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classical Imam at-Tirmidhi

Compiler of Jami at-Tirmidhi, notable for including fiqh discussions and ha...

classical Imam Abu Isa at-Tirmidhi

Compiler of Jami at-Tirmidhi, notable for including scholarly evaluations a...

classical Abu al-Qasim at-Tabarani

Compiler of three major hadith encyclopedias: al-Mu'jam al-Kabir, al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and al-Mu'jam as-Saghir. Trav...

classical al-Qurtubi

Author of al-Jami li-Ahkam al-Quran, a major tafsir focused on legal rulings...

medieval Ibn Jamaah

Chief judge of Egypt and a prominent Shafii scholar.

medieval Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali

A major Hanbali scholar, author of Jami al-Ulum wal-Hikam (commentary on the 40+2 hadith of Nawawi...

modern Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani

Pan-Islamic political activist and Islamic modernist who traveled across the Muslim world calling for Muslim unity against European colonialism. Teacher of Muha

modern al-Mubarakfuri

Author of Tuhfat al-Ahwadhi, a major commentary on Jami at-Tirmidhi.

modern Abu al-Ala al-Mubarakpuri

...wadhi, the most comprehensive and widely used commentary on Jami at-Tirmidhi. An Indian scholar of the Ahl al-Hadith tradit...

modern Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi

Indian scholar and founder of the Tablighi Jama'at, one of the largest Islamic grassroots movements in the...

modern Abul Ala al-Mawdudi

Author of Tafhim al-Quran and founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, a major Islamic revivalist thinker.

ottoman al-Munawi

...al-Qadir,' the most extensive commentary on as-Suyuti's 'al-Jami as-Saghir' hadith collection.

modern al-Mubarakfuri (Tuhfah)

...f 'Tuhfat al-Ahwadhi,' the most comprehensive commentary on Jami at-Tirmidhi.

medieval Ibn Jama'ah

Chief judge of Egypt and author of 'Tadhkirat as-Sami wal-Mutakallim,' a classic text on the etiquette of learning and teaching.

jahiliyyah Umm Jamil bint Harb

Wife of Abu Lahab and sister of Abu Sufyan, condemned in Surah al-Masad (111:4) as a 'carrier of firewood' for her active role in persecuting the Prophet ﷺ.

modern Bilal Philips

Canadian-Jamaican Islamic scholar, prolific author of over 50 books in E...

Pre-Islamic Binyamin (Benjamin)

The full brother of Prophet Yusuf AS, son of Yaqub and Rachel, who was kept by Yusuf in Egypt as part of the plan to reunite their father's family.

sahabi Amr ibn al-Jamuh al-Ansari

An Ansari elder of the Banu Salimah clan who was lame but insisted on fighting at Uhud despite the Prophet's offer to excuse him, declaring he wished to walk wi

medieval al-Suyuti

...co-authored with al-Mahalli), al-Itqan fi Ulum al-Quran, al-Jami al-Saghir, and Tadrib al-Rawi remain standard textbooks in...

ottoman Jamal al-Din al-Zayla'i

Hanafi hadith master, author of Nasb al-Rayah li Ahadith al-Hidayah, the definitive reference for the hadith evidence of the Hanafi school.

classical al-Tabarani

Prolific hadith compiler known for his three Mu'jam collections covering thousands of companions' narrations.

medieval Yaqut al-Hamawi

The greatest Islamic geographer. His Mu'jam al-Buldan (Dictionary of Countries) is the most comprehensi...

classical al-Tirmidhi

Compiler of Jami' al-Tirmidhi (Sunan al-Tirmidhi), one of the six canonical...

medieval Imam al-Qurtubi

Author of al-Jami' li-Ahkam al-Quran (Tafsir al-Qurtubi), the most comprehen...

contemporary Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi

Pakistani Islamic thinker and founder of Jamaat-e-Islami; controversial modernist-Islamist ideologue.

medieval Sulayman al-Jamal

An Egyptian Shafi'i scholar and Azhari jurist (d. 1204 AH / 1790 CE), best known for his encyclopedic hashiyah on Tafsir al-Jalalayn titled al-Futuhat al-Ilahiy

contemporary Muhammad Yusuf Kandhalwi

A senior leader of the Tablighi Jamaat (1917-1965 CE) and author of the multi-volume Hayat al-S...

tabi_tabii Ma'mar ibn Rashid

...st important early compilers of hadith and the author of al-Jami', an early systematic hadith collection.