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'Abd 'Aziz Kattani
'Abd 'Aziz Kattani was a Sunni hadith scholar of Damascus, born in 999 and died in 1074, remembered as the hadith master of his city.
'Abd al-Ghani al-Azdi
'Abd al-Ghani al-Azdi (عبد الغني الأزدي) was a Sunni hadith scholar and genealogist of Egypt who lived from 943 to 1018, praised as a master memorizer and known for al-Mu'talif wa'l-Mukhtalif.
'Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani
'Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani (عبد الوهاب الشعراني) was an Egyptian Shafi'i jurist, Ash'ari theologian, and Sufi master who died in 1565, known for harmonizing the four Sunni legal schools in al-Mizan al-kubra.
'Abd al-Wahid al-Tamimi
'Abd al-Wahid al-Tamimi (عبد الواحد التميمي) was a Hanbali jurist and hadith transmitter of Baghdad (342–410 AH), author of a creed of Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
'Abd Ghafir Farisi
'Abd Ghafir Farisi (عبد الغافر الفارسي), 1059–1135, was a Nishapuri hadith master, Shafi'i jurist, and historian who served as Nishapur's khatib and wrote its major history, al-Siyak.
'Abd Khaliq Shahhami
'Abd Khaliq Shahhami (عبد الخالق الشحامي), Abu Mansur al-Nisaburi, was a Sunni hadith scholar of Nishapur born in 475 AH who perished in the Ghuzz upheaval of 549 AH.
'Abd Razzaq 'Afifi
'Abd Razzaq 'Afifi (عبد الرزاق عفيفي) was an Egyptian-born Sunni scholar who led Ansar al-Sunna in Egypt and served as deputy head of Saudi Arabia's Permanent Committee for Ifta.
'Ala Din ibn Balban
'Ala Din ibn Balban (1276–1339) was a Hanafi jurist and hadith scholar of Mamluk Cairo, best known for rearranging Ibn Hibban's Sahih into fiqh chapters as al-Ihsan.
'Ali al-Sakhawi
'Ali al-Sakhawi (علي السخاوي) was a Shafi'i scholar of Qur'anic readings, grammar, and tafsir, born in Egypt in 1163/4 and died in Damascus in 1245.
'Ali ibn Ja'd
'Ali ibn Ja'd (علي بن الجعد) was a ninth-century Sunni hadith scholar and jewel trader of Baghdad, a principal transmitter of Shu'ba ibn al-Hajjaj who died in 230 AH.
'Uthman ibn Sa'id al-Darimi
'Uthman ibn Sa'id al-Darimi (عثمان بن سعيد الدارمي) was a Sunni hadith scholar of Herat (c. 815–894) known for his Musnad and refutations of the Jahmiyya.
Aban ibn Uthman
Aban ibn Uthman (أبان بن عثمان) was a Medinan jurist, hadith transmitter, and son of the caliph Uthman ibn Affan, who served seven years as governor of Medina under Abd al-Malik.
Abbad ibn al-Awwam
Abbad ibn al-Awwam (عباد بن العوام) was an eighth-generation hadith transmitter, born in 736 CE, who lived in Wasit and Baghdad and was graded trustworthy.
Abbas al-Musawi (عباس الموسوي)
Abbas al-Musawi, also known as Abbas Mousawi, was a Lebanese Shia cleric who helped found Hezbollah and served as its second secretary-general from 1991 until his 1992 assassination.
Abbas ibn Ali (العباس بن علي بن أبي طالب)
Abbas ibn Ali, also known as Abul Fazl al-Abbas, was a son of Imam Ali, half-brother of Husayn, and standard-bearer killed at Karbala in 680 CE.
Abd al-Aziz al-Halwa'i
Abd al-Aziz al-Halwa'i (الحلوائي) was a Hanafi jurist of Bukhara in the 11th century, titled Shams al-A'imma and honored as the leading Hanafi authority there; his students included al-Sarakhsi and al-Bazdawi.
Abd al-Baqi al-Qallini
Abd al-Baqi al-Qallini (عبد الباقي القليني) was a Maliki jurist from Qallin in the Nile Delta who became the fourth Grand Imam of al-Azhar in Cairo in 1709.
Abd al-Ghaffar al-Bakri
Abd al-Ghaffar al-Bakri, kunya Abu Salih, was a ninth-century Sunni hadith transmitter who settled in Egypt and died there in 224 AH; al-Bukhari narrated from him directly.
Abd al-Ghafir al-Farsi
Abd al-Ghafir al-Farsi (عبد الغافر الفارسي) was an eleventh-century hadith scholar of Nishapur who transmitted Sahih Muslim, taught al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, and lived past ninety-five, dying in 1056.
Abd al-Halim Mahmud
Abd al-Halim Mahmud (عبد الحليم محمود) was an Egyptian Sufi scholar and Sorbonne-trained philosopher who served as Grand Imam of al-Azhar from 1973 until his death in 1978.
Abd al-Hamid ibn Abd al-Hadi al-Maqdisi
Abd al-Hamid ibn Abd al-Hadi al-Maqdisi was a Hanbali Quran reciter and schoolteacher in thirteenth-century Damascus, born around 1177, who ran a Quran school and died in 1260.
Abd al-Hamid ibn Ja'far al-Ansari
Abd al-Hamid ibn Ja'far al-Ansari was a Medinese jurist and hadith transmitter of the sixth tabaqa, rated trustworthy by some critics and weakened by Sufyan al-Thawri.
Abd al-Jabbar ibn al-Ala
Abd al-Jabbar ibn al-Ala (عبد الجبار بن العلاء) was a third-century AH Basran hadith narrator, a mawla of the Ansar, who settled in Mecca and died there in 248 AH.
Abd al-Karim ibn Hamza al-Salmi
Abd al-Karim ibn Hamza al-Sulami (عبد الكريم بن حمزة) was a hadith transmitter in Damascus who served as deputy of the Quran reciters and died in 1131.
Abd al-Khaliq al-Dimashqi
Abd al-Khaliq al-Dimashqi, honorific Taj al-Din, was a Damascene jurist and mufti who taught and preached in Damascus, moved from Shafi'i to Hanafi, and died in 1168.
Abd al-Khaliq al-Hashimi
Abd al-Khaliq al-Hashimi, kunya Abu Ja'far, was a Hanbali jurist, hadith transmitter, and ascetic of Baghdad, born in 411 AH and remembered as the greatest student of Qadi Abu Ya'la.
Abd al-Latif Abd al-Ghani Hamza
Abd al-Latif Abd al-Ghani Hamza (عبد اللطيف عبد الغني حمزة) was an Egyptian Sharia jurist who served as Grand Mufti of Egypt from 1982 until his death in 1985.
Abd al-Majid Salim
Abd al-Majid Salim (عبد المجيد سليم) was an Egyptian Hanafi jurist who served as Grand Mufti of Egypt from 1928 to 1946 and later twice as Sheikh al-Azhar.
Abd al-Malik al-Dawla'i
Abd al-Malik al-Dawla'i (الدولعي عبد الملك) was a Sunni hadith transmitter and Shafi'i jurist who served as mufti and khatib of Damascus, dying in 598 AH aged 91.
Abd al-Muhsin al-Khafifi
Abd al-Muhsin al-Khafifi was a Shafi'i Sufi scholar of the sixth and early seventh centuries AH, known for constant fasting, yearly pilgrimage, and reliable hadith transmission.