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Grandson of Abu Bakr and one of the seven fuqaha of Medina.
Compiler of three major hadith encyclopedias: al-Mu'jam al-Kabir, al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and al-Mu'jam as-Saghir. Traveled extensively for decades collecting narra
Author of al-Kashshaf, a Quran commentary celebrated for its masterful analysis of Arabic rhetoric and grammar. Despite his Mu'tazili theological leanings, his
...hor of 'al-Awasim wal-Qawasim fi adh-Dhabb an Sunnat Abi al-Qasim.'
Historian and hadith scholar of Jurjan, author of 'Tarikh Jurjan,' a major biographical dictionary of scholars from the region.
...who died in infancy. The Prophet was given his kunya Abu al-Qasim because of him. Enemies who mocked the Prophet as 'abtar' (...
The Umayyad general who conquered Sind and southern Punjab at the age of 17-20 (92-96 AH / 711-715 CE), bringing Islam to the Indian subcontinent. He defeated R
...d Musa ibn Nusayr, and the conquest of Sind by Muhammad ibn Qasim.
Shafi'i scholar of 10th-century AH Egypt, wrote marginal notes (hashiya) on Ibn Hajar al-Haytami's Tuhfah and Shihab al-Din al-Ramli's works.
Chief student of Ibn al-Qasim (student of Malik), compiler of al-Mudawwana, the foundatio...
Imam Malik's foremost student, principal transmitter of Maliki jurisprudence and co-author of al-Mudawwana.
...tative Maliki legal reference, from the teachings of Ibn al-Qasim.
A leading early scholar of Arabic linguistics, hadith, and Quranic studies. His Gharib al-Hadith and Fada'il al-Quran are among the most important early works i
Primary Egyptian student of Malik whose transmissions form the core of the Maliki school.
Grandson of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and one of the Seven Fuqaha of Medina. Raised by his aunt Aisha, he was among the most knowledgeable of the Tabi'un in Sunnah and
Syrian Tabi'i jurist and hadith narrator from Damascus, known as Abu Abd al-Rahman, who served as a key transmitter of Syrian Islamic scholarship.
Egyptian tabi'i and student of Ibn Umar and Aisha, who settled in Egypt and became one of its leading early scholars.