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Joseph, known in Arabic as Yūsuf, is one of the most beloved prophets in Islam and the central figure of Sūrat Yūsuf, which the Qurʾān describes as “the best of stories” (Qurʾān 12...
Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī (1926–2022) was one of the most influential Muslim jurists, theologians, and authors of the modern period. Educated at al-Azhar University, he produced an extensi...
Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr al-Namarī al-Qurṭubī (368–463 AH/978–1071 CE), commonly known as Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, was one of the foremost Mālikī scholars, muḥaddithūn, and h...
The Zabūr is the divine scripture revealed by Allah to David (Dāwūd AS). In Islamic belief, it is one of the revealed heavenly books granted to the prophets for the guidance of hum...
Zechariah, known in Arabic as Zakariyyā (AS), is a prophet honored in Islam for his devotion, humility, and steadfast faith in Allah. He belonged to the line of the Israelite proph...
Zakariyyā Bashīr is a contemporary Muslim writer and researcher known primarily for his contributions to sīrah literature in the English language. His works focus on presenting the...
Zakāt is one of the central pillars of Islam and represents a comprehensive system of spiritual purification, social welfare, and economic justice established through the Qurʾān an...
Zamzam is the sacred well located within the precincts of al-Masjid al-Ḥarām in Makkah, near the Kaʿbah, and occupies a central place in Islamic religious history and devotional pr...
Zayd ibn Ḥārithah (RA) was one of the earliest and most distinguished Companions of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ and occupies a unique position in Islamic history as the Prophet’s freed...
Zayd ibn Thābit (d. ca. 45/665) was a companion of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ from the Anṣār of Madīnah, celebrated above all as one of the principal scribes of the revelation and as t...
Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn (RA), whose full name was ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, was the great-grandson of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ and is reckoned among the most distinguished s...
Zaynab bint Jaḥsh (RA) was one of the wives of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ and is revered in Islamic tradition as one of the Ummahāt al-Muʾminīn (“Mothers of the Believers”). She belong...
Zaynab bint Khuzaymah (RA) was one of the wives of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ and is honored in Islamic tradition as one of the Ummahāt al-Muʾminīn (“Mothers of the Believers”). She be...
Zuhd commonly translated as asceticism, renunciation, detachment, or abstinence from worldly excess, is an important ethical and spiritual concept in Islam. Derived from the Arabic...
ʿĀ’ishah bint Abī Bakr (d. 58/678), one of the Ummuhāt al-Muʾminīn (Mothers of the Believers), is a foundational figure in Islamic sīrah, ḥadīth, and early intellectual history. As...
ʿAbd al-Majīd Daryābādī (1892–1977) was a prominent South Asian Muslim scholar, journalist, and writer, known for his contributions to Islamic thought and sīrah literature in Urdu....
ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim was a prominent ancestor of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ and one of the leading figures of Quraysh in pre-Islamic Makkah. He was the grandson of ʿAbd Manāf ib...
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suhaylī (d. 581/1185) was a distinguished Andalusian scholar of sīrah, ḥadīth, and Arabic philology, best known for his influential commentary on the Prophet’s bi...
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf (c. 580–652 CE) was one of the most distinguished Companions of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ and a leading member of the early Muslim community in Makkah and Madī...
ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Hammām al-Ṣanʿānī (126–211 AH/744–827 CE) was one of the foremost scholars of ḥadīth and early Islamic history. A native of Ṣanʿāʾ in Yemen, he belonged to the g...
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