ABU ZUR^AH AR-RAZI, ^Ubaidullah bin ^Abdul-Karim 200-264H ^Ubaidullah bin ^Abdul-Karim bin Yazid bin Farukh, Abu Zur^ah Ar-Razi Al-Qurashi by clientship was a Hafidh and an eminent scholar of the Hadith. He was also considered among the Imam of ‘Al-Jarh wat-Ta^dil (the critical study of the Hadith narrators). Muslim, At-Tirmidhi, An-Nasa‘i, Ibn Majah and others narrated Hadith from him. Adh–Dhahabi…
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IBN^ABDUL-BARR, Yusuf bin ^Abdullah 368-463 H Abu ^Umar, Yusuf bin ^Abdullah bin Muhammad bin ^Abdul-Barr bin ^Asim An-Namari Al-Qurtubi was born in Rabi^-ul-Akhirah, 368 H. He was a celebrated learned Imam and was the Sheikh-ul-lslam and Hafidh of Al-Maghrib (North West Africa). He was considered as the master of his time in the memorization and accurate rendering of the…
^ABDUL-HAQ bin ^Abdur-Rahman 510-581 H Abu Muhammad, ^Abdul-Haq bin ^Abdur-Rahman bin ^Abdullah bin Husain bin Sa^ id Al-Azdi Al-Ishbili was born in 510 H. He was a Hafidh and an authority in the knowledge of Hadith. He resided in Bijaya in Spain where he spread his knowledge and authored books. He was famous and a celebrated ^Alim (scholar) and was…
ABU DAWUD, Sulaiman bin Al-Ash^ath 220-275 H Abu Dawud, Sulaiman bin Al-Ash^ath bin Ishaq Al-Azdi As-Sijistani, who was one of the eminent Imam of Hadith, was born in 202H. He studied Hadith under Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal along with Al-Bukhari and taught many of the later scholars of Hadith, like At-Tirmidhi and An-Nasa‘i. Though Abu Dawud collected 5,00,000 Hadith, he…
ABU HATIM AR-RAZI, Muhammad bin Idris B 195 H Abu Hatim, Muhammad bin Idris bin Al-Mundhir Al-Handhali Ar-Razi was born in the year 195 H. He was an eminent Hafidh and an Imam and one of the prominent scholars who excelled in the methodology of Hadith. He was also one of the most respected scholars in the knowledge Al-Jarh…
ABU YA^LA, Ahmad bin ^Ali 210-307 H Al-Hafidh Ahmad bin ^Ali bin Al-Muthanna bin Yahya bin ^Isa bin Hilal At-Tamimi was born in Shawwal, 210 H. He authored AI-Musnad AI-Kabir and was considered as the scholar of Hadith (Muhaddith} of Al-Jazira. He was truthful, trustworthy, tolerant and religious. As-Sam^ani said, ‘I heard Isma^il bin Muhammad bin Al-Fadl Al-Hafidh say: ‘I…
ترجمة إمام أهل السنة أبي الحسن الأشعري رضي الله عنه The biography of the leader of Ahl Assunnah Abu Al Hasan Al Ash^ariyy May Allah accept his deeds. (260 – 324 هـ.AH ) The Hafidh Ibn ^Asakir (571 AH) the author of the well known book of “Tarikh Dimashq) in his book “Tabyin Kadhib al Muftari fima nusiba ila al…
^ABD AL-QAHIR At-Tamimi AL-BAGHDADI (d. 429) ^Abd al-Qahir ibn Tahir ibn Muhammad, Abu Mansur al-Naysaburi al-Tamimi al-Baghdadi al-Shafi^i al-Ash^ari (d. 429), al-Ustadh, the imam, jurist, scholar of principles and kalam, man of letters, poet, prosodist, grammarian, and mathematician, one of the imams of the principles of the Religion and foremost authorities of Islam by its most eminent and competent scholars….
The Biography of Abu al_Fadl ^Abdullah bin as–Siddiq al-Ghumari who died in the year 1413AH[1] Translated by Riad Nachef Name He is Shaykh Abu al-Fadl ^Abdullah the son of the grand scholar Abu ^Abdillah Shamsid-Din Muhammad the son of the great pious Waliyy, my master, Mohammad as–Siddiq the son of my master Ahmad the son of Mohammad the son…
A BIOGRAPHY OF ASH-SHAYKH ^ABDULLAH AL-HARARIYY He is the great ^alim (Islamic scholar), an example of the ^ulama‘ (Islamic scholars), al-‘Imam, al-Muhaddith, the pious worshipper, ash-Shaykh Abu ^Abdir-Rahman, ^Abdullah Ibn Muhammad Ibn Yusuf, al-Harariyy, ash-Shaybiyy, al-^Abdariyy, the Mufti of as–Sumal (Somalia). He is al-Harariyy because he is from the city of Harar. In 1887, as–Sumal was occupied…