrived in Baghdad. He exerted the necessary efforts to p
• Esʿād b. Abī Naṣr
  Esʿād b. Abī Naṣr al-Mīhanī. His kunyah was Abū'l-Fath. He was among the Shāfiʿī imams of his time. He took fi
• The Five Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a great earthquake occurred in Iraq. Because of this, many houses were destroyed in Baghdad. In
• The Assassination of the Caliph of Egypt
  On the second of Dhu al-Qi'dah of this year, the Fatimid caliph, Āmir b. Aḥkāmillāh b. Musta‘lī, was killed by
• Ibrāhīm b. Yaḥyā b. ʿUthmān
  Ibrāhīm b. Yaḥyā b. ʿUthmān b. Muḥammad Abū Isḥāq al-Kalbī. He is from Gaz-zelī. At the time of his death, he
• Husayn b. Muḥammad
  Husayn b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Husayn b. ʿUbaydullāh b. Qāsim b. ʿAbdillāh b. Su
• Muḥammad b. Ṣadūn b. Mīrcā
  He bore the kunyah Abū Āmir al-ʿAbdirī al-Qurashī. He was a ḥadīth ḥāfiẓ (memorizer of ḥadīth). Originally, he
• The Five Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Debis lost his way in the desert. One of the Bedouin chiefs captured him and took him to Būrī, s
• Ahmed b. Muhammed b. ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Ṣūfī
  He listened to hadith. He took lessons in jurisprudence (fiqh) from Shaykh Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī. He was a shay
• Hasan b. Sulayman
  Hasan b. Sulayman b. ʿAbdullah b. ʿAbdulgani Abu ʿAli. He was a faqīh (jurist) who served as a mudarris (profe
• Hammad b. Muslim
  Hammad b. Muslim al-Rahbī al-Dabbās. It is said that he possessed karāma (a saintly wonder) and mukāshafa (unv
• Muhammad b. Ahmed
  Muhammad b. Ahmed b. Abu'l-Fadl al-Mahānī was among the Shāfiʿī imams. He studied fiqh lessons from the Imām a
• Hibetullah b. Muḥammad
  Hibetullah b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdulwahid b. ʿAbbās b. Ḥusayn Abū'l-Qāsim al-Shaybānī. He transmitted the Musnad f
• The Five Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Mas'ud b. Muhammad b. Malikshah came to Baghdad. Karaca al-Sakī also came there. Then Selcukshah
• Ahmed b. ʿUbaydullah
  Ahmed b. ʿUbaydullah b. Muḥammad b. ʿUbaydullah b. Muḥammad b. Ahmed b. Ḥammad b. ʿUmar b. ʿĪsā b. Ibrāhīm b.
• Muhammad b. Muhammad b. Ḥusayn
  Muhammad b. Muhammad b. Ḥusayn b. Qāḍī Abū Wālā b. Farrā al-Ḥanbalī. He was born in the month of Shaʿbān in th
• The Five Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Ṣafar of this year, Sultan Masʿūd came to Baghdad, where the khutbah was read in his name. The
• Ahmed b. Salama
  Ahmed b. Salama b. ʿAbdallāh b. Muhallad b. Ibrāhīm Abū'l-ʿAbbās b. ar-Rutabī. He studied fiqh (Islamic jurisp
• Esʿād b. Abī Naṣr b. Abī'l-Faḍl
  His kunyah is Abū'l-Faḍl al-Mīhanī. His laqab is Majd al-Dīn. He is among the Shāfiʿī imams. He is the author
• Ibn Zagunī al-Ḥanbalī
  ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh b. Naṣr b. Ṣirrī az-Zāgunī. He is a renowned Imām. He studied the science of qirāʾāt (Qur'an
• Hasan b. Muḥammad
  Hasan b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Burbarī was among the qurrāʾ (Qur'an reciters) of Isfahan. He listened to ḥadī
• ʿAlī b. Yaʿlā
  ʿAlī b. Yaʿlā b. Īvāz Abū'l-Qāsim al-ʿAlawī al-Kharawī. He heard the Musnad of Imām Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal from Abū'l
• Muhammad b. Ahmed
  Muhammad b. Ahmed b. Yahya Abu Abdillah al-ʿUthmānī al-Dibāqī. He was known in Baghdad by the epithet al-Maqdi
• Muhammad b. Muhammad
  Muhammad b. Muhammad b. Ḥusayn b. Muhammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥalef b. Ḥāzim b. Abū Ya‘lâ b. Farrā. Both he and his f
• 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 tr
• The Five Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph and Zanjī made peace. Zanjī conquered many fortresses and killed many men from the Cr
• Ahmed B. Ali
  Ahmed b. Ali b. Ibrahim Abu'l-Wafāʾ al-Firuzabadi. He was among the shaykhs of the Sufi (ṣūfiyya) tradition. H
• Abū ʿAlī al-Fāriqī
  His real name was Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm b. Marḥūn. His kunyah was Abū ʿAlī al-Fāriqī. He was born in the year 433 A
• Abdullah b. Muḥammad
  Abdullah b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥasan Abū Muḥammad b. Abū Bakr al-Shāshī. He heard ḥadīth from his father. He
• Muhammad b. Ahmed
  Muhammad b. Ahmed b. Ali b. Abu Bakr al-Affān. Also known as Ibn Hallāç al-Baghdādī. He listened to hadith. He
• Muhammad b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Shāfiʿī
  His kunya was Abū Rashīd. He was from the city of Āmil, which is attached to Ṭabaristān. He was born in the ye
• The Five Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Mustarshid passed away. His son al-Rashid succeeded him. The reason for this was a
• The Caliphate of Rashid Billah
  Abū Jaʿfar Manṣūr b. Mustarshid. His father had appointed him as heir, then wished to remove him from this pos
• Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbdullāh
  Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAlī Abū'l-Qāsim. He served as a judge. He took fiqh lessons from the Imām al-Haramayn
• Debīs b. Ṣadaka
  Debīs b. Ṣadaka b. Manṣūr b. Debīs b. ʿAlī b. Mezyed Abū'l-Aʿāẓ al-Asadī. He was from the emirate dynasty and
• ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Narujānī
  He was an ʿābid (devout worshipper) and zahid (ascetic) person. Ibn al-Jawzī has narrated that he said, "Qudra
• The Five Hundred and Thirtieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a rift occurred between the caliph Rashid and Sultan Mas'ud. The reason was that the caliph had
• Muktafī Li Amrillāh's Caliphate
  Muktafī Li Amrillāh was Abū ʿAbdillāh b. Mustazhir. His mother was Safra Hātun. He was named Nesima. He was al
• A Beautiful Benefit Worth Noting
  Muktafī and Mustarshid served as caliphs. Both were brothers. Ṣaffāḥ and Manṣūr were also two brothers who ser
• Muhammad b. Hameveyh
  Muhammad b. Hameveyh b. Muhammad b. Hamaveyh Abu ʿAbdillāh al-Juwaynī. He transmitted hadith. He was a truthfu
• Muhammad b. ʿAbdullah
  Muhammad b. ʿAbdullah b. Aḥmad b. Ḥabīb Abū Bakr al-Amīrī. He became famous under the name Ibn Ḥabbāz. He list
• Muhammad b. Fadl
  Muhammad b. Fadl b. Aḥmad b. Muhammad b. Abū'l-ʿAbbās Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Saʿīdī al-Farāwī. His father was in a n
• The Five Hundred and Thirty-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, sudden deaths increased in Isfahan. Thousands of people died. Many house doors were locked. In t
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Sābit
  Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Sābit b. Ḥasan Abū Saʿd al-Ḥawjandī. He received fiqh lessons from his father, Imam Abū B
• Hîbetullah b. Ahmed
  Hîbetullah b. Ahmed b. Ömer al-Harirî is known as Ibn Tayr. He heard many hadith. He was the last person to na
• The Five Hundred and Thirty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the deposed (maḥlūʿ) caliph Rashid was killed. The circumstances were as follows: King Dawud and
• Ahmed b. Muhammad
  Ahmed b. Muhammad Abu Bakr b. Abu'l-Fath al-Dinawari al-Hanbali. He studied hadith. He also took fiqh lessons
• ʿAbd al-Munʿim b. ʿAbd al-Karīm
  ʿAbd al-Munʿim b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Hawāzin. His kunyah was Abū'l-Muẓaffar al-Kushayrī. He is the last survivin
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Malik
  Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar. His kunyah is Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Karḥī. He traveled to various tow
• The Rightly Guided Caliph
  His real name was Manṣūr b. Mustarshid. After recovering from an illness, he was killed in Isfahan. There are
• Enushirwan b. Khalid
  Enushirwan b. Khalid b. Muhammad al-Kāshānī al-Kaynī. He is from the town of Kayn, affiliated with Kāshān. His
• The Year 533 of the Hijra
  In this year, a great zelzele (earthquake) occurred in the city of Jibrit. Because of this, 230,000 people die
• Zāhir b. Ṭāhir
  Zāhir b. Ṭāhir b. Muḥammad Abū'l-Qāsim b. Abī ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Abī Bakr al-Sahāmī. He was a muhaddith (scholar
• Yahya b. Yahya b. Alī
  Yahya b. Yahya b. Alī b. Eflah. His kunyah was Abū'l-Qāsim. He served as a secretary. The Caliph al-Mustarshid
• The Five Hundred Thirty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Zengī laid siege to Dimashq. Atabeg Muʿīn al-Dīn ibn Mamlūk Tuğtekin took the city under protect
• ʿAbdussalām b. Faḍl
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū'l-Qāsim al-Jilī. He listened to ḥadīth. He learned fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence).
• The Five Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the cloak and whip of the Prophet (s.a.v.) reached Baghdad. Previously, these two trusts had bee
• Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad
  Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Abū'l-Qāsim al-Talḥī al-Isfahānī. He studied under numerous hadith masters. He tra
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbdülbāqī
  Muḥammad b. ʿAbdülbāqī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Rabīʿ b. Sābit b. Wahb b. Masʿa
• Yusuf b. Eyyub
  Yusuf b. Eyyub b. Hasan b. Zühre Abū Yaʿqūb al-Hamadānī. He took lessons in fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) from
• The Five Hundred Thirty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, many battles took place between Sultan Sanjar and Sultan Khwarezmshah. After defeating Sultan Sa
• Ismāʿīl b. Aḥmad b. ʿUmar
  Ismāʿīl b. Aḥmad b. ʿUmar b. ʿIshāʿ Ebū'l-Qāsim b. Abī Bakr al-Samarkandī al-Dimashqī al-Baghdādī. He heard ma
• Yahya b. ʿAlī
  Yahya b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Abū Muḥammad b. Ṭarraḥ al-Muʿaddib. He was born in the year 429 AH. He heard
• The Five Hundred Thirty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Mas'ud prepared to take Mosul and Damascus from Imad al-Din Zengi. However, Imad al-Din Z
• ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Mubārak
  ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Mubārak b. Aḥmad. His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Barakāt al-Anmatī. He was a great ḥadīth ḥā
• Ali b. Tarrād
  Ali b. Tarrād b. Muḥammad al-Zaynabī. He was a vizier of the Abbasids. His kunyah was Abū'l-Qawm. During the c
• Zamahsharī Maḥmūd
  Zamahsharī. Maḥmūd b. ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar. His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Qāsim az-Zamahsharī. He is th
• The Five Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿImād al-Dīn Zangī captured the city of Urfa and other fortresses of al-Jazīra from the Crusader
• Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Manṣūr
  Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Manṣūr b. ʿUmar Abū'l-Walīd al-Karhī. He took fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) lessons from
• Saʿd b. Muḥammad
  Saʿd b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar Abū Manṣūr al-Bazzār. He listened to ḥadīth. He took fiqh lessons from al-Ghazālī, a
• ʿUmar b. Ibrāhīm
  ʿUmar b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Ḥamza b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥusayn b. Zayd b. ʿAlī b. Ḥu
• The Five Hundred and Fortieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, ʿAlī b. Dabīs besieged his brother Muḥammad. He continued the siege, and eventually took the cit
• Ahmed b. Muhammed
  Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Hasan b. Ali b. Ahmed b. Süleyman. His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Saʿd. He was from Isfaha
• Alī b. Aḥmad
  Alī b. Aḥmad b. Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad Abū al-Ḥasan al-Yazdī. He took fiqh lessons from Abū Bakr al-Shāshī. He listen
• Mevhub b. Ahmed
  Mevhub b. Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Ḥıḍır Abū Manṣūr al-Jawālikī. He was a lexicographer in his time. After his tea
• The Year 541 of the Hijra
  On the first night of the month of Rabiʿ al-Awwal in this year, the palace built by the caliph al-Mustarshid c
• Zengi b. Aksurgur
  A portion of this person's biography has been narrated in the preceding lines. He is the father of the martyr
• Saʿd al-Khayr
  His real name was Muḥammad b. Sahl b. Saʿd. His kunyah was Abū al-Ḥasan. He was Maghribī and Andalusian and de
• Safi b. ʿAbdurrashīd
  Safi b. ʿAbdurrashīd b. Qāsim Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Jilī. He belonged to the Shāfiʿī madhhab (legal school). He too
• Abdullah b. ʿAlī
  ʿAbdullah b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdullah Abū Muḥammad. He is the grandson of Abū Manṣūr az-Zāhid. He studied th
• Rey Shāhnesi ʿAbbās
  He continued to rise in rank. Eventually, he became the governor of the city of Rey. Then Masʿūd killed him. H
• Muhammad b. Tarrad
  Muhammad b. Tarrad b. Muhammad az-Zaynabī. His kunyah was Abū Ḥasan. He was nakīb al-nukabāʾ (chief of the not
• Vecih b. Ṭāhir
  Vecih b. Ṭāhir b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad. His kunyah was Abū Bakr al-Shihāmī. He was the brother of Zāhir. He he
• The Year 542 of the Hijra
  In this year, the Crusaders captured several fortresses on the island of al-Andalus. In this year, Nūr al-Dīn
• Es'ad b. ʿAbdullah
  Es'ad b. ʿAbdullah b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullah b. ʿAbd al-Saṃad b. Muhtadī Billāh. His kunyah was Abū M
• 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
• Nasrullah b. Muḥammad
  Nasrullah b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdülkavī. Abū'l-Fath al-Lāzikī al-Miṣrī. He belonged to the Shāfiʿī madhhab. He too
• Hibetullah b. ʿAlī
  Hibetullah b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Ḥamza Abū's-Saʿādat Ibn Shajarī. He was a grammarian (nahiwcī). He was born
• The Five Hundred and Forty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Mujīr al-Dīn, the son of the atabeg of Damascus, requested assistance from the governor of Alepp
• Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad
  Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Nahār b. Muḥarrir al-Ghanevī was from Raqqa. He listened to ḥadīth. He took fiqh lesson
• Shāhanshāh b. Ayyūb
  Shāhanshāh b. Ayyūb b. Ṣādi. He was martyred together with Nūr al-Dīn. He is the father of Sīt Azār. Sīt Azār
• Alī b. Ḥusayn
  Alī b. Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Alī az-Zaynabī. Abū'l-Qāsim al-Akmal Abī Ṭālib Nūr al-Hudā b. Abī'l-Ḥasan Niẓām a
• Abū'l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf b. Dirbās
  Abū'l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf b. Dirbās al-Findalawī. He was the shaykh of the Mālikīs in Dimashq. On the sixth of Rabiʿ
• The Year Five Hundred and Forty-Four of the Hijra
  In this year, Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ b. Mūsā b. ʿIyāḍ b. ʿAmr b. Mūsā b. ʿIyāḍ b. Muḥammad b. Mūsā b. ʿIyāḍ al-Yahṣubī pas
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad
  Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn al-Arjānī. He was the qāḍī (judge) of Tustar. He transmitted ḥadīth. He had poems
• Qāḍī Iyāḍ
  Qāḍī Iyāḍ b. Mūsā al-Sabtī. He is the author of beneficial works. One of his poems is as follows: “Allah knows
• Isā b. Hibatullah
  Isā b. Hibatullah b. Isā. His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Naqqāsh. He heard ḥadīth. He was born in
• Aksungur Oğlu Gazi
  His real name was Seyfeddin. He was the governor of Mosul. He was the brother of Nureddin Mahmud. Nureddin ini
• Hadim Kutuz
  He served as the commander of the Hajj pilgrimage for twenty years or more. He listened to hadith. He took qir
• The Five Hundred and Forty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd conquered the fortress of Fāmiya. This was the most impregnable of fortresses.
• Hasan b. Zinnun
  Hasan b. Zinnun b. Abī al-Qāsim b. Abī al-Hasan, his kunyah was Abū al-Ma-fāhir. He was from Nisābūr. He came
• ʿAbd al-Malik b. Abī Naṣr b. ʿUmar
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Maʿālī al-Jilī. He was a faqīh (jurist), ṣāliḥ (righteous), ʿābid (devout worshipper), an
• Fakīh Ibn Bakīr B. ʿArabī
  He belonged to the Mālikī madhhab. He is the narrator of al-Tirmidhī's sarih (explicit tradition). Fakīh was a
• The Year Five Hundred and Forty-Six of the Hijra
  In this year, the sultan attacked the territories of the Ismāʿīlīs. He killed many Ismāʿīlīs and returned safe
• Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn
  Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Balḥī. He was the shaykh of the Ḥanafīs in Dimashq. After Balḥ,
• The Five Hundred and Forty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Mas'ud died. After him, his brother Malikshah b. Mahmud ascended to power. Then Sultan Mu
• Muzaffer b. Erdeşir
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū al-Manṣūr al-Badī. He was a preacher. He listened to hadith. He came to Baghdad.
• Sultan Masʿūd
  He was the ruler of Iraq and other regions. He attained an authority and felicity that other sovereigns would
• Hattat and Kātib Yaʿqūb
  He died in the Nizāmiyya. When the officials of the Ministry of Finance came to claim his inheritance, the fuq
• The Five Hundred and Forty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a war occurred between Sultan Sanjar and the Turks. The Turks killed most of his soldiers. So mu
• Ferezdakvecerir
  Ferezdak Abū'l-Ḥasan Aḥmad b. Munīr al-Jawnī. He died in Ḥalab. Jarīr Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Naṣr b. Ṣaghīr
• The Year 549 of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Muqtafi went to Tikrit with a large army. He laid siege to the fortress of Tikrit.
• The Conquest of Damascus by Sultan Nureddin the Martyr
  In this year, news reached Baghdad of the killing of the Egyptian caliph al-Zāfir. Of the caliphal dynasty in
• Reis Müeyyedü'd-Devle
  Müeyyedü'd-Devle ʿAlī b. al-Ṣūfī. He served as the vizier to Mujīr al-Dīn in Dimashq. He attempted to ascend t
• Hadim Ata
  He was among the governors of Dimashq. By the order of Mujīr al-Dīn, he took control of the administration. Fo
• The Five Hundred and Fiftieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph went to Dimuqāʿ and laid siege to it. The inhabitants came to the caliph and asked hi
• The Conquest of the City of Baalbek by Nureddin the Martyr
  In this year, Nureddin reconquered the city of Baalbek. The situation was as follows: Najm al-Din Ayyub was pr
• Muḥammad b. Naṣīr
  Muḥammad b. Naṣīr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ. His kunyah was Abū'l-Faḍl and he was from Baghdad. He was born
• Mücella b. Cemī Ebū'l-Meāl
  He belonged to the tribe of Maḥzūmī and was from Arṣūf. Later, he went to Egypt and settled there, where he se
• The Five Hundred and Fifty-First Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, Sultan Süleyman Shah b. Muhammad b. Malikshah came to Baghdad with a pa
• The Siege of Baghdad
  The reason for this was as follows: Sultan Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd b. Malikshāh sent a message to the caliph al-Muk
• Alī b. Ḥusayn
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was from Ghazna. He was a preacher. He was well regarded by the publ
• Mahmud b. Ismāʿīl b. Qadūs
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Fatḥ. He is from Dimyāṭ. He served as a construction scribe in Egypt. He was the
• Shaykh Abū'l-Bayān
  Shaykh Abū'l-Bayān Bena b. Muḥammad. He became famous by the name Ibn Ḥawrānī. He was a faqīh (jurist), a zahi
• ʿAbd al-Ghāfir b. Ismāʿīl
  ʿAbd al-Ghāfir b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbd al-Qādir b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Ghāfir b. Aḥmad b. Saʿd al-Ḥārisī. He was a
• The Year 552 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, Muḥammadshāh b. Maḥmūd was continuing the siege of Baghdad. The people of Baghd
• Ahmed b. Muhammed
  Ahmed b. Muhammed b. ʿUmar b. Muhammed b. Ahmed b. Ismāʿīl Abū al-Lays al-Nasafī. He is from Samarkand. He lis
• Ahmed b. Bahtiyār
  Ahmed b. Bahtiyār b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Abū'l-ʿAbbās al-Mardīnī. He was a qāḍī (judge) of Wāsiṭ. He served as th
• Sultan Sencer
  Sencer b. Melikşah b. Alparslan b. Davud b. Mikāʾīl b. Seljūk. His kunyah was Abū'l-Ḥāris. His given name was
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāṭif
  Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāṭif b. Muḥammad b. Sābit Abū Bakr al-Ḥawjandī. He was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). He taught
• Muḥammad b. Mubārak
  Muḥammad b. Mubārak b. Muḥammad b. Ḥāʾil Abūl-Ḥasan b. Abū'l-Baqāʾ. He listened to ḥadīth. He took fiqh lesson
• Yahya b. ʿĪsā
  Yahya b. ʿĪsā b. ʿIdrīs. His kunyah was Abū'l-Barakāt. He was from Anbār. He was a preacher. He learned and li
• The Five Hundred and Fifty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Turkmens, who were the men of Ibn Burjam al-Aywānī, caused sedition. They plunged the countr
• ʿAbd al-Awwal b. Isā
  ʿAbd al-Awwal b. Isā b. Shuʿayb b. Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq. His kunyah was Abū'l-Waqtidi. He was from the tribe of Sa
• Nasr b. Mansur
  Nasr b. Mansur b. Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Ḥalīk al-ʿAṭṭār. His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Qāsim. He was fro
• Yahya b. Salāmah
  Yahya b. Salāmah b. Ḥusayn. His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Faḍl. He belongs to the Shāfiʿī madhhab (legal school
• The Year 554 of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Muqtafi fell ill with a severe disease. Afterwards, he recovered and was healed. F
• Ahmed b. Mealī
  Ahmed b. Mealī al-Harbī. He took fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) lessons from Abū'l-Khaṭṭāb al-Kalvezānī al-Ḥanba
• Sultan Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad b. Malikshāh
  After Sultan Muḥammad besieged Baghdad and returned to Hamadan, he contracted tuberculosis and did not recover
• The Five Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Muqtafi bi-Amrillah passed away. The caliph al-Muqtafi's real name was Abū ʿAbdill
• The Caliphate of al-Mustanjid Billah Abu'l-Muzaffar Yusuf b. al-Muktafi
  As we have explained in previous sections, when his father passed away, he was given the bayʿah (allegiance) t
• The Fatimid Caliph of Egypt, Fa'iz
  Abū'l-Qāsim ʿĪsā b. Ismāʿīl az-Zāfir. He died at the age of eleven in the month of Ṣafar of this year. He spen
• Hüsrevshah b. Malikshah
  Hüsrevshah b. Malikshah b. Bahramshah b. Mas'ud b. Ibrahim b. Mahmud b. Sebüktigin. He came from a great dynas
• Melikshah b. Sultan Mahmud b. Muhammad b. Melikshah
  He was a Seljuk. He was poisoned and killed in Isfahan. According to one report, the vizier ʿAwn al-Dīn b. Hub
• Kaymaz b. ʿAbdullāh al-Erguvanī
  He fell to the ground while playing ball on horseback in the Caliph's square. His brain flowed from his ear, a
• Emir Mujāhidüddīn
  His real name was Nizār b. Māmīn al-Kurdī. He was one of the commanders of the armies of Damascus. He assumed
• Shaykh ʿAdī b. Mūsāfir
  Shaykh ʿAdī b. Mūsāfir b. Ismāʿīl b. Mūsā b. Marwān b. Ḥasan b. Marwān al-Ḥakkārī. He is the shaykh of the ʿAd
• ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Aḥmad
  ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ḥamza Abū Jaʿfar al-Saqqāfī. He was the qāḍī al-quḍāt (chief judge) of B
• Muhammad b. Yahya
  Muhammad b. Yahya b. ʿAlī b. Muslim Abū ʿAbdullāh az-Zabīdī. He was born in the city of Zabīd, affiliated with
• The Five Hundred and Fifty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Süleymānshāh b. Muḥammad b. Malikshāh was killed. He was a sarcastic person and paid litt
• Hamza b. ʿAlī b. Ṭalḥa
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Futūḥ. He served as a ḥājib (chamberlain). He was among the respected and select men clos
• The Five Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Georgians entered the land of Islam. They killed some Muslim men and took women and children
• Vaiz Ṣadaqa b. Wazīr
  He came to Baghdad. There he delivered sermons. He gave the appearance of living an ascetic life. He was incli
• Zümrüt Hatun
  She was the daughter of Çavlı. She was the maternal half-sister of Malik Dokmak b. Tutuş. Zümrüt was the patro
• The Five Hundred and Fifty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the ruler of the Maghrib, ʿAbd al-Muʾmin b. ʿAlī al-Tūmartī, passed away. After his death, his s
• 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
• Talha b. ʿAlī
  Talha b. ʿAlī b. Tarrad Abū Aḥmad az-Zaynabī. He was Nakīb al-Nuqabāʾ (chief of the nobles). He died suddenly.
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm
  Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Ibrāhīm Abū ʿAbdillāh. He became famous under the name Ibn al-Anbārī. He served a
• The Five Hundred and Forty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Shāwir b. Mujīruddīn Abū Shujāʿ al-Ṣādi arrived. His epithet was Amīr al-Juyūsh (Commander of th
• The Battle of Ḥarīm
  In the month of Ramaḍān of this year, the fortress of Ḥarīm was conquered. Thus: Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd requested a
• Vizier Jamal al-Din
  He was the vizier of the governor of Mosul, Kutb al-Din Maudud b. Zengi. He had many virtues and acts of chari
• Katib Ibn Hazin
  Ahmad b. Muḥammad b. Faḍl b. ʿAbd al-Ḥālik Abū'l-Faḍl. He became famous as Katib Ibn Hazin. He is from Baghdad
• The Five Hundred and Sixtieth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Ṣafar of this year, in Isfahan, a conflict and fitna (sedition) lasting for days broke out amo
• ʿUmar b. Behlīka
  He was a miller who repaired and maintained the Akība Mosque in Baghdad. He requested permission from the cali
• Muhammad b. ʿAbdullah b. ʿAbbās
  Muhammad b. ʿAbdullah b. ʿAbbās b. ʿAbdulḥanīd. His kunyah is Abū ʿAbdillāh. He is from Ḥarrān. He was among t
• Hadim Mercan
  He knew various qirāʾāt (Qur'anic readings). He had studied the fiqh of the Shāfiʿī madhhab (legal school). He
• Ibn Tilmīz
  He was a skilled and specialized physician. His real name was Ḥibatullāh b. Saʿīd. He died at the age of ninet
• Wazir Ibn Hubayra
  Yahya b. Muhammad b. Hubayra Abu'l-Muzaffar. He served as a wazir (vizier) to the caliph. He bore the epithet
• The Year 561 of the Hijra
  In this year, Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd conquered the fortress of Munayṭira, which was affiliated with Damascus. Many
• Hasan b. ʿAbbās
  He was the son of Abū Ṭayyib b. Rustam. His kunyah was Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Isfahānī. He was among the great figur
• ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Ḥasan
  ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Ḥasan b. Ḥabbāb al-ʿAġlabī al-Saʿdī. He was a qāḍī (judge). His kunyah was Abū al-Maʿālī. He
• ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jilī
  ʿAbd al-Qādir b. Abū Ṣāliḥ Abū Muḥammad al-Jilī. He was born in the year 470 AH. He came to Baghdad. There he
• The Year 656 AH
  In this year, the Crusaders attacked Egypt with a large army. The Egyptians also supported them in this matter
• The Conquest of Alexandria by ʿAsad al-Dīn Shīrkūh
  ʿAsad al-Dīn (Asedüddīn) then ordered the march upon Alexandria. They went there and captured it. They obtaine
• Katib Abu'l-Ma'ali
  Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥamdūn. He is the author of the work titled al-Tezkire-tü'l-Ḥamdūniyy
• The Year 563 of the Hijra
  In the month of Safar of this year, Sharaf al-Din Abu Ja'far b. Baladi came from Wasit to Baghdad. Soldiers, t
• Jaʿfar b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid
  Abū'l-Barakāt al-Sakāfī. After his father, he served as the chief judge (qāḍī al-quḍāt) of Baghdad. He was bor
• 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 w
• ʿAbd al-Kāhir b. Muḥammad
  ʿAbd al-Kāhir b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh Abū'n-Najīb al-Suhrawardī. It is narrated that he was from the lineage
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd
  Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Abū al-Ḥusayn Abū al-Fath al-Rāzī. He became famous under the name Alā al-ʿIlm. H
• Yusuf b. ʿAbdullāh
  Yusuf b. ʿAbdullāh b. Bendar al-Dimashqī. He was a mudarris (professor) at the Nizāmiyya madrasa in Baghdad. H
• The Five Hundred and Sixty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Egypt was conquered by Emir Asad al-Din Shirkuh. In this year, the Crusaders committed excesses
• The Qualities of the Robe Worn by Saladin
  According to what Abū Shāma relates in the work al-Rawḍatayn, the qualities of the robe (khilʿa) worn by Salad
• The Killing of Tawāsi
  Tawāsi was a state secretary trusted by the caliph and his men during the time of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn. Tawāsi wrote a
• The Black Incident
  When the caliphal trustee (state secretary), the Abyssinian Tawāshī, was killed and the other servants in the
• Ṣadūllah b. Nasr b. Saʿīd al-Dujjāci
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was a preacher. He was Ḥanbalī. He was born in the year 480 AH. He listened to
• Shāwir b. Mujīruddīn
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Shujāʿ al-Saʿdī. He bore the epithet Amīr al-Juyūsh (Commander of the Armies). D
• Shirkuh b. Shadī
  Asadüddīn al-Kurdī az-Zarzārī. The Zarzārīs are the most honorable of the Kurdish tribes. Shirkuh was from the
• Muhammad b. ʿAbdullah b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid
  Muhammad b. ʿAbdullah b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Sulaymān. He became famous under the name Ibn Battā. He heard and tr
• Muḥammad al-Fāriqī
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAbdallāh. He was a preacher. It is related that he memorized the work Nahj al-Ba
• Muammer b. ʿAbdülvahid
  Muammer b. ʿAbdülvahid b. Recâ Abū Aḥmad al-Isfahānī. He was a preacher. He was among the ḥāfiẓ (memorizer) of
• The Five Hundred and Sixty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Ṣafar of this year, the Crusaders kept Damietta, which belonged to Egypt, under siege for fift
• Malik Quṭb al-Dīn Mawdūd b. Zangī
  He was the brother of Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd and the governor of Mosul. He died at the age of forty-four. He ruled
• The Year 656 of the Hijra
  In this year, Caliph al-Mustanjid passed away. His son al-Mustadi became caliph in his place. Al-Mustanjid had
• The Caliphate of al-Mustadīʾ
  Abū Muḥammad Ḥasan b. Yūsuf al-Mustanjid b. al-Muktafī. His mother was an Armenian woman named Ismet. Al-Musta
• Tāhir b. Muḥammad b. Tāhir
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū Zurʿ. He is originally from al-Maqdis, but his place of birth is the city of Raz.
