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Ibn Muljam
Ibn Muljam (ابن ملجم), fully Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljam al-Muradi, was the Kharijite who assassinated Ali ibn Abi Talib at Kufa in 661, ending the Rashidun caliphate.
Ibn Munir al-Tarabulusi
Ibn Munir al-Tarabulusi (ابن منير الطرابلسي) was a Syrian poet and philologist of Shi'i persuasion, born in Tripoli in 1080, famed for satires and feuds with Ibn al-Qaysarani.
Ibn Muqla
Ibn Muqla (ابن مقلة) was an Abbasid vizier and calligrapher of the tenth century who held the vizierate three times and reduced Arabic writing to six proportional scripts.
Ibn Muqri Isbahani
Ibn Muqri Isbahani (أبو بكر بن المقرئ) was a hadith scholar from Isfahan, born in 898 and known as the leading hadith authority of his generation.
Ibn Muslim Basri
'Affan ibn Muslim al-Basri (died 219 or 220 AH) was a Sunni hadith scholar of Basra who settled in Baghdad and was praised as reliable by leading hadith critics.
Ibn Muyassar
Ibn Muyassar (1231–1278) was an Egyptian historian of Cairo whose year-by-year chronicle of Egypt, covering the Fatimid period, became al-Maqrizi's main source for that era.
Ibn Nahhas Misri
Ibn Nahhas al-Misri was an Egyptian Maliki hadith scholar who died in 1025 and was called the leading hadith authority of Egypt in his time.
Ibn Najid Naysaburi
Ibn Najid Naysaburi (إسماعيل بن نجيد السلمي النيسابوري) was a hadith transmitter and Sufi of Nishapur (272–365 AH), called the musnid of Khurasan and a disciple of Abu Uthman al-Hiri.
Ibn Nasir Abu Fadl Sallami
Ibn Nasir Abu Fadl Sallami (محمد بن ناصر السلامي) was a Sunni hadith scholar and philologist of Baghdad who lived 1075–1155 and was called the leading hadith master of Iraq.
Ibn Nubata
Ibn Nubata (ابن نباتة) was an Arabic poet and prose writer of the Mamluk era, born in Cairo in 1287 and died there in 1366.
Ibn Nuqta
Ibn Nuqta (ابن نقطة) was a Baghdadi Hanbali hadith scholar and rijal expert, born 1183 and died 1231, known for al-Taqyid, a dictionary of 689 hadith transmitters.
Ibn Qadi Shuhba
Ibn Qadi Shuhba (ابن قاضي شهبة) was a Shafii jurist and historian of Damascus who served as chief qadi and wrote a major history of the city.
Ibn Qalaqis
Ibn Qalaqis (ابن قلاقس) was an Egyptian Arab poet and man of letters, born in Alexandria in 1137, who praised Fatimid dignitaries, the Norman king of Sicily, and rulers in Yemen.
Ibn Qani'
Ibn Qani' (عبد الباقي بن قانع) was a hadith scholar and evaluator of transmitters in tenth-century Baghdad, best known for his dictionary of the Prophet's Companions, Mu'jam al-sahaba.
Ibn Qasi
Ibn Qasi (ابن قسي) was a Sufi leader who captured Mertola from the Almoravids in 1144 and ruled western al-Andalus until his death in 1151.
Ibn Qasim Dimashqi
Ibn Qasim Dimashqi, known as Ibn Habib, was a Damascene hadith transmitter and man of letters who lived 895 to 958 CE and wrote books of anecdotes and rare reports.
Ibn Qasim Misri
Ibn Qasim Misri (died 806) was an Egyptian Maliki jurist who studied under Malik ibn Anas for twenty years; his transmissions form the bulk of Sahnun's Mudawwana, the foundation of the North African Maliki school.
Ibn Qasim Miyaniji
Ibn Qasim Miyaniji was a Shafi'i hadith scholar and deputy judge in Damascus, whom al-Dhahabi called the hadith authority of Syria, and died in 985 CE aged nearly ninety.
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (ابن قيم الجوزية)
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, also known as Ibn al-Qayyim, was a Damascene Hanbali jurist, theologian, and prolific writer (1292–1350), the leading student of Ibn Taymiyya, known for I'lam al-Muwaqqi'in and Madarij al-Salikin.
Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi
Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi (ابن قدامة المقدسي) was a Hanbali jurist and theologian of Damascus and Jerusalem, born in 1147, who wrote al-Mughni and fought with Saladin in 1187.
Ibn Qunfudh
Ibn Qunfudh (ابن قنفذ) was a Maliki jurist, mathematician, astronomer, and historian of Constantine in Algeria, who lived from about 1339 to 1407 and wrote about 30 works.
Ibn Qutayba
Ibn Qutayba (ابن قتيبة) was an Abbasid scholar and writer, qadi of Dinawar, who lived in Baghdad from 828 to 889 and wrote on philology, Quran, Hadith, and history.
Ibn Quzman
Ibn Quzman (ابن قزمان) was a Cordoban poet of al-Andalus who died in 1160 and is regarded as the leading composer of zajal, the strophic vernacular poetry of al-Andalus.
Ibn Rahawayh (Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn Rahawayh, Khorasanian hadith scholar, d. 853)
Ibn Rahawayh (ابن راهويه), full name Ishaq ibn Ibrahim, was a ninth-century Khorasanian hadith scholar from Merv who taught al-Bukhari, Muslim, and other Six Books compilers.
Ibn Rahawayh (Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Rahawayh, son of Ishaq, Sunni hadith and fiqh scholar)
Ibn Rahawayh, Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Rahawayh al-Hanzali, was a Sunni hadith and fiqh scholar of Marw, son of the celebrated hadith master Ishaq ibn Rahawayh.
Ibn Rashiq al-Qayrawani
Ibn Rashiq al-Qayrawani (ابن رشيق القيرواني) was a poet and literary critic at the Zirid court of al-Muizz ibn Badis in Qayrawan, born around 1000.
Ibn Rizqawayh
Ibn Rizqawayh (ابن رزقويه), Abu al-Hasan al-Baghdadi al-Bazzaz, was a hadith transmitter of Baghdad (936–1021) and the first shaykh from whom the historian al-Khatib al-Baghdadi took hadith.
Ibn Rushayd Sabti
Ibn Rushayd Sabti, also known as Ibn Rushayd al-Sabti, was a hadith scholar from Ceuta (1259–1321) who preached at the Great Mosque of Granada and wrote Mil' al-'ayba.
Ibn Rushd Jadd
Ibn Rushd al-Jadd (أبو الوليد ابن رشد, 1058–1126) was chief judge of Córdoba under the Almoravids, a leading Mālikī jurist and grandfather of the philosopher Averroes.
Ibn Rusta
Ibn Rusta (ابن رسته), fully Abu Ali Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Rusta, was a Persian geographer from Isfahan whose encyclopedia Kitab al-A'laq al-Nafisa, completed around 903–913, survives only in its seventh volume.