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Ibn Abi 'Uruba
Ibn Abi 'Uruba (ابن أبي عروبة) was a Basran hadith scholar, remembered as the first to compile the Sunan of the Prophet; he died in 156 AH (773 CE).
Ibn Abi al-Asba'
Ibn Abi al-Asba' (ابن أبي الأصبع) was an Egyptian scholar and poet, called "the poet of Egypt," known for works on badi' and Qur'anic rhetoric.
Ibn Abi al-Dunya
Ibn Abi al-Dunya (ابن أبي الدنيا), 823 to 894, was a Baghdad-born traditionist, moralist, and prolific author who served the Abbasids as tutor to two future caliphs.
Ibn Abi al-Hadid
Ibn Abi al-Hadid (ابن أبي الحديد), 1190–1258, was a Shafi'ite Mu'tazilite scholar, poet, and Abbasid administrator of Baghdad, best known for his twenty-volume commentary on Nahj al-Balagha.
Ibn Abi al-Jawd
Ibn Abi al-Jawd (ابن أبي الجود), full name Mubarak ibn Ali al-Baghdadi, was a Sunni hadith transmitter of Baghdad who died in 623 AH and worked as a paper-seller.
Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi
Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi (854–938 CE) was a prominent Sunni hadith critic and exegete from Rayy, author of Kitab al-Jarh wa-l-Ta'dil and a detailed Quranic commentary.
Ibn Abi Jamra
Ibn Abi Jamra (ابن أبي جمرة) was an Andalusian Sunni hadith scholar and Sufi who settled in Egypt, known for his commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari.
Ibn Abi Khaythama
Ibn Abi Khaythama (ابن أبي خيثمة) was a Baghdadi Sunni hadith scholar and historian who died in 892 CE, known for the Ta'rikh al-Kabir, a biographical history of which only a fraction survives.
Ibn Abi Layla
Ibn Abi Layla (ابن أبي ليلى) was a Kufan jurist and Quranic reader who served as qadi of Kufa for about 33 years until his death in 765.
Ibn Abi Mansur ibn Sayrafi Harrani
Ibn Abi Mansur ibn Sayrafi Harrani (ابن الصيرفي) was a Hanbali jurist and hadith scholar, born in Harran in 1187 and died in Damascus in 1279.
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur (ابن أبي طاهر طيفور), full name Abu al-Fadl Ahmad ibn Tayfur, was a historian, poet, and bookseller of Abbasid Baghdad who lived 819 to 893.
Ibn Abi Tayy
Ibn Abi Tayy (ابن أبي طي) was a Shi'i historian and man of letters of Aleppo (1179 to 1233), the only Shi'i source for Saladin's career.
Ibn Abi Tayyi
Ibn Abi Tayyi (ابن أبي طيء) was a Shi'i historian and jurist of Aleppo, born in 1179, known for a large lost chronicle of Zengid and Ayyubid Syria.
Ibn Abi Usaybi'a
Ibn Abi Usaybi'a (ابن أبي أصيبعة) was a Syrian physician and oculist of the Ayyubid period, born in Damascus, who died at Salkhad in 1269 or 1270.
Ibn Abi Zar
Ibn Abi Zar (ابن أبي زرع) was a historian of Fez in Marinid Morocco, remembered for the Rawd al-Qirtas, a fourteenth-century chronicle of the Maghreb and al-Andalus.
Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani
Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani (ابن أبي زيد القيرواني) was a Maliki jurist of Qayrawan, Tunisia, who lived from 922 to 996 and wrote the Risala, a standard text of Maliki law.
Ibn Abi'l-Hadid
Ibn Abi'l-Hadid (ابن أبي الحديد), full name Izz al-Din Abd al-Hamid, was a Mu'tazili theologian, poet, and Abbasid chancery official in Baghdad who wrote the most famous commentary on Nahj al-Balagha.
Ibn Abi'l-Rijal
Ibn Abi'l-Rijal (ابن أبي الرجال) was an 11th-century Arab astrologer and poet who led the chancery of the Zirid amir al-Mu'izz ibn Badis at Qayrawan.
Ibn Abidin
Ibn Abidin (ابن عابدين) was a Hanafi jurist of Damascus, born in 1784, who served as deputy mufti and wrote Radd al-Muhtar, still a basic source of Hanafi law.
Ibn Acrabi Basri
Ibn Acrabi Basri (أبو سعيد بن الأعرابي), born in 860, was a Sunni Sufi and hadith master who settled in Mecca, where he was known as shaykh al-Haram.
Ibn Ahmad 'Attar Hamadhani
Ibn Ahmad 'Attar Hamadhani, Abu al-'Ala al-Hasan ibn Ahmad al-'Attar al-Hamadhani (الحسن بن أحمد الهمذاني العطار), was a Quran recitation scholar and hadith transmitter of Hamadan who lived 1095–1173.
Ibn Ahmad 'Izz Din Maqdisi
ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Maqdisī (عز الدين المقدسي) was a scholar who died in 1279 and is credited with Arabic works including a Sufi gloss and debates with the devil.
Ibn Ahmad Abu Sa'd Isbahani
Ibn Ahmad Abu Sa'd Isbahani, Abu Sa'd Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Isbahani, was a hadith scholar who died in 540 AH, or 1145 CE, in the Isfahan-Baghdad network.
Ibn Ahmad Dhuhli
Abu al-Tahir al-Dhuhli was a Sunni Maliki jurist and hadith scholar who served as a judge in Basra, Baghdad, Damascus, and chief judge of Egypt, dying in 367 AH.
Ibn Ahmad Hakim Haskani
Al-Hakim al-Haskani (الحاكم الحسكاني), also Ibn Ahmad Hakim Haskani, was an 11th-century Sunni Hanafi hadith scholar and Quran exegete of Nishapur, author of Shawahid al-Tanzil.
Ibn Ahmad Hakkari
Ibn Ahmad Hakkari (Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Hakkari) was a Sunni hadith scholar and Sufi ascetic of the Hakkari region near Mosul who died in 1093.
Ibn Ahmad ibn Shadhan
Ibn Ahmad ibn Shadhan, known as Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Bazzaz, was a Sunni hadith transmitter of Baghdad (950–1034) titled musnid al-Iraq, the chain-authority of Iraq.
Ibn Ahmad Isbahani Jarkani
Ibn Ahmad Isbahani Jarkani, also known as Abu al-Raja' Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Jarkani and called al-Mufid, was a hadith transmitter of Isfahan who died in 514 AH.
Ibn Ahmad Raba'i
Ibn Ahmad Raba'i, known as Ibn Zabr, was a Sunni hadith transmitter, jurist, and judge born in 868 who died in Fustat, Egypt, in 940; critics doubted his reliability.
Ibn Ahmad Razi
Ibn Ahmad Razi, known by the epithet al-muqri' (المقرئ), was a scholar of the qira'at, the variant readings of the Qur'an, active in Rayy near modern Tehran.