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...the prophetic lineage of both Banu Isra'il (through his son Ishaq) and the Arabs (through his son Ismail) traces back to him...
Ishaq (peace be upon him), the son of Ibrahim and his wife Sarah...
...anu Isra'il — Children of Israel — derives), was the son of Ishaq and the father of twelve sons who became the progenitors o...
...ied by classical scholars as corresponding to the prophet Elisha. He is mentioned alongside other great prophets in two pass...
...uprightness, and the expectation of the final prophet. Ibn Ishaq records in his Sirah that righteous followers of the origi...
...tional doctrine, until the human additions became indistinguishable from the original divine revelation. By the end of the ...
...arrated in his own words and preserved in the Sirah of Ibn Hisham and the Musnad of Imam Ahmad, is the single most detailed ...
...preserved in Salman's own words in Musnad Ahmad and in Ibn Hisham's Sirah — that the time had come for a prophet to appear w...
... would avenge him — drove the subsequent wars between Ali, Aisha, and Muawiyah.
...armed conflict between Muslim factions, fought near Basra. Aisha (the mother of the believers), Talha ibn Ubaydullah, and Zu...
Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik's twenty-year reign (105–125 AH) was the ...
...Umayyad prince, Abd al-Rahman ibn Muawiyah — a grandson of Hisham — escaped the carnage and after years of wandering arrived...
Abd al-Rahman ibn Muawiyah ibn Hisham, known as al-Dakhil (the Immigrant) and Saqr Quraysh (Falc...
... the assassination of Uthman ibn Affan. A coalition led by Aisha (the Mother of the Believers), Talha ibn Ubaydullah, and Zu...
...tory. City after city was razed: Samarkand, Bukhara, Merv, Nishapur — all centres of Islamic civilisation were destroyed wit...
...the leading Ash'ari theologian and Shafi'i jurist, died in Nishapur. He was the teacher of al-Ghazali.
...pire, systematically destroying Bukhara, Samarkand, Balkh, Nishapur, and Merv, killing millions and devastating Central Asia...
Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi, the great Maliki jurist of Granada, died. His ...