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tabi_tabii al-Awzai

... leading scholar of the Levant whose madhab was dominant in Syria and al-Andalus before being replaced.

ottoman Khayr ad-Din ar-Ramli

...man courts. He was the foremost Hanafi authority of Greater Syria in his era.

modern Muhammad Rashid Rida

Syrian-Egyptian scholar and publisher of al-Manar journal, contin...

modern Mustafa az-Zarqa

Syrian Hanafi jurist and one of the foremost authorities on Islam...

modern Ali at-Tantawi

Syrian scholar, judge, and prolific writer known for his literary...

modern Abdul-Fattah Abu Ghuddah

Syrian Hanafi hadith scholar who produced critical editions of ma...

modern Shuayb al-Arnaut

Albanian-Syrian hadith scholar who produced definitive critical editions o...

modern Wahba az-Zuhayli

Syrian scholar and author of al-Fiqh al-Islami wa-Adillatuhu, a c...

modern Wahbah az-Zuhayli

Syrian scholar and author of al-Fiqh al-Islami wa Adillatuh, a co...

modern Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti

Leading Syrian Shafi'i scholar and professor at Damascus University, auth...

modern Muhammad Awwamah

Syrian hadith scholar based in Medina, renowned for his critical ...

modern Muhammad al-Yaqoubi

Syrian scholar from a distinguished scholarly family, known for h...

modern Abd al-Qadir Isa

Syrian Shadhili scholar and author of 'Haqa'iq an at-Tasawwuf' (R...

medieval Ibn Amir Hajj

Hanafi scholar from Aleppo, author of 'at-Taqrir wat-Tahbir,' an important commentary on Hanafi usul al-fiqh.

modern Ala ad-Din ibn Abidin

Son of the great Hanafi jurist Ibn Abidin, who continued his father's legacy with supplements and additions to the 'Radd al-Muhtar.'

modern Mustafa al-Bugha

Syrian Shafi'i scholar and professor at Damascus University, know...

modern Muhammad Rashid Rida

Syrian-Egyptian Islamic reformer, student of Muhammad Abduh, and ...

modern Abd al-Qadir al-Arna'ut

Syrian hadith scholar of Albanian origin, renowned for his critic...

modern Abdul-Fattah Abu Ghuddah

Syrian Hanafi hadith scholar and editor, known for his critical e...

modern Abdullah Siraj ad-Din

Syrian scholar from Aleppo, author of works on the attributes of ...

modern Mustafa al-Khin

Syrian Shafi'i scholar and professor at Damascus University, co-a...

sahabi Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan

...e four commanders appointed by Abu Bakr for the conquest of Syria. First Umayyad governor of Damascus, died of plague in 18 A...

sahabi Sharhabil ibn Hasanah

...e four commanders appointed by Abu Bakr for the conquest of Syria. He participated in the conquest of Palestine and Jordan. D...

sahabi Sa'd ibn Ubadah al-Ansari

...he Prophet's death but Abu Bakr was chosen. He emigrated to Syria where he died.

sahabi Ubadah ibn al-Samit al-Ansari

...inah, and appointed by Umar as a judge and Quran teacher in Syria and Palestine. He is the narrator of the hadith of the six ...

sahabi Ikrimah ibn Abi Jahl

...d at the Battle of Ajnadayn in 13 AH during the conquest of Syria.

sahabi Dirar ibn al-Azwar

... the battles against Musaylima and the conquest of Iraq and Syria under Khalid ibn al-Walid.

sahabi al-Muthanna ibn Haritha

...halid ibn al-Walid and continued after Khalid's transfer to Syria, though was later wounded and died from his wounds.

sahabi Khalid ibn Sa'id ibn al-As

...nd later served as governor of Yemen and a commander in the Syria campaigns.

tabii Makhul al-Shami

A major Tabieen imam of Syria (al-Sham). Born a slave of Nubian or Greek origin, he was f...

sahabi Iyad ibn Ghanm

...per Mesopotamia) region. He participated in the conquest of Syria under Abu Ubayda and later became governor of the Jazira an...

sahabi Hisham ibn al-As

...ed to Madinah and was martyred at the Battle of Ajnadayn in Syria in 13 AH.

