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Al-Hasan ibn al-Tayyib al-Shuja'i
Al-Hasan ibn al-Tayyib al-Shuja'i (الحسن بن الطيب الشجاعي) was a Sunni hadith transmitter of Baghdad who died in 307 AH (c. 919/920) and is classified as abandoned in hadith.
al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Kalbi
al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Kalbi (الحسن بن علي الكلبي) was a Fatimid general appointed governor of Sicily in 947, founding the Kalbid dynasty that ruled the island for about a century.
Al-Hasan ibn Habib al-Hasa'iri
Al-Hasan ibn Habib al-Hasa'iri (242–338 AH) was a Damascene Shafi'i jurist and Quran reciter who served as mufti of Damascus and transmitted al-Akhfash's book on Ibn 'Amir's readings.
Al-Hasan ibn Isa ibn Masrajis
Al-Hasan ibn Isa ibn Masrajis (الحسن بن عيسى بن ماسرجس) was a ninth-century hadith transmitter of Nishapur, a Christian convert graded reliable, who died around 240 AH.
Al-Hasan ibn Makhlad
Al-Hasan ibn Makhlad (الحسن بن مخلد) was an Abbasid state secretary and vizier who served Caliph al-Mu'tamid, held the office three times, and died under torture in Antioch.
Al-Hasan ibn Sahib al-Shashi
Al-Hasan ibn Sahib al-Shashi (الحسن بن صاحب الشاشي) was a Sunni hadith transmitter from Shash in Transoxiana, a tireless traveler who died in 314 AH (926 CE).
al-Hasan ibn Sahl
al-Hasan ibn Sahl (الحسن بن سهل) was an Abbasid statesman, brother of the vizier al-Fadl ibn Sahl, who governed Iraq from 814 under the caliph al-Ma'mun, whose daughter Buran married.
Al-Hasan ibn Shuja' al-Balkhi
Al-Hasan ibn Shuja' al-Balkhi (الحسن بن شجاع البلخي) was a 3rd-century AH Sunni hadith hafiz of Balkh, named among the four youths of Khurasan and a narrator in Sahih al-Bukhari.
al-Hasan ibn Sulaiman
Al-Hasan ibn Sulaiman (الحسن بن سليمان), known as Abu al-Mawahib, was sultan of Kilwa, off Tanzania, from 1310 to 1333, hosting Ibn Battuta and striking the coast's only gold coins.
al-Hasan ibn Zayd
Al-Hasan ibn Zayd (الحسن بن زيد), known as al-Da'i ela'l-Haqq, was a Hasanid Alid who founded the Zaydi dynasty of Tabaristan, ruling northern Iran from 864 until his death in 884.
Al-Hasna
Al-Hasna (الحسناء, "The Fair Lady") was an Arabic-language monthly women's magazine published in Beirut from 1909 to 1912 by the journalist Jurji Niqula Baz, the first woman's magazine in Beirut.
Al-Hatif
Al-Hatif (الهاتف, "The Telephone") was an Iraqi literary newspaper founded by Jaafar al-Khalili in Najaf in 1935 and closed by government decree in 1954, remembered as a patron of Arabic fiction and poetry.
Al-Hawdi
Al-Hawdi (الحوضي), Hafs ibn Umar al-Azdi al-Namri, was a Basran Sunni hadith scholar of the tenth tabaqa, praised by Ahmad ibn Hanbal, who died in 225 AH (839/840 CE).
Al-Houthi family
Al-Houthi family (آل الحوثي), the Hashemite sayyid family of Saada, Yemen, that founded and leads the Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement; patriarch Badreddine al-Houthi, founder Hussein killed in 2004, current leader Abdul-Malik.
al-Humaydi
Al-Humaydi (الحميدي) was an Andalusi hadith scholar, historian, and poet, born in Majorca about 1029; a student of Ibn Hazm, he died in Baghdad in 1095.
Al-Hurr al-Amili
Al-Hurr al-Amili (الحر العاملي) was a Twelver Shia hadith scholar and jurist from Jabal 'Amil, south Lebanon, who compiled Wasa'il al-Shi'a, a major hadith collection.
Al-Husayn ibn al-Fadl al-Bajali
Al-Husayn ibn al-Fadl al-Bajali was a third-century hadith transmitter and Quran exegete who taught in Nishapur for 65 years, dying in 282 AH aged 104.
al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Maghribi
al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Maghribi (الحسين بن علي المغربي) was the man from whom the Banu'l-Maghribi family of statesmen took its name, through his service as a katib over the diwan al-Maghrib.
al-Husayn ibn Hamdan
Al-Husayn ibn Hamdan (الحسين بن حمدان) was a Hamdanid commander under the Abbasid caliphs al-Mu'tadid and al-Muqtadir, best known for capturing the Khariji rebel Harun al-Shari in 896–897.
Al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Sulami
Al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Sulami (الحسين بن منصور السلمي), kunya Abu Ali, was a hadith transmitter and jurist of Nishapur who died in 238 AH, graded reliable by the critics.
Al-Husayri
Al-Husayri (الحصيري), Abu Muhammad Ja'far ibn Ahmad, was a hadith scholar of Nishapur who died in 303 AH, called a pillar of hadith by al-Hakim.
Al-Husri
Al-Husri (الحصري) was an Arabic poet and man of letters of Qayrawān in Ifrīqiyya, famed for the anthology Zahr al-ādāb wa-thamar al-albāb, a foundational work of Arabic literature.
al-Hutay'ah
Al-Hutay'ah (الحطيئة) was an Arab poet, born Jarwal ibn Aws, of the mukhadramun who lived in both pre-Islamic and Islamic times, known above all for biting satire.
Al-Idrisi Montes
Al-Idrisi Montes: mountain range of water-ice blocks on Pluto's northwestern Sputnik Planitia margin, 383 km across, IAU-named 2017 for Arab geographer al-Idrisi.
Al-Ikhlas
Al-Ikhlas (سورة الإخلاص), also called Surat al-Tawhid, is the 112th chapter of the Quran, a four-verse Meccan surah proclaiming God's absolute oneness, regarded as the Muslim creed in miniature.
Al-Inkishafi
Al-Inkishafi is a classical Swahili poem composed around 1820 by Sayyid Abdallah bin Ali bin Nasir, reflecting on the vanity of worldly life amid the decline of the Pate sultanate.
Al-Isfarayini
Al-Isfarayini (الإسفراييني), fully Abu al-Ma'ali al-Fadl ibn Sahl ibn Bushr al-Isfarayini, was a hadith transmitter from Isfarayin near Nishapur, known only through his father's and grandfather's entries.
Al-Ishara ila man nala al-wizara
Al-Ishara ila man nala al-wizara (الإشارة إلى من نال الوزارة) is a biographical dictionary of the viziers of Fatimid Egypt, written by the chancery head Ibn al-Sayrafi and a primary source for the Fatimid vizierate.
Al-Isra'
Al-Isra' (الإسراء), also called Bani Isra'il, is the 17th sura of the Quran, a Meccan chapter of 111 verses named for its opening Night Journey verse.
al-Istakhri
al-Istakhri (الاصطخري) was a 10th-century Muslim geographer from Istakhr in Iran whose Book of Routes and Realms, with twenty-one maps, founded a distinctive school of Islamic cartography.