• Qāḍī Yūsuf
  Abū'l-Ḥajjāj b. Ḥallāl. He was the head of the construction bureau in Egypt. In this regard, he was the master
• Yusuf b. Khalifa
  Yusuf b. Khalifa al-Mustanjiḍ Billāh b. al-Muqtafi b. al-Mustazhir. He was mentioned in his biography and in t
• The Five Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  On the first Friday of this year, the ruler of Egypt, Caliph al-ʿĀḍid, passed away. Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn ordered that
• The Death of the Last Caliph of the Ubaydids, al-‘Āḍid
  In the lexicon, the word ‘Āḍid means "cutter." Indeed, in a hadith it is announced: "The trees of the Haram ar
• Abdullah b. Ahmed
  Abdullah b. Ahmed b. Ahmed b. Ahmed Abū Muḥammad b. Ḥaššāb. He recited the Qur'an, listened to hadith, and eng
• Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Muẓaffar al-Dawī. He took fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) lessons from Muḥammad b.
• Nasır B. Cevnî
  He was a sufi. He used to travel on foot to various towns for the purpose of compiling hadith. He passed away
• Shaykh Ebūbakr
  His real name was Yaḥyā b. Ṣadūn al-Qurṭubī. He settled in Mosul. He was a qurrāʾ (Qurʾān reciter) and a gramm
• The Five Hundred and Fifty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Malik Nūr al-Dīn sent Muwafaq Khālid b. Kayserānī as an envoy to Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn to have him prepar
• Turkish Atabeg Ildeniz
  He was the governor of Azerbaijan and some other regions. He was a slave of Kemāl al-Samīrī and served as the
• Emir Najm al-Din Abu al-Shukr Ayyub b. Sadi
  Emir Najm al-Din Abu al-Shukr Ayyub b. Sadi b. Marwan. Some have added the name Yaʿqūb to this lineage. Howeve
• Hasan b. Dāfī b. Yazdan al-Turkī
  He was one of the senior umarāʾ (state officials) working in Baghdad, but he was a murdār (impure) and extreme
• The Five Hundred Sixty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In the work entitled al-Muntazam, Ibn al-Jawzī said: "In this year, in Baghdad, hailstones the size of oranges
• The Killing of Ammāra b. Abū'l-Ḥasan
  Ammāra b. Abū'l-Ḥasan b. Zaydān al-Ḥākimī. He was from Kahtān. His kunyah was Abū Muḥammad and his laqab was N
• The Poet Ammāra al-Yamanī
  Ammāra was a poet endowed with eloquence and rhetorical skill who composed logical (manṭiqī) poems. No one cou
• Ibn Kasrul
  He is the author of the book Metâliu' al-Envār. He wrote this work as a commentary on Qāḍī Iyāḍ's work Mešāriq
• The Death of Nureddin Mahmud Zengi and Some Excerpts from His Just Rule
  The just ruler Nureddin Abū'l-Qāsim Maḥmūd b. Malik Atābeg Qāsimü'd-Dawla Imādü'd-Dīn Abū Saʿīd Zengī al-Shahī
• The Characteristics of the Late Nureddin
  He was a tall, dark-complexioned, beautiful-eyed, broad-foreheaded, and pleasant-featured person. His appearan
• Chapter
  In the month of Shawwāl of this year, when Malik Nūr al-Dīn passed away, his son Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl was pledged all
• Hasan b. Hasan
  Hasan b. Hasan b. Ahmed b. Muhammed al-ʿAṭṭār. His kunyah was Abū'l-Alāʾ. He was from Hamadan. He was a ḥāfiẓ
• Maḥmūd b. Zanjī b. Aksungur
  Sultan Malikü'l-Adil Nureddīn. He was the ruler of Damascus and many vast regions without end. A mujahid fight
• Khidr b. Nasr
  Khidr b. Nasr ʿAlī b. Nasr. He was from Erbil. He was a Shāfiʿī jurist. In the year 533 AH, he first taught in
• The Five Hundred Seventy-First Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, Sultan Malik al-Nāṣir Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn b. Ayyūb had decided to come to Damascus to
• Fasl
  When order was established in the country and the head of the Ubaydids was eliminated, Sultan Malik al-Nāṣir Ṣ
• Chapter
  After the administration of the city of Dimašq, along with all its regions and districts, came under the contr
• Ruh b. Aḥmad
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥadsanī. He once served as the chief judge (qāḍī al-quḍāt) of Baghdad.
• Kaymaz b. ʿAbdallāh
  His epithet was Qutb al-Dīn al-Mustanṣidī. He served as vizier to the Caliph al-Mustanṣid. He was the commande
• The Year 571 of the Hijra
  In this year, the Crusaders requested peace from Sultan Salah ad-Dīn, who was residing in Marj al-Saffar. He a
• Chapter
  When the soldiers returned to Aleppo in a disheveled state, they regretted breaking their oath and defying the
• Hafiz Ibn Asākir
  Hafiz ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Ḥibetullāh b. Asākir Abū'l-Qāsim al-Dimashqī. He is among the great ḥadīth hafīẓs (memo
• The Year 572 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, Sultan Salah al-Din was besieging Aleppo. The nobles advised him to make peace
• ʿAlī b. Asākir
  ʿAlī b. Asākir b. Marḥab b. Awwām Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Baṭāʾīḥī. He was a qurrāʾ (Qurʾān reciter) and a linguist. He
• Muhammad b. ʿAbdullah
  Muhammad b. ʿAbdullah b. Kasnī, known as Abū'l-Faḍl, was the qāḍī al-quḍāt (chief judge) of Dimashq. He receiv
• Khaṭīb Shams al-Dīn
  He is the son of the vizier Abū Ziyā. He was the khaṭīb (orator) of the land of Miṣr and the son of the vizier
• The Year Five Hundred and Seventy-Three of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Salāḥ al-Dīn ordered the restoration of the Jabal fortress and the construction of the wa
• Ṣadaqa b. Ḥusayn
  Ṣadaqa b. Ḥusayn Abūl-Faraj al-Ḥaddād. He studied the sciences of the Qur'an. He listened to ḥadīth. He read f
• Muḥammad b. Isʿād b. Muḥammad
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Manṣūr al-ʿAṭṭār. He became famous by the name Hafda. He listened to ḥadīth, to
• Maḥmūd b. Tutush Shihābuddīn al-Ḥarīmī
  He was the maternal uncle of Sultan Ṣalāḥuddīn. He was a benevolent, distinguished, and valiant emir. His neph
• Fatīma Bintī Nasr al-ʿAṭṭār
  She was among the virtuous and distinguished ladies. She belonged to the lineage of the sister of Ṣāḥib al-Maḥ
• The Five Hundred and Seventy-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Qāḍī Fāḍil, who was in Egypt, sent a letter to Sultan Ṣalāḥaddīn, who was in Damascus, congratul
• Hayse Beyse
  Saʿd b. Muḥammad b. Saʿd. He bore the epithet Shihābuddīn. His kunyah was Abū'l-Fawāris, and he became famous
• Muḥammad b. Nasīm
  His kunyah was Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Ḥayyāt. He was a freedman of the chief Abū Fāḍil b. Absūn. He listened to, col
• The Five Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Battle of Marj ʿUyūn took place. At the beginning of the year, Sultan Salāḥ al-Dīn encamped
• The Demolition of Hısnü'l-Ahzan (The Fortress of Sorrows)
  This is a fortress near Sıfd. Afterwards, Sultan Saladin set out last year to attack the fortress which the Cr
• The Death and Biography of Caliph al-Mustadiʾ bi-Amrillah
  The illness of Caliph al-Mustadiʾ began towards the end of the month of Shawwal. His wife attempted to conceal
• Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī
  His kunya was Abū Isḥāq. He was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). He became famous as Ibn Farrā al-ʿUmawī al-Baghdādī.
• Ismāʿīl b. Mawhūb
  Ismāʿīl b. Mawhūb b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad Ḥiḍr Abū Muḥammad al-Jawālikī Ḥujjat al-Islām. He was one of the leadin
• Mubārak b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan
  Mubārak b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan Abū Muḥammad b. Ṭabbah al-Baġdādī. He lived in Mecca. He became a muǧāvir (resident p
• The Caliphate of Nasir Li-Dinillah Abu'l-Abbas b. Mustadi
  Upon the death of his father at the end of Shawwal in the year 575 AH, the emirs, viziers, state dignitaries,
• The Five Hundred and Seventy-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Salāhaddin made a truce with the Crusaders. He went to the Byzantine lands. There, he est
• Death of Sultan Turanshah
  In this year, Sultan Salāḥ ad-Dīn's brother, Sultan Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam Shams ad-Dawla Turānshāh b. Ayyūb, passe
• Hafiz Abu Tahir al-Sulafi
  Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Ibrahim Sulfa al-Hafiz al-Kabir Muammer Abu Tahir al-Sulafi. He was from Isfahan. His gra
• The Five Hundred and Seventy-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, Sultan Salāh al-Dīn was residing in Cairo and continued to attend hadith sessio
• The Death of Martyr Nureddin's Son and Aleppo Governor Malik Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl and Subsequent Events
  Malik Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl died on the twenty-fifth of the month of Rajab of this year in the fortress of Aleppo. He
• Shaykh Kemaleddin Abū'l-Barakāt
  Shaykh Kemaleddin Abū'l-Barakāt ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Muḥammad b. Abī's-Saʿdāt ʿUbaydullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿUbaydullā
• The Five Hundred and Seventy-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  On the fifth day of the month of Muḥarram in this year, Sultan Salāḥ al-Dīn set out from Egypt on the road to
• Chapter
  When Prince Kerek was unable to oppress the Muslims on land, he sought to intercept the path of the Muslims go
• The Death of Mansur Izzeddin
  Mansur Izzeddin Farrukhshah Shāhinshāh b. Ayyūb. He was the governor of Baalbek and the deputy of Dimashq on b
• Shaykh Aḥmad al-Rufāʿī
  Shaykh Abū'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Abī'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Abī'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Rufāʿī became famous under this name.
• Halef b. ʿAbdülmelik b. Mesʿūd b. Bişkival
  His kunyah is Abū'l-Qāsim and he is from Cordoba. He is a ḥāfiẓ (memorizer of the Qurʾān), muḥaddith (scholar
• Allāmah Quṭb al-Dīn Abū'l-Maʿālī
  His real name was Masʿūd b. Muḥammad b. Masʿūd. He was from Nisābūr. He took fiqh lessons from Muḥammad b. Yaḥ
• The Five Hundred and Seventy-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  On the fourteenth of the month of Muharram in this year, Sultan Salah al-Din, after a long siege, took the cit
• Chapter
  Sultan Salah al-Din, at the end of the month of Rabi' al-Akhir, set out on a campaign from Aleppo, leaving his
• The Five Hundred Eightieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Salah al-Din of Aleppo summoned the soldiers of Jazira, Egypt, and Damascus, requesting t
• The Year 581 AH of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, Sultan Salah al-Din had established his camp outside the city of Hama. Then he
• Emir Nasīrüddīn Muḥammad b. Shirkūh
  He was the governor of Ḥimṣ and Rāḥba. He was the cousin of Sultan Ṣalāḥuddīn. He was married to Ṣalāḥuddīn's
• Mahmudī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ismāʿīl
  Mahmudī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbdurrāḥīm Shaykh Jamāʿal-Dīn Abū's-Sinā Mahmudī b. Sabūnī. He is a
• Emir Ṣadeddīn Masʿūd
  Ṣadeddīn Masʿūd b. Muʿin al-Dīn. He was one of the great emirs during the times of Nūr al-Dīn and Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn
• Sit Hatun Ismetüddin
  Sit Hatun Ismetüddin bint Muineddin. Her father Muineddin, as explained in previous sections, was the na'ib (d
• Hāfiẓ al-Kabīr Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī
  Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-ʿIsbahānī al-Hāfiẓu'l-Mūsāwī al-Madīnī. He is one of the renowned ḥadīth hāfi
• Suhaylī Abū'l-Qāsim
  Suhaylī Abū'l-Qāsim Abū Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Khāṭib Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Khāṭib Abū ʿUmar b. Abī'l-Ḥas
• The Five Hundred and Eighty-Second Year of the Hijra
  On the second day of the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this year, after Sultan Salāḥ al-Dīn recovered, he went to
• Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Abī al-Wahsh
  Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Abī al-Wahsh Būrī b. ʿAbduljabbar b. Būrī al-Maqdisī. Originally from Jerusalem. Lat
• The Five Hundred and Eighty-Third Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Battle of Hittin was fought as a preliminary sign of the conquest of Jerusalem. This was a t
• The Conquest of Jerusalem
  After the Crusaders had held Jerusalem in their hands for ninety-two years, in this year the Muslims took it f
• The First Friday Prayer Performed in Jerusalem After Its Conquest
  When al-Masjid al-Aqsa was cleansed of crosses, bells, priests, and monks, and people of iman (faith) entered
• A Strange Subtlety
  In the work titled ar-Rawḍatayn , Abū Shāma said: Our master Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad as-Sahāwī, while dis
• Fasl (Chapter)
  After Sultan Salah al-Din completed the conquest of Jerusalem, he left Jerusalem on the twenty-fifth of Sha‘bā
• Shaykh ʿAbdü'l-Mugīs b. Zuhayr al-Ḥarbī
  He was among the Hanbalī scholars and righteous ones. He was visited. He has a work written about the virtue o
• ʿAlī b. Ḥattāb b. Ḥalef
  He was a devout and taqwa (God-consciousness) possessing person. Among the zahids (ascetics), he was one of th
• Emir Shamsuddīn Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Muqaddam
  He was one of Sultan Salah al-Din's deputies. When Sultan Salah al-Din conquered Jerusalem, during the pilgrim
• Nasr b. Futyan b. Matar
  He was a Hanbalī faqīh (jurist). He became famous under the name Ibn Munā. He was an ascetic and devout worshi
• Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Damīghānī
  He was the chief judge (qāḍī al-quḍāt). He served as a judge during the time of al-Muqtafī, and after him, dur
• The Year 584 of the Hijra
  In the month of Muharram of this year, Sultan Salah al-Din laid siege to the fortress of Kawkab. He saw that i
• The Conquest of Ṣafad and the Fortress of Kavkab
  Sultan Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn stayed in Dimashq for only a few days. Then he set out towards Ṣafad. He spent the second
• Emīrü'l-Kebīr Sūlalatu'l-Mulūk wa's-Salātīn
  al-Emīrü'l-Kebīr Sūlalatu'l-Mulūk wa's-Salātīn ash-Shayzarī Muʿayyadü'd-Dawla Abū'l-Ḥāris, Abū'l-Muẓaffar Usām
• Hāfiẓ Ḥāẓimī
  Abū Shāma said: In this year, in Baghdad, despite his young age, the author of classified works, Hāfiẓ Abū Bak
• The Five Hundred and Eighty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph's envoys came to visit Sultan Salah al-Din and informed him that Abu Nasr, nicknamed
• The Acre Incident
  In the month of Rajab of this year, the Crusaders gathered in the city of Ṣūr and marched towards the city of
• Qāḍī Sharafuddīn Abū Saʿd
  His original name was ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. Ḥibatullāh b. Abī Asrūn. He was among the Shāfiʿī imāms. He aut
• Ahmed b. Abdurrahman b. Vehban
  Ahmed b. Abdurrahman b. Vehban Abu'l-Abbas. He was known by the name ibn Afdalü'z-Zanıan. Ibn al-ʿAsir said: “
• Faqīh Amīr Ziyāʾ al-Dīn ʿĪsā al-Ḥakkārī
  He was among the men and friends of Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh. He went to Egypt with him. He gained prestige and ros
• Mubarak b. Mubarak al-Karhī
  He was a mudarris (professor) at the Nizamiya. He studied fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) with Ibn Khal. He attai
• The Five Hundred and Sixty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, Sultan Salah al-Din was besieging the fortress of Acre. The Crusaders were cons
• Fasl
  Emir Bahāʾ al-Dīn Karakush, the trustee of Acre appointed by Sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, wrote a letter to Sultan Ṣal
• Chapter
  On the third of the month of Ramaḍān, the Crusaders intensified the siege of the city. Eventually, they descen
• Fasıl
  Qāḍī Fadīl was in Egypt managing the affairs of the country. He was also sending the goods needed by Sultan Ṣa
• Episode
  Kadı Fadıl wrote a letter to the Maghrib ruler Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf b. ʿAbd al-Muʾmin, the emir of the Muslims and
• The German Ruler
  As explained on previous pages, the German ruler had come with 300,000 warriors. Some of them perished on the
• Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh
  His kunyah was Abū Khālid and he served as the qāḍī (judge) of Mosul. His laqab was al-Jamāl al-Dīn al-Shahriz
• The Five Hundred and Seventy-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the king of France, the king of England, and the rulers of other overseas Crusader countries cam
• The Enemy's Capture of the City of Acre from Sultan Ṣalāḥaddīn
  When the month of Jamāzīy al-Awwal began, the accursed Crusaders intensified their siege of the city of Acre.
• Events Following the Capture of Acre
  The Crusaders all together began to march towards Asqalan. Sultan Salah al-Din, along with his soldiers, was a
• Malik Muzaffar
  Malik Muzaffar Takiyyüddīn ʿUmar ibn Shāhinshāh ibn Ayyūb. He was the favorite of his uncle Sultan Salāhaddīn
• Emir Ḥusāmuddīn Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. Lašīn
  His mother was Sittüš-Šam bint ʿAyyūb. She was the wāqifa (endower) of the two Šāmiyahs in Dimashq. He also pa
• Emir ʿĀlamüddīn Sulaymān b. Ḥaydar al-Ḥalabī
  He was one of Sultan Ṣalāḥaddīn's greatest statesmen. Wherever he went, he served in his service. He was also
• Safi b. Faiz
  In the month of Rajab of this year, the deputy of Damascus, Emirü'l-Kebīr Safi b. Faiz, also passed away. This
• Shaykh Najm al-Dīn
  He is the person who, by the order of Sultan Salah al-Dīn, constructed the Shāfiʿī tomb in Egypt. He also endo
• The Five Hundred and Eighty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, Sultan Saladin had set up camp in Jerusalem. He had divided the city walls amon
• Anatolian Ruler Izzeddin Kılıç Arslan b. Mas'ud
  Izzeddin Kılıç Arslan b. Mas'ud b. Kılıç Arslan. He distributed his country among his sons, hoping that they w
• Nasr b. Mansur al-Nuwayri
  Abū al-Murḥif is his kunyah (teknonym). He heard many hadith and engaged in literature. At the age of fourteen
• Sayf al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Aḥmad al-Mashtūb
  He was one of ʿAsad al-Dīn Shīrkūh's men. He was with him in the three battles in Egypt. Afterwards, he became
• The Five Hundred Eighty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan al-Malik al-Nāṣir Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf b. Ayyūb passed away. May Almighty Allah have mercy
• The Estate and Biography of Sultan Saladin
  Kātib ʿImād and others said: "Sultan Saladin left in his treasury nothing but a single sūrī dinar and thirty-s
• Chapter
  Sultan Salah al-Din divided the country among his children. The land of Egypt was given to his son ʿAzīz ʿImād
• Atabeg ʿIzzeddīn Masʿūd
  ʿIzzeddīn Masʿūd b. Mawdūd b. Zangī. He served as the governor of Mosul for about thirteen years. He was among
• Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Fatīra
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was among the Iraqi writers. It is said that he had some inclination towards Sh
• Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd b. Gazī
  His kunyah is Abū'l-ʿAbbās. He is from Basra. Originally, he is from Najrān. He is the author of the work titl
• Sayyida Zubayda
  She was the daughter of Caliph al-Muktafī li-Amrillāh. She was the sister of al-Mustanjid and the paternal aun
• Shaykha'sāliḥa Fatīma Ḥātun
  She was the daughter of Muḥammad b. Ḥasan al-Amīd. She was a devout and ascetic woman. She lived for 106 years
• Caliph Nasir Requests Ibn Jawzi to Add to Adi's Couplets
  In this year, Caliph Nasir al-ʿAbbāsī commanded Shaykh Abū'l-Faraj b. Jawzī to make appropriate additions to t
• The Five Hundred and Ninety-Second Year of the Hijra
  After Melik Efdāl b. Salahaddin took control of Damascus in place of his father and consolidated his authority
• Ahmed b. Ismāʿīl b. Yūsuf
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū'l-Ḥayr. He is from Qazvin. He is a mufassir (Qur'anic exegete) belonging to the S
• The Author of the Poetic Work Called al-Shāṭibiyya: Ibn Shāṭibī
  Abū al-Qāsim ibn Kusayra ibn Abī al-Qāsim Ḥālif ibn Aḥmad al-Rāynī al-Shāṭibī. He was a blind man. He is the m
• The Five Hundred and Ninety-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a great battle took place near Zelake, close to Mercihadid north of Córdoba. As a result of this
• Alī b. Ḥasan b. Ṣafīr
  His kunyah was Abū'l-Ḥasan. He was a writer from Baghdad. He was a literary man and a poet. One of his poems i
• The Five Hundred and Ninety-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, in the month of Rajab, Aziz, who was in Egypt, set out at the head of his army together with his
• Vizier Muʿayyadüddīn Abū'l-Faḍl
  His original name was Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Kasāb. His father sold meat in the Baghdad market. His son advanced
• The Poet Abū'l-Ghanāʾim Muḥammad b. ʿAlī
  Abū'l-Ghanāʾim Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Muʿallim al-Ḥarīsī. Ḥarīs is the name of a village near the city of Wāsiṭ.
• Faqīh Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Saʿīd
  Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Saʿīd b. Ḥasan. He is from Baghdad. He became famous under the name Ibn ʿĀrif. He bore the
• Shaykh Abū Shujāʿ
  His real name was Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Mughīs ibn Dahhān. He was well versed in the science of faraʾiḍ (Islam
• The Year Five Hundred and Ninety-Three of the Hijra
  In this year, a letter arrived from Qāḍī Fāḍil to Ibn Zakī, stating: "On the night of Friday, the ninth of Jum
• Seyfül-ʿIslām Tuğtekin
  He was the brother of Sultan Salāḥaddīn. He had amassed a large amount of wealth. He would cast gold into mold
• Emīr al-Kabīr Abū al-Hayjā as-Samīn al-Kurdī
  Abū al-Hayjā was one of Sultan Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn's greatest emirs. He served as the deputy (nāʾib) of ʿAkkā. Before
• The Judge of Baghdad Abu Ṭālib ʿAlī b. ʿAlī b. Ḥibṭallāh b. Muḥammad
  He is from Bukhara. He heard hadith from Abū'l-Waqt and others. He took lessons in fiqh from Abū'l-Qāsim b. Fa
• The Naqib of the Talibis in Baghdad, Sayyid Sharif
  His lineage is as follows: Abū Muḥammad Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Ḥamza b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Mu
• Sit Azra binti Shāhinshāh
  Sit Azra binti Shāhinshāh b. Eyyūb passed away this year. She was buried in the madrasa within Bab al-Nasr. Al
• The Year Five Hundred and Ninety-Four of the Hijra
  In this year, the Crusaders gathered troops and came to besiege Tibnin. Al-Malik al-ʿĀdil also summoned the so
• Avvam b. Ziyāde
  He served as a construction scribe in the caliphate palace. His real name was Abū Ṭālib Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd b. Ḥiba
• Qāḍī Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Rajāʾ b. Zuhayr
  Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Rajāʾ b. ʿAlī al-Betāʾī. He came to Baghdad. There he took lessons in fiqh (Islamic jurisp
• Emir Izzeddīn Cordil
  He was one of the great commanders in the time of Nureddin. He was among those who participated in the killing
• The Year 595 of the Hijra: The Death of the Ruler of Egypt, al-ʿAzīz
  In this year, the ruler of Egypt, al-ʿAzīz, passed away. It happened as follows: al-ʿAzīz went out hunting on
• Sultan Abu Muhammad Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf
  Sultan Abu Muhammad Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf b. ʿAbd al-Muʾmin was the ruler of the Maghrib and al-Andalus. In the Magh
• Emir Mujāhiduddīn Kaymaz al-Rūmī
  Deputy of Mosul. These regions had been conquered during the time of his master’s son, Nūruddīn Arslan. He was
• Abū'l-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
  Abū'l-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-ʿAbbās al-Hāshimī. After Ibn Naǧǧārī,
• Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn Abū'l-Qāsim
  Yahyā b. ʿAlī b. Fāḍil b. Baraka b. Fāḍlan. He was the shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs in Baghdad. Initially, he took f
• The Year 596 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the king Efdāl, who commanded the Egyptian army, besieged the city of Dimashq h
• Sultan Alaeddin Khwarezm Shah
  Alaeddin Tekish b. Alparslan, descendant of Tahir b. Hüseyin. He was the ruler of Khwarezm and sovereign over
• Nlzameddin b. Masʿūd b. ʿAlī
  He was a person of upright conduct, belonging to the Shāfiʿī madhhab (legal school). In Khwārezm, he had a lar
• Abū'l-Faraj b. ʿAbd al-Munʿim b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb
  Abū'l-Faraj b. ʿAbd al-Munʿim b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Ṣadaka b. Ḥizr b. Kūlayb al-Ḥarrānī was originally from Har
• Fakih Majd al-Dīn
  Majd al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir b. Naṣr b. Jamīl. He was a mudarris (teacher) in Jerusalem. Previously, he a
• Emir Sârîmüddin Kaymaz
  Sârîmüddin Kaymaz b. ʿAbdullāh al-Najī. He was one of the leading notables of Sultan Salāhaddīn's state. He he
• Emîr Lü'lû'
  He was one of the chamberlains of the land of Egypt. In the time of Sultan Salah al-Din, he was one of the gre
• Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
  He is among the Shāfiʿī ʿulamāʾ of the land of Egypt. He was the shaykh of the madrasa called Manāzil al-ʿIzz,
• Shaykh Zāhir al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Fārisī
  He was the shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs in Ḥalab. He received fiqh from Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā, a student of al-Ghazālī.
• The Poet Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī
  Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Naṣr b. ʿUkayl b. Aḥmad al-Baghdādī. He arrived in Dimashq in the year 595 AH. He had a di
• Abū ʿAlī ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Qāḍī al-Ashraf
  He was a polymath and a master among eloquent and articulate individuals. His full name is ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Qā
• The Year 597 of the Hijra
  In this year, a severe famine occurred in Egypt. As a result, many rich and poor people died. Following this,
• Abdurrahman B. Ali
  Abdurrahman b. Ali b. Muhammed b. Ali b. Abdullah b. Hammadi b. Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Jaʿfar al-Jawzī b. Abdull
• Isfahanlı Kātib Imād
  His lineage is as follows: Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Ḥāmid b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAlī b. Maḥmūd b. Ḥibatul
• Emir Bahāʾ al-Dīn Karakush
  He was one of the eunuch warriors. He was among the great secretaries and emirs of Sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn's state
• Meklebe b. ʿAbdullāh al-Mustanṣidī
  He was Turkish, a devout worshipper and ascetic. At dawn, he heard the muezzin reciting a qaṣīda (ode) from th
• 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 w
• 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
• The Five Hundred and Ninety-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Shaykh Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad b. Kudāma began the construction of a mosque at the foothills of Mount
• Qāḍī Ibn Zekī
  His lineage is as follows: Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Abū'l-Maʿālī al-Qurayshī al-
• Hatip Doleî
  Ziyāʾ al-Dīn Abū'l-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Malik b. Zayd b. Yāsīn al-Sālibī al-Doleʾī. Dole is a village of Mosul. Hatip
• Shaykh ʿAlī b. ʿAlī b. ʿAlīsh
  He is an ascetic and a devout worshipper from Yemen. He resided to the east of Kulāsa. He had extraordinary sp
• Sadr Abū's-Sanā Ḥammād b. Ḥībatullāh
  Sadr Abū's-Sanā Ḥammād b. Ḥībatullāh b. Ḥammād al-Ḥarrānī. A merchant. He was born in the year 511 AH during t
• Yenfuşā Bint ʿAbdullah
  She was one of the freed concubines of Caliph al-Mustadī and among his most important favorites. After al-Must
• The Poet Ibn Muhtasib Abīts-Shukr
  Mahmūd b. Sulaymān b. Saʿīd. He is from Mosul. He became famous as Ibn Muhtasib. He studied fiqh (Islamic juri
• The Five Hundred and Ninety-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  Sibt Ibn al-Jawzī, in his work entitled Mirʾāt, has said: “In this year, at the end of the month of Muḥarram,
• Melik Gıyāṣ al-Dīn al-Gūrī, Brother of Shihāb al-Dīn
  After him, his son Maḥmūd succeeded. He also bore his father's epithet. Gıyāṣ al-Dīn was an intelligent, prude
• Emīr ʿĀlamüddīn Abū Manṣūr
  Süleymān b. Shīrvē b. Jandar. He was the paternal uncle of Malik ʿĀdil. He passed away on the nineteenth of th
• Qāḍī Ziyā al-Shahrazūrī
  Abū al-Faẓāʾil Qāsim b. Yaḥyā b. ʿAbdullāh b. Qāsim al-Shahrazūrī al-Mūsulī was the Chief Qāḍī (Qāḍī al-Qudāt)
• ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAlī b. Naṣr b. Ḥamza
  His kunyah is Abū Bakr. He is from Baghdad. He was known by the name Ibn Mīristāniya. He is among the famous a
• Vaiz Ibn Najā
  ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm b. Najā Zayn al-Dīn Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Dimashqī. He was a preacher (vaiz), affiliated with the Ḥan
• Shaykh Abū'l-Barakāt
  Muhammad b. Aḥmad b. Saʿīd al-Tikrītī became famous under the name Muʾayyad. He was a man of letters and a poe
• Sit Celīle Zumurrud Ḥātun
  She is the mother of Caliph Nasir Lidinillah and the wife of Caliph Mustaḍī. She was a pious woman who engaged
• The Six Hundredth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Latins gathered soldiers to retake Jerusalem from the Muslims. However, Allah Almighty preve
• Abū'l-Qāsim Bahāʾ al-Dīn
  Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥafiz Abū'l-Qāsim ʿAlī b. Ḥibatullāh b. Asākir. He was born in the year 527 AH. His father had him l
• Hafiz ʿAbdülganī al-Maqdisī
  ʿAbdülganī b. ʿAbdülwāḥid b. ʿAlī b. Sürūr, Hafiz Abū Muḥammad al-Maqdisī. He is the author of famous classifi
• Abū'l-Futūḥ ʿIsāʿad b. Maḥmūd al-ʿIjlī
  He is the author of the work titled Tatimmat al-Tatimma . His full name is ʿIsāʿad b. Abī'l-Faḍl b. Maḥmūd b.
