48 results for “literature”

Seerah 7 results
History 9 results
Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Idris (peace be upon him)

... to the heavens during his lifetime, or to both. The hadith literature includes a narration in Sahih al-Bukhari in which the Proph...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Ayyub (Job, peace be upon him)

...scholars mention eighteen years, though this is from tafsir literature rather than the Quran itself. Through all of this, Ayyub ma...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Ilyas (Elijah, peace be upon him)

... particularly revered place. Some scholars, based on hadith literature, suggest that he may still be alive — like Isa (who was rai...

History · Between Isa and Muhammad ﷺ Waraqah ibn Nawfal: The Christian Scholar Who Awaited the Prophet ﷺ

...mportant and widely transmitted narrations in all of hadith literature. When the Prophet ﷺ received the first revelation in the Ca...

History · Between Isa and Muhammad ﷺ Salman al-Farisi: Testing the Three Signs of Prophethood

...t is one of the most moving in the entire hadith and seerah literature. He had traveled from Persia to Syria. He had served one bi...

History · Abbasid Dynasty Al-Ghazali Writes Ihya Ulum al-Din

... is widely regarded as one of the greatest works in Islamic literature and had a profound and lasting influence on Muslim religiou...

History · Abbasid Dynasty Execution of Al-Hallaj

...d. His martyrdom became a central event in Sufi history and literature.

History · Abbasid Dynasty Peak of the Islamic Golden Age

... science, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and literature. Muslim scholars translated and preserved Greek works, made...

History · Crusades Era Death of Jalal al-Din al-Rumi

...Masnavi is considered one of the greatest works of mystical literature ever written.

People 15 results
classical Al-Mubarrad

...il fil-Lughah wal-Adab, a major work on Arabic language and literature. He was the chief rival of the Kufa school grammarian Tha'l...

classical Ibn Qutaybah

A polymath and leading authority on Arabic literature, Quranic sciences, and hadith interpretation. His works Ada...

ottoman Abd al-Ghani an-Nabulusi

... and prolific author of over 500 works on Islamic sciences, literature, and travel.

modern Muhammad Zubayr Siddiqi

Indian Muslim academic and author of 'Hadith Literature,' an important English-language study of the history and me...

tabi_tabii al-Fudayl ibn Iyad

...of scholars rank among the most quoted in Islamic spiritual literature.

classical al-Junayd al-Baghdadi

...etters and sayings remain foundational in classical Islamic literature.

classical al-Hariri of Basra

...al-Hariri, one of the most celebrated works of Arabic prose literature.

classical al-Jahiz

The greatest prose stylist of classical Arabic; polymath who wrote on theology, zoology, rhetoric, and social history.

classical al-Mutanabbi

The greatest poet in the Arabic language; his panegyric and philosophical verse represents the pinnacle of Arabic classical poetry.

classical Abu Tammam

Major Abbasid poet and compiler of al-Hamasa, an important anthology of classical Arabic poetry.

tabi_tabii Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani

...served hadith collections and a major source for the Sunnan literature.

ottoman Hamzah Fansuri

...oet and Islamic scholar from Aceh, pioneering Malay Islamic literature.

contemporary Gibril Fouad Haddad

...anese-American scholar specializing in Islamic biographical literature and hadith sciences.

contemporary Ali al-Tantawi

...e, and writer known for his accessible and eloquent Islamic literature.

contemporary Khalid Muhammad Khalid

A prominent Egyptian Islamic author (1920-1996 CE) known for his popular biographies of the Companions of the Prophet, particularly Men Around the Messenger (Ri

Books 13 results
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani Fath al-Bari (Explanation of Sahih al-Bukhari)

...al-Bukhari. Considered the crown jewel of hadith commentary literature.

Ibn Khallikan Wafayat al-A'yan (Deaths of Eminent Men)

By Ibn Khallikan. A masterpiece of biographical literature containing detailed entries on 865 notable figures from acr...

Ibn Manzur Lisan al-Arab

...is indispensable for scholars of tafsir, hadith, and Arabic literature.

Ibn Hazm Al-Fisal (The Separator)

... detailed work of comparative religion in classical Islamic literature. Ibn Hazm, the great Zahiri scholar of Andalusia, criticall...

Qadi Iyad Ash-Shifa (The Healing)

...f the most beloved works on the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic literature. Qadi Iyad, the great Maliki scholar of Ceuta, compiled eve...

Al-Jahiz Al-Bayan wat-Tabyin

By Al-Jahiz. A masterpiece of Arabic prose literature on the art of rhetoric, eloquence, and public speaking. Al-...

Ibn Khallikan Wafayat al-A'yan

... of the most celebrated biographical dictionaries in Arabic literature. Ibn Khallikan compiled biographies of 865 notable figures,...

Ala ad-Din al-Kasani Bada'i as-Sana'i fi Tartib ash-Shara'i

...s considered one of the finest achievements of Hanafi legal literature.

Muhammad ibn Jarir at-Tabari Tarikh at-Tabari (History of Prophets and Kings)

...ir at-Tabari. The most important general history in Islamic literature, covering events from creation to 915 CE. At-Tabari present...

Ibn Khallikan Wafayat al-A'yan (Deaths of Eminent Men)

...e of the most important biographical dictionaries in Arabic literature, covering approximately 865 notable figures from all fields...

Majd ad-Din ibn Taymiyyah Al-Muharrar fil-Fiqh

...ral important later commentaries and abridgments in Hanbali literature.

Ibn Asakir Tarikh Dimashq (History of Damascus)

...y Ibn Asakir. The largest biographical dictionary in Arabic literature, covering everyone of note who lived in or visited Damascus...

Mustafa al-Azami Hadith: Its Relevance Today

.... Addresses common objections to the authenticity of hadith literature, examining historical preservation and continuing relevance...

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