25 results for “awl”
The Abbasid Revolution (al-dawla al-'Abbasiyya) was the most consequential political upheav...
...he medieval period. The Fatimid garrison under Iftikhar al-Dawla had expelled the Christian and Jewish populations before t...
...ied in this battle included Dhiraar ibn al-Azwar's sister Khawla bint al-Azwar, one of several Muslim women fighters record...
The woman who argued with the Prophet about her husband, prompting the revelation of Surah al-Mujadilah.
Student and freed slave of Ibn Abbas, a leading authority on tafsir.
Freed slave and student of Ibn Umar, a key link in the golden chain of narration (Malik from Nafi from Ibn Umar).
Author of Hilyat al-Awliya, a monumental biographical encyclopedia of pious Muslims...
Early Sufi scholar and author of 'Khatm al-Awliya' (The Seal of the Saints), a pioneering work on the conc...
...f Yamama fighting Musaylima, where he died alongside Salim mawla Abi Hudhayfah.
A freed slave and companion who carried the banner of the Muhajirun at the Battle of Yamama. The Prophet ﷺ ordered that the Quran be learned from four people, a
One of the four Companions the Prophet ﷺ commanded Muslims to learn the Quran from. A freed slave who became one of the leading Quran reciters of the early Musl
... the Prophet, particularly Men Around the Messenger (Rijal Hawla al-Rasul).
Son of Ali ibn Abi Talib by Khawlah al-Hanafiyya, a respected scholar and leader of the Alid ...
A Madinan muhaddith and mawla of Ibn Umar who transmitted many of his rulings. He is a k...
Medinan Tabi'i scholar, mawla of the Hashimites, principal transmitter of Abu Hurayra's ...
Makkan Tabi'i narrator and mawla (freed slave) of Ibn Abbas, through whom he transmitted ma...
Syrian tabi'i scholar and governor of Damascus, a distinguished student of Muadh ibn Jabal who became one of the foremost transmitters of Syrian Islamic traditi
By Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani. An extensive collection of biographies of the righteous, from the companions through the tabi'in and later scholars. Abu Nu'aym recor
By Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani. A biographical dictionary of pious Muslims emphasizing their spiritual states, devotional practices, and wise sayings.
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