• The Poet Benanî
  Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. Mihnā. He is a poet famous by the name Benanî. He praised caliphs, viziers, and othe
• 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
• Irāqī Muḥammad b. Irāqī
  Rukn al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl al-Kāzvīnī. Originally from Kāzvin. Later he settled in Hamadān. He became famous unde
• The Six Hundred and Forty-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph dismissed his son Muḥammad Zāhir from the position of heir apparent after having the
• Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Anṭar b. Sābit al-Ḥūllī
  He became famous under the name Shamīm. He was a scholar of literature, lexicography, and poetry. He compiled
• Abū Naṣr Muḥammad b. Ṣadūllah
  Abū Naṣr Muḥammad b. Ṣadūllah b. Naṣr b. Saʿīd al-Ertahī. He was a generous, beautiful, and praiseworthy perso
• Abū'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Masʿūd
  Aḥmad b. Masʿūd b. Muḥannad al-Qurṭubī al-Ḥazrajī. He was a leader in tafsīr (Qur'anic exegesis), fiqh (Islami
• Abū'l-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl b. Bartaʿīs al-Sinjārī
  He was the freedman (azat) of Imād al-Dīn Zangī b. Mawdūd, the governor of Sinjār. He was a handsome soldier,
• Abū'l-Faḍl b. Ilyās b. Jāmī al-ʿArbilī
  He took fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) lessons at the Nizāmiyya madrasa. He listened to hadith. He compiled work
• Abū's-Saʿādat al-Ḥullī
  He was a merchant from Baghdad and a Rafīḍī (a Shiʿite sect). Every Friday he would wear his battle attire and
• The Six Hundred and Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a great war occurred between Shihābuddīn Muḥammad b. Sam al-Ghurī, the ruler of Ghazna, and the
• Sherefuddin Abu'l-Hasan
  His real name was ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī. His epithet was Jamāl al-Islām (the Beauty of Islam). He was a pro
• Taki Isā b. Yūsuf
  Taki Isā b. Yūsuf b. Aḥmad al-ʿIrāqī. He was a blind person. He also taught as a mudarris (teacher) in Eminiyy
• Abū'l-Ghanāʾim Markī Sahlār al-Baghdādī
  He worked together with Izz al-Dīn Najāḥ al-Sarāy. He became the owner of a large amount of property. With eve
• Abū’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Suʿād al-Fārisī
  He received lessons in jurisprudence (fiqh) in Baghdad. At the Niẓāmiyya, he first served as an assistant (kal
• Emir Mujir al-Din Taştekin al-Mustanṣidī
  He was the Hajj commander and the leader of the land of Khuzistan. He was a pious scholar with a virtuous life
• The Year 603 of the Hijra
  In this year, long wars took place in the eastern regions between the Gurlus and the Khwarezmians. The ruler o
• Faqīh Abū Manṣūr
  ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Ḥusayn b. Numān al-Nūbilī. Due to his intelligence, virtue, reason, moral maturity, and schola
• Abdürrezzāq, Son of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī
  He was a trustworthy, devout worshipper, ascetic, and one endowed with taqwā (God-consciousness). Among the so
• Abū'l-Ḥazm Makkī b. Ziyān
  Abū'l-Ḥazm Makkī b. Ziyān b. Shabba b. Ṣāliḥ al-Maksinī. Maksin is a kazā (district) of the province of Sinjār
• Hadim Ikbal
  His real name is Jinā al-Dīn. He was one of Sultan Salah al-Din's servants. He endowed the Ikbāliyya complexes
• The Year 604 AH
  In this year, the pilgrims returned to Iraq. They complained to the caliph about the oppression they suffered
• Emir Bunyamin b. ʿAbdullah
  He was one of the emirs of Caliph Nāṣir. He was among the leading emirs in terms of intellect, chastity, and p
• Hanbal b. ʿAbdullāh
  Hanbal b. ʿAbdullāh b. Fāriq b. Ṣāʿid ar-Rusāfī al-Hanbalī. He used to loudly say the takbīr (proclamation of
• Abdurrahman b. ʿĪsā
  Abdurrahman b. ʿĪsā b. Abī'l-Ḥasan al-Marwazī. He was a preacher. He was from Baghdad. He heard ḥadīth from Ib
• Emir Zeyneddīn Karaca al-Salāḥī
  He was the governor of the frontier. He had a house by the Zelake canal in Babü's-Sağir. His tomb is located a
• 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
• The Six Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, in the month of Muharram, the construction of the soup kitchen built by Caliph Nāṣir Lidīnillāh
• Abū'l-Fath Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Baḥṭiyār
  Abū'l-Fath Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Baḥṭiyār b. ʿAlī. He was known by the name Ibn Sanday. He was the last transmi
• The Six Hundred and Forty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, in the month of Muharram, the shaykh of the Hanafis, Najm al-Dīn Ḥalīl, came to Baghdad from Dim
• Qāḍī Esʿād b. Memātī
  Abū'l-Makārim Esʿād b. Ḥātir Abū Saʿīd Muhazzab b. Mīnā b. Zakariyyā Esʿād b. Memātī b. Abī Kudāma b. Abī Malī
• Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. Ismāʿīl
  Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. ʿAbdussalām al-Lamʿānī. He was among the leading Hanafi scholar
• Abū'l-Mawāhib Maʿṭuk b. Manīʿ
  Abū'l-Mawāhib Maʿṭuk b. Manīʿ b. Mawāhib al-Khāṭib al-Baghdādī. He took lessons in nahw (grammar) and lughat (
• Ibn Ḥarrūf
  He is an explicit follower of Sibawayh. His real name is ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf Abū'l-Ḥasan Ibn Ḥarrūf. He
• Abū ʿAlī Yaḥyā b. al-Rabīʿ
  Abū ʿAlī Yaḥyā b. al-Rabīʿ b. Sulaymān b. Ḥarrār al-Wāsiṭī al-Baghdādī. He studied at the Nizāmiyya madrasa un
• The Author of Cāmiʿ al-Uṣūl wa’l-Nihāya: Ibn al-Athīr
  His full name is Mubārak b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Majd al-Dīn Abū’s-Saʿādāt a
• Fakhr al-Rāzī
  He is the author of the work entitled Taysīr and several other compositions. He is known as the son of the pre
• The 567th Year of the Hijra
  According to what Shaykh Abu Shāma narrated, in this year the rulers of Jazīra—the governor of Mosul, the gove
• The Death of the Governor of Mosul, Nureddin
  In this year, the governor of Mosul, Malik Nureddinshah b. Izzeddin Mas'ud b. Kutbuddin Mawdud b. Zangī, sent
• Shaykh Abū ʿUmar
  He is the founder of the madrasa built for the poor who recited the Qur'an at the foot of Mount Qāsyūn. May Al
• Hadith Master Ibn Tabarzed
  His real name was ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. Muʿammar b. Yaḥyā. He was known as Abū Ḥafṣ b. Tabarzed al-Baghdādī al-
• Sultan Malik ʿAdil Arslan Shāh
  His given name was Nureddīn. He was the governor of Mosul. He was the son of the brother of the martyr Nureddī
• Ibn Sakīn Abd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAlī
  Known by the name Ibn Sakīn al-Ṣūfī and bearing the epithet Ziyāʾ al-Dīn, he was counted among the ʿabdāl. He
• Muzaffer B. Sasîr
  He was from Baghdad. He was a preacher of Sufi disposition. He was born in the year 523 of the Hijra. He liste
• The Year Six Hundred and Eight of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, Malik ʿĀdil was at Mount Ṭūr. He was occupied with repairing the fortress there
• Shaykh ʿImād al-Dīn
  His real name was Muḥammad b. Yūnus. He was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). He was from Mosul. He authored many clas
• Tacüddīn Ibn Ḥamdūn
  Abū Saʿd Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Ḥamdūn. He is the author of the work titled Tezkiretü'l-Ḥamdū-niye. He was a vir
• Anatolian Ruler Hüsrevshah
  Hüsrevshah b. Kılıçarslan. He died in Anatolia. After him, his son Keykâvus succeeded to the throne. When he d
• Emir Fahreddin Serkis
  He is also called Ceharkes. He was one of the emirs in Sultan Salah al-Din's state. It is said that the domes
• Shaykh al-Kabīr Muʿammer ar-Rāḥil Abū'l-Qāsim
  Shaykh al-Kabīr al-Muʿammer ar-Rāḥil Abū'l-Qāsim Abū Bakr Abū'l-Fath Manṣūr b. ʿAbd al-Munʿim b. ʿAbdillāh b.
• The Year Six Hundred and Nine of the Hijra
  In this year, al-Malik al-ʿĀdil and his sons, al-Kāmil, al-Muʿaẓẓam, and al-Fāʾiz, gathered in the city of Dam
• Malik Evhad Najm al-Din Ayyub
  Najm al-Din Ayyub b. ʿĀdil. He was the governor of Ahlat. It is narrated that he shed much blood and treated t
• Abū'l-Fath Muḥammad b. Saʿd b. Muḥammad al-Dībājī
  He was a resident of Merv. He authored a book entitled al-Muḥaṣṣal fī Sharḥ al-Mufaṣṣal (The Compendium in the
• Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Abū'l-Baqāʾ
  He was an ascetic and devout worshipper. His kunyah was Abū'l-Baqāʾ. His real name was Maḥmūd ibn ʿUthmān ibn
• The Six Hundred and Tenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Malik ʿĀdil ordered chains to be stretched at the entrances of roads leading to the mosques, so
• Shaykh Abū'l-Faḍl Aḥmad b. Masʿūd
  He was the shaykh of the Ḥanafīs and the instructor (mudarris) of the Abū Ḥanīfa platform in Baghdad. His full
• Shaykh Abū'l-Faḍl b. Ismāʿīl
  Shaykh Abū'l-Faḍl b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn Fahreddīn al-Ḥanbalī. He is known as Ibn Māshīṭa. He was also c
• Vizier Muʿizzüddīn Abū'l-Maʿālī
  His real name was Saʿīd b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Ḥadīda. He belonged to the lineage of the Companions (ṣaḥāba) Kutb
• Sencer b. ʿAbdullāh al-Nāṣirī al-Khalīfatī
  Sencer b. ʿAbdullāh al-Nāṣirī al-Khalīfatī had great wealth, possessions, property, and extensive iqṭāʿ lands.
• Qāḍī al-Sulāmīyah
  His real name was Zāhir al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Naṣr b. ʿAskar. He was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist) and also a
• Tacü'l-Ümena
  Abū'l-Faḍl Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Ḥibetullāh b. Asākir. He comes from a family engaged in ḥadīth and tr
• Nessābe al-Kalbī
  He was called Tāj al-Ulā al-Ḥusaynī. He met Ibn Dihya. It is said that Dihya descended from al-Kalbī's lineage
• The Author of the Work Called Kanun Named Mukaddima
  His real name is Abū Mūsā ʿĪsā b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, al-Jazūlī. Jazūl is one of the Berber tribes. He was a gramma
• The Six Hundred and Eleventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Khwarazmshah sent on campaign an emir who had previously worked as a camel driver but was
• Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī
  Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Bakrūs. He was a Ḥanbalī faqīh (jurist). He issued fatwās (legal opinions). He
• Rukn al-Salām b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb
  He was the son of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir. His father was a pious man. But he himself was accused of engaging in
• 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 ḥadī
• Hāfiẓ Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Injab
  Abū al-Makārim al-Mufaḍḍal b. Abī al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Abī al-Ghayth Mufarrij b. Ḥātim b. Ḥasan b. Jāʿfar b. Ibrāh
• The Year 622 AH
  In this year, the construction of the great Adiliyya madrasa in Damascus began. In this year, Qadi Ibn Zakī wa
• Hafiz ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Rūḥāwī (from Urfa)
  Hafiz ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Rūḥāwī ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn ʿAbdillāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. His kunyah was Abū Muḥammad.
• Amā Wajīh
  Abū Bakr Mubārak Saʿīd b. Dahhām. He was a grammarian. He was from Wāsiṭ. He bore the nickname Wajīh. He was b
• 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
• Shaykh Faqīh Kemaleddīn Maqdūd
  Kemaleddīn Maqdūd b. Shaġūrī. He belonged to the Shāfiʿī madhhab (legal school). He taught fiqh (Islamic juris
• The Six Hundred and Third Year of the Hijra
  Abu Shāma said: In this year, four wooden columns, each thirty-two zīraʿ long, were prepared for the construct
• Malik Zāhir Abū Manṣūr
  Gāzī b. Ṣalāḥaddīn Yūsuf b. Ayyūb. He was one of the distinguished and righteous rulers. Among the rulers, he
• Zayd b. Ḥasan
  Zayd b. Ḥasan b. Zayd b. Ḥasan b. Saʿīd b. Ismat. He was a scholar and an imam. In his time, he was a unique f
• ʿIzz Muḥammad b. Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbdulgani al-Maqdisī
  He was born in the year 566 of the Hijra. His father narrated many ḥadīth to him. He himself migrated to Baghd
• Abū’l-Futūḥ Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Mubārak
  Abū’l-Futūḥ Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Mubārak al-Ḥalāhilī al-Baghdādī. He heard many ḥadīth. He served as an envoy b
• Sharīf Abū Jaʿfar
  His real name is "Iahyā b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-ʿAlawī al-Ḥusaynī." After h
• Abū ʿAlī Mazayyad b. ʿAlī
  Abū ʿAlī Mazayyad b. ʿAlī b. Mazayyad. He became famous under the name Ibn Ḥashkarī. He is among the well-know
• Abū'l-Faḍl Rišvān b. Manṣūr
  Abū'l-Faḍl Rišvān b. Manṣūr b. Rišvān al-Kurdī. He became famous under the name Nakāf. He was born in Arbū. He
• Muhammad b. Yahya
  Muhammad b. Yahya b. Hibatullah Abu Nasr al-Nahhas al-Wasiti. Sibta' had composed and sent the following poem:
• The Year 604 of the Hijra
  In this year, on the third of Muharram, the flooring of the Umayyad Mosque was completed. al-Muʿtamid Mubāriz
• Shaykh Imad
  He is the brother of Hafiz ʿAbd al-Ghanī. He bore the kunya Abū Isḥāq. His real name is Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥ
• Qāḍī Jamāl al-Dīn b. Ḥaristānī
  ʿAbd al-Samad b. Muḥammad b. Abī’l-Faḍl Abū’l-Qāsim al-Anṣārī Ibn Ḥaristānī. He was the chief judge (qāḍī al-q
• Emir Bedreddīn Muḥammad b. Abī'l-Qāsim
  He is from Hakkâri. He is the founder of the madrasa in Jerusalem. He is among the righteous emirs. He constan
• Shujīʿ Maḥmūd Ibn Dammağ
  He was one of Sultan ʿĀdil's loyal friends. He would cheer him up and make him laugh. He obtained a large amou
• Shaykha Ṣāliḥa Abīda Zāhida
  She was the shaykha of learned women in Damascus. She bore the epithet Dühnü'l-Levz (almond oil). She is the d
• The Six Hundred and Fifth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, Sultan Âdil was at Marj al-Saffar preparing to fight the Crusaders. He ordered
• The Crusaders' Capture of Damietta
  When the news of Sultan Âdil's death spread and reached his son Kāmil, who was waiting in Dimyat to fight the
• Qāḍī Sharaf al-Dīn
  Abū Ṭālib ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayn al-Qudāt ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Sulṭān b. Yaḥyā al-Lahmī. He was blind. He was from Ba
• Baghdad Qāḍī al-Quḍāt ʿImād al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim
  ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥusayn b. Dāmiyānī. He belonged to the Ḥanafī madhhab. He listened to ḥadīth. He learned Ḥanafī f
• Abū'l-Yumn Najāḥ b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥabashī
  He is Sudanese. His original name is Najm al-Dīn. He was a freedman of Caliph al-Nāṣir. He was called the Salm
• Abū'l-Muẓaffar Muḥammad b. Ulvān
  Abū'l-Muẓaffar Muḥammad b. Ulvān b. Muḥājir b. ʿAlī b. Muḥājir. He was from Mosul. He took fiqh (Islamic juris
• 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
• Abū'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad
  Abū'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Bartakīsh b. ʿAbdillāh al-ʿImādī. He was one of the commanders of Sultan Sanjar. His fat
• The Six Hundred and Sixteenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the muhtasib (chief of police) of Baghdad, Shaykh Muḥyiddīn b. Jawzī, ordered the removal of the
• The Emergence of Genghis Khan and the Tatars' Crossing of the Jeyhun River
  This year the Tatars, under the command of their king Genghis Khan, left their lands and crossed the Jeyhun Ri
• Sittüşşâm
  She is the founder of the Berraniye and Cevvaniye madrasas. She is Sittüşşâm bintī ʿAyyūb b. Ṣadī, a noble Kad
• The Author of al-ʾIʿrāb wa’l-Lubāb: Abū’l-Baqāʾ
  His real name is ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAbdullāh. His kunya is Abū’l-Baqā. He was from Akbara. He was blind.
• Ḥāfiẓ Imād al-Dīn Abū'l-Qāsim
  ʿAlī b. Ḥāfiẓ Bahāʾ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim b. Ḥāfiẓ al-Kabīr Abū'l-Qāsim ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Ḥibatullāh b.
• The Poet Ibn al-Dawī
  Ibn al-Saʿī transmitted a few beautiful pieces from his poetry. Abū Saʿīd b. Wazzān al-Dawī was one of the ḥad
• Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā b. Qāsim
  Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā b. Qāsim b. Faraǧ b. Dīr b. Ḥiḍr al-Shāfiʿī Shaykh Tajaddudīn al-Tikrītī. He was the qāḍī
• The Author of the Work Entitled Jawāhir: Shaykh Imam Jamal al-Din Abu Muhammad Abdullah
  Shaykh, Imam Jamal al-Din Abu Muhammad Abdullah ibn Najm ibn Sas ibn Nizar ibn Ashāʾir ibn Abdullah ibn Muhamm
• The Six Hundred and Seventy-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a general calamity and great disaster occurred due to Genghis Khan, who bore the name Temüjin. M
• Malik Fa'iz
  His real name was Giyāṣ al-Dīn Ibrāhīm b. ʿĀdil. After his father's death, he came to possess the land of Egyp
• Shaykh al-Shuyūkh Ṣadr al-Dīn
  Abū'l-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. Shaykh al-Shuyūkh ʿImād al-Dīn Maḥmūd b. Ḥāmewayh al-Juwaynī. He comes from a family t
• Hama Sahibi
  Malik Manṣūr Muḥammad b. Malik Muzaffar Taqiyyüddīn ʿUmar b. Shāhinshāh b. Ayyūb. He was a virtuous person. He
• Amīd (Diyarbakır) Sahib
  Malik Ṣāliḥ Naṣīruddīn Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad b. Karāʾarslān b. Artuk. He was a brave and valiant person who loved
• Shaykh Abdullah al-Yoninī
  He bore the epithet Asad al-Shām (the Lion of Syria). May Allah have mercy on him and be pleased with him. He
• Abū ʿAbdillāh Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr
  Abū ʿAbdillāh Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr al-Mujlī al-Mūsilī. Also known by the name Ibn Jūhanī. He was a v
• The Six Hundred and Eighteenth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Tatars invaded many cities such as Kelade, Hamadan, Ardabil, Tabriz, and Ganja. They killed
• Musullu Kātib Yakūt
  His real name was Eminüddīn. He gained renown for belonging to the Ibn Bawwāb tariqa (Sufi order). Ibn al-ʿAsī
• Celaleddīn Ḥasan
  He is a descendant of Ḥasan b. Sabbāḥ, the leader of the Ismāʿīlīs. Among his people, he established Islamic s
• Shaykh Ṣāliḥ
  Shihāb al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ḥalaf b. Rājiḥ al-Maqdisī. He belonged to the Ḥanbalī madhhab (legal school). He was
• Hatīb Muwafaquddīn
  Abū ʿAbdillāh ʿUmar b. Yūsuf b. Yaḥyā b. ʿUmar b. Kāmil al-Maqdisī. He was the hatīb (orator) of Bayt al-Abār.
• Muhaddith Takiyyüddīn Abū Ṭāhir
  Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbdulmuḥsin b. ʿInmatī. He studied ḥadīth. He traveled to various towns with the purp
• Abū’l-Ghays Shuʿayb b. Abī Tāhīr b. Kulaib
  Abū’l-Ghays Shuʿayb b. Abī Tāhīr b. Kulaib b. Mukbil. He was an Imām of the Shāfiʿī school of jurisprudence. H
• Abū’l-ʿIzz Sharaf b. ʿAlī
  Abū’l-ʿIzz Sharaf b. ʿAlī b. Abī Jaʿfar b. Kāmil al-Ḥāliṣī. He was from Kurraya. He was blind. He was a Shāfiʿ
• 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
• Abū'l-Muẓaffar ʿAbd al-Wadūd b. Maḥmūd b. Mubārak
  Abū'l-Muẓaffar ʿAbd al-Wadūd b. Maḥmūd b. Mubārak b. ʿAlī b. Mubārak b. Ḥasan. Originally from Wasit. He was b
• The Six Hundred and Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the coffin of Malik ʿĀdil was taken out of the fortress and brought to the tomb of ʿAdiliyya al-
• ʿAbd al-Qādir b. Dāwūd
  His kunyah (teknonym) was Abū Muḥammad. He was distinguished. He was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). He bore the epi
• 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 Baghd
• Shaykh Nasr b. Abī’l-Faraǧ
  He became famous under the name Ibn Ḥusari. He lived for a while as a muǧāwir (resident pilgrim) in Mecca. He
• Shihāb ʿAbd al-Karīm
  In the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this year, Shihāb ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Najīn al-Nilī, the brother of Bahā and N
• The 622nd Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Ashraf Musa b. ʿĀdil returned to Dimashq from his brother Kanuṭīn, the ruler of Egypt. His broth
• Shaykh Muwafaq al-Din ʿAbdullah b. Ahmad
  Muwafaq al-Din ʿAbdullah b. Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Qudāma b. Miqdam b. Naṣr, Shaykh al-Islām, was the author of
• Abdurrahman b. Hasan b. Hibetullah b. Asakir
  His honorific was Fakhr al-Din b. Asakir, and his kunya was Abu Mansur al-Dimashqi. He was the shaykh of the S
• Seyfeddin Muḥammad b. Urwa al-Muṣillī
  The Ibn Urwa mašhad (shrine) in the Umayyad Mosque is attributed to him, because he was the first person to op
• Reis Izzeddin Muzaffer b. Es'ad
  Izzeddin Muzaffer b. Esad b. Hamza al-Tamimi b. Kalanisi. He was among the reis (chiefs) and elders of Damascu
• Emir al-Kabir from among the Caliphal Chamberlains
  Muhammad b. Sulayman b. Qutalmish b. Turkan Shah b. Mansur al-Samarqandi. He was of the lineage of the umarāʾ
• Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Abī'l-Mahāsin
  Zuhra b. ʿAlī b. Zuhra al-ʿAlawī al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥalabī. He was the Naqīb al-Ashrāf (chief of the noble descenda
• Abū ʿAlī Yaḥyā b. Mubārak
  Abū ʿAlī Yaḥyā b. Mubārak b. Julācilī. He was the son of a merchant. He listened to ḥadīth. He was a person of
• The Six Hundred and Twenty-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, counting also the previous two expeditions, the detachment of Jengiz Khān raided the city of Ray
• Ahmed b. Muḥammad
  Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Qādisī. He was Amāʾī. He belonged to the Ḥanbalī madhhab (legal school). He was t
• Abū'l-Karīm Muzaffar b. Mubārak
  Abū'l-Karīm Muzaffar b. Mubārak b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad. He was from Baghdad. He belonged to the Ḥanafī madhhab.
• Muhammad b. Abī'l-Faraj b. Baraka
  Muhammad b. Abī'l-Faraj b. Baraka was Shaykh Fahreddīn. His kunyah was Abū al-Maʿālī. He was from Mosul. He ca
• 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 i
• Ahmed b. Jaʿfar b. Ahmed
  Ahmed b. Jaʿfar b. Ahmed b. Muḥammad Abū'l-ʿAbbās ad-Dabībī, al-Bay* al-Wāsiṭī. He was a scholar of literature
• The Year 622 of the Hijra
  In this year, the Khwarezmians, along with Jalal al-Din b. Khwarezmshah, were defeated by the Tatars and, upon
• The Death of Caliph Nāṣir Li-Dīnillāh and the Succession of His Son al-Ẓāhir to the Caliphate
  On the last day of the month of Ramaḍān of this year, which was a Sunday, the caliph Nāṣir Li-Dīnillāh Abū'l-ʿ
• The Caliphate of Zāhir b. Nāṣir
  Caliph Nāṣir Lidīnillāh, during his lifetime, had appointed his son Abū Nāṣir Muḥammad as his heir and had giv
• Abū'l-Ḥasan Malik al-Afdal
  Nūr al-Dīn ibn Sulṭān Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn ibn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb. He was the heir of his father. After his father's deat
• Emîr Seyfeddīn ʿAlī
  Emîr Seyfeddīn ʿAlī b. Emîr Alemüddīn b. Süleymān b. Cender. He was one of the great emirs in Ḥalab. He had gi
• Shaykh ʿAlī al-Kurdī
  Shaykh ʿAlī al-Kurdī al-Muleh. He resided outside the gate of Jābiya. Abū Shāma said about him: “There is disa
• Fahr ibn Taymiyya
  Muḥammad b. Abī'l-Qāsim b. Muḥammad al-Shaykh Fahreddīn Abū ʿAbdillāh b. Taymiyya al-Ḥarrānī. He was a scholar
• Wazir Ibn Shukr
  Safiyyüddīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbdulḥālik b. Shukr. He was born in the year 540 AH in the town
• 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 wa
• Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ḥasan
  He was born in the city of Rāz and grew up and was educated in Baghdad. He was a preacher. He was a person of
• Bahāʾ al-Sinjārī
  Abū's-Saʿādat ʿIsāʿad b. Muḥammad b. Mūsā. He was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). He was a poet. Ibn Ḥallīkān said o
• Osman b. ʿĪsā
  Osman b. ʿĪsā b. Dirbās b. Kusār b. Jahm b. ʿAbdus al-Hadbānī al-Marānī Ziyāʾaddīn. He was the brother of Qāḍī
• 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
• Abū'l-Faḍl ʿAbdurraḥīm b. Naṣrallāh
  Abū'l-Faḍl ʿAbdurraḥīm b. Naṣrallāh b. ʿAlī b. ʿAlī b. Manṣūr b. Kayyāl was from Wāsiṭ. He came from a family
• Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. ʿAlī
  Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. ʿAmmār b. Fihr b. Vakkah al-Yāsirī. He descends fr
• 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 ce
• The Commentator Ibn Yunus of the Work Entitled Et-Tenbîh
  Abū'l-Faḍl Aḥmad b. Shaykh Kamal al-Dīn Abū'l-Fath Mūsā b. Yūnus b. Muḥammad b. Manā b. Mālik b. Muḥammad b. S
• The Year 623 of the Hijra
  In this year, Malik Jalal al-Din b. Khwarezmshah al-Khwarezmi fought against the Georgians. He inflicted upon
• The Death of Caliph Zāhir and the Succession of His Son Mustansir to the Caliphate
  Caliph Zāhir - may Allah have mercy on him - passed away this year on the thirteenth of the month of Rajab, on
• The Caliphate of al-Mustansir Billah al-ʿAbbāsī
  Amīr al-Muʾminīn Abū Jaʿfar Manṣūr b. Zāhir Muḥammad b. Nāṣir Aḥmad. Upon the death of his father on the thirt
• Jamal al-Miṣrī
  Yūnus b. Badrān b. Fayrūz Jamāl al-Dīn al-Miṣrī. He served as a chief judge (qāḍī al-quḍāt) in his time. He pu
• Mutamīd, the Governor of Damascus
  Al-Mubāriz Ibrāhīm. He became famous by the name Mutamīd. He was the governor of Damascus. He was among the di
• The Owner of the Shabaliyya Endowment on the Path of Salihiyya
  Shabelü'd-Devîye Kāfur al-Husāmī. He is called Husāmī due to his nisba to La-çin. He is the son of Sittüshshām
• The Owner of the Revahiye Endowments in Damascus and Aleppo
  Abū'l-Qāsim Hibatullāh. He was known by the name Ibn Revāḥa. He was among the merchants. He was a person of gr
• 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 M
• Yāqūt b. ʿAbdullāh
  He was also called Yaʿqūb. He bore the honorific title Najīb al-Dīn. He was the superintendent (mutawallī) of
• The Six Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the people of Tiflis, the Georgians, were subjected to a raid by their enemies. Everyone from bo
• Genghis Khan
  He was a great sultan among the Tatars. He is the father of the Tatars' current kings. They belong to him. Tho
• Sultan Malik al-Muʿazzam
  ʿĪsā b. ʿĀdil Abū Bakr b. Ayyūb. He was the malik (king) of Dimashq. He passed away on a Friday at the end of
• Abū'l-Maʿālī ʿAsʿad b. Yaḥyā
  Abū'l-Maʿālī ʿAsʿad b. Yaḥyā b. Mūsā b. Manṣūr b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Wa-hib was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). He was
• Abū'l-Qāsim ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Muḥammad
  Abū'l-Qāsim ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Muḥammad b. Ḥamdān al-Ṭībī. He became famous by the epithet Saʿīm. He served as a
• Abū'n-Najm Muḥammad b. Qāsim b. Ḥibatullāh al-Tikrītī
  He was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). He took fiqh lessons from Abū Qāsim b. Fadlān. Afterwards, he served as a kāf
• The Six Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  This year, very fierce battles took place between Jalal al-Din Khwarazmshah and the Tatars. They defeated him
• The Year Six Hundred and Twenty-Six of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Ayyubid kings were fragmented and had fallen into discord, splitting into g
• Kāmil's Son Malik Masʿūd Atsīz
  He was the ruler of Yemen. In the year 619 of the Hijra, he captured Mecca and ruled there with justice, treat
• Muḥammad al-Sabtī al-Najjār
  Some consider him among the abdāl (spiritual ranks). Abū Shāma said: "He built the mosque on the left side of
• Abū’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Sālim
  Abū’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Sālim b. Yazbak b. Muḥammad b. Mukallid al-ʿAbbādī. He was from Ḥadīsa and was a poet. He
• Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. Ṣabīr al-Ḥarrānī
  He later came to Baghdad. It is also said that he was a mangincli (siege engineer). He excelled in poetry. He
• Abū'l-Futūḥ Nasr b. ʿAlī al-Baghdādī
  He was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). He bore the epithet Salīb. He learned the fiqh of the Shāfiʿī madhhab. He eng
• Abū'l-Faḍl Jibrāʾīl b. Manṣūr
  Abū'l-Faḍl Jibrāʾīl b. Manṣūr b. Hibatullāh b. Jibrīl b. Ḥasan b. Ghālib b. Yaḥyā b. Mūsā b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥasan b.
