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Muhammad ibn ῾Abd al-Wahhab (1703–1792), was a scholar and Hanbali jurist who called for a return to the fundamental sources of Islamic revelation, the Qur᾽an and sunna (example of Muhammad) for direct interpretation, resulting in decreased attention to and reliance upon medieval interpretations of these sources.
Muhammad al-Bukhari. Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Juʿfī al-Bukhārī ( Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن إسماعيل بن إبرهيم الجعفي البخاري; 21 July 810 – 1 September 870) was a 9th-century Muslim muhaddith who is widely regarded as the most important hadith scholar in the ...
Sahih al-Bukhari (Arabic: صحيح البخاري, romanized: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī) is the first hadith collection of the Six Books of Islam. Compiled by Islamic scholar al-Bukhari (d. 870) in the musannaf format, the work is valued by Muslims, alongside Sahih Muslim, as the most authentic after the Qur'an.
Al-Shafi'i[ a] ( Arabic: ٱلشَّافِعِيّ, romanized : al-Shāfiʿī; IPA: [a (l) ʃaːfiʕiː] ⓘ ;767–820 CE) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, traditionist, theologian, ascetic, and eponym of the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence. He is known to be the first to write a book upon the principles of Islamic jurisprudence ...
Al-Afghani died of cancer of the jaw [ 11] on 9 March 1897 in Istanbul and was buried there. In late 1944, at the request of the Afghan government, his remains were taken to Afghanistan via British India. His funeral was offered in Peshawar 's Qissa Khwani Bazaar in front of the Afghan Consulate building.
v. t. e. Mawlid ( Arabic: مولد) is an annual festival and holiday commemorating the birthday of Muhammad on the traditional date of 12 Rabi al-Awwal, the third month of the Islamic calendar. A day central to the Sufi tradition of Sunni Islam, the Mawlid is also celebrated by Shia Muslims .
Al-Mutawakkil was born on 31 March 822 to the Abbasid prince Abu Ishaq Muhammad (the future al-Mu'tasim) and a slave concubine from Khwarazm named Shuja. [2] His early life is obscure, as he played no role in political affairs until the death of his older half-brother, al-Wathiq, in August 847.
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani. Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī ( Arabic: ابن حجر العسقلاني; [a] 18 February 1372 – 2 February 1449), or simply ibn Ḥajar, [7] was a classic Islamic scholar "whose life work constitutes the final summation of the science of hadith ." [9] He authored some 150 works on hadith, history, biography, exegesis ...