sahabi Umayr ibn Sa'd al-Ansari

...inted by Umar ibn al-Khattab as governor of Hims (Emesa) in Syria. He was renowned for his extreme piety and refusal to accum...

tabii Abu Qilabah al-Jarmi

A Basran-Syrian Tabieen scholar from the Jarmi tribe and one of the major ...

tabi_tabii Ibrahim ibn Adham

...lar and student of Sufyan al-Thawri's circle, he settled in Syria and is regarded as one of the earliest and most authentic m...

late-classical al-Ramli (Shams al-Din)

...i. His Nihayat al-Muhtaj is a standard reference in Greater Syria and Egypt.

contemporary Wahba al-Zuhayli

One of the greatest Islamic scholars of the 20th-21st centuries. Author of al-Fiqh al-Islami wa-Adillatuh, the most comprehensive modern encyclopedia of compara

modern Mustafa Ahmad al-Zarqa

One of the greatest Hanafi jurists of the 20th century. His al-Madkhal al-Fiqhi al-'Amm is the most authoritative modern introduction to Islamic jurisprudence a

medieval al-Amidi

One of the greatest usul al-fiqh scholars. His al-Ihkam fi Usul al-Ahkam is the most technically rigorous classical work in Islamic jurisprudential theory.

sahabi Abu al-Darda'

...nd knowledge. Judge of Damascus and teacher of Quran to the Syrians.

medieval Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi (Saladin)

Sultan of Egypt and Syria who recaptured Jerusalem in 1187 CE. Known equally for his ...

medieval Nur al-Din Zangi

Ruler of Syria who united the Levant against the Crusaders and paved the w...

contemporary Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda

Syrian Hanafi scholar and hadith expert known for his biographica...

contemporary Ali al-Tantawi

Syrian Islamic scholar, judge, and writer known for his accessibl...

contemporary Wahbah al-Zuhayli

Syrian scholar and prolific author of al-Fiqh al-Islami wa Adilla...

tabii Raja' ibn Haywa

Syrian Tabi'i scholar who advised the Umayyad caliphs and helped ...

contemporary Muhammad Ali al-Hashimi

A contemporary Syrian-origin Islamic author based in Saudi Arabia, known for The...

contemporary Yahya ibn Abd al-Razzaq al-Ghawthani

A contemporary Syrian Islamic scholar specialized in tajweed and Quran memorizat...

contemporary Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid

...rominent contemporary Saudi Islamic scholar (b. 1960 CE) of Syrian origin, founder of Islam Q&A (islamqa.info), one of the mo...

contemporary Monzer Kahf

A Syrian-American Islamic economist (b. 1940), senior researcher at...

tabii Maymun ibn Mihran

A Syrian-Jaziran scholar who served as a senior official under Umar...

tabii Raja ibn Haywa al-Kindi

The leading scholar and jurist of Greater Syria in his era. A trusted advisor of the Umayyad caliphs, he pl...

tabii Makhul al-Dimashqi

...extensively to learn from the Companions before settling in Syria, becoming the leading authority on fiqh and hadith in that ...

tabii Yazid ibn Ziyad al-Dimashqi

Syrian Tabi'i narrator from Damascus who transmitted from major c...

tabii Al-Qasim ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Dimashqi

Syrian Tabi'i jurist and hadith narrator from Damascus, known as ...

tabii Sulayman ibn Musa al-Umawi

Syrian scholar from Damascus, student of Ata ibn Abi Rabah and ma...

tabii Shahr ibn Hawshab

Syrian tabi'i and prolific hadith narrator, student of numerous c...

tabii Maymun ibn Mihran

Syrian tabi'i scholar and trusted advisor to Caliph Umar ibn Abd ...

tabii Abu Idris al-Khawlani

Syrian tabi'i scholar and governor of Damascus, a distinguished s...

tabii Furat ibn al-Sa'ib

Syrian Jaziran narrator of the late tabi'un period who transmitte...

tabii Kathir ibn Murra al-Hadhrami

Syrian tabi'i scholar who met many companions of the Prophet and ...

tabii Nawf al-Bikali

Syrian Tabi'i narrator known as a student of Ka'b al-Ahbar and tr...