• The Year Six Hundred and Twenty-Seven of the Hijra
  In this year, a great battle took place between Ashraf Mūsā b. ʿĀdil and Jalāl al-Dīn b. Khwārazmshāh. The rea
• Zayn al-ʾUmnā Abū al-Barakāt
  Abū al-Barakāt b. Ḥasan b. Muḥannamad b. Ḥasan b. Ḥibatullāh b. Zayn al-ʾUmnā b. Asākir al-Dimashqī al-Shāfiʿī
• Shaykh Bayram al-Mardīnī
  He was a righteous man. He lived apart from society. He loved seclusion. He resided in the Gazāliyya zawiya on
• Yahya b. Mutî b. ʿAbdunnur
  He was a grammarian. He is the author of al-Fiyye and other grammatical works. He bore the epithet Zayn al-Dīn
• Tabīb Dahvār
  Mūzahhibuddīn ʿAbdurrāḥīm b. ʿAlī b. Ḥāmid. He was known by the name Dahvār. He was the master of the physicia
• Qāḍī Abū Ghanīm b. ʿAdīm
  He was a pious shaykh. He was among those who devoted themselves to worship and asceticism. He was a person wh
• Abū'l-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Majīd b. ʿAjami al-Ḥalabī and His Family Came to Ḥalab This Year
  He was a person of profound generosity and a noble character. He was gentle in disposition and possessed a lea
• 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 fuqahā
• Majd al-Bahnasī
  He was the vizier of Malik Ashraf. However, later Malik Ashraf dismissed him from this position. He confiscate
• Jamal al-Dawla
  Halil b. Züveyzan. Jamal al-Dawla, his epithet. He was the head of Kasr al-Hajjaj. He was a wise, generous, an
• Behramshah b. Farrukhshah b. Shahinshah
  Behramshah b. Farrukhshah b. Shahinshah b. Ayyub was the emir of Baalbek. He remained as emir in Baalbek until
• Celaleddin Tekiş
  It is also said that his name was Maḥmūd b. ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Khwārazmshāh Muḥammad b. Tekīsh al-Khwārazmī. They be
• The Six Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, in Dimashq, two qāḍīs named Shamsu'l-Hāwī and Shamseddīn b. Sunnī al-Dawla were dismissed from t
• Hafiz Muḥammad b. ʿAbdülganī
  Hafiz Muḥammad b. ʿAbdülganī b. Abī Bakr al-Baġdādī Abū Bakr b. Nuqṭa. He was a virtuous person. He was a nafi
• Jamal ʿAbdullah b. Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbdulgani al-Maqdisī
  He was a virtuous, noble, and shy person. He had listened to many ḥadith. Later, he joined the ranks of rulers
• Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn b. Abū Bakr al-Mubārak
  Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn b. Abū Bakr al-Mubārak b. Abī ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Muslim az-Zabīdī al-Baghdādī. He
• Abū'l-Fath Masʿūd b. Ismāʿīl
  Abū'l-Fath Masʿūd b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAlī b. Mūsā al-Silmasī. He was a faqīh (jurist), a man of letters, and a poet
• 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 (Dama
• Husam b. Gazzī
  Husam b. Gazzī b. Yunus Imad al-Din Abu'l-Manāqib al-Mahallī. He was Egyptian. Later, he settled in Damascus.
• Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī
  Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Jārūd al-Marānī. He was a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). He was among t
• Abū's-Sanā Maḥmūd b. Rālī
  Abū's-Sanā Maḥmūd b. Rālī b. ʿAlī b. Yaḥyā al-Ṭāʾī al-Raqqī. He was from Raqqa, but had settled in Erbil. Ther
• Nahivci Ibn Mutī Yahyā
  Abū Shāma, while recounting the events of the previous year, narrated the biography of this person. This is ve
• The Six Hundred and Thirtieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Majdüddīn Abū Qāsim Ḥibatullāh b. Manṣūrī began his duties as the preacher of Baghdad and the Ab
• Abū'l-Qāsim ʿAlī b. Shaykh Abū Faraǧ b. Jawzī
  He was a refined and elegant scholar. He listened to many hadiths. He served as a preacher for a period, then
• Vizier Ṣafiyyüddīn b. Shukr
  He passed away this year. He was praised because he loved ilm (knowledge) and the ʿulamāʾ (scholars), and beca
• Malik Nāṣir al-Dīn Maḥmūd
  Malik Nāṣir al-Dīn Maḥmūd b. ʿIzz al-Dīn Masʿūd b. Nūr al-Dīn Arslān-shāh b. Quṭb al-Dīn Mawdūd b. ʿImād al-Dī
• Qāḍī Sharaf al-Dīn Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm
  He was a Ḥanafī scholar. He authored classificatory works on faraʾiḍ (Islamic inheritance law) and other scien
• Malik Muzaffar Abu Saʿīd Gökböri
  Malik Muzaffar Abu Saʿīd Gökböri b. Zayn al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Tabūktakin was a noble, gentlemanly, and honorable rul
• Malik ʿAzīz b. ʿUthmān b. ʿĀdil
  He was the brother of Muʿaẓẓam. He was the emir of Banyās. He took possession of the fortresses in those regio
• Abū'l-Mahāsin Muḥammad b. Nasr al-ʿAnṣārī
  Abū'l-Mahāsin Muḥammad b. Nasr b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Ghalib al-ʿAnṣārī. He became famous under the nam
• Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī
  He is the author of the work Aʿvārif al-Maʿārif and his real name was ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥamm
• The Author of the Work Titled Üsdü'l-Gābe and al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh, Ibn al-ʿAsīr
  The Imam, Allāmah, ʿIzz al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Shaybānī al-Jazrī al-Maw
• Ibn Mustafī al-ʿArbīlī
  Mubārak b. Aḥmad b. Mubārak b. Mawḥud b. Ghanīma b. Ghalīb Allāma Sharaf al-Dīn Abū'l-Barakāt al-Laḥmī al-ʿArb
• The Year Six Hundred and Thirty-One of the Hijra
  In this year, the construction of the Mustansiriyya Madrasa in Baghdad was completed. Previously, no madrasa l
• Abū’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Abī ʿAlī
  Abū’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Abī ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Sālim al-Sālibī Shaykh Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī al-Ḥamawī al-Dimashqī.
• Emir Rukn al-Dīn Mangūrṣ al-Falaqī
  He was the slave of Falaq al-Dīn, the brother of Malik ʿĀdū. As explained in previous sections, he was the fou
• Shaykh Imam ʿAlim Rāḍiyyuddīn
  Abū Sulaymān b. Muzaffar b. Ganāʿim al-Jilī al-Shāfiʿī. He was among the fuqahāʾ (jurists) and muftīs of Baghd
• Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-ʿArmanī
  He was among those who traveled through towns, living in deserts, mountains, and plains, being an ʿābid (ascet
• The Six Hundred and Thirty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Malik Ashraf b. ʿĀdil had the Zincarî khān in ʿAkabiyya demolished. Various sins were committed
• Ḥalab Qāḍī al-Qudāt Abū'l-Mahāsin
  Abū'l-Mahāsin Yūsuf b. Rafī b. Tamīm b. ʿUtba b. Muḥammad al-Asadī. He was from Mosul. He belonged to the Shāf
• Ibn Farīḍ
  He is the person who composed the qaṣīda called Tāyih concerning the tariqa (Sufi path) and sulūk (spiritual w
• The Year 633 of the Hijra
  In this year, Kāmil and his brother Eshref cut off the water of the Euphrates. They repaired the damage caused
• The Poet Hāḍirī
  He is the author of a famous dīwān (collection of poetry). His real name is ʿĪsā b. Sanjar b. Bahrām b. Jibrīl
• Ibn Dihya
  Abū al-Ḥattāb ʿUmar b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Faraǧ b. Ḥalaf b. Kummays b. Mizlāʾ b. Bilāl b. Badir b. A
• The Six Hundred Thirty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Tatars besieged the city of Erbil with mangonels. They breached the city walls. Finally, by
• Malik ʿAzīz Zāhir
  He was the governor of Ḥalab. His real name was Muḥammad b. Sulṭān Malik Zāhir Qiyā-sh-Dīn Ghāzī ibn Malik Nāṣ
• Anatolian Ruler Kayqubād
  Kayqubād Malik ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn. He was among the great rulers and his administration was very excellent. Malik ʿĀ
• Nasīḥ al-Ḥanbalī
  In the year three of the month of Muḥarram, Shaykh Nasīḥuddīn ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Najm b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Shaykh
• Kemal B. Muhacir
  He was a merchant, gave much sadaqa (charity), and was generous to people. This year, in the month of Jamāzī a
• Shaykh Ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAmir ʿUthmān b. Dihya
  He was the brother of Ḥāfiẓ Abū'l-Khaṭṭāb b. Dihya. At the time of his brother's dismissal, he was appointed t
• Qāḍī ʿAbdurraḥmān Tīkrītī
  He served as a judge in Kerek. He taught at the Zebadānī madrasa. When the endowments (awqāf) of this madrasa
• The Six Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Eşref passed away, followed by his brother Kâmil. Eşref Musa b. ʿAdil; he had commissioned the E
• The Death of Malik Kāmil
  His real name was Muḥammad b. ʿĀdil. May Almighty Allah have mercy on him. After Malik Kāmil took control of D
• Events Occurring After Malik Kāmil
  Malik Kāmil had bequeathed the regions of Miṣr and Dimašq to his younger son ʿĀdil, and the Jazīra district to
• Melik Cevad Muzafferüddin
  As for Cevad, he mounted a horse with the pomp of kingship. He gave goods and money to various people. He best
• Muḥammad b. Zayd
  Muḥammad b. Zayd b. Yāsīn al-Khāṭib Jamāleddīn al-Dūlay. Dūlay is the name of a village affiliated with Mosul.
• Muḥammad b. Ḥībetullāh b. Jamīl
  Shaykh Abū Naṣr b. Shirāzī. He was born in the year 549 AH. He listened to ḥadīth from the Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir a
• Qāḍī Shams al-Dīn Yaḥyā b. Barakāt
  Shams al-Dīn Yaḥyā b. Barakāt b. Ḥibatullāh b. Ḥasan. He was from Dimashq (Damascus). He served as a qāḍī (jud
• Shaykh Shams al-Din b. Ḥubay
  Kādī Zayn al-Dīn ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ulvān al-Asadī. He is known as ibn Ustād al-Ḥalabī.
• Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Muʿammer
  Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd ibn Bahrūz al-Baghdādī. He began listening to ḥadīth from Abū al-Waqd in the year
• Sarimüddin
  Hutluba b. ʿAbdillāh. A great emir. He was a mujahid (holy warrior) who kept watch defending the Muslims on th
• The Year 636 AH
  In this year, Malik Jawad sentenced Safi b. Marzuk and imposed a fine of 400,000 dinars on him. Then he impris
• Cemaleddin Ḥāṣirī al-Ḥanafī
  Mahmud b. Ahnıed was a scholar. He was the shaykh of the Ḥanafīs in Dimashq and a mudarris (teacher) at the Nū
• Vizier Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Ḥadīd
  He served as vizier to al-Ashraf. Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb also employed him as a vizier for a time. After this, Vizier Jam
• Jaʿfar b. ʿAlī
  Jaʿfar b. ʿAlī b. Abī'l-Baraqāt b. Jaʿfar b. Yaḥyā al-Hamadānī. He was a Salafī narrator. He came to Dimashq t
• Ḥāfiẓ al-Kabīr Zekkiyyüddīn
  Abū ʿAbdillāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Berzalī al-Ishbīlī. He was among those engaged in the ʿil
• The Six Hundred Thirty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Sultan of Damascus, Najm al-Dīn Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb b. Kāmil, had set up camp near
• Humus Sahib
  Malik Mujāhid Asadüddīn Shīrkūh b. Nāṣirüddīn Muḥammad b. Asadüddīn Shīrkūh b. Ṣadī. In the year 581 AH, follo
• Qāḍī Ḥobī Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Ḥalīl
  Qāḍī Ḥobī Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Ḥalīl b. Sāʿid b. Jāʿfar al-Ḥobī. He served as the chief judge (qāḍī al-quḍāt)
• The Six Hundred Thirty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the governor of Damascus, Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl, handed over Ḥiṣn al-Shāqif to the Crusader Count Arnōn
• Muḥyiddīn b. ʿArabī
  He is the author of al-Fuṣūṣ and other works. His real name is Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿArabī Abū ʿAbd
• Qāḍī Najm al-Dīn Abū'l-ʿAbbās
  Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Ḥalef b. Rājiḥ al-Maqdisī al-Ḥanbalī al-Shāfiʿī. He was known by the name Ibn Ḥanbalī. He
• Yakūt b. ʿAbdullāh Eminüddīn al-Rūlī
  He belonged to the Atabeg family. He came to Baghdad together with the envoy of Lulū, the governor of Mosul. I
• The Year 639 of the Hijra
  In this year, Melik Jawad set out to go to Egypt to serve Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb. Upon reaching Ramla, Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb became
• Shams b. Ḥabbāz
  Abū ʿAbdillāh Aḥmad b. Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad b. Maʿālī b. Manṣūr b. ʿAlī. He was a grammarian and was blind. He was
• Kemal b. Yunus
  Mūsā b. Yūnus b. Muḥammad b. Menʾa, b. Mālik al-ʿUkaylī Abū'l-Fatḥ al-Mūsilī. He was the shaykh of the Shāfiʿī
• ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Ṣūfī
  He served as a monk for seventy years at the Church of Mary. A few days before his death, he embraced Islam. A
• Abū'l-Faḍl Aḥmad b. Isfandiyār
  Aḥmad b. Isfandiyār b. Muwafaq b. Abī ʿAlī al-Būsanji. He was a preacher. He was the shaykh of the Erjūvānīye
• 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
• Baghdad Qāḍī al-Qudāt Abū'l-Maʿālī
  Abū'l-Maʿālī ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Mukbil b. ʿAlī. He was distinguished. He belonged to the Shāfiʿī madhhab. He stud
• The Six Hundred and Fortieth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph al-Mustansir Billah passed away. His son al-Mustaʿṣim Billah succeeded him to the cal
• The Caliphate of Mustaṣim Billah
  He was the Commander of the Faithful and the last caliph of the Abbasids in Baghdad. This caliph was martyred
• Hatun Binti Izzeddīn Masʿūd
  Hatun binti Izzeddīn Masʿūd b. Mawdūd b. Zangī b. Aksungur al-Atābekīye. She is the founder (waqif) of the Atā
• The Year Six Hundred and Forty-One of the Hijra
  In this year, envoys traveled back and forth between the ruler of Egypt, Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb, and his uncle, the ruler
• Shaykh Shams al-Dīn Abū al-Futūḥ
  Esʿād b. Munjī al-Tanūhī al-Maʿarrī al-Ḥanbalī. He served as a qāḍī (judge) in Ḥarrān in earlier times, then c
• Takīyuddīn Abū Isḥāq
  Shaykh, Ḥāfiẓ, and righteous Takīyuddīn Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Azhar al-Sarīfīnī. He possessed excel
• Muhammad b. Ukayl, the Founder of the Kerusiyya Endowment
  Muhammad b. Ukayl b. Kerus Jamal al-Din. He was the muhtasib (chief of police) of Damascus. He was a wise and
• Malik Jawad Yunus b. Mamdud
  Malik Jawad Yunus b. Mamdud b. ʿĀdil Abu Bakr b. Ayyub al-Malik al-Jawad. He was the eldest son of Sultan ʿĀdi
• Masʿūd b. Aḥmad b. Masʿūd
  Masʿūd b. Aḥmad b. Masʿūd b. Māzin al-Muḥāribī. He is among the virtuous fuqahāʾ (jurists) of the Ḥanafīs. He
• 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-Asad
• The Six Hundred and Forty-Second Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Caliph Mustaʿṣim Billāh appointed to the vizierate, both for himself and for the people of B
• Malik Muġīs ʿUmar b. Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb
  Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl had taken him captive and imprisoned him in the tower of the citadel of Dimashq. Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl h
• Dimashq Shaykh al-Shuyukh Taj al-Din Abu Abdillah b. Umar b. Hamawayh
  He was a virtuous person and a historian and author of classification works. He has an eight-volume work. In t
• Vizier Nasreddin Abū'l-Azhar
  Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ahmed al-Naqīd. He was from Baghdad. He served as vizier to al-Muṣṭanṣir, and the
• Nakīb al-Nukabāʾ Ḥātib al-Ḥuṭabāʾ
  He was the deputy of the caliphs. His real name was Abū Ṭālib Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Mum b. Ḥibba
• The Six Hundred Forty-Third Year of the Hijra
  This year was the year of the Khwarezmians. Specifically: The ruler of Egypt, Ṣāliḥ ʿAyyūb b. Kāmil, mobilized
• Shaykh Takiyyüddīn Abū Ṣalāḥ
  ʿUthmān b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. ʿUthmān al-Imānī al-ʿAllāma. He was the muftī and ḥadīth scholar of al-Shām. He was
• The Historian Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Najjār
  Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd b. Ḥasan b. Hibatullāh b. Maḥāsin b. Najjār, Abū ʿAbdillāh. He was from Baghdad. He was a g
• Ḥāfiẓ Ziyāʾ al-Dīn al-Maqdisī
  Ziyāʾ al-Dīn b. Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid. He listened to and wrote down many ḥadīth. He traveled to var
• Shaykh ʿAlamüddīn Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Sahāwī
  ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdüssamed b. ʿAbdülḥād b. ʿAbdülġālib al-Ḥemedānī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī. He was Shaykh al
• Rabīʿa Ḥātun Bintī Ayyūb
  She was the sister of Sultan Ṣalāḥaddīn. Ṣalāḥaddīn first married her to Emir Ṣadeddīn Masʿūd b. Muʿīneddīn, a
• Muʿīn al-Dīn Ḥasan b. Shaykh al-Shuyūkh
  He was the vizier of Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb. Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Dīn sent him to Dimashq (Damascus), and together w
• Seyfeddin B. Kılıç
  This person was the owner of the Kılıciye endowment belonging to the Hanafis. When he passed away this year, h
• The Year Six Hundred and Forty-Four of the Hijra
  In this year, Mansur routed the Khwarazmians near the Lake of Homs. The deputies of Salih Ayyub gained control
• Malik Mansur
  Malik Mansur Nasir al-Din Ibrahim ibn Malik al-Mujahid Asad al-Din Shirkuh. He was the governor of Homs. After
• Fakīh, Allāma Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd b. ʿAbdu'l-Munīm
  He was from Meram. He belonged to the Ḥanbalī madhhab (legal school). He was a virtuous person and well-versed
• Zīyā ʿAbdurraḥmān al-Jumāri
  He belonged to the Mālikī madhhab. When Shaykh Abū ʿAmr b. Ḥājib left Dimashq in the year 638 AH, he was appoi
• The Year Six Hundred and Forty-Five of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb ibn Kāmil returned from Damascus to the land of Egypt. On the way, he v
• Husayn b. Husayn b. ʿAlī
  Husayn b. Husayn b. ʿAlī b. Ḥamza al-ʿAlawī al-Ḥusaynī Abū ʿAbdil-lāh al-Aqsāṣī an-Naqīb Quṭbeddīn. Originally
• Nahivci Shalubin
  His real name was ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ezdī Abū ʿAlī al-Andalusī al-Ishbīlī. He became famous by
• Shaykh Harirī
  He was originally from the village of Beser, east of the city of Zer. He resided for a time in Damascus. He wo
• Emir Izzeddīn Aybek
  He was the owner of the Izzīye waqf. During the time of al-Muʿaẓẓam, he was the palace master. He was an intel
• Shihāb Ghāzī b. ʿAdil
  He was the owner of Silvan, Ahlāt, and other towns. He was one of the most intelligent and virtuous among the
• The Six Hundred Forty-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Dīn came from the land of Miṣr to Dimashq. He dispatched his soldiers and m
• Fazlüddin al-Ḥunajī
  He was the chief judge (qāḍī al-quḍāt) of the land of Egypt and a physician, logician, and scholar. He had att
• ʿAlī b. Yaḥyā Jamāl al-Dīn Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Muḥarramī
  He was a virtuous, literary, poetic, and skillful young man. He composed a concise and pithy book encompassing
• Shaykh Abū ʿAmr b. Ḥājjib
  This figure, belonging to the Mālikī madhhab, has the following lineage: ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar b. Abī Bakr b. Yūnus
• The Six Hundred Forty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Malik Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb passed away. His son Turanshah was killed. Muʿizz ʿIzz al-Dīn Aybak al-Turkumā
• Fakhr al-Dīn Yūsuf b. Shaykh b. Ḥāmevī
  He was a virtuous, pious, majestic, and dignified person, worthy of rulership. The emirs received him with res
• The Year 648 of the Hijra
  In this year, on the third of Muharram, Wednesday, the magnificent Turānshāh defeated the Crusaders at the por
• Muʿizz Izz al-Dīn Aybak al-Turkmanī's Ascendancy over Egypt after the Ayyubids
  As explained on previous pages, after his father, Turanshah b. Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb b. ʿĀdil Abū Bakr b. Najm al-Dīn Ay
• The Governor of Aleppo Nasir b. ʿAzīz b. Zāhir's Conquest of Damascus
  In the land of Egypt, after the emirs killed Muʿaẓẓam Turānshāh Ṣāliḥ al-ʿAyyūbī, the people of Aleppo mobiliz
• The Biography of Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl, the Founder of the Ṣāliḥ Tomb Endowment
  Ṣāliḥ - may Allah have mercy on him - was a wise and prudent ruler. Because of him, circumstances passed throu
• Melikü'l-Muazzam Turanşah, Son of Salih Eyyub
  Melikü'l-Muazzam Turanşah b. Salih Eyyub b. Kāmil b. ʿĀdil. During his father's lifetime, he was the trustee (
• Hatun Erguvaniyya
  Hatun Erguvaniyya al-Hanziyya was given the name Hafiziyya due to her service to the commander of Jaber Castle
• Eminü'd-Devle Abu Hasan Gazzāl al-Mutatabbib
  He was the founder of the Eminiye waqf in Baalbek. He was the vizier of Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl. He also served as a mil
• The Year Six Hundred and Forty-Nine of the Hijra
  In this year, the governor of Aleppo, Malik al-Nāṣir, returned to Damascus. Egyptian soldiers came and took co
• Bahaeddīn ʿAlī b. Hibatullāh b. Salamah al-Himyari
  He was a preacher in Cairo. In his youth, he went to Iraq, where and elsewhere he listened to ḥadīth. He was a
• Qāḍī Abū'l-Faḍl ʿAbdurraḥmān b. ʿAbdussalām
  Qāḍī Abū'l-Faḍl ʿAbdurraḥmān b. ʿAbdussalām b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Ibrāhīm al-Lamʿānī al-Ḥanafī. He is
• The 650th Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Tatars reached al-Jazira, Suruç, Ra's al-ʿAyn, and the surrounding towns. They killed some o
• Cemaleddīn b. Maṭrūḥ
  He was among the virtuous, a leader, intelligent, a poet, and a great scholar. Later, Malik Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb appoin
• Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Saʿd al-Maqdisī
  He was a scribe who wrote beautiful calligraphy. His literary knowledge was profound. He listened to many ḥadī
• ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAlī
  ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Maghribī. His father was born in Baghdad. He himself listened to ha
• Shaykh Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. Ghanim b. Karīm
  He was from Isfahan. He came to Baghdad. He was a virtuous young man. He studied under Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn al
• Abū'l-Fath Nasrullah b. Hibatullah
  Abū'l-Fath Nasrullah b. Hibatullah b. ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Hibatullah b. Ḥusayn b. Yaḥyā b. Sakiyya al-Ghifārī al-K
• The Year 651 of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph's envoy Shaykh Najm al-Dīn al-Badarāʾī mediated between the ruler of Egypt and the ru
• Famous Figures Who Died in the 651st Year of the Hijra
  Al-Zahabī said: In this year, in the month of Muḥarram, Abū'l-Baqāʾ Ṣāliḥ b. Shujāʿ b. Muḥammad b. Sayyidihim
• The Year 652 of the Hijra
  In the work Mir'atu'z-Zaman, Sibt ibn Jawzi said: "Among the news coming from Makkah al-Mukarramah—may Allah h
• ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. ʿĪsā
  ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. ʿĪsā was a renowned theologian, a disciple of Shaykh Shams al-Dīn b. Ḥusrawshāh, who took les
• Shaykh Majd al-Dīn b. Taymiyya
  Shaykh Majd al-Dīn b. Taymiyya ʿAbd al-Salām b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abī al-Qāsim al-Ḥiḍr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Taymi
• Shaykh Kemaleddīn b. Talha
  After Hatip Doleî, he served as a khatīb (preacher) in Dimashq, then he was dismissed from this position and w
• Nasīḥ Ferec b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥabashī
  He was a virtuous and righteous person who listened to many ḥadīth along with their isnāds (chains of transmis
• Ziyāʾ al-Dīn Sākar b. Yaḥyā b. Ṣālim
  He was a virtuous and pious man. Abū Shāma said: "In this year, on the eighteenth of Ṣafar, on a Monday night,
• Abū'l-ʿIzz Ismāʿīl b. Ḥāmid
  Abū'l-ʿIzz Ismāʿīl b. Ḥāmid b. ʿAbdurraḥmān al-Anṣārī al-Kūṣī. He endowed his house near the ribāṭ to the ḥadī
• The Year 654 of the Hijra
  In this year, in the Hijaz, as is also indicated by the mutawātir (agreed-upon) hadiths, a great fire appeared
• Shaykh ʿImād al-Dīn ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥasan b. Nahḥās
  He abandoned the public and turned to asceticism, reading the Qur'an, worship, continuous fasting, and secludi
• Yusuf b. Emir Hüsameddin
  Yusuf b. Hüsameddin Kazoğlu b. Abdullah Atikü'l-Vezir Avnüddin Yahya b. Hübeyra al-Ḥanbalī—may the Exalted All
• Seyfeddīn Abū'l-Ḥasan, the Founder of the Ṣāliḥiyya Hospital
  al-Anīr al-Kabīr Seyfeddīn Abū'l-Ḥasan Yūsuf b. Abī'l-Fawāris b. Mūsik al-Kaymazī al-Kurdī. He was the greates
• Emir Muzafferüddīn Ibrāhīm
  He is the son of Izzeddīn Aybak, the master of the Muʿizzīye Palace and the governor of Serhat, who endowed th
• Shaykh Shams al-Dīn ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Nūḥ
  He is from Jerusalem. He is a Shāfiʿī faqīh (jurist). After his shaykh Takīyyuddīn b. Ṣalāḥ, he taught at the
• The Six Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the ruler of Egypt, al-Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam ʿIzz al-Dīn Aybak, was found dead in his home. After hi
• Shaykh Takiyyüddīn ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Abī'l-Fahm
  Shaykh Takiyyüddīn ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Abī'l-Fahm al-Yaldānī. He passed away in Yaldān on the eighth of Rabiʿ al-A
• Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn
  Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Abī’l-Faḍl al-Mirrīsī. He was a virtuous, discerning, investigative person wh
• Poet Emir Seyfeddīn
  His real name was ʿAlī b. ʿUmar b. Kızıl and he lived in Dimashq. He was an owner of a dīwān (collection of po
• Bishāra b. ʿAbdallāh
  He is of Armenian origin. His real name is Badr al-Dīn. He worked as a scribe. He was a freedman of Shabā-l-Da
• Qāḍī Tāceddīn
  Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Qadūkudāt Jamāl al-Dīn al-Miṣrī. He served as a deputy to his father and taught at
• Malik Nāṣir
  Malik Nāṣir Dāwūd b. Muʿaẓẓam ʿĪsā b. ʿAdil. After his father, he became ruler of Dimašq. Later, this place wa
• Malik Muʿizz
  Malik Muʿizz Izz al-Dīn Aybak al-Turknānī. He was the first ruler of the Turks. He was the eldest son of Ṣāliḥ
• Shajarat al-Durr bint ʿAbdullah
  She became famous under the name of Halil's mother (Umm Halil). She was Turkish. She was one of the favorites
• Shaykh Esad Hibetullah b. Said
  He bore the epithet al-Fāʾizī. Since he served Malik Faiz Sabiküddīn Ibrāhīm b. Malik ʿĀdil, he acquired the e
• Ibn Abī'l-Hadīd al-ʿIrāqī
  His real name was ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Ḥibatullāh b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn Abū Ḥāmid b. Abī'l-Hadīd ʿIzz
• The Year 656 AH
  In this year, the Tatars captured Baghdad. They killed most of the people, including the caliph. Thus, the Abb
• The Caliph of the Age: al-Mustaʿṣim Billāh
  He was the last of the Abbasid caliphs in Iraq. May Allah have mercy on him. His lineage is as follows: Abū Aḥ
• Section
  "The strength and equipment of the Fatimids were meager. Yet their reign lasted long. They ruled for over 260
• Sarsarī al-Madīḥ
  Yaḥyā b. Yūsuf b. Yaḥyā b. Manṣūr b. Muʿammer ʿAbdussalām, shaykh, imām, ʿālim al-lughah (scholar of various s
• Divan Sahib Bahā Zuhayr
  Zuhayr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥusayn b. Jāfir al-Muḥallabī al-ʿAtīqī al-Miṣrī. He was born in Mecca.
• Hafiz Zekiyyüddin al-Munzirī
  ʿAbd al-ʿAzīm b. ʿAbd al-Kāwī b. ʿAbdullāh b. Salāma b. Saʿd b. Saʿīd, Imam Allāma Muḥammad Abū Zekiyyüddīn al
• Nūr Abū Bakr b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
  Nūr Abū Bakr b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbdur-Raḥīm b. Rustam al-Ashʿarī. He is a famous poe
• Rafīẓī Vizier Ibn Alkamī
  Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib al-Vezīr Muʾayyaduddīn Abū Ṭālib b. Alkamī. He is from Bagh
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbdussamad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥaydara
  Fath al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh b. ʿAdil. He was the muḥtasib (market inspector) of Dimashq. His administration was
• al-Kurtubī
  Ahmed b. ʿUmar b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿUmar Abū'l-ʿAbbās al-Anṣārī al-Kurtubī al-Mālikī. He was born in the year 578 AH
• ʿImād Dāwūd b. ʿUmar b. Yaḥyā
  ʿImād Dāwūd b. ʿUmar b. Yaḥyā b. ʿUmar b. Kāmil Abū'l-Maʿālī Abū's-Sulaymān az-Zabīdī al-Maqdisī ad-Dimashqī.
• Alī b. Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn
  Ṣadr al-Dīn Abū'l-Ḥasan b. Nayyar. He was the shaykh al-shuyūkh (chief of the shaykhs) in Baghdad. He served a
• Shaykh ʿAlī ʿAbid al-Ḥabbāz
  He had a zawiya (Sufi lodge) in Baghdad which was visited by his friends and murids (disciples). The Tatars ki
• Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Maqdisī
  He was the preacher of Barāʾ. He was born in the year 553 of the Hijra. He listened to many ḥadīth. He lived f
• The Lord of Mosul, Badr al-Din Lu'lu'
  He bore the title Maliku'r-Raḥīm (King of the Merciful). He passed away this year in the month of Shaʿbān at t
• Malik al-Nāṣir Dāwūd al-Muʿaẓẓam
  Shaykh Quṭb al-Dīn al-Yūnīnī, in his appendix to the work al-Mirʾāt, while recounting the events of this year,
• The Six Hundred and Fifty-Second Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Muslims had no caliph. The sultan of Damascus and Aleppo was Malik Nāṣir Ṣa
• The Ascension of Malik Muzaffar Kutuz
  That year Emir Sayf al-Dīn Kutuz arrested Ali, the son of his master Nūr al-Dīn who bore the laqab al-Manṣūr.
