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Ibn Sa'dan
Ibn Sa'dan (ابن سعدان), in full Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Sa'dan, was a Buyid vizier in Baghdad under 'Adud al-Dawla and Samsam al-Dawla, executed in 985 and remembered as a patron of scholars.
Ibn Sa'dun
Ibn Sa'dun, Abu 'Amir Muhammad ibn Sa'dun (العبدري أبو عامر محمد بن سعدون), was an Andalusi hadith scholar, born in Cordoba, who settled in Baghdad and died in 524 AH.
Ibn Sa'dun al-Qurtubi
Ibn Sa'dun al-Qurtubi (Abu Bakr Yahya ibn Sa'dun) was an Andalusi Maliki scholar of Qur'an readings, hadith, and grammar, born in Córdoba in 1093 and died in Mosul in 1172.
Ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi
Ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi (ابن سعيد الأندلسي) was an Andalusi geographer, historian, and poet who served Ibn Hud of Murcia and died in Tunis in 1286.
Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi
Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi (ابن سعيد المغربي) was an Andalusi geographer, historian, poet, and anthologist, 1214 to 1286, best known for completing the fifteen-volume Kitab al-Mughrib.
Ibn Sa'id Sijzi
Ibn Sa'id Sijzi, full name Abu Nasr Ubayd Allah ibn Sa'id al-Sijistani, was an 11th-century Sunni hadith master and theologian honored as Shaykh al-Sunna, known for al-Ibana al-Kubra.
Ibn Sahib al-Salat
Ibn Sahib al-Salat (ابن صاحب الصلاة) was an Andalusi historian and Almohad chancery official who died after 1198; his pro-Almohad chronicle al-Mann bi-l-Imama survives in one volume.
Ibn Sahl of Seville
Ibn Sahl of Seville (ابن سهل الإشبيلي) was an Andalusi Arabic poet of Jewish origin who converted to Islam; born in Seville in 1212, he drowned at sea around 1251.
Ibn Salah
Ibn Salah (ابن صلاح) was a Shafiʿi jurist and hadith specialist, born in 1181 near Shahrazur and died in Damascus in 1245, whose Muqaddima became the standard manual of hadith terminology.
Ibn Salih Katib Layth
Ibn Salih Katib Layth was an Egyptian Sunni hadith transmitter born in 137 AH, remembered chiefly as the paid scribe of al-Layth ibn Sa'd, Egypt's leading scholar.
Ibn Sallam al-Jumahi
Ibn Sallam al-Jumahi (ابن سلام الجمحي) was a Basran literary critic who died in 846 or 847; his Tabaqat Fuhul al-Shu'ara is the oldest surviving book classifying Arabic poets.
Ibn Sam'un Baghdadi
Ibn Sam'un Baghdadi (ابن سمعون الواعظ), full name Abu al-Husayn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Baghdadi, was a Sunni Sufi preacher and hadith scholar of Abbasid Baghdad who died in 997.
Ibn Sana' al-Mulk
Ibn Sana' al-Mulk (ابن سناء الملك) was an Arabic poet, litterateur, and qadi of Ayyubid Cairo, born around 1155, known for Dar al-tiraz, a treatise on the muwashshah.
Ibn Saqqa Halabi
Ibn Saqqa Halabi, also known as Ibn Saqqa al-Halabi, was a hadith narrator of Aleppo who died in 350 AH (961 CE), recorded by al-Dhahabi.
Ibn Sara al-Shantarini
Ibn Sara al-Shantarini (ابن سارة الشنتريني) was an Andalusi Arabic poet, born in Santarem, who wandered in search of patrons and died in Almeria in 1123.
Ibn Sari Zajjaj
Ibn Sari Zajjaj (إبراهيم بن السري بن سهل، أبو إسحاق الزجاج), fully Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Zajjaj, was an Abbasid Arabic grammarian of Baghdad, 855–923, known for Ma'ani al-Qur'an.
Ibn Sarraj Nahwi
Ibn Sarraj Nahwi, also known as Ibn al-Sarrāj al-Naḥwī (ابن السراج النحوي), was a grammarian of Abbasid Baghdad who died in 928 or 929 and wrote Kitāb al-Uṣūl fī al-naḥw.
Ibn Saud (عبد العزيز بن عبد الرحمن آل سعود)
Ibn Saud (عبد العزيز بن عبد الرحمن آل سعود; 1879–1953), founder and first king of Saudi Arabia, retook Riyadh from the Rashidis on 16 January 1902 with about 60 men, unified Najd, Al-Ahsa, Asir, and Hejaz, proclaimed the kingdom on 23 September 1932, and met Roosevelt aboard the USS Quincy in 1945.
Ibn Sayyid al-Nas
Ibn Sayyid al-Nas (ابن سيد الناس), Fath al-Din Abu al-Fath Muhammad, was a hadith scholar and historian of Mamluk Cairo who wrote the Prophet's biography 'Uyun al-athar.
Ibn Shaddad al-Halabi
Ibn Shaddad al-Halabi (عز الدين ابن شداد) was a historian and geographer of Aleppo, born in 1217, who served Sultan Baybars and died in Cairo in 1285.
Ibn Shahid Thani
Ibn Shahid Thani (ابن الشهيد الثاني), called Sahib Ma'alim, was a Twelver Shi'i jurist of Jabal 'Amil (1552–1602), son of the executed jurist Shahid al-Thani.
Ibn Shahin
Ibn Shahin (ابن شاهين), Abu Hafs Umar ibn Ahmad al-Baghdadi, was a Sunni hadith scholar and creedal writer of 10th-century Baghdad who died in 996 and claimed 330 works.
Ibn Sharaf al-Qayrawani
Ibn Sharaf al-Qayrawani (ابن شرف القيرواني), an Arab poet and literary critic, was born in Kairouan in 1000, served the Zirid emir al-Mu'izz ibn Badis, and died in exile in al-Andalus in 1067.
Ibn Shihab 'Ukburi
Ibn Shihab 'Ukburi (أبو علي الحسن بن شهاب العكبري) was a Hanbali jurist, hadith transmitter, Qur'an reciter, and calligrapher of 'Ukbara on the Tigris, dying in 428 AH.
Ibn Shirzad
Ibn Shirzad (ابن شيرزاد), known as al-Katib, was an Abbasid state secretary of Turkic origin who became amir al-umara of Baghdad in 945, holding the office for about three months before the Buyid takeover.
Ibn Shuhayd
Ibn Shuhayd (ابن شهيد) was an Andalusi poet and man of letters from Cordoba, a vizier to the last Umayyad caliphs who lived from 992 to 1035.
Ibn Sida Mursi
Ibn Sida Mursi (ابن سيده), fully Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Ismail ibn Sida, was a blind Andalusi philologist of Murcia who compiled two of the largest classical Arabic dictionaries.
Ibn Siraj
Ibn Siraj (Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik) was an Andalusian hadith scholar and linguist of Cordoba, 1009 to 1096, whom Qadi Iyad called the imam of al-Andalus in his field.
Ibn Sirin
Ibn Sirin (محمد بن سيرين), Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Sirin al-Basri, was a Basran traditionist and jurist of the Successor generation, renowned as the first famous Muslim dream interpreter; he died in 728.
Ibn Sufyan al-Nasawi
Ibn Sufyan al-Nasawi (ابن سفيان النسوي), identified with al-Hasan ibn Sufyan al-Shaybani, was a hadith scholar of Nasa in Khurasan who died in 303 AH (916).