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Muhammad ibn Khalid ibn Khulay al-Himsi
Muhammad ibn Khalid ibn Khulay al-Himsi (محمد بن خالد بن خلي الحمصي) was a Sunni hadith transmitter from Homs, son of the judge Khalid ibn Khulay, who died around 270 AH.
Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Amuli
Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Amuli (شمس الدين محمد بن محمود الآملي), honorifically Shams al-Din, was a Persian philosophical scholar and encyclopedist who died around 1352 and wrote the encyclopedia Nafa'is al-funun, completed in 1342.
Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Tusi
Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Tusi was a third-century AH Sunni hadith transmitter who settled in Baghdad, studied under Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and died there in 868 aged 88.
Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Fulani al-Kishnawi
Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Fulani al-Kishnawi was a Fulani mathematician and occult-sciences scholar from Katsina, in present-day Nigeria, who taught at al-Azhar in Cairo and died there in 1741.
Muhammad ibn Muhriz al-Wahrani
Muhammad ibn Muhriz al-Wahrani was a 12th-century Arabic prose writer born in Oran who traveled to Damascus, Baghdad, and Cairo, remembered for satirical dream-narratives and maqamat.
Muhammad ibn Musafir
Muhammad ibn Musafir (محمد بن مسافر) was a Dailamite ruler who founded the Musafirid, or Sallarid, dynasty of northwestern Iran, with its capital at the Shamiran fortress.
Muhammad ibn Mutarrif al-Madani
Muhammad ibn Mutarrif al-Madani, kunya Abu Ghassan, was a Medinan hadith scholar born before 100 AH who settled in Asqalan and narrates in both Sahih collections.
Muhammad ibn Qasim
Muhammad ibn Qasim (محمد بن قاسم) was an Umayyad general of the Banu Thaqif tribe who conquered Sindh and Multan between 711 and 713, defeating Raja Dahir.
Muhammad ibn Ra'iq
Muhammad ibn Ra'iq (محمد بن رائق) was a Turkish Abbasid military commander who in 936 became the first amir al-umara, holding supreme power until 938.
Muhammad ibn Sa'id al-'Attar
Muhammad ibn Sa'id al-'Attar was a blind Sunni hadith transmitter and spice merchant of third-century Baghdad who died in 875 CE, graded saduq thiqa by most critics.
Muhammad ibn Salim al-Hifni
Muhammad ibn Salim al-Hifni (محمد بن سالم الحفني) was an Egyptian Shafi'i jurist and Sufi master who served as Grand Imam of al-Azhar from 1757 to 1767.
Muhammad ibn Saud
Muhammad ibn Saud (محمد بن سعود) was the emir of Dir'iyya in central Arabia who ruled from 1727 to 1765 and founded the First Saudi State.
Muhammad ibn Shaddad
Muhammad ibn Shaddad (محمد بن شداد) was a Kurdish chief who seized Dvin in Armenia around 951, founding the Shaddadid dynasty that ruled Transcaucasia until about 1200.
Muhammad ibn Shihab al-Zuhri
Muhammad ibn Shihab al-Zuhri (محمد بن شهاب الزهري) was a Medinan jurist and traditionist who served the Umayyad caliphs and compiled one of the first written collections of the sunna, dying in 741–742.
Muhammad ibn Talha al-Yami
Muhammad ibn Talha al-Yami (محمد بن طلحة بن مصرف اليامي) was a Kufan hadith transmitter who died in 167 AH and appears in both Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.
Muhammad ibn Thani Al Thani
Muhammad ibn Thani Al Thani (محمد بن ثاني) was the first sheikh to rule the whole Qatari peninsula, from 1851 until his death in December 1878.
Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid
Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid (محمد بن تغج الإخشيد) was a Turkic Abbasid commander who became autonomous ruler of Egypt in 935, founding the Ikhshidid dynasty.
Muhammad ibn Ubayd al-Tanafisi
Muhammad ibn Ubayd al-Tanafisi (محمد بن عبيد الطنافسي) was a Kufan hadith transmitter graded trustworthy, who narrated from Sufyan al-Thawri and died around 204 AH.
Muhammad ibn Umar al-Tunisi
Muhammad ibn Umar al-Tunisi (محمد بن عمر التونسي), 1789 to 1857, was an Arab writer and traveler of Tunisian origin who wrote major Arabic accounts of Darfur and Wadai.
Muhammad ibn Wasi'
Muhammad ibn Wasi' (محمد بن واسع) was a Basran hadith transmitter and celebrated ascetic of the tabi'un generation who died in 741 CE, appearing in Sahih Muslim and three Sunan collections.
Muhammad ibn Wasif
Muhammad ibn Wasif (محمد بن وصيف), also known as Muhammad ibn Wasif Sagzi, was a Saffarid secretary in Sistan and a pioneer of New Persian poetry in Arabic meters.
Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni, also known as Abu Ja'far Mohammad Koleyni, was a Twelver Shia hadith scholar (c. 868-941) whose twenty-year compilation al-Kafi is the oldest of the Four Books.
Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Janadi
Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Janadi (محمد بن يوسف الجندي) was a jurist and historian of Rasulid Yemen, muhtasib of Aden and Zabid, who died around 1332.
Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Kindi
Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Kindi (محمد بن يوسف الكندي) was an Arab historian of Egypt, 897 to 961, who wrote the earliest surviving histories of its governors and judges.
Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Sanusi
Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Sanusi (محمد بن يوسف السنوسي) was a theologian and Sufi of Tlemcen who died in 1490, regarded as the Maghreb's most famous Ash'arite theologian.
Muhammad ibn Zaban al-Hadrami
Muhammad ibn Zaban al-Hadrami (محمد بن زبان الحضرمي) was an Egyptian hadith transmitter who died in 929 CE, titled the hadith master of Egypt by al-Dhahabi.
Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo
Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo (محمد ابراھيم جويو), 1915 to 2017, was a Sindhi scholar, translator, and educationist who published some 400 books while leading the Sindhi Adabi Board.
Muhammad II al-Mahdi
Muhammad II al-Mahdi (محمد المهدي بالله) was caliph of Cordoba in 1009 and again in 1010, who seized the throne from Hisham II by coup and was murdered in 1010.
Muhammad II of Alamut
Muhammad II of Alamut, also known as Nur al-Din Muhammad II, was a Nizari Ismaili imam who spent his reign articulating the qiyāma doctrine and claiming a Fatimid genealogy.
Muhammad II of Khwarazm
Muhammad II of Khwarazm (علاءالدین محمد خوارزمشاه), the Khwarazmshah from 1200 to 1220, ruled an empire from the Caspian Sea to the Indian Ocean before the Mongol invasion destroyed it.