• Sadreddin Esʿad b. Mencad, Founder of the Sadrīya Endowment
  Sadreddin Esʿad b. Mencad b. Berekāt b. Müemmel al-Tenuhī al-Maġribī al-Dimashqī al-Ḥanbalī. He was a just man
• Shaykh Yūsuf al-Akminī
  He became famous by the name Akminī, meaning "the stoker," because he used to lie and sit in the furnace of Ma
• Muhaddith Shams ʿAlī b. Shabbī
  He served as deputy muḥtasib (market inspector) in place of Ṣadr al-Bakrī. He learned the sciences of qirāʾāt
• Sharḥ of al-Shāṭibī by Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Fāsī
  He became famous by the kunyah Abū ʿAbdillāh. It is said that his name was Qāsim. He passed away this year in
• Necm, Brother of Bedir Müfaddal
  He was the shaykh of the Fadıliye madrasa in Külase. He received ijāzah (authorization) from the Akabiye orato
• Sayf al-Dīn b. Sabūrā
  He was the commander of the security forces in Dimashq. According to what Abū Shāma narrated, at the time of h
• Najīb b. Shuʿayshī al-Dimashqī
  He was among those who testified in Damascus. He listened to hadith. He endowed his house on the road to Banya
• The Year 658 of the Hijra
  The beginning of this year was on a Thursday. At the start of the year, people had no caliph. The sultan of th
• The Tatars’ Capture of Damascus and Their Loss of It in a Short Time
  While Hülagu was encamped in Aleppo, he dispatched a military unit under the command of Kutboğa Noyan, one of
• The Battle of Ayn Jalut
  All of these events took place in the last ten days of the month of Ramadan that year. Within three days, the
• The Sultanate of Malik Zāhir Baybars al-Bandakdārī
  He was like a roaring lion. The reason for his killing was this: When Malik Muzaffar Kutuz intended to return
• Qāḍī al-Quḍāt Ṣadr al-Dīn Abū'l-ʿAbbās ibn Sunnīyyu'd-Dawla
  Ahmed ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥibatullāh ibn Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī Yaḥyā ibn Ṣadaka ibn Ḥayyāt Qāḍī al-
• Governor of Mardin Melik Saʿīd
  His real name was Najm al-Dīn b. Ilghāzī b. Manṣūr Artuq b. Arslān b. Ilghāzī b. Sunnī b. Timurtāsh b. Ilghāzī
• Malik Saʿīd Ḥasan b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
  Malik Saʿīd Ḥasan b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAdil Abū Bakr b. Ayyūb. After his father, he governed Sabībah and Banyā
• Abdurrahman b. Abdürrahim b. Hasan
  Abdurrahman b. Abdürrahim b. Hasan b. Abdurrahman b. Tahir b. Muhammed b. Hüseyin b. Ali b. Ebi Talip Sherefud
• Malik al-Muzaffar Qutuz b. Abdullah
  He was a Turk, and his epithet was Sayf al-Din. He was among the elite mamluks of Muʿizz al-Turkmānī and Ṣāliḥ
• Shaykh Muḥammad Faqīh al-Yūnīnī
  He belonged to the Hanbali madhhab. He was from Baalbek. He was a ḥadīth memorizer (ḥāfiẓ). His lineage is as
• Muḥammad b. Ḥalīl b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Badīr
  His kunyah (teknonym) is Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Bayṭār al-Ekkāl. He is originally from the region of Jabal where the
• The Six Hundred and Fifty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, a few days after the month of December, on a Monday, when the new hijri year began, there was st
• The Installation of the Caliph
  Mustanṣir Billah was released from the prison where he had been held captive in Baghdad. He was accompanied by
• The Caliph Müstansir Billah Bestowing the Symbols of Sovereignty upon Malik Zāhir
  On the fourth of the month of Shaʿbān, on a Monday of this year, the caliph, the sultan, the qāḍī vizier, the
• The Caliph's Journey to Baghdad
  The caliph requested the sultan to send him to Baghdad. The sultan then prepared a large military force for hi
• The Year 660 of the Hijra
  Last year, in the month of Rajab, al-Mustanṣir Billāh, who was pledged allegiance as caliph in Egypt, was kill
• The Caliphate of al-Hākim Biʾamrillāh al-ʿAbbāsī
  In this year, on the twenty-seventh of Rabiʿ al-Akhir, the caliph Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Hākim Biʾamrillāh Aḥmad ibn
• Caliph al-Mustansir b. al-Zāhir Biʾamrillāh al-ʿAbbāsī
  As explained in previous sections, Sultan al-Zāhir had appointed him in Egypt. Caliph al-Mustansir was killed
• Nahivci ve Lügatçı İzz Ed-Darir
  His real name was Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Najā; he was from Nusaybin and was raised in Erbil, where he e
• Abd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbd al-Salām
  Abd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbd al-Salām b. Qāsim b. Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-Muhaḏḏab, Shaykh ʿIzz al-Dīn b. ʿAbd al-Salām A
• Kemaleddīn b. ʿAdīm al-Hanafī
  ʿUmar b. Aḥmad b. Ḥibatullāh b. Muḥammad b. Ḥibatullāh b. Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. Zuhayr b. Ḥārūn b. Mūsā b. ʿĪsā b.
• Yusuf b. Yusuf b. Selame
  Yusuf b. Yusuf b. Selame b. Ibrāhīm b. Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm b. Mūsā b. Jāʿfar b. Sulaymān b. Muḥammad al-Kākānī az
• Bedir al-Marağī al-Hilafī
  He became famous under the name Tavü. He was a person whose religious feelings were weak and who did not perfo
• The Year 661 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the sultan of the regions of Damascus and Egypt was Zāhir Baybars. In Damascus,
• The Caliphate of al-Hākim Bi-Amrillāh Abū al-ʿAbbās
  Ahmad b. Amīr Abū ʿAlī al-Kubbī b. Amīr ʿAlī b. Amīr Abū Bakr b. Imām al-Mustarshid Billāh Amīr al-Muʾminīn Ab
• Sultan al-Malik al-Zāhir's Conquest of Karak and Execution of Its Ruler
  Sultan al-Malik al-Zāhir al-Muẓaffar, together with his soldiers, moved from Egypt towards Karak. The ruler of
• Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Abdullah
  Ahmed b. Muhammed b. Abdullah b. Muhammed b. Yahyā b. Sayyidunnās Abū Bakr al-Yaʿmerī al-Andalusī. He was a ḥā
• ʿAbd al-Razzaq b. ʿAbdullah
  ʿAbd al-Razzaq b. ʿAbdullah b. Abū Bakr b. Ḥalaf Izz al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad al-Rasʿānī. He was a muḥaddith (hadit
• ʿĀlam al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim b. Aḥmad
  ʿĀlam al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim b. Aḥmad b. Muwafaq b. Jāfir al-Mirrīsī al-Barakī. He was a lexicographer, grammaria
• The Birth of Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyya
  Shaykh Shams al-Dīn az-Zahabī said: In this year, our Shaykh Taqiyy al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Shaykh Shih
• Al-Amīr al-Kabīr Mujiraddīn
  Abū'l-Hayjā Isā b. Ḥāshir al-Azqashī al-Kurdī al-Umawī. He was one of the foremost valiant commanders. He play
• The Year 662 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Caliph was al-Hākim bi-Amrillāh al-ʿAbbāsī. The Sultan was Zāhir Baybars. T
• Malik Ashraf
  His lineage is as follows: Mūsā b. Malik al-Mansūr Ibrāhīm b. Malik al-Mujāhid ʿAsad al-Dīn Shīrkūh b. Nāṣir a
• Khaṭīb ʿImād al-Dīn b. Ḥaristānī
  ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Samad b. Muḥammad b. Ḥaristānī. He served as a khaṭīb (preacher) in Dima
• Muḥyiddīn Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad
  Muḥyiddīn Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Ḥusayn b. Sūrāqa. His kunyah was Abū Bakr. He was from t
• Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad b. Manṣūr
  Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad b. Manṣūr b. Yaḥyā Shaykh Abū'l-Qāsim al-Kubārī al-Iskandarānī. He resided in an orchard
• Muhiddin Abdullah B. Safīyyuddīn
  Muhiddin Abdullah b. Safīyyuddīn Ibrāhīm b. Marzūk. According to Abū Shāma, he passed away in this year, on th
• The Year 663 of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Zāhir launched a campaign with a large army towards the Euphrates region. He intended to
• Khalid b. Yūsuf b. Saʿd al-Nablusī
  Khalid b. Yūsuf b. Saʿd al-Nablusī was the shaykh of Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn b. Ḥāfiẓ. He was the shaykh of the Nūr
• Shaykh Abū'l-Qāsim al-Ḥawārī
  Abū'l-Qāsim Yūsuf ibn Abī'l-Qāsim ibn ʿAbdissalām al-ʿUmawī. He was a famous shaykh. He had a zawiya (Sufi lod
• Qāḍī Bedreddīn al-Kurdī al-Sīnjarī
  He served repeatedly as a qāḍī (judge) in Egypt and passed away this year in Cairo. Abū Shāmah said: "It is kn
• The Year 664 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the caliph was al-Hākim al-ʿAbbāsī, and the sultan was Malik al-Zāhir. In Egypt
• Aydoğdu b. Abdullah
  Aydoğdu b. Abdullah al-Amīr Jamāl al-Dīn al-ʿAzīzī. He was among the important emirs and held great esteem in
• Hülaguhan
  He was the son of the Tatar khan and himself ruled the Tatar khanate. The people called him Hülavun. Hülagu wa
• The Six Hundred Sixty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, on the second of Muharram, a Sunday, Malik Zāhir set out from Dimashq towards Miṣr with his vict
• Sultan Berekehan
  Bereke, son of Töli, son of Chinggis Khan. He was the cousin of Hülagu. Berekehan later became a Muslim. He lo
• Misr Chief Qadi Taceddin ʿAbd al-Wahhab
  Taceddin ʿAbd al-Wahhab b. Ḥalaf b. Bidār b. Bintü'l-Eʿazz. He belonged to the Shāfiʿī madhhab. He was a pious
• Founder of the Kaymaziye Waqf, Emir al-Kabīr Nāṣir al-Dīn
  Nāṣir al-Dīn Abū'l-Maʿālī Ḥusayn b. ʿAzīz b. Abī'l-Fawārīs al-Kaymazī al-Kurdī. He was one of the great and re
• Shaykh Shihābuddīn Abū Shāma
  ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿUthmān b. Abū Bakr b. ʿAbbās Abū Muḥammad wa Abū'l-Qāsim al-Maqdisī ash
• The Year 666 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the caliph was al-Hākim of the Abbasids. The sultan of the country was also Mal
• Sultan Malik al-Zahir's Conquest of Antioch
  Antioch is a large city with abundant fertile lands. According to reports, the circumference of the city's wal
• Shaykh Afīfuddīn Yūsuf b. Bakkāl
  He was the shaykh of the Merzūbānīye hankāh (Sufi lodge). He was a pious, God-conscious (takwā), and ascetic p
• Hafiz Abū Ibrāhīm Isḥāq b. ʿAbdullāh
  Hafiz Abū Ibrāhīm Isḥāq b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar. He became famous under the name Ibn Qāḍī al-Yaman. He passed aw
• The Year Six Hundred and Sixty-Seven of the Hijra
  In this year, in the month of Ṣafar, Sultan Malik al-Ẓāhir received the oath of allegiance (bayʿa) for his son
• Emir Izzeddīn Aydemir b. ʿAbdullāh
  Emir Izzeddīn Aydemir b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥalabī al-Ṣāliḥī was among the great and esteemed emirs in the presence
• Sherefuddīn Abū'z-Zāhīr
  Sherefuddīn Abū'z-Zāhīr Muḥammad b. Ḥāfiẓ Abū'l-Khaṭṭāb ʿUmar b. Dihya al-Miṣrī. He was born in the year 610 A
• Qāḍī Ṭāceddīn Abū ʿAbdillāh
  Qāḍī Ṭāceddīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Wassāb ibn Rafīʿ al-Bacilī al-Ḥanafī. He taught. He issued fatwā in D
• Expert Physician Sharaf al-Dīn Abū'l-Ḥasan
  Sharaf al-Dīn Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Yūsuf b. Ḥaydara. He was an ascetic. He was the master of the physicians in
• Shaykh Nasir al-Din
  Shaykh Nasir al-Din Mubarak ibn Yahya ibn Abu'l-Hasan Abu'l-Barakat ibn Sabbagh al-Shafiʿi. He was an ʿālim (s
• Shaykh Abū'l-Ḥasan
  Shaykh Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ibrāhīm al-Kūfī. He was a qurrāʾ (Qurʾān reciter) and a grammarian. He
• The Year 668 of the Hijra
  In this year, on the second of Muharram, Sultan Malik al-Ẓāhir mounted camels and came from the Hijaz to Damas
• Sahib Zayn al-Dīn Yaʿqūb
  Sahib Zayn al-Dīn Yaʿqūb b. ʿAbdullāh al-Rafīʿ b. Zayd b. Mālik al-Miṣrī. He was known by the name Ibn Zubayrī
• Shaykh Muwafaq al-Dīn
  Shaykh Muwafaq al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Qāsim b. Khalīfa al-Ḥazrajī. He was a physician and was known by the name of Ib
• Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Dāʾim
  Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Dāʾim b. Niʿma b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad b. Bukayr Abū'l-ʿA
• Qāḍī Muḥyiddīn Ibn az-Zakī
  His lineage is as follows: Abū'l-Faḍl Yaḥyā b. Qāḍilkudāt Bahā' al-Dīn Abū'l-Maʿālī Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Muḥamm
• Sāḥib Fahreddīn
  Sāḥib Fahreddīn Muḥammad b. Sāḥib Bahāʾeddīn ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Salīm b. Ḥannā al-Miṣrī was a virtuous person
• Shaykh Abū Naṣr b. Abū'l-Ḥasan
  Shaykh Abū Naṣr b. Abū'l-Ḥasan b. Ḥarrāz al-Sūfī al-Baghdādī. He was a poet. He had a beautiful dīwān (collect
• The Year Six Hundred and Sixty-Nine of the Hijra
  At the beginning of the month of Ṣafar in this year, Sultan al-Malik al-Ẓāhir went from Egypt to Askaʾān with
• Malik Takiyyuddīn ʿAbbās b. Malik al-ʿĀdil
  Malik Takiyyuddīn ʿAbbās b. Malik al-ʿĀdil Abū Bakr b. Ayyūb b. Ṣadī. He was the last surviving son of Sultan
• Qāḍī al-Qudāt Sharaf al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ
  His lineage is as follows: ʿUmar b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ṣāliḥ b. ʿĪsā al-Subkī al-Mālikī. He was born in the year 585
• Al-Hāmevī
  He was a courageous, valiant person and had a beautiful perspective. His master did not oppose him. The king a
• Ibn Sabʿīn ʿAbd al-Ḥak B. Ibrāhīm
  His lineage is as follows. ʿAbd al-Ḥak b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Naṣr b. Muḥammad b. Naṣr b. Muḥammad b. Quṭb
• The Year 676 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the caliph was al-Hākim bi-Amrillāh Abūl-ʿAbbās Aḥmad al-ʿAbbāsī. The sultan of
• Shaykh Kemaleddin
  Shaykh Kemaleddin Sellār b. Ḥasan b. ʿUmar b. Saʿīd. He was from Erbil. He belonged to the Shāfiʿī madhhab (le
• Vecīhüddīn Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib
  Vecīhüddīn Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib b. Suwayd al-Tikrītī. He was a great merchant. He was respected by th
• Najm al-Dīn Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Labūdī
  He had endowed the Labūdiyya building next to the Ḥammām al-Falakī al-Mubarrar to the physicians. He possessed
• Shaykh ʿAlī al-Bakkāʾ
  He was the owner of the zawiya near the town of the Prophet Ibrāhīm (namely the city of Khalīl). He was famous
• The Year 671 of the Hijra
  On the fifth of Muharram of this year, Sultan Malik al-Ẓāhir, while coming from the coastal towns, stopped by
• Shaykh Taj al-Dīn Abū'l-Muẓaffar Muḥammad b. Aḥmad
  Shaykh Taj al-Dīn Abū'l-Muẓaffar Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥamza b. ʿAlī b. Ḥibatullāh b. Ḥāwī al-Ṭaġlibī al-Dimash
• Khaṭīb Fahreddīn Abū Muḥammad
  Fahreddīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdūʾl-Kāhir b. ʿAbdūlg̱hanī b. Muḥammad b. Abī'l-Qāsim b. Muḥammad b. Taymiyya al-Ḥar
• Shaykh Ḥızır b. Abū Bakr al-Mahrānī al-ʿAdawī
  He was the shaykh of Malik al-Ẓāhir Baybars and held a position of esteem beside him. He was respected and had
• The Author of the Work Titled Et-Taʿcīz
  Allānae Ṭaceddīn ʿAbdurrāḥīm b. Muḥammad b. Yūnus b. Muḥammad b. Saʿd b. Mālik Abū'l-Qāsim al-Mūsilī. He comes
• The Six Hundred Seventy-Second Year of the Hijra
  In the month of Ṣafar of this year, Sultan Malik al-Ẓāhir arrived in Dimashq. He had received news that Abaqa
• Mueyyidüddīn Abū'l-Maʿālī al-Ṣadr al-Raʾīs
  Esʿād b. Ghalib al-Muzaffarī b. Wazīr Mueyyidüddīn Esʿād b. Ḥamza b. ʿAsad b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Tamīmī b. Ka
• Al-Amīr al-Kabīr Farīsü'd-Dīn Aktay
  He was a mustaʿrib (Arabized) Arab and the atābak (commander-in-chief) of the land of Egypt. Initially, he was
• Shaykh ʿAbdullāh b. Ghanim
  Shaykh ʿAbdullāh b. Ghanim b. ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm b. Asākir b. Ḥusayn al-Maqdisī. He had a zawiya in Nablus. He co
• Qāḍī al-Qudāt Kemaleddīn
  Qāḍī al-Qudāt Kemaleddīn Abū'l-Fath ʿUmar ibn Bandar ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī. He was from Tiflis. He belonged to th
• Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm b. Sākir b. ʿAbdullāh
  He belongs to the Tenuh tribe. The Tenuh tribe is a branch of the Kudāʿa. He was one of the great statesmen. H
• Ibn Mālik, the Author of the Work Called Elfiya
  Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Mālik Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Ṭāʾī al-Ḥayyānī. He was a grammarian (nah
• Nāṣir al-Ṭūsī
  Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ṭūsī. He was called Mawlā Nāṣir al-Dīn. He was also called Hājj Nāṣir al-Dīn. In his
• The Year 673 of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Malikü'z-Zāhir realized that thirteen emirs, including Kaçkar al-Hāmevī, were conspiring
• Ibnatāʾ al-Hanafī
  Kāḍī al-quḍāt Shams al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdillāh b. Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿAṭāʾ b. Ḥasan b. ʿAṭāʾ
• Beymend B. Beymend B. Beymend
  He was the Crusaders' prince of Tripoli. His grandfather was the deputy of a woman named Binti Sayhal, who had
• The Year 674 AH
  On the eighth of Jumādā al-Awwal, a Thursday, the Tatars came to Bire with 30,000 warriors. Of these, 15,000 w
• Shaykh Imam al-ʿAllāma
  Shaykh Imam al-Mulāme al-Adīb Tāj al-Dīn Abū's-Sanā Maḥmūd ibn ʿAbīd ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Tarūʿ
• Shaykh Imam ʿImād al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
  Shaykh Imam ʿImād al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Qādir b. ʿAbdallāh b. Ḥalīl b. Mukalled al-Anṣār
• The Historian Ibn Saî
  Tājaddīn b. Muḥtasib. Known as Ibn Sāʾī. He was from Baghdad. He was born in the year 593 AH. He listened to ḥ
• The Year 675 of the Hijra
  On the third of Muharram of this year, Sultan Malik al-Ẓāhir entered Dimashq. His soldiers advanced to Ḥalab,
• The Battle of Biliştin and the Conquest of Kisariye
  Sultan Malik al-Ẓāhir set out from Egypt with his soldiers. On the seventeenth of Shawwāl, he reached Dimashq.
• Shaykh Muḥaddith Shams al-Dīn Abū'l-ʿAbbās
  His lineage is as follows: Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Bakr. Originally from Mosul. Later he settled
• The Poet Shihābuddīn Abū'l-Makārim
  His lineage is as follows: Muḥammad b. Yūsuf b. Masʿūd b. Barakat b. Sālim b. ʿAbdullāh al-Shaybānī. He is fro
• Qāḍī Shams al-Dīn
  His lineage is as follows: Shams al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Maḥmūd ibn ʿAlī ibn Asım al-Shahrizūrī al-Dimashqī. He served
• Shaykh Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Ṣadūllah
  The genealogy of this righteous, learned, and ascetic shaykh is as follows: Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Ṣadūllah b. J
• Shaykh Jandal b. Muḥammad al-Manīnī
  He was a righteous man. He belonged to the people of worship and zuhd (asceticism) and performed righteous dee
• Muhammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muhammad
  Ḥāfiẓ Badr al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh b. Nuwaira al-Sulamī al-Ḥanafī. He studied with Ṣadr Sulaymān and Ibn ʿAṭāʾ. H
• Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Manṣūr
  Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Ḥarrānī al-Ḥanbalī. He was a student of Shaykh Majd al-Dīn b. Taymiyya. He first
• The Six Hundred and Seventy-Sixth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Rukn al-Dīn Baybars passed away. This person was the ruler of Egypt, Sy
• The Death of al-Kāhir
  On Saturday, the fifteenth of Muḥarram of this year, al-Malik al-Kāhir Bahāʾ al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Sulṭā
• Emīrü'l-Kebīr Bedreddīn Bīlbek b. ʿAbdullāh
  Emīrü'l-Kebīr Bedreddīn Bīlbek b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥaznedār. He was the deputy (nāʾib) of the land of Egypt during
• Qāḍī al-Qudāt Shams al-Dīn al-Ḥanbalī
  His lineage is as follows: Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Shaykh Imād Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAlī
• Shaykh Ḥızır al-Kurdī, the Shaykh of Sultan Malik Zāhir
  Ḥızır b. Abū Bakr b. Mūsā al-Kurdī al-Nahravānī al-ʿAdawī. It is said that he originally came from the village
• Shaykh Muḥyiddīn al-Nawawī
  Yahyā b. Sharaf b. Ḥasan b. Ḥusayn b. Jumʿa b. Ḥizām al-Ḥazimī al-ʿĀlim Muḥyiddīn Abū Zakariyyā al-Nawawī al-D
• Ali B. Ali B. İsfendiyar
  He bore the pen name Necmeddin. He delivered sermons on Saturdays during the three-month period at the Damascu
• The Year 677 of the Hijra
  The first day of this year was a Wednesday. At the beginning of the year, the caliph was al-Hākim bi-amr Allāh
• Emīr al-Kabīr Jamāl al-Dīn Akkuş b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Najībī
  His kunyah was Abū Saʿīd al-Ṣāliḥī. Malik Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb al-Kāmil manumitted him and included him among the
• Aytekin B. Abdullah
  al-Amīr al-Kabīr ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ash-Shihābī. He was the vakfī (endower) of the Shihābīyeh hankāh (Sufi lodge). T
• Qāḍī al-Qudāt Ṣadr al-Dīn Sulaymān b. Abū l-ʿIzz
  Ṣadr al-Dīn Sulaymān b. Abū l-ʿIzz b. Wuhayb Abū Rabīʿ al-Ḥanafī. He was the shaykh of the Ḥanafīs of his time
• Tāhā b. Ibrāhīm b. Abū Bakr Kamāl al-Dīn al-Ḥamadanī
  He was from Erbil. He belonged to the Shāfiʿī madhhab. He was a virtuous poet with a good understanding of lit
• Abdurrahman b. Abdullah
  Abdurrahman b. Abdullah b. Muhammad b. Hasan b. Abdullah b. Hasan b. Affan Jamal al-Din b. Shaykh Najm al-Din
• Kadilkudatmecdüddīn Abdurrahman b. Cemaleddin
  Mecdüddīn Abdurrahman b. Cemaleddin Ömer b. Ahmed b. Adim. He was from Ḥalab. Later, he settled in Dimashq. He
• Vizier Ibn Hanna
  ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Sulaym b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṣāḥib Bahāʾ al-Dīn Abū'l-Ḥasan b. Ḥannā. He was a vizier in Egypt.
• Dictionary Entry: Shaykh Muḥammad b. Zāhir
  Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿUmar b. Aḥmad b. Abī Shakīr Majd al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh. He was from ʿArbīl. He belonged t
• Ibn Isrāʾīl al-Ḥarīrī
  Muḥammad b. Suwwār b. Isrāʾīl b. Ḥizr b. Isrāʾīl b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn Najmaddīn Abū'l-Maʿālī
• The Observation of Beauty
  "I see Him with all the attributes of beauty. I do not believe in the hulūl (incarnation) doctrine that distan
• Ibn al-ʿUd al-Rāfiḍī
  Abū al-Qāsim Ḥusayn b. ʿUd Najībuddīn al-Asadī al-Ḥillī. He was a shaykh, imam, and scholar among the Shīʿa. H
• The Six Hundred Seventy-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  This year began on a Sunday. At the beginning of the year, the caliph of the Muslims was al-Ḥākim bi-Amrillāh
• The Deposition of Malik Saʿīd from the Sultanate and the Accession of His Brother Malik ʿAdil Salāmish as Sultan
  While these events were taking place, Sultan Malik Saʿīd descended from the fortress on the seventh of the mon
• Allegiance to the Sultanate of Manṣūr Kalāwūn al-Ṣāliḥī
  On the twenty-first of the month of Rajab in this year, on a Tuesday, the emirs gathered at the fortress of Ja
• Sungur al-Ashqar's Ascension to the Sultanate of Damascus
  On the twenty-fourth of Dhu al-Qi'dah in this year, on Friday, Emir Shams al-Din Sungur al-Ashqar, after perfo
• Vaiz Izzeddīn b. Ghanim
  His lineage is as follows: ʿAbdussalām b. Ahnīḍ b. Ghanim b. ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm b. Asākir b. Ḥusayn Izzeddīn Aḥma
• Malik Saʿīd b. Malik Zāhir
  His genealogy is as follows: Barekehan Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Bareket-khān Abū'l-Maʿālī b. Sulṭān Malik Zāhi
• The Six Hundred Sixty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  This year, the Hijri New Year began on the third of May. At the beginning of the year, the caliph of the Musli
• Al-Amīr al-Kabīr Jamāl al-Dīn Akkuş al-Shamsī
  He is one of the commanders of Islam. He killed Kutbugha Noyan, the commander of the Tatar vanguard forces. In
• Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Dāwūd b. Ḥātim
  He was among the righteous. His lineage is as follows: Dāwūd b. Ḥātim b. ʿUmar al-Ḥabbāl. He belonged to the Ḥ
• al-ʿAmīr al-Kabīr Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī
  al-ʿAmīr al-Kabīr Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. ʿUmar Abū'l-Ḥasan al-Turī. He was one of the great commanders. He passed
• The Poet Cezzar
  His lineage is as follows: Yaḥyā b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīm b. Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Jamāl al-Dīn Abū'l-Ḥusayn al-Mi
• The Six Hundred Eighty-Second Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the caliph of the Muslims was al-Hākim bi-l-Amr Allāh, and their sultan was Mal
• The Battle of Homs
  On the fourteenth of Rajab, on a Thursday, the two sides faced each other. At sunrise, the two hostile armies
• Abakahan, Son of Hülagu, Tatar Khan
  Abaka b. Hülagu b. Töli b. Jengizkhan. He was a man of high determination, foresight, and prudence. He had rea
• Kadilkudat Najm al-Dīn Abū Bakr
  Najm al-Dīn Abū Bakr b. Kadilkudat Ṣadr al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Kadilkudat Shams al-Dīn Yaḥyā b. Ḥibatullāh b. Ḥasan b
• Qāḍī al-Quḍāt Ṣadr al-Dīn ʿUmar
  Ṣadr al-Dīn ʿUmar b. Qāḍī Ṭajā al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Ḥalaf b. Abī al-Qāsim al-Ghulābī b. Bint al-ʿIzz al-Mi
• Shaykh Ibrāhīm b. Saʿīd al-Shāghurī
  Known as Ciyāne in Damascus, he was a person who had lost his reason. Some foolish people and certain individu
• Chief Judge Taqiyyuddīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad
  Taqiyyuddīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ibn Razīn ibn Mūsā al-ʿĀmirī. He was from Ḥamāh. He belonged to
• Melik Eşref
  Melik Eşref Muzafferüddin Musa ibn Melik Zahir Muhyiddin Davud al-Mujāhid ibn Asadüddin Shīrkūh ibn Nasir Nasi
• Shaykh ʿAlamüddīn Abū'l-Ḥasan
  Shaykh ʿAlamüddīn Abū'l-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. Imām Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn b. ʿĪsā b. ʿAbdullāh b. Rashīk al-Ribʿī. He bel
• Ṣadr al-Kabīr Abū al-Ghanāʾim al-Muslim
  His lineage is as follows: Muḥammad b. Muslim al-Makkī b. Ḥalaf b. Ghaylān al-Qaysī al-Dimashqī. He was born i
• Shaykh Ṣafiyyuddīn
  Shaykh Ṣafiyyuddīn Abū al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad al-Tamīmī al-Ḥanafī. He was the shaykh o
• The Year Six Hundred and Eighty-One of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the caliph of the Muslims was al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, and their sultan was al-Ma
• Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Bāqiyat al-Salaf Burhān al-Dīn
  His lineage is as follows: Burhān al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq Shaykh Ṣafiyy al-Dīn Abū al-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm b. Yaḥ
• Qāḍī Amīn al-Dīn al-ʿIshtarī
  Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Shams al-Dīn Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Ṭalḥa al-Ḥalabī. He w
• Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn Abū's-Sanāʾ
  Maḥmūd b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbdurraḥmān al-Mirāghī al-Shāfiʿī. He was a mudarris (professor) at the Felekiye madra
• Qāḍī, Imām, ʿAllāmah, Shaykh al-Qurrāʾ Zayn al-Dīn
  Abū Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Salām b. ʿAlī b. ʿUmar az-Zawāwī. He belonged to the Mālikī madhhab. He was the qāḍī a
• Shaykh Ṣalāḥaddīn
  Shaykh Ṣalāḥaddīn Muḥammad b. Qāḍī Shams al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Maḥmūd b. ʿAlī al-Sh-Shahrizūrī. He was a muʿaddris (p
• Ibn Ḥallīkān
  Shams al-Dīn Abū'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Abū Bakr b. Ḥallīkān. He was from Erbil. He belonged
• The Year 688 of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Malik Mansur arrived in Dimashq on the seventh of Rajab, a Friday, with great pomp. It wa
• Shaykh al-Jabal Shaykh al-ʿAllāma Shaykh al-Islām Shams al-Dīn Ibn Qudāma
  Shams al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Shaykh Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Qudāma. He belon
• Ibn Abī Jafwān
  Allāmah Shamsuddīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbbās b. Abī Jafwān al-Anṣārī. He was from Dimashq.
