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Muhammad ibn Abdallah ibn Tahir
Muhammad ibn Abdallah ibn Tahir (محمد بن عبد الله بن طاهر) was a Tahirid prince in Abbasid service who crushed Yahya ibn Umar's revolt in Kufa in 864–865.
Muhammad ibn Abi al-Saj
Muhammad ibn Abi al-Saj (محمد بن أبي الساج), called Afshin in Armenian sources, was the Sajid governor of Azarbaijan from 892 until his death in 901, succeeded by his brother Yusuf.
Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr
Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr (محمد بن أبي بكر) was a son of the first caliph Abu Bakr and, as Ali's governor of Egypt, was killed there in 658.
Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath
Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath (محمد بن الأشعث) was an Abbasid general and governor who served Caliph al-Mansur, governed Egypt from 758, and recovered Ifriqiya from the Kharijite leader Abu al-Khattab.
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Naqqash
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Naqqash (النقاش محمد بن الحسن) was a tenth-century Sunni scholar of Quranic exegesis and recitation whose hadith reliability was contested; his tafsir Shifa' al-Sudur survives.
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Naysaburi
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Naysaburi (محمد بن الحسن النيسابوري), kunya Abu al-Hasan, was a tenth-century Sunni hadith scholar and merchant of Nishapur who died around 964 CE.
Muhammad ibn al-Mundhir al-Salmi (Shukr)
Muhammad ibn al-Mundhir al-Salmi, known as Shukr (شكر), was an early tenth-century hadith transmitter graded a trustworthy hafiz, recorded as dying in Herat in 303 AH.
Muhammad ibn al-Musayyab
Muhammad ibn al-Musayyab (محمد بن المسيب) was the first Uqaylid amir of Mosul, an Arab ruler who seized the city in 990 and died in 996.
Muhammad ibn al-Musayyab al-Arghiyani
Muhammad ibn al-Musayyab al-Arghiyani (محمد بن المسيب الأرغياني) was a Khurasani hadith scholar of Nishapur, born in 837 and died in 927, graded thiqa imam hujja, with 125 narrations surviving in al-Bayhaqi, Ibn Hibban, and al-Hakim.
Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Muharibi
Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Muharibi (المحاربي أبو عبد الله محمد بن القاسم) was a Kufan hadith transmitter who died in 326 AH, graded weak by classical critics.
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Khalanji
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Khalanji (محمد بن علي الخلنجي) was a Tulunid commander who seized Egypt from the Abbasids in 905 and ruled it for about seven months.
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Madini
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Madini (محمد بن علي المديني), known as Abu Sa'd al-Katib, was a 21st-generation Sunni hadith transmitter graded acceptable in narrator criticism, dying in 505 AH.
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi (محمد بن علي السنوسي), 1787 to 1859, was a North African Islamic theologian and Sufi master who founded the Sanusi order.
Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdallah
Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdallah (محمد بن علي بن عبد الله) led the Abbasid missionary movement against the Umayyads and fathered the first two Abbasid caliphs.
Muhammad ibn Aqil al-Balkhi
Muhammad ibn Aqil al-Balkhi (محمد بن عقيل البلخي), kunya Abu Abdallah, was a Sunni hadith scholar of Balkh in Khurasan, praised as al-Hafiz, who died in 316 AH aged about eighty.
Muhammad ibn Awf al-Ta'i
Muhammad ibn Awf al-Ta'i (محمد بن عوف الطائي) was a ninth-century Sunni hadith transmitter and critic of Homs, Syria, who died in 272 or 273 AH.
Muhammad ibn Bakkar al-Amili
Muhammad ibn Bakkar al-Amili (محمد بن بكار بن بلال العاملي) was a ninth-century Sunni hadith transmitter, jurist, and qadi of Damascus who died in 831.
Muhammad ibn Bakkar al-Rasafi
Muhammad ibn Bakkar al-Rasafi (محمد بن بكار الرصافي) was a Sunni hadith transmitter of Abbasid Baghdad, born in 145 AH and ranked thiqa by classical critics.
Muhammad ibn Hatib al-Jumahi
Muhammad ibn Hatib al-Jumahi (محمد بن حاطب الجمحي) was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad, born in Abyssinia, who fought for Ali in the First Fitna and died in Mecca in 693.
Muhammad ibn Humayd al-Razi
Muhammad ibn Humayd al-Razi (محمد بن حميد الرازي) was a hadith scholar of Rayy who died in 862, praised as a great hafiz yet widely criticized as unreliable.
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al al-Shaykh
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al al-Shaykh (محمد بن إبراهيم آل الشيخ) was a Saudi jurist and the first Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, heading the kingdom's judiciary from 1920 until his death in 1969.
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari (محمد بن إبراهيم الفزاري) was an Arab astronomer of Kufa who served the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur and helped fix Baghdad's founding date in 762.
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Wazir
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Wazir (ابن الوزير) was a Yemeni theologian and hadith scholar, 1373 to 1436, who rejected taqlid and called for direct reliance on the Quran and Sunna.
Muhammad ibn Isa al-Mada'ini
Muhammad ibn Isa al-Mada'ini (محمد بن عيسى المدائني) was a hadith transmitter and Quran reciter of al-Mada'in and Baghdad who died in 274 AH, remembered as an imam.
Muhammad ibn Isa ibn Yazid Abu Bakr al-Tamimi
Muhammad ibn Isa ibn Yazid Abu Bakr al-Tamimi was a ninth-century hadith transmitter who died in Balkh around 890 and drew praise and criticism from hadith critics.
Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-San'ani
Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-San'ani (محمد بن إسماعيل الصنعاني) was a Yemeni hadith scholar and self-declared mujtahid (1688–1768) who rejected taqlid, taught Sunni hadith in Zaydi Sanaa, and wrote Subul al-Salam.
Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Ansari
Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Ansari (محمد بن جعفر الأنصاري) was a Medinan Sunni hadith transmitter of the seventh tabaqa, a client of the Ansar graded thiqa, who died around 170 AH (787 CE).
Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Narshakhi
Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Narshakhi (محمد بن جعفر النرشخي) was a Sogdian historian of Bukhara who wrote the History of Bukhara, completed in 943 for the Samanid emir Nuh I.
Muhammad ibn Ja'far ibn A'yan al-Baghdadi
Muhammad ibn Ja'far ibn A'yan al-Baghdadi (محمد بن جعفر بن أعين) was a trustworthy third-century AH hadith transmitter who settled in Egypt, dying there in 293 AH.
Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Fihri
Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Fihri (محمد بن كثير الفهري) was a ninth-century Sunni hadith transmitter, a Syrian who settled in Baghdad and was graded unreliable by classical critics.