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Abraha al-Ashram (d. c. 570 CE) was an Aksumite (Ethiopian) general who became ruler of Yemen and is chiefly remembered in sīrah literature for his failed expedition against the Ka...
Sayyid Abū al-Aʿlā Mawdūdī was one of the most influential Muslim intellectuals and revivalist thinkers of the twentieth century. Born in Aurangabad in 1903, he emerged as a promin...
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Ḥasanī al-Nadwī (1333–1420/1914–1999) was one of the most influential Muslim scholars, historians, and religious intellectuals of the twentieth century. Born i...
Abū al-ʿĀṣ ibn al-Rabīʿ (d. 12/634) was a Makkah merchant of Quraysh and the son-in-law of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ through his marriage to Zaynab bint Muḥammad. Belonging to Banū ʿA...
Abū al-ʿAwjāʾ al-Sulamī (RA) was a Companion of Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH) and the commander of one of the military expeditions (sarāyā) dispatched during the Madinan period. He belon...
Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī (Khālid ibn Zayd al-Khazrajī, d. c. 52/672) was a prominent Companion of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ from the Khazraj tribe of Madīnah. He belonged to the Banū Najjā...
Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq (c. 573–634 CE) RA), the first caliph of Islam and one of the closest Companions of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ, occupies a central place in sīrah literature and earl...
Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʿath al-Sijistānī (202–275 AH/817–889 CE) was one of the most distinguished scholars of ḥadīth in Islamic history and the compiler of Sunan Abī Dāwūd,...
Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī (d. 32/652), whose given name was Jundub ibn Junādah, was among the earliest converts to Islam and a distinguished Companion of the Prophet Muḥammad. A member...
Abū Hurayrah, whose full name was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr al-Dawsī, is recognized as the most prolific transmitter of ḥadīth among the Companions of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ. Born i...
Abū Jahl (ʿAmr ibn Hishām) (d. 2 AH / 624 CE) was among the most formidable opponents of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ in Makkah and a leading notable of the Banū Makhzūm clan of Quraysh....
Abū Jandal ibn Suhayl ibn ʿAmr (d. c. 18 AH / 639 CE) was a Companion of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ whose life is most closely associated with the events of the Treaty of al-Ḥudaybiyya...
Abū Lahab ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib (ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib) (d. 2 AH / 624 CE) was a paternal uncle of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ and one of the most persistent opponents of hi...
Abū Lubāba al-Anṣārī (Bashīr ibn ʿAbd al-Mundhir) was a companion of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ from the Aws of Madīnah. He is remembered primarily for his role in the affair of Banū Q...
Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī (ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qays) (d. c. 42–44 AH / 662–664 CE) was a prominent Companion of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ distinguished for his piety, mastery of Qurʾānic recitat...
Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī (Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Aṣbahānī) (336–430 AH / 948–1038 CE) was a major traditionist (muḥaddith), historian, and author whose works occupy a central place...
Abū Qatāda al-Anṣārī (d. c. 54 AH/674 CE), whose name is commonly given as al-Ḥārith ibn Ribʿī, was a companion of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ from the Khazraj of Madīnah and one of the...
Abū Salamah ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Asad al-Makhzūmī (RA) was one of the earliest converts to Islam and among the distinguished Companions of Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH). He was the son...
Abū Sufyān ibn Ḥarb (Ṣakhr ibn Ḥarb ibn Umayyah) (d. 31–32 AH / 651–653 CE) was a leading statesman of Quraysh in Makkah and a central figure in the early encounters between the Pr...
Abū Ṭālib ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib (d. c. 619 CE) was the paternal uncle and guardian of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ and a central figure in the early Makkan phase of the sīrah. As a senior...
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