• Ḥāṭib Muḥīddīn
  Yaḥyā b. Ḥāṭib Kadilkudāt Inyādüddīn ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Kadilkudāt Jamāl al-Dīn b. Ḥaristānī. He belonged to the
• Shaykh Imam ʿAlīm Shihābuddīn
  ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm b. Shaykh Imam Allāmah Majduddīn ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abū'l-Qāsim b. Taymiyya al-Ḥarrānī. O
• The Year Six Hundred and Eighty-Three of the Hijra
  On the second day of Muharram in this year, on a Monday, the shaykh, imam, scholar, and erudite master Taqiyy
• Qāḍī Imām ʿIzzeddīn Abū'l-Mafāḥir -
  Muḥammad b. Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Qādir b. Afīf al-Dīn. ʿAbd al-Ḥalīk b. Ḥalīl al-Anṣārī. He was from Dimashq.
• Malik al-Saʿīd Fath al-Dīn
  ʿAbd al-Malik b. Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Abū al-Ḥasan Ismāʿīl b. Malik al-ʿĀdil. He is the father of Malik al-Kāmil Nāṣ
• Qāḍī Najm al-Dīn ʿUmar b. Naṣr b. Manṣūr al-Bayānī
  He belonged to the Shāfiʿī madhhab. He passed away in the month of Shawwāl of this year in Bayān. He was a vir
• Malik al-Mansur Nasir al-Din
  Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd b. ʿUmar b. Malikshāh b. Ayyūb. He was born in the year 630 AH. In the year 642 AH, he beca
• Qāḍī Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Yaʿqūb
  Yūsuf b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar al-Rāzī. He was among the muʿaddiris (professors) of the Maliki Qāḍī al-Qudāt (Chi
• The Year 684 AH
  At the end of the month of Muharram in this year, Malik Mansur arrived in Damascus. He was accompanied by his
• Al-Bundukdarī
  He was the teacher of Malik Zāhir Baybars. His real name was Amīr al-Kabīr ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Aytakīn al-Bundukdarī
• Kurrāʾ Ibn ʿĀmir
  The work entitled al-Miʿādu-l-Kabīr is attributed to him. His lineage is as follows: Shaykh Ṣāliḥ, Kurrāʾ Sham
• Qāḍī ʿImād al-Dīn
  Qāḍī ʿImād al-Dīn Dāwūd b. Yaḥyā b. Kāmil al-Qurashī al-Nūsarawī al-Ḥanafī was the mudarris (professor) of the
• Shaykh Hasan al-Rūmī
  He served as a teacher at the Saʿīd al-Suʿadāʾ madrasa in Cairo. After him, Shams al-Dīn al-Atābegī took up th
• Emir Mujir al-Din
  His lineage is as follows: Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb b. ʿAlī. He became famous under the name Ibn Tamīm al-Ḥāmiwī. He
• Shaykh ʿĀrif Sharafuddīn
  Shaykh ʿĀrif Sharafuddīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Shaykh ʿUthmān ibn ʿAlī al-Rūmī. He was buried in the Rūmī
• The Year 685 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the caliph of the Muslims was al-Hākim Abū'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad, and their sultan was
• Shaykh Imam Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Bakr Muḥammad
  Shaykh, imam, scholar Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥārim b. ʿAbdallāh b. Banmān al-Bakrī al-Sh
• Qāḍī al-Quḍāt Yūsuf
  Qāḍī al-Quḍāt Yūsuf b. Qāḍī al-Quḍāt Muḥyīddīn Abū'l-Faḍl Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. ʿA
• Shaykh Majduddīn
  Shaykh Majduddīn Yūsuf b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh. He was Egyptian. Later, he settled in Dınıaşk. He
• Poet Edip Shihāb al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh
  Shihāb al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Munʿim b. Muḥammad. He was known by the name Ibn Ḥaymī. He had
• Yaʿqūb b. ʿAbd al-Ḥak
  Yaʿqūb b. ʿAbd al-Ḥak Abū Yūsuf al-Madīnī. He was the sultan of the Maghrib region. He revolted against Vāṣiq
• Qāḍī Bayḍāwī
  Qāḍī, imam, and ʿālim Nasir al-Dīn ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar al-Shīrāzī. He was the qāḍī of Shīrāz, a scholar, and a
• The Year Six Hundred and Eighty-Six of the Hijra
  At the beginning of the month of Muḥarram in this year, the troops, under the command of the deputy of Damascu
• Shaykh Imam al-ʿAllāmah Quṭb al-Dīn Abū Bakr
  His lineage is as follows: Quṭb al-Dīn Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Shaykh Imam Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥa
• Qāḍī al-Quḍāt Burhān al-Dīn
  Burhān al-Dīn Ḥızır b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī al-Sinjārī served repeatedly as a qāḍī (judge) in Egypt. He was also app
• Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Izz al-Dīn
  Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Izz al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbd al-Munʿim b. Saykal al-Ḥarrānī. He was born in the year 594 AH.
• Hāfiẓ Abū'l-Yumn
  Eminüddīn ʿAbdussamad b. ʿAbdülveḥḥāb b. Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Asākir. He was from Dimashq (Damascus).
• The Six Hundred and Eighty-Seventh Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Shujāʿī came from Egypt to Damascus with the intention of seizing the wealth of the rich people
• Khaṭīb Imām Quṭbuddīn
  His lineage is as follows: Quṭbuddīn Abū'z-Zaqā ʿAbd al-Munʿim b. Yaḥyā b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī b. Jāʿfar b. ʿAbdul
• Shaykh Ṣāliḥ ʿĀbid Ibrāhīm b. Mīʿdād
  Ibrāhīm b. Midʿād b. Shaddād b. Mājid al-Jābarī Taqiyy al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq. He was originally from the fortress o
• Al-Hakim ar-Ra'īs ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn b. Abū al-Ḥazm
  ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn b. Abū al-Ḥazm b. Nafīs. He wrote a sharḥ (commentary) on the work al-Qānūn by Ibn Sīnā. He compi
• Shaykh Bedreddīn
  Shaykh Bedreddīn ʿAbdallāh b. Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn b. Mālik al-Nahwī. He wrote a commentary on the work Elfiya
• The Six Hundred and Eighty-Eighth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the city of Tripoli was conquered. It happened as follows: Sultan Qalāwūn set out towards Dimash
• Shaykha Fatīma Bint Shaykh Ibrāhīm
  This woman was the wife of Nīnī b. Isrāʾīl and came from a poor family. She attained sovereignty and prominenc
• ʿĀlim ibn Ṣāḥib
  He was a jocular old man. His lineage is as follows: Shaykh al-Faḍīl ʿĀlam al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Yūsuf b. ʿAbdallāh
• Shams al-Dīn al-Isfahānī
  He is the commentator of the work entitled al-Maḥṣūl. His lineage is as follows: Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd b. Muḥamma
• Shams Muḥammad b. ʿAfīf
  Sulaymān b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAlī al-Talamsānī. He was a famous poet. He died during his father's lifetime
• Malik Manṣūr Shihāb al-Dīn
  Maḥmūd ibn Malik Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAdil. He passed away on Tuesday, the eighteenth of the month of Shaʿbān of
• Shaykh Fakhr al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad
  Fakhr al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Yūsuf al-Baʿalbakkī al-Ḥanbalī. He was the shaykh of the Nūriyya D
• The Six Hundred Eighty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  In this year, Sultan Malik Mansur Kalavun passed away. In this year, the caliph of the Muslims was al-Ḥākim bi
• The Death of Sultan Malik Mansur Qalawun
  While people were struggling amid these hardships, having their properties confiscated and subjected to variou
• Sultan Malik Mansur Kalawun
  Sultan Malik Mansur Kalawun b. ʿAbdullāh al-Turkī al-Ṣāliḥī al-Alfī. Malik Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb b. Malik Kā
• Emir Ḥusāmuddīn Toruktay
  He was the viceroy of the Mansuriyya state in Egypt. Malik Ashraf captured him and imprisoned him in the Castl
• Shaykh Imam al-Allāmah Rashīduddīn ʿUmar
  Rashīduddīn ʿUmar b. Ismāʿīl b. Masʿūd al-Fāriqī al-Shāfiʿī. He was a mudarris (professor) at the Zāhiriyya ma
• Khaṭīb Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad
  Khaṭīb Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Kāfī ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-Kāfī al-Ribʿī. He passed away in D
• Fakhr al-Dīn Abū'l-Ẓāhir Ismāʿīl
  Fakhr al-Dīn Abū'l-Ẓāhir Ismāʿīl b. ʿIzz al-Quḍāt Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Abī'l-Yumn
• Hacı Taybars b. ʿAbdullah
  Hacı Taybars b. ʿAbdullah Alaeddin. He was a vizier. He was the son-in-law of Malik Zāhir. He was among the gr
• Qāḍī al-Quḍāt Najm al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās
  Najm al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Shaykh Shams al-Dīn ibn Abī ʿUmar al-Maqdisī. He passed away on the twelfth of R
• The Year 696 of the Hijra
  In this year, the city of Acre and other towns along the shores of Damascus were conquered. These places had l
• The Conquest of Acre and Other Coastal Towns
  In this year, at the beginning of the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, an order arrived in Damascus via courier reques
• Ergun, Son of Abaka, Khan of the Tatars
  He was a noble, brave, and very bloodthirsty person. He had killed his uncle Sultan Ahmed b. Hülagu, thereby g
• Musnid al-Muʿammer ar-Rahhale Fahreddīn
  His lineage is as follows: Fahreddīn b. Najjār Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Maqdisī al-Ḥanbalī.
• Shaykh Taj al-Dīn al-Fazārī
  ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Sībā b. Ẓiyāʾ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad al-Fazārī. He was an imam and a great scholar (allāma). In h
• Specialist Physician Izzeddīn Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Tarḥān
  Izzeddīn Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Tarḥān al-Suwaydī al-Anṣārī. He passed away in the month of Shaʿbān of this ye
• Shaykh Imam al-ʿAllāmah ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū'l-Ḥasan
  Shaykh Imam al-ʿAllāmah ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Imam al-ʿAllāmah Kamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. ʿAbd a
• Shaykh Imam Abū Ḥafs ʿUmar
  Shaykh Abū Ḥafs ʿUmar b. Yaḥyā b. ʿUmar al-Karhī. He was the son-in-law and student of Takiyyuddīn b. Ṣalāḥ. H
• Al-Malik al-ʿĀdil Badr al-Dīn Salāmiš b. Zāhir
  After his father Malik Saʿīd, he was given the bayʿa (allegiance) to his rule. Malik Manṣūr Qalāwūn appointed
• Afif al-Telemsānī
  Abū Rabīʿ Sulaymān b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAlī b. Yāsīn al-ʿĀbidī al-Kūmī al-Telemsānī. He was a masterful po
• The Six Hundred and Ninety-First Year of the Hijra
  In this year, the Rum fortress was conquered. In this year, the Sultan Malik al-ʿAshraf Salah al-Din Khalil ib
• The Conquest of Rum Castle
  In the month of Rabi' al-Awwal of this year, Sultan Ashraf set out towards Dimashq with his soldiers. His vizi
• Hatīp Zaynaddīn Abu Hafs in Nisābūr
  Zaynaddīn Abu Hafs ʿUmar b. Makkī b. ʿAbdussāmid al-Shāfiʿī, known by the name Ibn Mighrāl, was the father of
• Sahîp Fethüddin Abu Abdullah
  Sahîp Fethüddin Abu Abdullah Muhammad b. Muhyiddin b. Abdullah b. Abdüzzahir. After Ibn Luqman, he served as t
• Yunus B. Alī B. Rıdvān B. Berkuş
  Emīr ʿImādüddīn. He was one of the commanders of the tabīlhāne in the Nasīriyya State. Later, this position wa
• Celaleddīn al-Ḥabbāzī
  His lineage is as follows: ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥujandī. He was a great Hanafi shaykh. O
• Malik Muzaffer
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• Shaykh Takiyyüddīn al-Wāsiṭī
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  Nureddin ʿAlī ibn Malik Muzaffar Taqiyyuddīn Maḥmūd ibn Malik Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Malik Muzaffar Taqiyyuddīn ʿ
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir
  Muhyiddin b. Abdullah b. Rashiduddin ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir b. Nashwan b. ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir b. ʿAli b. Nasid al-Saʿidi. He
• Emir Alimüddīn Sencer al-Ḥalabī
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  At the beginning of this year, Malik Ashraf was killed. The circumstances were as follows: On the third of the
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• Sahib Wazir Fahreddin
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• Melik Hafız Giyaseddin b. Muhammad
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• The Founder of the Cevheriye Waqf, Ṣadr Najm al-Dīn
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• Sitt Ḥātun binti Melik Ashraf
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• The Six Hundred and Ninety-Fifth Year of the Hijra
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• Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn b. Munjī
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• The Year 696 of the Hijra
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• The Sultanate of Malik Mansur Laçin al-Silahtarî
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• Founder of the Sâmiriye Endowment
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• Shaykh Shams al-Din al-Ayqi
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  On the sixth of Jumādā al-Ākhirah of this year, a dispatch arrived from Cairo. It reported that the Commander
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  When his succession as heir apparent was confirmed, a proclamation was written regarding his accession to the
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• Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn al-Iskandarī
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  He was known by the name Ibn Hubla. He was among the righteous people. During the time when the Crusaders held
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• The Biography of Ibn Kathir's Father, the Author of This History
  In this year, my father, the orator Shihābuddīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar b. Kathīr b. Dāwūd b. Kathīr b. Dāwūd b. Dārī a
• The Year 704 of the Hijra
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  On the ninth of Jumādā al-ʾAwwal this year, on a Saturday, a group of poor Ahmadis (followers, murīds of the A
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  On the eighth of Rajab, Monday, judges and scholars including Shaykh Taqiyyuddīn b. Taymiyya gathered in the p
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  Malik Awḥad ibn Malik Taqiyyuddīn Ṣādi ibn Malik Zāhir Mujīruddīn Dāwūd ibn Malik Mujāhid Asaduddīn Shīrkūh ib
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• The Year 706 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the administrators were the same persons mentioned in the previous year. Shaykh
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  He passed away between the twentieth and thirtieth of the month of Ramaḍān of this year. A few days before his
• Shaykh Shams al-Din, the Preacher of Damascus
  Shaykh Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Shaykh Aḥmad b. ʿUthmān. He was from Ahlāt. He was the imam of Kilāsa. He was
• The Seven Hundred and Seventh Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were the same individuals whose names were ment
• Emir Rukn al-Dīn Baybars
  Rukn al-Dīn Baybars al-ʿAjamī al-Ṣāliḥī. He was known by the name Calik. During the time of Malik Ṣāliḥ Najm a
• Shaykh Aḥmadī ar-Rūfāʿī
  He was the shaykh of Mayenba. He was a pious person. When they came to Dimashq, the Tatars showed him respect
• The Year Seven Hundred and Eighteen of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were the same individuals whose names were ment
• As a Result of the Efforts of Ibn Taymiyya's Enemy, al-Munbajī, al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Rukn al-Dīn Baybars al-Jāshnīkir Becomes Sultan
  His Becoming Sultan When al-Malik al-Nāṣir settled in Karak and resolved to reside there, he wrote a letter to
• Shaykh Usmān al-Ḥalbūnī
  He was a righteous man. Originally, he was from the Ṣaʿīd region affiliated with Egypt. For a while, he reside
• Shaykh Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Kasīr al-Ḥarrānī
  He was a righteous man. He belonged to the Ḥanbalī madhhab (legal school). He was the imam of the ʿAtiyya Mosq
• Sayyid Sharif Zayn al-Din
  Sayyid Sharif Zayn al-Din Abu ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. ʿAdnān al-Ḥusaynī. Nakīb al-Ashrāf (chief of the desce
• Shaykh al-Jalil Zāhir al-Dīn
  Shaykh al-Jalil Zāhir al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Abū'l-Faḍl ibn Manʿa was from Baghdad. A
• The Seven Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the caliph of the Muslims was Mustakfī b. Ḥākim bi-l-Amrillāh al-ʿAbbāsī, the s
• The Accession of Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad b. Malik al-Manṣūr Kalāwūn to the Throne, the Downfall of the Victorious Jašnīgīr Baybars and Shaykh Ḥulūlcū Nāṣir al-Manbījī from Power
  On the thirteenth of Shaʿbān, news arrived that Malik Nāṣir had come to Dimashq. Emir Sayf al-Dīn Kutlubek and
• The Killing of Caşnigir
  The wicked man had fled with a group of his companions. When Emir Seyfeddin Kara Sungur al-Mansurī set out fro
• Khaṭīb Naṣīruddīn Abū'l-Ḥudā
  Ahmed b. Khaṭīb Bedreddīn Yahyā b. Shaykh Izzuddīn b. ʿAbdussalām. He was the khaṭīb (preacher) of Akība. He a
• The Qāḍī of the Hanbalīs of Egypt, Sharaf al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad
  Sharaf al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh b. Nāṣir b. Abū Bakr al-Ḥarrānī. He
• Shaykh Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb
  Shaykh Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb b. Sulaymān b. Muzaffar al-Miṣrī became famous by the name al-Muʾadhdhin al-Najīb (th
• Emir Shams al-Din Sungur al-ʿĀṣir al-Mansurī
  He served as a vizier alongside his role as a divan (council) minister in Egypt. He also presided over the div
• Emir Cemaleddin Akkuş b. Abdullah al-Rasmī
  He was the head of the divans in Dimashq. Previously, after the period of al-Sharīfī, he had served as the gen
• Tac b. Saʿīdü'd-Dawla
  He was a Muslim. He was a state envoy. He was a person of esteem in the presence of the Cašnigīr. For he was o
• Shaykh Shihābuddīn
  Shaykh Shihābuddīn Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Abū'l-Makarim b. Naṣr al-Isfahānī. He was the head of the muʾadhdhin (
• The Year Seven Hundred and Ten of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the caliph of the time was al-Mustakfī bi-llāh Abū Rabīʿ Sulaymān al-ʿAbbāsī, a
• Qāḍī al-Qudāt Shams al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās
  Shams al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Surūjī. He belonged to the Ḥanafī madhhab. He
• Emir Seyfeddin Qıpchaq
  He was the deputy (na'ib) of Ḥalab. He died in Ḥalab and was buried in his tomb in Ḥamā on the second of Jumād
• Shaykh Karīmüddīn b. Ḥusayn al-ʿAykī
  He was the Shaykh al-Shuyūkh (Chief Shaykh) of Egypt. He had connections with the emirs. On one occasion, he w
• The Year 701 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were the same individuals mentioned in the prev
• Shaykh Raʾīs Bedreddīn
  Bedreddīn Muḥammad b. Raʾīs al-ʿAṭṭibba Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Turḥān al-Anṣārī. He belongs to the S
• Shaykh Shaban b. Abu Bakr b. Umar al-Erbili
  He was the Shaykh of Halabiyya at the Umayyad Mosque. He was a righteous and blessed person. There was much go
• Shaykh Naṣīr al-Dīn Yaḥyā b. Ibrāhīm
  Shaykh Naṣīr al-Dīn Yaḥyā b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-ʿUthmānī served as the attendant of the m
• Shaykh Abu ʿAbdullah Muḥammad
  The Shaykh was a pious, esteemed, and leading figure whose lineage is as follows: Abu ʿAbdullah Muḥammad ibn S
• Katib Ibn Wahid
  Sadr Sharaf al-Din Abu Abdullah Muhammad b. Sharif b. Yusuf al-Zar'i. He was known by the name Ibn Wahid. He w
• Emir Nasirüddin
  Nasirüddin Muḥammad b. ʿImādüddīn Ḥasan b. Nesāʾī. He was one of the emirs of Tabīlhāna. He served as the judg
• Temimi Darī
  He passed away during the Ramadan festival of this year. He was buried in the Small Kurafe Cemetery. He had se
• Qāḍī Saʿd al-Dīn Masʿūd al-Ḥārisī
  Qāḍī, imam, ʿālim (scholar), and ḥāfiẓ (memorizer of hadith) Saʿd al-Dīn Masʿūd al-Ḥārisī al-Ḥanbalī. He serve
• The Year Seven Hundred and Twelve of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were the same individuals mentioned in the prev
• The Appointment of Tengiz as Deputy of Damascus
  On Thursday, the twentieth of Rabi' al-Akhir, Emir Sayf al-Din Tengiz b. Abdullah al-Malik al-Nasiri, deputy o
• Ruler of Mardin Malik Mansur
  Najm al-Dīn Abū'l-Fath Gāzī b. Malik Muzaffar Kara Arslan b. Malik al-Saʿīd Najm al-Dīn Gāzī b. Malik al-Mansū
• Shaykh Nureddin Abu'l-Hasan
  He was a pious shaykh. His lineage is as follows: Nureddin Abu'l-Hasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Hārūn b. Muḥammad b
• Kadilkudat Shams al-Din Abu Abdullah
  Shams al-Din Abu Abdullah Muhammad b. Ibrahim b. Dawud b. Hazim al-Azrai. He belonged to the Hanafi madhhab (l
• The Seven Hundred and Thirteenth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Muslims were the same individuals whose names were mentioned
• Shaykh Fahreddīn Abū ʿAmr ʿAffān
  The shaykh, imam, and muhaddith. His lineage is as follows: Fahreddīn Abū ʿAmr ʿAffān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān
• ʿIzz al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿAdī
  ʿIzz al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿAdī Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. ʿUmar b. ʿIlyās al-Rūḥāwī (Urfa). He was responsible for t
• The Great Shaykh Kurra Shams al-Din al-Maksay
  Shams al-Din al-Maksay was Abu Bakr ibn Umar ibn Sab' al-Jazari. He was known by the name al-Maksay. He served
• The Year 704 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were the same individuals mentioned in the prev
• Haleb Naibi Sudî
  He passed away in the month of Rajab of this year and was buried in his tomb. He was the cause of the river re
• Shaykh Rashīd Abū'l-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl
  Shaykh Rashīd Abū'l-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl Abū Muḥammad al-Kurashī belonged to the Ḥanafī madhhab. He was known by the
• Shaykh Sulaymān al-Turkmānī
  He was a majdhūb (a spiritually attracted person). He lived in the kitchen area of Alebiyīn. Previously, he re
• Shaykha Ummu Zaynab Fatima Bint ʿAbbas
  The Shaykha was a pious, devout woman. Her lineage is as follows: Ummu Zaynab Fatima bint ʿAbbas b. Abī'l-Fath
• The Conquest of Malatya
  At the beginning of the month of Muharram, on a Monday, Sayf al-Dīn Tengiz set out on the road to Malatya with
• Shabaf al-Din Abu Abdullah
  Muḥammad b. ʿAdī Imām al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Abū'l-Faḍl Muḥammad b. Abū'l-Fath Naṣrullāh b. Muzaffar b. Asad b. Ḥa
• Shaykh Ṣafiyyuddīn al-Hindī
  Shaykh Ṣafiyyuddīn al-Hindī Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbdurraḥīm b. Muḥammad al-ʿUrmavī al-Shāfiʿī was a theo
• Qāḍī Takīyyüddīn Sulaymān b. Ḥamza
  Qāḍī Takīyyüddīn, who traveled to various towns for the purpose of collecting ḥadīth, lived a long life, and t
• Hakīm Bahāʾ al-Dīn
  Bahāʾ al-Dīn, a virtuous and highly learned scholar, has the following lineage: Bahāʾ al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Sayyid ib
• The Seven Hundred and Sixteenth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were the same individuals whose names were ment
• Famous Figures Who Died in the Year 716 AH
  In this year, Izz al-Dīn al-Mubashshir, Shaykh al-Shuyūkh Shihāb al-Kāshangirī, and the teacher of the Neeibīs
• Sheref Salih b. Muhammed b. Arabshah
  Sheref Salih b. Muhammed b. Arabshah b. Abu Bakr al-Hamedani. He passed away in the month of Jamadi al-Akhir.
