All articles A–Z
519,064 articles
Ahmad ibn Abd al-Samad al-Ghurji
Ahmad ibn Abd al-Samad al-Ghurji (الغورجي أبو بكر أحمد بن عبد الصمد) was a hadith transmitter and merchant of Herat who carried Jami' al-Tirmidhi from Abd al-Jabbar al-Jarrahi and died in 481 AH.
Ahmad ibn Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad
Ahmad ibn Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad, known as hafid al-Shashi, was a Shafi'i jurist of Baghdad who taught at the Nizamiyya madrasa and died in 576 AH.
Ahmad ibn Abi al-Diyaf
Ahmad ibn Abi al-Diyaf (أحمد بن أبي الضياف) was a Tunisian statesman, historian, and vizier who drafted the Fundamental Pact of 1857 and Tunisia's first constitution of 1861.
Ahmad ibn Abi Du'ad
Ahmad ibn Abi Du'ad (أحمد بن أبي دؤاد) was a Mu'tazili jurist who served as chief qadi of the Abbasid caliphate and directed the mihna.
Ahmad ibn Abi Mahalli
Ahmad ibn Abi Mahalli (أحمد بن أبي محلي) was a Moroccan jurist and Sufi of Sijilmasa who proclaimed himself the Mahdi and led a revolt against the Saadian dynasty.
Ahmad ibn Ajiba
Ahmad ibn Ajiba (أحمد بن عجيبة) was a Moroccan jurist, Qur'an commentator, and Sufi master of the Darqawi order who lived from 1747 to 1809 and wrote al-Bahr al-madid.
Ahmad ibn al-Furat
Ahmad ibn al-Furat (أحمد بن الفurat) was an Abbasid fiscal administrator of the Banu'l-Furat family who headed the caliphal land-tax and estate administration under al-Mu'tadid and al-Muktafi.
Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Kalbi
Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Kalbi was a Kalbid governor of Sicily for the Fatimids, ruling from about 952 to 969 and taking Rometta from the Byzantines.
Ahmad ibn al-Khalil al-Burjalani
Ahmad ibn al-Khalil al-Burjalani was a trustworthy 3rd-century AH Baghdad hadith transmitter who died in 277 AH (891 CE), with 45 hadith in the Nine Books corpus.
Ahmad ibn al-Nadr al-Naysaburi
Ahmad ibn al-Nadr al-Naysaburi (أحمد بن النضر) was a ninth-century hadith transmitter of Nishapur, brother of Muhammad ibn al-Nadr, used directly by al-Bukhari; he died in 898.
Ahmad ibn al-Qadi
Ahmad ibn al-Qadi (أحمد بن القاضي) was a Moroccan Maliki jurist, historian, and mathematician who served as qadi of Sale and wrote biographical and historical works under the Sa'di sultan Ahmad al-Mansur.
Ahmad ibn al-Saqar al-Tarsusi
Ahmad ibn al-Saqar al-Tarsusi (أحمد بن الصقر الطرسوسي), Abu Sa'id, was a hadith transmitter from Tarsus who settled in Baghdad as mustamli to Muhammad ibn Bashshar, dying in 301 AH.
Ahmad ibn Ali ibn al-Ikhshid
Ahmad ibn Ali ibn al-Ikhshid (أحمد بن علي بن الإخشيد) was the last ruler of the Ikhshidid dynasty of Egypt and Syria, deposed by the Fatimid conquest in 969.
Ahmad ibn Amr al-Ilbiri
Ahmad ibn Amr al-Ilbiri (الإلبيري), also known as Ibn 'Amrila, was a hadith scholar and preacher of Ilbira in al-Andalus, praised as an imam in the defects of hadith, who died in 924 CE.
Ahmad ibn Amr ibn Jabir al-Tahhan
Ahmad ibn Amr ibn Jabir al-Tahhan (الطحان أبو بكر أحمد بن عمرو بن جابر) was a third-century hadith scholar of Ramla, born around 250 AH and died 333 AH.
Ahmad ibn Asad
Ahmad ibn Asad (أحمد بن أسد) was an early Samanid and governor of Fergana from about 819; by outliving his brothers he concentrated the family's districts, and his sons Nasr I and Isma'il succeeded him.
Ahmad ibn Badil al-Yami
Ahmad ibn Badil al-Yami (Abu Ja'far) was a Kufan hadith transmitter, jurist, and judge who died in 258 AH and appears in Sunan Ibn Majah and Jami' al-Tirmidhi.
Ahmad ibn Bahzad al-Misri
Ahmad ibn Bahzad al-Misri (أحمد بن بهزاد المصري) was a Sunni hadith transmitter of 10th-century Egypt, graded saduq (truthful) by the classical critics, who died in 957 CE.
Ahmad ibn Bandar al-Isbahani
Ahmad ibn Bandar al-Isbahani (الشعار أبو عبد الله أحمد بن بندار) was a Sunni hadith transmitter of 4th-century AH Isfahan, remembered as a Zahiri and called musnid Isbahan by al-Dhahabi.
Ahmad ibn Baqi
Ahmad ibn Baqi (أحمد بن بقي) was a Cordoban Sunni jurist and hadith scholar, son of Baqi ibn Makhlad, who served as qadi of Cordoba until his death in 936.
Ahmad ibn Fadlan (أحمد بن فضلان)
Ahmad ibn Fadlan (أحمد بن فضلان), author of the Risala or Kitab, was the secretary of the Abbasid embassy of Caliph al-Muqtadir to the Volga Bulgars, 921–922, whose eyewitness account, notably of a Rus funeral, survives via Yaqut and the 1923 Mashhad manuscript.
Ahmad ibn Furtu
Ahmad ibn Furtu (أحمد بن فرتوة) was a sixteenth-century cleric and chronicler of the Bornu Empire who served as grand imam to Mai Idris Alooma.
Ahmad ibn Hafs al-Naysaburi
Ahmad ibn Hafs al-Naysaburi (أحمد بن حفص النيسابوري) was a Sunni hadith transmitter and judge of Nishapur who died in 258 AH; his students included al-Bukhari and Abu Dawud.
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (أحمد بن حنبل)
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (أحمد بن حنبل) was a Baghdad hadith scholar and jurist (780–855) who refused under flogging to call the Quran created, inspiring the Hanbali school.
Ahmad ibn Hasan al-Maymandi
Ahmad ibn Hasan al-Maymandi (احمد بن حسن میمندی) was a Ghaznavid vizier, statesman, and foster brother of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna, serving two vizierates before his death in 1032.
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (c. 1506–1543) was an imam of the Adal Sultanate whose conquest overran most of highland Ethiopia from 1529 until his death in battle in 1543.
Ahmad ibn Idris al-Fasi
Ahmad ibn Idris al-Fasi (أحمد بن إدريس الفاسي) was a Moroccan-born Sufi master and theologian who taught in Mecca for about thirty years before settling in Sabya, Asir, where he died in 1837.
Ahmad ibn Majid
Ahmad ibn Majid (أحمد بن ماجد), the Lion of the Sea, was a fifteenth-century Arab navigator from Julfar who wrote about forty works on navigation.
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Haddad
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Haddad (أبو الفتح الحداد) was a Sunni hadith scholar and Qur'an reader of Isfahan, grandson of the hadith master Ibn Manda, who died in 500 or 505 AH.
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalifa
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalifa (أحمد بن محمد بن خليفة), called al-Fatih, was the first Al Khalifa ruler of Bahrain, conquering the islands in 1783.