61 results for “story”
Clear filterSon of Yaqub whose story of patience through betrayal, imprisonment, and rise to pow...
...y the Prophet, one of the greatest military commanders in history.
...ustice became one of the most defining moments in Islamic history.
... of Karbala, an event of profound significance in Islamic history.
One of the greatest hadith scholars in Islamic history and the first to systematically compile hadith on the order...
One of the greatest hadith critics in history, pioneered the science of narrator evaluation.
... of the monumental Tafsir at-Tabari and Tarikh at-Tabari (History of Prophets and Kings). His tafsir is the most comprehensiv...
...slim polymath and one of the greatest scholars in Islamic history. Authored over 140 works spanning astronomy, mathematics, g...
One of the most influential scholars in Islamic history. Known as Hujjat al-Islam (Proof of Islam). Author of Ihya ...
... scholar, jurist, and one of the most celebrated poets in history. His Masnavi, a six-volume spiritual poem, is called 'the Q...
One of the most influential scholars in Islamic history, a Hanbali jurist, theologian, and reformer.
... and sociology, author of the Muqaddimah on philosophy of history.
One of the most prolific authors in Islamic history with over 500 works, co-author of Tafsir al-Jalalayn.
...th scholar, one of the most productive authors in Islamic history.
...in the world, and a towering figure in Indonesian Islamic history.
...historian, author of works on Prophetic biography and the history of Mecca.
...nd author of 'Shadharat adh-Dhahab,' a major biographical history organized chronologically by year of death.
...scholar and historian, author of popular works on Islamic history, jurisprudence, and the history of Islamic legislation.
...h Literature,' an important English-language study of the history and methodology of hadith sciences.
...AS, the first person to die and the first martyr in human history.
Son of Adam AS who committed the first murder in human history by killing his brother Habil.
...Prophet Isa AS, one of the four greatest women in Islamic history, the only woman named in the Quran.
...f the most brilliant military commanders of early Islamic history. He played a decisive role in the Battle of Qadisiyyah, whe...
...a major transmitter of stories about prophets and ancient history, though scholars are cautious about his narrations due to p...
A Qurayshi who came to Madinah after Badr with the intent to assassinate the Prophet ﷺ. When he confessed his plan to the Prophet, he was so astounded by the re
...Kufa (d. 67 AH). He bears heavy responsibility in Islamic history for the killing of Husayn ibn Ali and his companions at Kar...
...of Makkah. He is a deeply controversial figure in Islamic history.
...of the Prophet. She accepted Islam and died before him. Her story is part of the historical record of the Prophet's household...
The greatest hadith critic and historian of the 8th century AH (673-748 AH), student of Ibn Taymiyyah. His monumental works — Siyar A'lam al-Nubala, Mizan al-I'
...) is the most comprehensive rationalist tafsir in Islamic history, engaging philosophy, theology, science, and law. A master ...
The most prolific scholar in Islamic history (849-911 AH), authoring over 500 works across virtually eve...
...and the most controversial figure in Islamic intellectual history. His Fusus al-Hikam and al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya contain the ...
The greatest Muslim traveler in history (703-770 AH), who over 30 years traveled approximately 75,0...
...hor of al-Risalah, the most popular Maliki fiqh primer in history.
...duri), the most widely memorized Hanafi primer in Islamic history.
... tafsir (Tafsir Ibn Kathir) and al-Bidayah wa al-Nihayah (history).
Shafi'i judge and biographer; author of Wafayat al-A'yan, one of the most important biographical dictionaries of Islamic civilization.
West African Maliki scholar and Sufi leader who unified scholarly and spiritual authority across the Sahara and Sahel.
West African Islamic scholar, jihadist, and ruler; leader of a major Islamic reform movement in 19th-century Senegambia-Sudan.
West African scholar and founder of the Imamate of Futa Jallon; led the first major Islamic reform state in West Africa.
17th-century Moroccan scholar and advisor to Sultan Moulay Ismail; known for his Qanun letter rebuking royal oppression.
Early martyr and husband of Sumayyah; father of Ammar ibn Yasir; tortured to death for refusing to leave Islam.
Wife of the Prophet; her marriage to the Prophet led to the freeing of 100 Muslim households of the Banu Mustaliq.
...math who wrote on theology, zoology, rhetoric, and social history.
Ottoman polymath and bibliographer; his Kashf al-Zunun is the most comprehensive Islamic bibliographic encyclopedia.
Ottoman admiral and cartographer; his 1513 world map includes what may be the earliest known depiction of the Americas.
...in northern Nigeria, one of the largest states in African history.
The greatest hadith scholar in Islamic history. His Sahih al-Bukhari is considered the most authentic book...
One of the greatest scholars in Islamic history. His Tafsir al-Tabari and Tarikh al-Tabari are the foundati...
...ontributed to astronomy, mathematics, physics, geography, history, pharmacology, and linguistics.
...adith sciences in the 5th century AH. His Tarikh Baghdad (History of Baghdad) is the most comprehensive biographical dictiona...
...n and biographer. His Futuh al-Buldan is the foundational history of the Islamic conquests.
...rodotus of the Arabs'. His Muruj al-Dhahab is a universal history.
...an historian whose al-Nujum al-Zahirah chronicles Egypt's history year by year.
...ar of Kufa in the Tabi'un era. Expert in law, hadith, and history with an extraordinary memory.
Greatest historian of Mamluk Egypt. His Khitat is an encyclopedic topographical and historical description of Egypt.
... of al-Andalus. His Nafh al-Tib is the most comprehensive history of Islamic Spain and its scholars.
... scholar known for his works on Islamic economics and the history of Islamic philosophy in India.
Greatest hadith scholar in Islamic history; compiler of the most authentic book after the Quran.
...historian (1856-1938 CE) known for his comprehensive Urdu history of Islam, translated into English as History of Islam.
...can Muslim historian and educator, author of Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past (2014), widel...