• The Author of the Work Tazkirat al-Kindiyya: Ibn ʿArifa
  He was a shaykh, imam, qurrāʾ (Qur'an reciters), ḥādis (hadith scholar), grammarian, and a literary figure. Hi
• Tawāshī Zahireddīn Mukhtār
  Zahireddīn Mukhtār al-Baknasī. He served as treasurer at the fortress and also held the command of the armory
• Emir Bedreddin
  Bedreddin Muḥammad b. Wazīrī. He was one of the leading ʿumara (commanders). He was a virtuous, knowledgeable,
• Shaykha Sittü'l-Vüzera bint ʿUmar
  The genealogy of Shaykha Sittü'l-Vüzera, a pious woman, is as follows: Sittü'l-Vüzera bint ʿUmar ibn Asad ibn
• His Creation
  Abu’l-Hasan b. Kādildu’d-Dat Taqiyy al-Dīn b. Damkī al-Fayd, during the time of Bābāʿī, was appointed as his d
• Shaykha Sittü'l-Münim
  The genealogy of Shaykha Sittü'l-Münim, a pious woman, is as follows. Sittü'l-Münim bint Abdurrahman b. ʿAlī b
• Shaykh Najm al-Dīn Mūsā ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad
  He was from the town of Jil and later settled in Dimashq. He served as a scribe. He was a virtuous writer know
• Shaykh Takiyyüddīn al-Muṣillī
  Shaykh Takiyyüddīn Abū Bakr ibn Abī'l-Karīm served as a qirāʾah (Qur'anic recitation) instructor near the miḥr
• Shaykh Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Ḥātib Sulāma
  The Shaykh, may Allah sanctify his secret (ṣaḥḥa Allāhu sirrahu), was an ascetic and a qurrāʾ (Qurʾān reciter)
• Shaykh Sadr b. Wakil
  Al-ʿAllāma Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Shaykh Imām Zayn al-Dīn ʿUmar b. Makkī b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. He was the imam
• Shaykh ʿImād al-Dīn Ismāʿīl al-Fuʾī
  He was the deputy of the Teclīs. Babü's-Sağīr had established a meteorological station for him at the Berrʿāni
• The Seven Hundred and Seventeenth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were the same individuals whose names were ment
• The Appearance of the Lost Mahdi in the Land of Jabalah
  In this year, the Nusayris rebelled and broke away from obedience. Among them was a man whom they called Muḥam
• Shaykh Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad
  He was a pious man. His lineage is as follows: Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Muntaẓih. He was a
• Shaykh Shihābuddīn al-Rūmī
  His lineage is as follows: Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Marāghī. He served as a mudarris (teacher) at the A
• Shaykh Fahredbīn Osman
  He was a righteous and just man. His lineage is as follows: Fahreddīn Osman b. Abū'l-Wafāʾ b. Ninīʾatullāh al-
• Qāḍī al-Kudāt Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Zawwāwī
  The biography is as follows: Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Sulaymān b. Yūsuf al-Zawwāwī. In the year
• Qāḍī Sharaf al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad
  Qāḍī, Ṣadr, raʾīs, risūʾ al-kuttāb Sharaf al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Waḥḥāb b. Jamāl al-Dīn Faḍlallāh b. Hill
• Faqih Imam Sharaf al-Din Abu Abdullah
  Faqih (jurisprudence scholar) imam (prayer leader), learned disputant Sharaf al-Din Abu Abdullah Husayn ibn Im
• Sāḥib Anīs al-Mulūk Badreddīn
  Badreddīn ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Ibrāhīm al-ʿArbilī. He was born in the year 638 AH. He engaged in literature. He lea
• Ṣadrü r-Rais Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad
  Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Jamāl al-Dīn Ibrāhīm b. Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Amīn al-Dīn Ṣālim b. Ḥāfiẓ B
• The Year Seven Hundred and Eighteen of the Hijra
  In this year, the caliph and sultan of the Muslims were the same individuals mentioned in the previous year. T
• Shaykh Ṣāliḥ ʿUmar b. Sayyid
  The Shaykh, a righteous, devout, taqwā (God-consciousness) embodying, ascetic, leader, the last representative
• Shaykh Takiyyüddīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh
  The Shaykh was a pious, cultured, learned, and honorable poet. His lineage is as follows: Takiyyüddīn Abū Muḥa
• Qāḍīlkudāt Zayn al-Dīn
  Zayn al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Mahlūf b. Nāḥid b. Muslim b. Munʿim b. Ḥalaf al-Nuwayrī al-Mālikī. He was the governor of
• Shaykh Ibrāhīm b. Abū'l-ʿAlāʾ
  He was a famous qurrāʾ (Qur'anic reciter). He was known by the name Ibn Shaʿlān. At the Mismariyya Madrasa, he
• Shaykh Abū'l-Walīd Muḥammad b. Abī'l-Qāsim
  He was a shaykh, imam, scholar, and ascetic. His lineage is as follows: Abū'l-Walīd Muḥammad b. Abī'l-Qāsim Aḥ
• Shaykh Kemaleddīn b. Sherīshī
  Kemaleddīn b. Sherīshī Ahmed b. Imām Allāme Cemaleddīn b. Abū Bakr b. Muḥammad b. Ahmed b. Muḥammad b. Sahmān
• Kurrā Shihāb
  Shihāb Aḥmad b. Abū Bakr b. Aḥmad al-Baghdādī. He was the Nāqīb al-Ashrāf (chief of the nobles) of the Sarakhl
• Kadilkudat Fahreddin
  Fahreddin Abu'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Ṭaceddīn Abu'l-Ḥayr Salāma b. Zayneddīn Abu'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Salām. He was fr
• The Seven Hundred and Ninety-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were those whose names had been mentioned in th
• Shaykh, Qurrāʾ Shihābuddīn
  Shihābuddīn Abū ʿAbdullāh Ḥasan b. Sulaymān b. Fazāra b. Badir al-Kufrī al-Hanafī. He was born around the year
• Shaykh Imam Taj al-Din
  Taj al-Din ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Muḥammad b. Abū Ḥāmid al-Ṭabrīzī al-Shāfiʿī. He was known by the name Efdālī. He pa
• Muḥyiddīn Muḥammad b. Mufaddal b. Faḍlallāh al-Miṣrī
  He was the katīb (secretary) of the ʿumaraʾ (princes) of the province and the collector of the revenues of the
• Great Emir Gurlu b. ʿAbdullah al-ʿAdilī
  He was among the great statesmen and a commander of 1,000 soldiers. In Dimashq, he served as the deputy (nāʾib
• Emir Cemaleddin Akkuş
  Emir Cemaleddin Akkuş ar-Rāhbī al-Mansūrī. He served as the governor of Dimashq for a long time. Originally, h
• Khatib Selahaddin
  Selahaddin Yusuf b. Muhammed b. ʿAbd al-Laṭīf b. al-Muʿtazil. He was from Hama. He had beneficial works and co
• Allāmah Fahreddīn Abū ʿAmr
  Fahreddīn Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān b. ʿAlī b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥibatullāh b. Ibrāhīm b. Muslim b. ʿAlī al-Anṣārī al-Shāfiʿī. H
• Shaykh Abū'l-Fath Nasr b. Sulaymān
  The Shaykh was a pious and devout person. His lineage is as follows: Abū'l-Fath Nasr b. Sulaymān b. ʿUmar al-K
• Shaykh Isā b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Mālī
  The Shaykh was a pious person who traveled to other regions to collect ḥadīth and lived a long life. His linea
• The Year Seven Hundred and Twenty of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were the same individuals mentioned in the prev
• Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Dihistānī
  He had grown old and lived a long life. According to what is narrated, he was forty years old when the Tatars
• Shaykh Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd b. ʿAlī
  Shaykh Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd b. ʿAlī al-Shahham was a qurrāʾ (Qurʾān reciter). He served as a shaykh in the study
• Lexicographer Shams al-Dīn b. Sāʾiġ
  Shaykh Shams al-Dīn b. Sāʾiġ Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn b. Sibāʾ b. Abī Bakr al-Juzāmī. Originally Egypt
• The Seven Hundred and Twenty-First Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were the same individuals mentioned in the prev
• Shaykh Afīfuddīn Abū Muḥammad
  The Shaykh was a righteous scholar, a qurrāʾ (Qur'an reciter) and one of the last representatives of the Salaf
• Shaykh Fazıl Shams al-Din Abu Abdillah
  Shams al-Din Abu Abdillah Muhammad b. Abi Bakr b. Abi'l-Qasim al-Hamadani—his father was from Salihiyya and he
• Shaykh ʿAlī b. Saʿīd
  The Shaykh, imam, and ʿālim ʿAlāʾaddīn ʿAlī b. Saʿīd b. Ṣalīm al-Anṣārī was the imam of the Mashhad of ʿAlī at
• Emir and Chief Hâcip Zayn al-Dīn Kutbuġā al-Mansūrī
  He was the hâcip (chamberlain) of Dimašq. He was among the good and distinguished emirs, and was the emir who
• The Year 722 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were the same individuals whose names were ment
• Qāḍī Shams al-Dīn b. ʿIzz al-Ḥanafī
  Shams al-Dīn b. ʿIzz al-Ḥanafī Abū ʿAdillah Muḥammad b. Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Abū'l-Barakāt Muḥammad b. Shaykh
• Shaykh Rāḍiyuddīn Abū Isḥāq
  The Shaykh was an imam, ʿālim (scholar), and the last link of the righteous predecessors (salaf-i ṣāliḥīn). Hi
• Our Shaykh Allāmah Rukn al-Dīn Abū Yaḥyā
  Our shaykh Allāmah, an ascetic and the last link of the pious predecessors (salaf-i ṣāliḥīn), was as follows i
• Nasirüddin
  Nasīrüddīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdillāh b. Wajīḥüddīn Abū ʿAbdullāh ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib b. Suwayd
• Shams al-Din Muhammad b. Maghribi
  He was among the itinerant merchants. He had the Sanamiyyin caravanserai constructed on the main road for trav
• Shaykh Najm al-Dīn
  The lineage of the esteemed figure Shaykh Najm al-Dīn is as follows: Najm al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Ḥusayn ibn Muḥa
• Shams al-Din Muhammad b. Hasan
  This person; among the fuqahāʾ (jurists), was Sheikh Muḥyiddīn Abū'l-Hudā Aḥmad b. Sheikh Shihāb al-Dīn Abū Sh
• Shaykh ʿAbīd Jalāleddīn
  Shaykh ʿAbīd Jalāleddīn Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Zaynaddīn Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad al-ʿUkaylī. He
• Shaykh, Imam Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad
  Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Samad b. ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Sinbatī. He was Egyptian. He abridged the work entit
• The Year 723 of the Hijra
  This year began on a Sunday in the month of January. At the start of the year, the rulers of the Islamic lands
• The Historian Imam Kamal al-Din al-Futi
  Kamal al-Din Abu'l-Fadl ʿAbdurrazzāq Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Futī ʿUmar b. Abī'l-Maʿālī al-Shaybānī. He
• Qāḍī al-Qudāt Najm al-Dīn b. Sāsarī
  Najm al-Dīn Abū'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAdī ʿImād al-Dīn b. Muḥammad b. ʿAdī Amīn al-Dīn Ṣālim b. Ḥāfiẓ al-Muḥaddit
• Alaaddin Ali b. Muhammed
  Alaaddin Ali b. Muhammed b. Osman b. Ahmed b. Ebi'l-Müna b. Muhammed b. Nihle was from Damascus. He belonged t
• Shaykh Ziyāʾ al-Dīn
  Shaykh Ziyāʾ al-Dīn ʿAbdullāh az-Zarbandī. He was a nahwī (grammarian). He lost his mind. He migrated from Dim
• Kurra Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn
  The Shaykh was a pious and virtuous man. He was a qurrāʾ (Qur'an reciter). His lineage is as follows: Shihāb a
• Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Muḥammad
  Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Kutniya al-Zarʿī. He was a merchant renowned for possessing great wealth, p
• Qāḍī Imām Jamāl al-Dīn
  Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Bakr b. ʿAbbās b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāburī. He was the qāḍī (judge) of Baalbek. He was one of the
• Shaykh Imam Muhaddith Ṣafiyyuddīn
  Ṣafiyyuddīn Abū's-Sanā Maḥmūd b. Abī Bakr b. Muḥammad al-Ḥasanī b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥusayn al-ʿArmam. He was a Ṣūfī. H
• Hatun al-Musavvena
  Hatun bint Melik Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl b. ʿĀdil b. Abī Bakr b. Ayyūb b. Shādl passed away on Thursday, the twenty-firs
• Our Esteemed Shaykh Bahaeddin
  The lineage of our esteemed shaykh, who lived a long life and traveled to various lands in pursuit of knowledg
• Emir, Vizier Najm al-Din
  Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Shaykh Fahreddīn ʿUthmān b. Abī'l-Qāsim al-Baṣrāwī al-Ḥanafī taught after his uncle, Qāḍī
• Emir Saʿīmüddīn B, Kara Sungotıl-Oqgındar Mm
  He was appointed as emir to Damascus. His emirate there was dismissed six months before his death. He died in
• Shaykh Ahmad al-ʿĀqif
  Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Ḥāmid b. Saʿd al-Tanūḥī al-Kharrīrī was born in the year 644 AH. In his childhood, he s
• Kurra Shaykh Abu ʿAbdillāh
  Abu ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf b. ʿAsr al-Ensarī al-Kasrī al-Septī passed away in Jerusalem on a T
• Our Shaykh, the Noble Person Shams al-Din
  Shams al-Din Abu Nasr ibn Muhammad ibn ʿImād al-Dīn Abu'l-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Shams al-Din Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn
• Shaykh Abū Bakr
  He was a devout person. His lineage is as follows: Abū Bakr b. Eyyūb b. Saʿīd al-Zarī al-Ḥanbalī Kayyimu'l-Jaw
• Emir Alaeddin b. Sherefuddin
  Alaeddin b. Sherefuddin Mahmud b. Ismail b. Mabed. He was from Baalbek. He was one of the emirs of the Tabībhā
• Faqih Sharaf al-Din al-Harrani
  Sharaf al-Din Abu ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Ṣadullah b. ʿAbdullāhad b. Ṣadullah b. ʿAbdulkāhir b. ʿAbd
• The Year 724 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were those whose names had been mentioned in th
• Bedreddin b. Memduh b. Ahmed al-Hanafī
  He was the qāḍī (judge) of Rum Castle. He was a righteous man. He had performed the ḥajj pilgrimage many times
• Ḥujjat al-Kabīra Honda Bint Makkīya
  She was the wife of Malik Nāṣir. Previously, she was the wife of Malik Ashraf, the brother of Malik Nāṣir. Lat
• Shaykh Muḥammad b. Jāʿfar b. Farʿūsh
  He was called Labbād. He was also known as Muʿallih. For about forty years, he taught the Qur'an to people in
• Shaykh Eyyūb al-Suʿūdī
  On the day when the aforementioned Shaykh Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. Farʿūsh passed away, he too died in Egypt, hav
• Shaykh Nureddin Abū'l-Hasan
  Shaykh Imam Zāhid Nureddin Abū'l-Hasan ʿAlī b. Yaʿqūb b. Jibrīl al-Bakrī. He was Egyptian. He belonged to the
• Shaykh Muḥammad al-Baṣrīqī
  The heretical Baṣrīqīya sect is attributed to him. This sect denies the mighty and majestic Creator, and does
• Our Shaykh Qāḍī Abū Zakariyyāʾ
  Muhyiddīn Abū Zakariyyāʾ Yaḥyā b. Faḍl Jamāl al-Dīn Isḥāq b. Ḥalīl b. Fāris al-Shaybānī. He belonged to the Sh
• The Great Jurist, Vizier, Imam, Scholar, and Orator Bedreddin
  Bedreddin Abu ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān b. Yūsuf b. Munam-nīʿd b. Ḥaddād al-ʿAmidī al-Ḥanbalī. He listened
• Al-Kātib al-Mufīd Kutb al-Dīn
  Kutb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Mufaddal b. Fadellah al-Miṣrī. He is the brother of Tengiz's secretary, Muḥyī al-Dīn. His
• Emir Seyfeddin Bektimur
  The governor of governors; he was a person who owned the waqfs (religious endowments) in various towns. He had
• Sherefuddin Abu Abdillah
  Sherefuddin Abu Abdillah Muhammad b. Shaykh Imam Allameh Zayn al-Din b. Manca b. Osman b. Asad b. Manca al-Tan
• Shaykh Hasan al-Kurdī al-Mūlih
  He mingled with filth and impurities, walking barefoot. Sometimes he would say nonsensical things resembling k
• Sultan's Deputy Kerimüddin
  Kerimüddin ʿAbdülkerim b. ʿAlem Hibetullāh al-Muslimānī. He had attained ranks beside the sultan in the Turkis
• Shaykh Imam ʿAlim Alaeddīn ʿAlī
  ʿAlāeddīn ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm b. Dāwūd b. Sulaymān b. ʿAṭṭār. He was the shaykh of the Nūriyya Dār al-Ḥadīth and t
• The Seven Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were the same individuals whose names were ment
• Shaykh Ibrāhīm Sabbāḥ
  Ibrāhīm b. Munīr. He was from Baalbek. He was known for his righteousness and resided beneath the eastern mina
• Ibrāhīm al-Muleh
  He was nicknamed "karnīnī," meaning a person who works in the kilns, because he resided in the kilns. He would
• Shaykh Afīfuddīn
  Afīfuddīn Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar al-Saklī al-Dimashqī. He was the imam of Masjid al-Ras. He is
• Shaykh ʿAbdullāh b. Mūsā b. Aḥmad al-Jazarī
  The Shaykh was a pious, devout worshipper and ascetic. He resided beside the Abū Bakr Miḥrāb of the Damascus M
• Shaykh Takiyyuddīn Ibn Saʿīgh
  The Shaykh was a pious, long-lived great man. He was a qurrāʾ (Qur'an reciter) and Egyptian. He belonged to th
• Shaykh, Imam Ṣadr al-Dīn Abū Zakariyyāʾ
  Abū Zakariyyāʾ Yaḥyā b. ʿAlī b. Tammām b. Mūsā al-Anṣārī al-Subkī. He belonged to the Shāfiʿī madhhab. He stud
• Sadrü'l-Kebîr Shaykh Shihāb Maḥmūd
  Shihāb Maḥmūd Sadrü'l-Kebîr was a shaykh, imam, ʿālim (scholar), and allāma (great scholar). He was a master o
• Our Shaykh Afifüddīn al-ʿAmidī
  Afifüddīn Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā b. Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. Ismāʿīl. He was from Amid. Later, he settled in Dimashq. He be
• Bedir al-Awwam
  Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Bābā al-Ḥalabī. He was the sole master in ring-making. His character was pleasant. A group of
• Qāḍī Ṣadr al-Dīn Sulaymān b. Hilāl
  Qāḍī (judge), imām, ʿālim (scholar), and zāhid (ascetic) Ṣadr al-Dīn Sulaymān b. Hilāl b. Shibl b. Falaḥ b. Ḥā
• Muʾezzin Aḥmad b. Ṣābiḥ
  He was a leader. He served as a muʾezzin (caller to prayer) at the Dimaşk Mosque together with Burhān al-Dīn.
• The Founder of the Khan of Hattab, Hattab
  This khan is located somewhere between the Kesve and Gabağib regions. The genealogy of Hattab is as follows: t
• Rukn al-Dīn al-Ḥattāb b. Ṣāḥib Kamāl al-Dīn
  Rukn al-Dīn al-Ḥattāb b. Ṣāḥib Kamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Uhtī b. Ḥattāb al-Rūmī. He was from Sivas. He had a khānq
• Bedreddin Abu Abdillah
  Bedreddin Abu Abdillah Muḥammad b. Kamaleddin Aḥmad b. Abī'l-Fath b. Abī'l-Wahsh Asad b. Sulaymā b. Sulaymān b
• Qāḍī Muḥyiddīn
  Muḥyiddīn Abū Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmmār ibn Futūḥ al-Ḥārisī. He was born in the year 645 AH.
• The Year Seven Hundred and Twenty-Six of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were the same individuals mentioned in the prev
• Ibn Mutahhar al-Shiʿi Jamal al-Din
  Jamal al-Din Abu Mansur Hasan b. Yusuf b. Mutahhar al-Halabi al-Iraqi al-Shiʿi. He was the shaykh of the Rafid
• ʿIzz Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Zūfir
  Originally from ʿIrbīl, he later settled in Dimashq. He acquired fine knowledge in nahw (Arabic grammar), hadi
• Shaykh Imam Eminüddīn Salīm b. Ebiddūr
  Salīm b. Ebiddūr Abdurrahmān b. ʿAbdullāh al-Dimashqī al-Shāfiʿī. He was a mudarris (teacher) at the Shāmiyyat
• Shaykh Ḥammād
  Shaykh, pious, worshipper, ascetic Ḥammād al-Ḥalabī al-Kattān. He resided in the northwestern corner of the Ta
• Shaykh Quṭb al-Dīn al-Yūnīnī
  Shaykh, Imam, Scholar. He was one of the last representatives of the salaf al-ṣāliḥīn (the righteous predecess
• Qāḍīlkubāt Ibn Muslim
  Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. Muslim b. Mālik b. Mazrū b. Jāfir al-Ṣāliḥī al-Ḥanbalī. He was born in
• Qāḍī Najm al-Dīn
  Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Muḥsin b. Ḥasan b. Maʿlī, originally from Dimašq (Damascus), belonged to the Shāf
• Ibn Qadi Shahba
  He was a shaykh, imam, scholar, shaykh of students, and a person who was beneficial to them. His lineage is as
• Sheref Yakup b. Faris al-Jabiri
  He was a merchant in Fürcei Ibn Amud. He had memorized the Qur'an and was the imam of the Kasb Mosque. He was
• Hajj Abu Bakr b. Taymuraz al-Sayrafī
  He possessed a great amount of wealth, property, generosity, ongoing charity, goodness, and ihsan (spiritual e
• The Year 729 of the Hijra
  This year began on a Friday. At the start of the year, the rulers of the Islamic lands—the caliph, sultans, de
• Emir Abu Yahya
  Abu Yahya Zakariyya b. Ahmed b. Muhammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahid Abu Hafs al-Ḥantānī al-Jayyānī al-Maghribī. He was t
• Shaykh Ziyāʾ al-Dīn Abū'l-Fidāʾ
  The genealogy of Shaykh Ziyāʾ al-Dīn, a righteous man, is as follows: Ziyāʾ al-Dīn Abū'l-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl b. Rāḍi
• Shaykh ʿAlī al-Muhārifī
  Shaykh ʿAlī al-Muhārifī b. Aḥmad b. Ḥawwas al-Ḥilālī. His grandfather was from the town of ʿIlū'l-Būsūk. His f
• al-Malik al-Kāmil Nāṣiruddīn
  Nāṣiruddīn Abū'l-Maʿālī Muḥammad b. Malik Saʿīd Fatḥuddīn ʿAbdülmalik b. Sulṭān al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl Abū'
• Shaykh Imam Najm al-Din
  Najm al-Din Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Abi'l-Hazm al-Qurashi al-Mahzuni al-Tamuli. He was one of the leading scholar
• Abū'l-Qāsim from the Righteous Shaykhs
  Abū'l-Qāsim ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Mūsā b. Ḥalaf al-Ḥuzāmī. He is one of the famous righteous persons in Egypt. He pa
• Qadi Izzeddin
  His lineage is as follows: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿUmar ibn Khiḍr. He was from Hakka
• Shaykh Kemaleddīn b. Zemlekānī
  He served as the shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs in Damascus and other towns. He was appointed as the head of the Shāfi
• The Famous Muezzin of the Umayyad Mosque, Hājjī ʿAlī
  Hājjī ʿAlī b. Faraǧ b. Abī’l-Faḍl al-Kettānī. His father was among the virtuous and distinguished muezzins. He
• The Year 728 of the Hijra
  In this year, in the month of Dhū al-Qaʿda, the Shaykh al-Islām Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Taymiyya passed away. M
• The Death of Shaykh al-Islām Abū'l-ʿAbbās Takīyyuddīn Aḥmad b. Taymiyya
  Shaykh ʿAlamuddīn al-Barzalī said in his history: "This year, on the night of Monday the twentieth of Dhu al-Q
• Sharīf ʿAlīm Izzeddīn
  Izzeddīn Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Muḥsin al-ʿAlawī al-Ḥusaynī al-ʿIrāqī al-Iskandarī. He belonged
• Shams Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā al-Tikritī
  He was a dignified, intelligent, and prudent person. He was like someone who implemented the commands and proh
• Shaykh Abū Bakr al-Ṣāliḥī
  Abū Bakr b. Sharaf b. Muḥsin b. Maan b. Amman al-Ṣāliḥī. He was born in the year 653 AH. He listened to ḥadīth
• Ibn Dawlabī of Baghdad
  The shaykh was a pious, learned, devout, itinerant person who transmitted ḥadīth with chains of transmission a
• Qāḍī al-Qudāt Shams al-Dīn ibn Ḥarīrī
  Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. Ṣafiyy al-Dīn Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān b. Abī al-Ḥasan ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anṣārī. He belonged
• Shaykh, Imam, ʿĀlim, Qurrāʾ Shihābuddīn Abū'l-ʿAbbās
  Shihābuddīn Abū'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Shaykh Imām Taqiyyuddīn Muḥammad b. Jabbāra b. ʿAbdulwalī b. Jabbāra al-Maqd
• Ibn Akulī of Baghdad
  Shaykh, imam, and allāmah Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥammād b. Ṭaʾib al-Wāsiṭī
• Shaykh Ṣalīḥ Shaykhs: Shams al-Dīn al-Sulamī
  Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Dāwūd b. Muḥammad b. Sāb al-Sulamī. He was from Baghdad. He was among the wealthy and
• The Year 729 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands and the caliph were the same individuals mentio
• Imam ʿĀlim Najm al-Dīn
  Najm al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn ʿUkayl ibn Abī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUkālī al-Bālisī al-Shāfiʿī! He wrote a com
• Emir Seyfeddin Kutlubek al-Tashnagīr al-Rūmī
  He was among the great emirs. At one time, he served as ḥājib (chamberlain). He repaired the canal in Jerusale
• Muḥaddis Yūmn
  Sherefuddīn Aḥmad b. Fākiḥ Zabīd Abū'l-Ḥusayn b. Manṣūr al-Shammahī al-Mazhijī. He transmitted ḥadīth from the
• Najm al-Dīn Abū'l-Ḥasan
  Najm al-Dīn Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Abū Muḥammad b. Muslim. He
• Ḥājib Emir Bektimūr
  He is the owner of the famous bathhouse located in the square area outside Babü'n-Nāṣir in Damascus and on the
• Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Īsā b. Muḥammad b. Karāja b. Sulaymān
  He was from the Suhrawardiyya. He was a ṣūfī and a preacher. He possessed knowledge of lahans (melodic chants)
• Our Shaykh, the Erudite Scholar Burhan al-Din al-Fazari
  Shaykh, imam, scholar, head of the school, the renowned scholar of the school, one who provides beneficial kno
• Ṣāḥib Sharaf al-Dīn Yaʿqūb b. ʿAbdullāh
  He was the naẓīr (supervisor) of the Ḥalab divans. Afterwards, he was transferred to the naẓīrship of the Ṭarā
• Qāḍī Muʿīn al-Dīn
  Muʿīn al-Dīn Ḥibatullāh ibn ʿAlam al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn Abī al-Maʿālī ʿAbdullāh ibn Abī al-Faḍl ibn Ḥāshīshī. He o
• Qāḍī al-Qudāt ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Qunawī
  ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Qunawī Abū'l-Ḥasan, ʿAlī b. Ismāʿīl b. Yūsuf al-Qunawī al-Tabrīzī al-Shāfiʿī. He was born in K
• Emir Ḥusām al-Dīn Laçīn al-Mansūr al-Ḥusāmī
  He is known as Laçinüssağir (Little Laçin). For a time, he served as the Governor of Berr in Dimashq. Afterwar
• Sāḥib Izz al-Dīn Abū Yaʿlā
  Izz al-Dīn Abū Yaʿlā Ḥamza b. Muʾayyad al-Dīn Abū al-Maʿālī Asad b. Izz al-Dīn Abū Ghālib Muzaffar b. Wazīr Mu
• The Year 793 of the Hijra
  This year began on a Wednesday. At the beginning of the year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were the same in
• ʿAlāʾaddīn b. ʿAsīr
  He was the chief secretary of Egypt. His lineage is as follows: ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Saʿīd b. Muḥānīmad b. ʿAsīr.
• Vizier ʿAlīm Abū'l-Qāsim
  His lineage is as follows: Muḥammad b. Isḥehl b. Muḥammad b. Sehl al-Ezdī. He is from the city of Gīrnata in a
• Our Pious, Devout Shaykh Shams al-Din Abu Abdillah
  Shams al-Din Abu Abdillah Muhammad b. Shaykh Salih Abid Sharaf al-Din Abu'l-Hasan b. Husayn b. Gaylan. He was
• Büyük Emir Bahādir Ās
  He was the chief of the right side of Damascus. Seyfeddin Bahādir Ās al-Mansurī, was one of the great emirs of
• Haccar Ibn Shahne
  A great shaykh, a person who narrated hadiths with their chains of transmission, lived a long life, and travel
• Shaykh Najm al-Dīn b. ʿAbdurraḥīm b. ʿAbdurraḥmān
  Shaykh Najm al-Dīn b. ʿAbdurraḥīm b. ʿAbdurraḥmān Abū Naṣr al-Muḥaṣṣal. He was known by the name Ibn Shahhān.
• Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Hadhamah
  Originally Kurdish and from the eastern regions. He came to Dimašq (Damascus). He resided somewhere between Je
• Süteyte binti Emir Seyfeddin
  Süteyte binti Emir Seyfeddin Kirkāy al-Mansurī. She was the wife of the Damascus deputy Tengiz. She passed awa
• Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad, the Qāḍī al-Quḍāt of Tripoli
  Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā b. Maḥmūd was from Baalbek. He was known by the name Ibn Majd. He belonged to th
• Abdullah b. Abī'l-Qāsim from the Righteous Shaykhs
  Abdullah b. Abī'l-Qāsim b. Yūsuf b. Abī'l-Qāsim al-Ḥawrānī. He was the shaykh of the Ḥawrānī tribes. He was a
• Shaykh Hasan b. ʿAlī
  Hasan b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad al-Anṣārī. He was initially one-eyed. Later, he lost his other eye as well. He used to
• Muḥyiddīn Abū's-Sanāʾ Maḥmūd
  Muḥyiddīn Abū's-Sanāʾ Maḥmūd b. Ṣadr Sharaf al-Dīn al-Kalānīsī. He passed away in the month of Dhu al-Ḥijjah i
• Selāḥaddīn Yūsuf from the Young Leaders
  Selāḥaddīn Yūsuf b. Qāḍī Qutb al-Dīn Mūsā b. Shaykh al-Sūlāmīya. His father was the army minister. This young
• The Year 731 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were the same as those of the previous year. We
• Qāḍī al-Qudāt ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Maqdisī
  ʿIzz al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Qāḍī al-Qudāt Takīyy al-Dīn Sulaymān ibn Ḥamza ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar
• Seyfeddin Ergun
  This year, in the month of Safar, the great Emir Seyfeddin Ergun passed away. His real name was Seyfeddin Ergu
• Qāḍī Ziyāʾ al-Dīn Abū'l-Ḥasan
  Ziyāʾ al-Dīn Abū'l-Ḥasan Aḥ b. Salīm b. Rabīʿ b. Sulaymān al-Ezrūʿī al-Shāfiʿī. He taught for sixty years in m
• 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 f
• Imam Allāmah Ziyāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās
  Ziyāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Kudbaddin Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad b. ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Sinbatī al-Shāfiʿī
• Sadrü'l-Kebir Tāj al-Dīn al-Kārimī
  He is known as Ibn Rihāyilī. He is from the Kārimiyya district of Dimashq and is among the great merchants of
• Imam Allāmah Fahreddīn
  Fahreddīn Osman b. Ibrāhīm b. Muṣṭafā b. Sulaymān b. Mardānī al-Turkmānī al-Ḥanafī. He wrote a commentary on h
• Takiyyüddīn ʿUmar b. Wazīr Shams al-Dīn
  Takiyyüddīn ʿUmar b. Wazīr Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān b. Salʿus. When his father was killed under tortur
• Cemaleddin Abū'l-ʿAbbās
  Cemaleddin Abū'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Sharaf al-Dīn b. Cemaleddin Muḥammad b. Abī'l-Fath Nasrullāh b. Asad b. Ḥamza
• The Year 732 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were the same as those of the previous year. At
• Shaykh ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Abī Muḥammad b. Muḥammad
  ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Abī Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Sulṭān al-Karāmizī. He was renowned as a devout, ascetic person wh
• Malik al-Muʿayyad of Hama
  Malik al-Muʿayyad ʿImād al-Dīn Ismāʿīl ibn Malik al-Afdal Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Malik Muzaffar Taqī al-Dīn Maḥmū
• Qāḍī Imām Ṭāceddīn al-Saʿdī
  Ṭāceddīn Abū'l-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Ghattār b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Kāfī b. ʿIwāḍ b. Sīnān b. ʿAbdallāh al-Saʿdī. He w
• Shaykh Radiyyüddīn b. Sulaymān
  He was advanced in the science of logic. He belonged to the Ḥanafī Madhhab. He came from the Konya region and
• Qāḍī al-Qudāt Sharaf al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad
  Sharaf al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh ibn Ḥasan ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī. He belonged t
• Shaykh Yakūt al-Ḥabashī
  He belonged to the Shādhilī tariqa (Sufi order). He was from Alexandria. He had reached the age of eighty. He
• Nakīb Nasīhüddīn
  Nasīhüddīn Muḥammad b. ʿAbdurraḥīm b. Qāsim b. Ismāʿīl. He was from Dimašq (Damascus). He was Nakīb al-Ashrāf
• Qāḍī Fahreddīn Kātib al-Mamālik
  Muḥammad b. Faḍlullāh. He served as the minister of the army in Egypt. Originally, he was a Copt. He converted
• Emir Seyfeddin Olcay ad-Duwaydar al-Malikī an-Nāsirī
  He was a jurist and a virtuous person. He belonged to the Ḥanafī Madhhab. He wrote a hizb of the Qur'an in his
• The Skilled and Virtuous Physician Eminüddin Süleymān
  Eminüddin Süleymān b. Dāwūd b. Süleymān. He was the chief of the physicians in Dimashq and served as their mud
• Shaykh Imam ʿĀlim and Shaykh al-Qurrāʾ Burhān al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq
  Burhān al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. ʿUmar b. Ibrāhīm b. Khalīl al-Jabarī al-Khalīlī. He belonged to the Shāfiʿī
• Kadilkudat ʿAlamüddīn
  ʿAlamüddīn Abū ʿAbdīllāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Qāḍī Shamseddīn Abū Bakr ibn ʿĪsā ibn Badrān ibn Raḥma al-Ahnāʾī as-
• Qutb al-Dīn Mūsā
  Qutb al-Dīn Mūsā b. Aḥmad b. Ḥusayn b. Shaykh al-Sūlamīyah. He was the army minister of Damascus. He possessed
• The Year Seven Hundred and Thirty-Three of the Hijra
  This year began on a Wednesday. At the beginning of the year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were the same in
• Shaykh ʿAlīm Takiyyüddīn Maḥmūd ʿAlī
  Takiyyüddīn Maḥmūd ʿAlī b. Maḥmūd b. Mukbil al-Dakūkī Abū's-Sanā. He was from Baghdad. For fifty years he work
• Shaykh Imam ʿAlim Izz al-Qudāt Fahreddīn Abū Muḥammad
  Fahreddīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Munīr. He belonged to the Mālikī madhhab. He
• Chief Judge Ibn Jamāʿa
  The scholar, Shaykh al-Islām Badr al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Shaykh Imām Zāhid Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn S
• Shaykh Imam Fazl and the Mufti of the Muslims Shihābuddīn Abū'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad
  Shihābuddīn Abū'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Muḥyiddīn Yaḥyā b. Ṭājiddīn b. Ismāʿīl b. Ṭāhir b. Naṣrullāh b. Jahbal. Orig
• Shaykh Fahreddīn Abū Muḥammad
  Fahreddīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdulʿazīm ibn Sākatī. He belonged to the Shāfiʿī madhhab.
• Imam Fāḍil Shihābuddīn Abū'l-ʿAbbās
  Shihābuddīn Abū'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAbdulwahhāb al-Bakrī. He was given the nisba Bakrī because he descended fro
• Shaykh ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Aḥmad
  The Shaykh was a pious, ascetic worshipper. His real name was ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī, and he became
• Emir Izzeddīn Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdurraḥmān
  Emir Izzeddīn Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Aḥmad b. Kavvās. He served in some departments of the Sultan. He had
• The Year 734 of the Hijra
  This year began on a Sunday. At the beginning of the year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were those whose na
• The Case of Qāḍī Ibn Jumla
  After the twentieth day of the month of Ramaḍān, a dispute arose between Melikü'l-Umara Shaykh Zāhir and Devad
• The Honorable Shaykh and Merchant Bedreddin
  Bedreddin Lü'lü' b. ʿAbdullāh Atikünnakīb Shujāʿuddīn Idrīs. He was a good man. He traded in chintz. This year
• Sadr Eminüddin Muhammad
  Muhammad b. Fahreddin Ahmed b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Muhammad b. Yūsuf b. Abī'l-Aysh al-Anṣārī. He was fr
• Hatib Imam ʿAlīm ʿImād al-Dīn Abū Ḥafs
  ʿImād al-Dīn Abū Ḥafs ʿUmar al-Ḥātib Zāhir al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn Jāʿfar ibn
• Sadr Shams al-Din Muhammad
  Shams al-Din Muhammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Ḥammād. He was a merchant in the Shurp passage. He had a distinctive handw
• Qāḍī al-Qudāt Jamāleddīn al-Zarī
  Abū Rabīʿ Sulaymān b. Ḥāṭib Majdüddīn ʿUmar b. Ṣālim b. ʿUmar b. ʿUthmān al-Azruʿī al-Shāfnī. He was born in t
• Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad
  Shaykh, imam, scholar, and ascetic Zayn al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Maḥmūd b. ʿUbaydān was from Baal
• Muvakkit Shaykh ʿAbdullāh b. Yūsuf b. Abū Bakr al-Isʿirdī
  He was a virtuous person and a scholar of a high degree in timekeeping, the science of the astrolabe, and rela
• Emir Seyfeddin Balaban
  Seyfeddin Balaban Turfa b. ʿAbdullāh al-Nāṣirī. He was one of the leading figures of Dimashq. Many events that
• Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad
  His father was the qāḍī (judge) of Ḥarrān. He himself was the nāẓir (administrator) of the awqāf (endowments)
• Shaykh Imam Taj al-Din Abu Hafs
  Taj al-Din Abu Hafs ʿUmar b. ʿAlī b. Sālim b. ʿAbdullāh al-Lahmī. He was from Alexandria. Known by the name Ib
• Shaykh Ayman Eminüddīn
  He was one of the righteous shaykhs and a devout worshipper and ascetic. His lineage is as follows: Ayman Emin
• Shaykh Najm al-Dīn al-Kabbānī al-Ḥamawī
  Najm al-Dīn ʿAbdurraḥmān ibn Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṭaḥmī al-Kabbānī. Kabbān is the name of one of the villages af
• Shaykh Fath al-Dīn b. Sayyidinnās
  He was a hadith scholar, a polymath, and a highly learned man. His lineage is as follows: Fath al-Dīn b. Abī’l
• Qāḍī Majd al-Dīn b. Ḥāramī
  Qāḍī Majd al-Dīn b. Ḥāramī b. Qāsim b. Yūsuf al-Amīrī al-Fāqūsī. He belonged to the Shāfiʿī madhhab. He was th
• The Year 735 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the rulers of the Islamic lands were the same individuals mentioned in the prev
• Chief Muezzin of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn
  Burhān al-Dīn, one of the pious shaykhs and those who lived a long life, was the chief muezzin of the Umayyad
• The Famous Scribe Bahaeddin Mahmud
  He was a famous scribe and wrote beautiful calligraphy. His lineage is as follows: Bahaeddin Mahmud b. Ḥātibī
• Alaeddin al-Sinjari
  He was the founder of the Dār al-Qurʾān located next to Babü'n-Nātifāniyyīn north of the Umayyad Mosque in Dam
• ʿAdl Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭāǧir
  Najm al-Dīn ʿAbdurraḥīm b. Abī'l-Qāsim ʿAbdurraḥmān al-Raḥābī. He is the founder of the famous tomb in Mizze.
