37 results for “mecca”
Clear filterLeader of Quraysh who accepted Islam at the conquest of Mecca.
The mufti of Mecca among the Tabiin, known for his vast knowledge of Hajj ritu...
A leading muhaddith and scholar of Mecca, teacher of ash-Shafii and many hadith masters.
Known as Imam al-Haramayn for his years teaching in Mecca and Medina. A leading Ash'ari theologian and Shafi'i jurist...
Egyptian Shafi'i jurist and author of Tuhfat al-Muhtaj, one of the two most relied-upon late Shafi'i fiqh references. Also wrote az-Zawajir on major sins and al
A prolific Hanafi scholar of Mecca who authored Mirqat al-Mafatih, the most extensive commenta...
Ethiopian-born Shafi'i scholar who settled in Mecca and became a leading authority in Shafi'i fiqh and Ash'ari ...
... most influential Southeast Asian Islamic scholar, based in Mecca, whose commentaries on classical texts are still widely use...
Mufti of the Shafi'i school in Mecca and historian, author of works on Prophetic biography and t...
Paternal uncle of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and one of the most vehement opponents of Islam, the only individual condemned by name in the Quran in Surah al-Masad (111)
The chief leader of Qurayshi opposition to the Prophet ﷺ, known as the 'Pharaoh of this Ummah', killed at the Battle of Badr.
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.
Qurayshi persecutor who placed the intestines of a slaughtered animal on the Prophet ﷺ during prayer, and was executed after the Battle of Badr.
Wealthy and influential Qurayshi leader whose arrogant rejection of the Quran is directly addressed and rebuked in Surah al-Muddaththir (74:11-26).
Wife of Abu Sufyan who fiercely opposed Islam before the Conquest of Makkah, later accepted Islam and became a companion. She is known for her role at the Battl
Qurayshi enemy who mocked the resurrection and was killed by the Prophet ﷺ personally at Uhud — one of only three individuals the Prophet ﷺ killed directly in b
Qurayshi intellectual opponent who sought to counter the Quran with Persian tales and mocked its divine origin, executed after the Battle of Badr.
The mother of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, who died when he was six years old.
The grandfather of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and chief of the Quraysh, who raised him after his mother's death.
The father of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, who died before his son's birth on a trading journey to Medina.
The learned Christian cousin of Khadijah who recognized the Prophet's first revelation as the same Namus (Jibril) who came to Musa AS.
...ed among the most severe torture for his faith in the early Meccan period.
The Meccan leader who tortured Bilal ibn Rabah and was killed at the ...
A prominent Meccan leader and father of Hind bint Utbah who tried to negotiat...
A powerful Meccan elder who was directly addressed in the Quran (Surah al-Mu...
The Abyssinian viceroy of Yemen who marched with elephants to destroy the Ka'bah and was destroyed by Allah's army of birds — in the year the Prophet ﷺ was born
A major Meccan Tabieen scholar who was a student of Ibn Abbas and Ibn Uma...
A Meccan Tabieen scholar and one of the most important hadith trans...
... poignant figures of the Hudaybiyyah Treaty. He escaped his Meccan captors to reach the Prophet but was handed back under the...
A Qurayshi Muslim who was handed back to Mecca under the Hudaybiyyah Treaty but escaped, establishing a Mu...
Prolific Indonesian-Meccan Shafi'i scholar, author of numerous widely-read Arabic wor...
The most distinguished student of Sufyan ibn 'Uyaynah in Mecca and one of the earliest teachers of Imam al-Bukhari. Author...
Companion who made the first female migration (hijra) from Mecca to Medina alone, prompting Quranic revelation.
Greatest Meccan exegete of the Tabi'un and foremost student of Ibn Abbas. ...
...kkan hadith Imam who became the supreme hadith authority in Mecca, teacher of al-Shafi'i and many other great scholars.
...and transmitted extensively from the companions residing in Mecca.
...ransmitted from the scholars and companions associated with Mecca and its environs.