• Shaykh, Imam, Hafiz Qutb al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad
  Shaykh, Imam, Hafiz Qutb al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAbdunnūr b. Munīr b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAlī b. ʿ
• Qāḍī Imām Zayn al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad
  Zayn al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Kāfī b. ʿAlī b. Tammām b. Yūsuf al-Subkī. He was the qāḍī (judge) of a neighb
• Taceddin Alî b. İbrâhim
  Taceddin Alî b. İbrâhim b. ʿAbdülkerîm al-Miṣrī. He was known by the name Katib Kutlubek, and was the shaykh o
• Abd al-Kāfī from the Righteous Shaykhs
  ʿUbayd b. Abī’r-Riqāl b. Ḥusayn b. Sulṭān b. Khalīfa al-Manīnī. He was known by the name Ibn Abī’l-Azraq. He w
• Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Ḥak
  Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Ḥak b. Shabān b. ʿAlī al-Anṣārī. He was known by the sobriquet Seyyah. He had a famous zaw
• Emir Sultan al-ʿArab Ḥusām al-Dīn Muhannā
  Ḥusām al-Dīn Muhannā b. ʿĪsā b. Muhannā. He was the emir of the Arabs in Damascus. They claimed to descend fro
• Shaykh Faḍl al-ʿAclūnī
  He was an ascetic person. His lineage is as follows: Shaykh Faḍl b. ʿĪsā b. Kandīl al-ʿAclūnī al-Ḥanbalī, who
• The Year Seven Hundred and Thirty-Six of the Hijra
  This year began on a Friday. The officials at the beginning of the year were those whose names were mentioned
• Shaykh Bendenicî
  Shams al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Mamdūd b. ʿĪsā al-Bendenicī al-Ṣūfī. An elderly scholar and a person who narr
• Emir Sarimüddin
  Sarimüddin Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Abī'l-Qāsim b. Abī'z-Zāhir. He was known by the name Miġzāl. He used to stud
• Emir Alaeddin Moğultay al-Ḥazīn
  He was the deputy of the fortress. He is the owner of the türbe (tomb) located opposite the Muzafferi Mosque.
• Qāḍī Kemaleddīn
  Kemaleddīn Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥibetullāh b. Shīrāzī al-Dimashqī. He was born in the
• Emir Nasirüddin
  Nasirüddin Muḥammad b. Malik Masʿūd Jalāl al-Dīn ʿAbdullāh b. Malik Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl b. ʿAdil. He was a virtuous,
• Alaeddin Ali Sherefuddin
  Alaeddin Ali b. Sherefuddin Muhammad b. Kalanisi. He was a qāḍīʾasker (military judge), deputy of Bayt al-Māl
• Izzeddin Ahmed b. Shaykh Zayn al-Din
  Izzeddin Ahmed b. Shaykh Zayn al-Din Muhammad b. Ahmed b. Mahmud al-Akili. He is known as Ibn Kalanisi. He was
• Shaykh ʿAlī b. Majd b. Sharaf b. Aḥmad
  He was originally from Homs. Later, he settled in Dınıaşk and served as the muezzin of Rebve for forty-five ye
• Emir Fahreddīn B. Shams Lu'lu'
  He was a righteous trustee. He carried out his duty in a manner to be met with gratitude. He was an elderly ʿā
• ʿImād al-Dīn Ismāʿīl
  ʿImād al-Dīn Ismāʿīl b. Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Wazīr Fath al-Dīn ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥāʾid b.
• The Year 797 of the Hijra
  This year began on a Friday. At the start of the year, the caliph was al-Mustakfi bi-llāh. Sultan Malik Nāṣir
• Shaykh ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn b. Ghanim
  ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn b. Ghanim Abū'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Sulaymān b. Ḥamāʾil b. ʿAlī al-Maqdisī. He was one of t
• Shaykh Nāṣir al-Dīn b. Shaykh Ibrāhīm
  He was a pious and devout shaykh, and his lineage is as follows: Nāṣir al-Dīn b. Shaykh Ibrāhīm b. Maʿdat b. S
• Shaykh Shihābuddīn ʿAbd al-Ḥak al-Hanafī
  Shaykh Shihābuddīn ʿAbd al-Ḥak al-Hanafī Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. AH b. Yūsuf b. Qāḍī al-Hanafī. He is known
• Shaykh ʿImād al-Dīn
  Shaykh ʿImād al-Dīn Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. ʿAbd al-Munʿim b. Nīmā al-Maqdisī al-Nablusī was affili
• Shaykh Muḥibbuddīn ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad
  The Shaykh was an imam, ʿābid (devout worshipper), and a sincere person, and his lineage is as follows: Muḥibb
• Muhaddith Nasirüddīn Muḥammad b. Tuġurbil
  He was a hadith historian, and his lineage is as follows: Nasirüddīn Muḥammad b. Tuġurbil b. ʿAbdullāh al-Sayr
• Our Shaykh Shams al-Dīn Abū al-Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAfīf
  He was an imam, a scholar, and a devout worshipper. His lineage is as follows: Shams al-Dīn Abū al-Muḥammad ʿA
• Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Majd
  Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Majd Ibrāhīm al-Murshidī. He resided in Munyat al-Murshid. People would come t
• Emir Esedüddin
  Esedüddin ʿAbd al-Qādir b. Mughīs ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Malik Muʿaẓẓam ʿĪsā b. ʿAdīl. He was born in the year 642 A
• Shaykh Hasan b. Ibrahim
  He was a righteous and virtuous person, and his lineage is as follows: Hasan b. Ibrahim b. Hasan al-Hāqī al-Ha
• The Year Seven Hundred and Thirty-Eight of the Hijra
  This year began on a Wednesday. At the start of the year, the caliph al-Mustakfī was in exile in the town of K
• Emīrü'l-Kebīr Bedreddīn Muḥammad b. Fahreddīn
  Bedreddīn Muḥammad b. Fahreddīn Īsā b. Turkmanī. During his tenure as vizier in Egypt, he commissioned the con
• Qāḍī al-Quḍāt Shihābuddīn
  Shihābuddīn Muḥammad b. Majd b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī al-Rāzī al-ʿIrbilī. Originally from ʿIrbil. Later
• Shaykh Imām ʿAlīm Ibn Marḥal
  His lineage is as follows: Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn ʿUmar b. Makkī b. ʿAbd al-S
• Qāḍī al-Qudāt Jamāl al-Dīn al-Ṣāliḥī
  His lineage is as follows: Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Mahāsin Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm b. Jumla b. Muslim b. Ḥummām b. Ḥusayn
• Shaykh al-Islām Qāḍī al-Qudāt Ibn Barīzī
  Sharaf al-Dīn Abū'l-Qāsim Ḥibatullāh b. Qāḍī al-Qudāt Najm al-Dīn ʿAbdurraḥīm b. Qāḍī Shams al-Dīn Abū Ṭāhir I
• Shaykh Imām ʿAlīm Shihābuddīn Aḥmad
  He was Shihābuddīn Aḥmad ibn Burhān. He was the shaykh of the Ḥanafīs in Ḥalab and the sarīḥ (commentator) of
• Sirr Katib Qadi Muhyiddin b. Fadlullah
  Abū'l-Maʿālī Yaḥyā b. Fadlullah b. Muḥalla b. Daʿjān b. Ḥalaf al-ʿAdawī al-ʿUmarī. He was born in the year 645
• Shaykh Imam Allāmah Ibn Kattānī
  He was the shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs in the land of Egypt. His lineage is as follows: Zayn al-Dīn Ibn Kattānī Abū
• Shaykh Imam Allāmah Ibn Kavī
  Rukn al-Dīn b. Kavī Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Yūsuf b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. ʿAbduljalīl al-ʿAlūsī a
• The Year 739 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Muslims were under the rule of Sultan Malik Nāṣir Muḥammad b. Malik Manṣūr
• Allāmah Qāḍī al-Qudāt Fahreddīn
  Fahreddīn Osman b. Zayn ʿAlī b. Osman al-Ḥalabī Ibn Ḥātib al-Jisrayn al-Shāfiʿī. He was appointed as the Qāḍī
• Qāḍī al-Quḍāt Jalāleddīn Muḥammad b. ʿAbdurraḥmān
  He was from Qazvin. He belonged to the Shāfiʿī madhhab. He and his brother came from Qazvin to Dimashq in the
• Shaykh Imām Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Barzalī
  ʿAlam al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Qāsim b. Muḥammad b. Barzalī. He was a historian of Damascus. He belonged to the Shā
• The Historian Shams al-Din
  Shams al-Din Muhammad b. Ibrahim al-Jazwī. He compiled a history containing valuable information. Scholars suc
• The Seven Hundred and Fortieth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Sultan of the Muslims was al-Malik al-Nāṣir, and their administrators and j
• The Reason for Emir Tengîz's Arrest
  On the twenty-fourth of Dhu al-Hijjah, Tuesday, Emir Taşdemir hurriedly came from Sughd to Dimashq. Wearing hi
• Caliph Mustakfī Billāh
  Abū Rabīʿ Sulaymān b. Ḥākim Biʾamrillāh b. ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Abī M Ḥasan b. Abī Bakr b. ʿAlī b. Amīr al-Muʾminīn
• The Year 741 of the Hijra
  This year began on a Wednesday. At the start of the year, the Sultan of the Muslims was Malik Nāṣir Muḥammad i
• The Death of Tengiz
  On the twenty-first day of the month of Muharram this year, on a Monday, the deputy of Damascus, Emir Sayf al-
• Haleb Naibi Taşdemîr
  Emir Seyfeddin Taşdemir, who arrested the former Dimasq na'ib Tengiz, arrived in Dimasq on a Thursday, the sev
• The Death of Muḥammad b. Tammām
  On the morning of Thursday, the thirteenth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, in the city of Dimashq, the news was loudly anno
• The Death of Sheikh Mīzī's Wife, Aisha
  At the beginning of the month of Jumādā al-Awwal, on the evening of Friday, the wife of our Sheikh, the devout
• The Execution of al-Dakkāni
  At the end of the month of Shawwāl this year, on a Monday, a session was held in the justice chamber at Dār al
• The Death of Malik Nasir Muhammad b. Kalawun
  On the morning of Wednesday, the 27th of Dhu al-Hijjah, Emir Sayf al-Din Kutlubugha al-Fahrī arrived in Dimash
• The Seven Hundred and Forty-Second Year of the Hijra
  This year began on a Sunday. At the beginning of the year, the ruler of the Islamic lands—that is, Egypt, Syri
• The Passing of Our Shaykh Hafiz Abu'l-Hajjaj al-Mizzī
  He was ill for a few days, but since his illness was not severe, it did not prevent him from attending the con
• A Truly Strange Event
  On Wednesday, the thirtieth of the month of Safar, a decree arrived from the land of Egypt to Dimashq. It brou
• A Truly Strange Incident
  On the night connecting Saturday to Sunday, the sixth of Jumādā al-Ākhirah, Emir Sayf al-Dīn Kutlubāghā al-Fār
• One of the Strange Conditions of the Time
  Both sides spent the night facing each other. There was only a distance of two or three miles between the two
• The Year Seven Hundred and Forty-Three of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this blessed year, the Sultan of the Muslims was al-Malik al-Nāṣir Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad i
• The Seven Hundred and Forty-Fourth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Sultan of the Muslims, al-Malik al-Manṣūr Sayf al-Dīn Qalāwūn al-Ṣāliḥī, hi
• The Seven Hundred and Forty-Fifth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Sultan of Egypt, Syria, and the regions attached thereto was al-Malik al-Ṣā
• The Year Seven Hundred and Forty-Six of the Hijra
  At the beginning of the year, in the regions of Egypt, Syria (Shām), the Two Sanctuaries (Ḥaramayn), and Alepp
• The Death of Malik al-Salih Isma'il
  On Wednesday, the third of this year’s month of Rabiʿ al-Akhir, the news of the death of Sultan Malik al-Salih
• The Year 747 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of the year, the sultan of the land of Egypt, Damascus, the Two Holy Sanctuaries (al-Haramayn
• The Year 748 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Sultan of Egypt, al-Sham, the Two Sanctuaries, and other Islamic lands was
• The Killing of Muzafferin and the Ascension of Nasir Hasan b. Nasir to the Throne of Sovereignty
  After the twentieth of the month of Ramaḍān, the deputy of Gaza sent a message by post to the deputy of Damasc
• The Year 749 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Sultan of Egypt and Syria was al-Malik al-Nāṣir Nāṣir al-Dīn Ḥasan ibn al-M
• The Seven Hundred Forty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Sultan of Egypt, al-Shām, al-Ḥaramayn, and other regions was Malik al-Naṣir
• The Arrest of the Deputy Sultan Ergun Shah
  On the night of Thursday, the twenty-third of Rabiʿ al-Awwal, the deputy sultan (saltanat naʾib) of Damascus,
• A Very Strange Incident
  On the twenty-eighth day of the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, a dispute arose between the Damascus soldiers and Emi
• The Year 751 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the sultan of Damascus and Egypt was Nāṣir Ḥasan b. Nāṣir Muḥammad b. Qalāwūn;
• Biography of Shaykh Shams al-Dīn b. Qayyim al-Jawziyya
  On the night of Thursday before the month of Rajab, at the time of the Isha call to prayer, our master Shaykh
• The Seven Hundred and Fifty-Second Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Sultan of Syria, Egypt, the Two Sanctuaries (al-Ḥaramayn), and the climates
• 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 Isl
• The Accession of Sultan al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn b. al-Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad b. al-Malik al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn al-Ṣāliḥī to the Throne
  Accession to the Throne Between the tenth and twentieth of the month of Rajab, a dispatch arriving from Egypt
• The Year Seven Hundred and Fifty-Three of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Sultan of the land of Egypt, the cities of Syria, the Two Noble Sanctuaries
• The History of the Famous Bab-i Cirun Gate in Damascus
  This gate was broken and destroyed due to the fire mentioned in this sanad (chain of transmission). It was loc
• This Gate Possessed a Lifespan of More Than Four Thousand, Even Close to Five Thousand Years
  Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir, at the beginning of his chronicle, relates the following report concerning the founding of
• Yelboga Arush's Entry into Damascus
  On the twenty-fourth day of the month of Rajab, on a Wednesday, the deputy of Aleppo, Seyfeddin Yelboga Arush,
• The Killing of the Seven Emirs from Yelboğa's Men
  On the third of Shawwāl, on Monday before ʿaṣr prayer, the sultan moved from Ablak Palace to Tarīma Palace. Ov
• The Sultan's Return from Damascus to Egypt
  On the seventh of Shawwal, a Friday, the sultan departed from the Ablak Palace with his soldiers to perform th
• The Year 754 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the sultan of the Muslims in Egypt, al-Sham, Aleppo, the Two Sanctuaries (al-Ha
• 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 assem
• The Year 755 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Sultan of Egypt, al-Sham, the Two Holy Sanctuaries (al-Ḥaramayn), and the r
• One of the Unique and Unparalleled Strangenesses
  On the sixteenth of Jumādā al-Awwal, Monday, one of the deceitful Rafīḍīs came to the Dimašq Mosque (the Umayy
• The Accession to the Throne of Malik al-Nāṣir Ḥasan b. Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad b. Qalāwūn
  On the second of Shawwāl, Monday, most of the umarāʾ (commanders) conspired with Amīr Shaykhūn and Surkatmīsh,
• The Year 766 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Sultan of Islam and the Muslims was Malik al-Nāṣir Ḥasan ibn Malik al-Nāṣir
• The Year 757 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Sultan of Egypt, al-Sham, the Two Holy Sanctuaries, and other regions was M
• The Year 758 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the caliph was the Commander of the Faithful (Amīr al-Muʾminīn) al-Muṭadid Bill
• 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 a
• The Death of ʿErgūn al-Kāmilī, the Builder of the Aleppo Hospital
  This person passed away on Thursday, the twenty-sixth of Shawwāl of this year, in al-Quds al-Sharīf, and was b
• The Death of Emir Şeyhun
  News reached Damascus that Emir Şeyhun passed away in the land of Egypt on the night of Friday, the twenty-six
• The Seven Hundred and Forty-Ninth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Sultan of the Muslims and Islam in the land of Egypt, Damascus, the two Nob
• The Entry of the Deputy Sultan Mencük into Damascus
  Mencük entered Damascus on the morning of Thursday, the twenty-fourth of the month of Jumādā al-Ākhirah, comin
• Dismissal of the Three Qāḍīs in Damascus
  On the ninth of Shaʿbān, Tuesday, a dispatch arrived from the land of Egypt by post. This dispatch sent greeti
• The Arrest of Emir Surkatmish, Atabeg of the Princes of the Land of Egypt
  On the twenty-fifth of Ramadan this year, Saturday, news reached us of his arrest. According to the report, he
• The Reinstatement of the Judges
  Surkatmış had dismissed the Shāfiʿī, Ḥanafī, and Mālikī judges in Damascus, and before them, he had also dismi
• The Dismissal of Mencük from the Deputyship of Damascus
  On the second of Dhu al-Hijjah, a Sunday, an emir arrived from the land of Egypt. He bore the appointment decr
• The Seven Hundred and Sixtieth Year of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Sultan of Egypt, Syria, and the other Islamic lands connected to these regi
• The Arrest of the Deputy of Damascus, Emir Alī Mardanī
  The essence of this event is as follows: On Wednesday, the twenty-second of the month of Rajab, in the morning
• An Incident That Occurred in the Town of Ḥawrān
  In this month, the Exalted Allah inflicted upon them a severe punishment. That is: They were the people of the
• The Arrival of Saltanat Naibi Emir Seyfeddīn Istedmūr al-Baḥnavī to Dimashq
  On the morning of Monday, the eleventh of the month of Shaʿbān of this year, Emir Seyfeddīn Istedmūr al-Baḥnav
• The Year 763 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the sultan of the Muslims was Malik al-Nāṣir Ḥasan b. Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad b
• The Arrest of Mencük
  Mencük, who had been in hiding in the vicinity of Dimashq for a year, was uncovered and arrested. On Thursday,
• The Supervision of Katibs and Divans
  On the fifteenth of Rabiʿ al-Ākhir of this year, on a Wednesday, an emir from the land of Egypt arrived in Dim
• The Death of Feyyāẓ b. Muhanna
  On the eighteenth of Rabiʿ al-Ākhir this year, on a Saturday, the news of the death of Feyyāẓ b. Muhanna reach
• 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
• The Arrest of Saltanat Naibi Istedmūr al-Baḥnavī
  On the morning of Wednesday, the twenty-fifth of Rajab, the deputy of the sultanate of Damascus, Emir Sayf al-
• The Arrival of the Deputy Sultan Emir Sayf al-Din Baydamir in Damascus
  On the morning of Saturday, the nineteenth of Shaʿbān, Emir Sayf al-Din entered Damascus from the direction of
• The Prohibition of Kalenderiye Sect Members from Shaving Their Beards, Eyebrows, and Mustaches
  According to Ibn Ḥazm, this act has already been declared forbidden by consensus (ijmāʿ). However, some fuqahā
• The Year 762 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the sultan of Islam and the Muslims in Egypt, al-Sham, the Two Holy Sanctuaries
• The Accession of Sultan Melik Mansur Salah al-Din Muhammad
  Melik Mansur Salah al-Din Muhammad b. Melik Muzaffar Haji b. Melik al-Nasir Muhammad b. Melik al-Mansur Qalawu
• 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, H
• The Departure of Melikü'l-Ümera Baydemir from Damascus and His Journey to Gaza
  The deputy of the sultanate and the deputy of Tripoli listened to the sermon at the Umayyad Mosque on the twel
• Sultan Malik Mansur's Arrival at the Sekiye West of the Secora Strait
  On the twenty-sixth of Ramadan, Friday, the sultan arrived with a very large retinue and sat on the sekiye (te
• The Reason for Baydemir's Departure from the Fortress and the Manner of His Exit
  On the twentieth day of Ramadan, Sunday, the kadı judges, Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn b. Kadiljabal al-Hanbalī, Shayk
• The Entry of Sultan Muḥammad b. Malik Amīr Ḥājjī b. Malik Muḥammad b. Malik Kalāwūn into Dimashq with His Soldiers and Emirs
  On the twenty-ninth of Ramaḍān, Monday morning, the qāḍīs returned to the Oṭāġ-ı Šarīf (the Noble Pavilion). T
• The Sultan's Journey from Damascus to Egypt
  On the tenth of Shawwal, Friday morning, the unit of Yalboga al-Ḥāsiqī set out with great pomp. Until that tim
• The Year 763 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the sultan of Egypt, al-Sham, the Two Holy Sanctuaries (al-Ḥaramayn al-Sharīfay
• 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-N
• The Death of Caliph al-Mu'tadid Billah
  He died in Cairo between the tenth and twentieth of the month of Jamāzī al-Awwal. The funeral prayer was perfo
• The Arrest of Mencük
  Mencük, who had been hiding in the vicinity of Damascus for a year, was uncovered and arrested. On Thursday, t
• The Supervision of Scribes and Bureaus
  On Wednesday, the fifteenth of the month of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of this year, an amir from the land of Egypt arrive
• The Death of Feyyāẓ b. Muhanna
  On the eighteenth of Rabiʿ al-Ākhir of this year, on a Saturday, the news of the death of Feyyāẓ b. Muhanna re
• 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
• The Arrest of Saltanat Naibi Istedmūr al-Baḥnavī
  On the morning of Wednesday, the twenty-fifth of Rajab, the deputy of the sultanate of Damascus, Emir Sayf al-
• The Arrival of Deputy Sultan Emir Seyfeddin Baydemir to Damascus
  On the nineteenth of the month of Shaʿbān, on a Saturday morning, Emir Seyfeddin entered Damascus from the dir
• Prohibition of Shaving the Beard, Eyebrows, and Mustache for Members of the Kalenderiye Sect
  According to Ibn Ḥazm, this act has already been declared haram by ijmāʿ (consensus). However, some fuqahāʾ (j
• The Year 762 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the sultan of Islam and the Muslims in Egypt, al-Sham, the Two Holy Sanctuaries
• The Sultanate of Malik Mansur Salah al-Din Muhammad
  Malik Mansur Salah al-Din Muhammad ibn Malik Muzaffar Hajj ibn Malik al-Nasir Muharanid ibn Malik al-Mansur Qa
• A Strange Incident and a Curious Coincidence
  The deputy of the sultanate, Emir Seyfeddin Baydemir, began to inwardly regard the governor of the country, Ha
• The Departure of Melikü'l-Ümera Baydemir from Damascus and His March toward Gaza
  The deputy of the sultanate and the deputy of Tripoli listened to the khutbah at the Umayyad Mosque on the twe
• Sultan Malik Mansur's Arrival at the Sekiye West of the Secora Strait
  On the twenty-sixth of Ramadan, Friday, the sultan arrived with a very large retinue and sat on the sekiya (wa
• The Reason for Baydemir's Departure from the Fortress and the Manner of His Exit
  On the twentieth day of Ramadan, Sunday, the kadı judges, Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn b. Kadiljabal al-Hanbalī, Shayk
• The Entry of Sultan Muḥammad b. Malik Amīr Ḥājjī b. Malik Muḥammad b. Malik Kalāwūn into Dimashq with His Soldiers and Emirs
  On the twenty-ninth of Ramaḍān, Monday morning, the qāḍīs returned to the Oṭāġ-ı Šarīf (the Noble Pavilion). A
• The Sultan's Journey from Damascus to Egypt
  On the tenth of Shawwal, on a Friday morning, the unit of Yelboga al-Ḥāsiqī set out with great pomp and circum
• The Year 763 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the sultan of Egypt, al-Sham, the Two Holy Sanctuaries (al-Ḥaramayn al-Sharīfay
• 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-N
• The Death of Caliph al-Mu'tadid Billah
  He died in Cairo between the tenth and twentieth of the month of Jamāzī al-Awwal. The funeral prayer was perfo
• The Accession to the Caliphate of al-Mutawakkil ʿAlā Allāh
  After the death of al-Muṭaddid, his son al-Mutawakkil ʿAlā Allāh ʿAlī Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. al-Muṭaddid Ab
• One of the Marvels
  In the month of Rajab, a young Persian from the regions of Tabriz and Khorasan came to Damascus. He claimed to
• The Dismissal of Emir ʿAlī from the Deputyship of Dimashq
  On the eleventh of Shaʿbān, Monday, a postal dispatch arrived from the land of Miṣr to Dimashq. It brought a f
• The Summoning of Qāḍī al-Qudāt Ṭāj al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Waḥḥāb b. Subkī al-Shāfiʿī to the Land of Egypt
  On the eleventh of Shaʿbān in the year 763 AH, towards evening, a courier from the land of Egypt delivered the
• Another Rarity
  On the twentieth of the month of Shaʿbān, Tuesday, the shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs, Shaykh Allāma Kenyā al-Dīn b. S
• The Entry of the Deputy of the Sultanate Seyfeddīn Ṭaşdemir into Damascus
  On the first Saturday of the month of Ramaḍān at mid-morning, Seyfeddīn Ṭaşdemir, the deputy of the sultanate,
• The Appointment of the Judge Bahaeddin Ahmed b. Takiyyüddin to Replace His Brother Judge Kadilkudat Taceddin b. Abdülvehhab and His Arrival in Damascus
  This person arrived in Damascus on Tuesday afternoon. First, he visited Melikü'l-Ümerâ and greeted him. Then h
• The Year 764 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Sultan of the Muslims in Egypt, al-Sham, the Hijaz, and the surrounding reg
• Good News of the Halving of Sheep Taxes
  With this good news, it was also announced to the public that Ṣadeddīn Mājid b. Ṭāch Isḥāq had been appointed
• One of the Strange and Unusual Events
  Due to the increase of waters in this month, the river's water level rose. The waters flowing from the Beredi
• The Sultanate of Malik al-Ashraf Nasir al-Din Shaban
  Malik al-Ashraf Nasir al-Din Shaban b. Hasan b. Malik al-Nasir Muhammad b. Qalawun ascended the sultanate thro
• The Death of Khaṭīb Jamāleddīn Maḥmūd b. Jumla and the Commencement of Ṭāceddīn's Preaching Duty in His Place
  Khaṭīb Jamāleddīn Maḥmūd passed away on Monday afternoon near the time of ʿAṣr prayer. The ʿAṣr prayer was led
• The Entry of the Deputy Sultan Mengliboğa into Damascus
  On Thursday, the twenty-seventh of Dhu al-Qi'dah, the deputy sultan Mengliboğa arrived in Damascus, to which h
• The Year 765 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the ruler of the land of Egypt, Damascus, the Two Holy Sanctuaries (al-Haramayn
• The Opening of the Qaysān Gate Approximately Two Hundred Years After Its Closure
  On Wednesday, the twenty-sixth of Shaʿbān, the deputy of the sultanate and the qāḍīs gathered near the Qaysān
• The Second Sermon Recitation Within the Walls of Damascus Since the Conquest of Damascus
  This event took place on the third Friday. Later, it was understood that this occurred on the twenty-fourth of
• The Year 766 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Sultan was Malik Ashraf Nasir al-Din Shaban. The rulers in Egypt and Damasc
• The Killing of the Murdar Rafīḍī
  On the seventeenth of the month of Ṣafar, on a Thursday morning, at the Umayyad Mosque, a man named Maḥmūd b.
• The Appointment of Walīyyuddīn Ibn Abī'l-Baqāʾ al-Subkī as Deputy Qāḍī
  At the end of this day, that is, on the eighteenth of Ṣafar, Thursday, Qāḍī al-Quḍāt Walīyyuddīn Ibn Qāḍī al-Q
• The Appointment of Kadilkudat Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-Subkī to the Judgeship of Egypt after the Resignation of ʿIzz al-Dīn b. Jamāʿa
  The post from the land of Egypt reported that Kadilkudat ʿIzz al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Kadilkudat Badr al-Dīn b
• The Abolition of Levies Taken from Cotton Woven in the Beledi and Meclup Styles
  At the end of this month, a sultanic decree arrived in Dimashq concerning the abolition of levies taken from c
• The Year 767 of the Hijra
  At the beginning of this year, the Sultan of Egypt, al-Shām, the Two Holy Sanctuaries (al-Ḥaramayn al-Sharīfay
• The Accursed Crusaders' Invasion of Alexandria
  After the twentieth of this month, some Crusaders who were in Damascus were taken into custody and imprisoned
• The Convening of an Assembly Due to Kadilkudat Taceddin al-Subkī
  On Monday, the twentieth of Rabiʿ al-Awwal, a major session was held at the Dār al-Saʿāda Palace concerning ce
• An Incident Among the Emirs in the Land of Egypt
  After the twentieth of the month of Jamāzī al-Ākhir, news reached Dimashq that a group of umarāʾ (emirs) in th
• An Incident Related to Baghdad
  According to what Shaykh ʿAbdurraḥmān al-Bāghdādī, one of the leaders and merchants of Baghdad, and also Shayk
• The Death of Qāḍī al-Quḍāt ʿIzz al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Ḥātim al-Shāfiʿī
  Between the first and the tenth of the month of Shaʿbān, a letter arrived from the land of Egypt. This letter
• Giving Tafsir Lessons at the Umayyad Mosque
  On the twenty-eighth of Shawwal, on a Wednesday morning, Allāmeh Shaykh ʿImād al-Dīn b. Kathīr began giving a
• The Deputy Sultan's Journey to the Land of Egypt
  On the night of the twenty-first of the month, Taşdemir Düveydar Yelboğa arrived in Dimashq by courier and wen
• The Killing of Emirü'l-Kebir Yelboğa
  The news that Emirü'l-Kebir Yelboğa was killed along with two captives from the land of Egypt on the twelfth o